Summary: <p>Thanks for joining us for another week in sports! A lot to get to including baseball, a brief jaunt into football and a look around Columbus. We’ll also hit some of the important sports history moments of the week. Below are the raw show notes. Enjoy!</p> <h2>Would You Rather</h2> <p>Would you rather throw out the first pitch or do the coin flip? Geoff goes with lame coin flip, John goes with high risk high reward first pitch.</p> <h2>Toss Up</h2> <p>Lowest seed in the Final Four<br> Geoff – Oregon<br> John – Xavier</p> <p>Last Week: Where does Tony Romo go. Denver, Houston, Anywhere else.<br> STILL HAPPENING<br> John – Houston<br> Geoff – Denver</p> <p>Who’s the first low-seed to lose?<br> John – Duke (Best answer)<br> Geoff – Gonzaga</p> <p>John (6-5-1)<br> Geoff (6-5-1)</p> <h2>This week in sports history</h2> <p>1923 The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.<br> 1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)<br> 1964 UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0)<br> 1989 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years<br> 1994 Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe’s NHL record of 801 goals</p> <h2>Columbus Crew</h2> <p>Beat DC United 2-0, sitting at 1-1-1 heading into a game at Portland on Saturday evening<br> Led by Ola Kamara, 2 goals scored, and Ethan Finley and Federico Iguain with 1</p> <h2>Blue Jackets</h2> <p>Clinched a spot in the playoffs<br> President’s Cup is still in discussion<br> Flyers on Saturday<br> Sabres on Tuesday</p> <p><a href="http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/03/21/nfl-is-developing-a-player-training-video-for-celebrations/">The NFL will be distributing a video on what you can and cannot do for your on-field celebrations</a></p> <h2>MLB</h2> <p>United States wins their first World Baseball Classic 8-0 over Puerto Rico. This was a huge achievement for Puerto Rico, “A lot of their guys say no to the baseball classic. None of our main guys say no to the baseball classic.”</p> <p>Pointed out by listener pdroll<br> – Puerto Rico is only 3500 square miles, the size of connecticut<br> – Economic hardship after major financial mismanagement by the government leaving the country 70 billion dollars in debt and 45% of the population in poverty<br> – “There were no crimes, there were no assassinations back home while we were playing in this classic,” Correa said. “Everybody was dyeing their hair blond, so we had our whole nation behind us that is going through tough times right now.”<br> – Giving the country something to be proud of</p> <p>Japan won in 2006, 2009<br> Dominican Republic in 2013<br> US in 2017</p> <p>Squeaker against Japan 2-1, Puerto Rico beat Netherlands 4-3</p> <p><strong>April 2: Opening Day!</strong> An ESPN tripleheader kicks off the season with Yankees at Rays, Giants at Diamondbacks and Cubs at Cardinals. The Cubs are trying to become the first to win 100 games in back-to-back seasons since the 2004-05 Cardinals and the first repeat champions since the 1998-2000 Yankees.<br> Bob Feller has the only Opening Day no-hitter in MLB history</p> <p><a href="http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2017/03/13/219212498/manny-ramirezs-new-japanese-contract-comes-with-many-perks">Manny being Manny, but this time it’s in his contract</a></p>
