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Super Bowl LV Preview Chiefs aim for two straight Feb. 5 - Feb. 11, 2021 Vol. 19, Issue 24 www.sportspagdfw.com FREE 2 February 5, 2021 - February 11, 2021 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 24 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com Follow us on twitter @sportspagedfw | www.sportspagedfw.com | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 - Issue 24 | February 5, 2021 - February 11, 2021 3 Feb. 5, 2020 - Feb. 11, 2021 AROUND THE AREA Vol. 19, Issue 24 LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST sportspagedfw.com Established 2002 AAC Basketball Schedule Changes Cover Photo: 4 AROUND THE AREA Florida tops 2021 NCBWA Division I in the 35-team survey with the SEC lead- Preseason Poll ing the way with 12 squads. The AAC is 5 RANGER REPORT The National Collegiate Baseball next with nine schools in the Top 35. Last BY DIC HUMPHREY Writers Association continues its tradition year there were 15 different conferences 6 GOLF, ETC of NCAA Division I polls for the 24th year represented in two months of surveys. BY TOM WARD with its 2021 inaugural and weekly surveys The 2021 poll voters come from among THIS WEEK ON TOUR: THE and Vanderbilt tops the initial preseason 40 college baseball writers and related PHOENIX OPEN poll ahead of No. 2 UCLA and No. 3 media persons from throughout the nation. 7 BY PGATOUR.COM Vanderbilt. After a preseason Top 35 listing, the DISECTING THE PGA TOUR’S Last year’s NCBWA Division I Top 30 remainder of the polls will feature a 8 NUTTIEST ACE BY PGATOUR.COM polls concluded March 16 when the COVID national Top 30 beginning with the Feb. 22 American Athletic Conference -19 pandemic shut down college baseball, NCBWA DI regular season poll. The ’21 SUPER BOWL LV COMMERCIALS Announces Men’s Basketball Schedule 9 BY BILLY HEYEN and Florida was the final No. 1 contingent season will feature 298 NCAA Division I Changes with a 16-1 overall record. This is Gators baseball-playing schools. For more info or SUPER BOWL LV PICKS AND IRVING, Texas – The American 10 PREDICTIONS third time to receive the preseason No. 1 to join the NCBWAgo to www.ncbwa.com. BY SEAN LEAHY Athletic Conference has announced nod along with the 2021 and ’18 seasons. changes to the men’s basketball schedule. Rank School 2020 Final Rank FUTURE SUPER BOWL HOST Vanderbilt was the preseason pick in 12 1Florida 1 LOCATIONS The Feb. 10 game between Tulane and both the 2019 and ’20 polls and went on to BY TADD HAISLOP 2 UCLA 2 Tulsa will take place at the Reynolds win the most recent NCAA World Series 3 Vanderbilt 8 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND Center in Tulsa, Okla., at 4 p.m. on in June 2019. The Commodores were the 13 NOTES ESPN+. The game was originally sched- 4 Texas Tech 5 BY BO CARTER No. 1 pre-2015 choice and enter ’21 as the 5Ole Miss 4 uled to be played at Tulane. two-year defending DI champions and fin- AUTO REVIEW The Feb. 20 game between USF and 6 Louisville 6 17 BY KBB.COM ished the abbreviated 2020 season 13-5 SMU will take place at Moody Coliseum 7 Mississippi State 12 overall and No. 8 NCBWA ranking. 8 Arkansas 15 THE TICKET WINDOW in Dallas at 11 a.m.on ESPNU. That game 18 Previous No. 1 entries on the preseason 9 Texas 29 was originally scheduled to be played at NCBWA rankings have been LSU in the 10 Miami (FL) 3 RESTAURANT REVIEW USF. 19 BY RICHARD POLLAK 1998, 2001 and 2009 polls, USC (1999), 11 NC State 11 The game sites were adjusted after Miami (Fla.) 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Louisville 4 February 5, 2021 - February 11, 2021 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 24 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com SMU WITH DIC HUMPHREY MLB needs to get their act together money and the owners made money from Wuhon Virus rears its nasty head and hits a watch with so many strikeouts and walks. the television playoff coverage expanding. significant number of players this month or Young favors moving the mound back six For some odd reason, the players seem in March. The whole situation could be inches and deadening the ball somewhat. to think the enlarged playoff field cut down chaotic, and if the owners and players He did think there would be no work stop- on teams being competitive. Whatever the could just work together, they could have page because both owners and players have players perceive about the owners not tak- worked out a plan to lessen the odds of that too much to lose. Hopefully, he is right, but ing on salaries to improve their chances of happening. the developments this week over dealing making the playoffs last season likely had In the longer term though, there are with Wuhon Virus protocols were certainly more to do with economics. They already even more discouraging possibilities. The a discouraging turn of events for fans. had a big hole in their revenue stream with- present collective bargaining agreement BY DIC HUMPHREY out fans in the stands. As the August 31 expires at the end of this season. If players [email protected] trade deadline approached, there was still and owners are so distrustful of each other MEMBER: USBWA the possibility that the playoffs would get that they cannot work out a plan for a safer cancelled from a further spread of the season with a Pandemic ravaging the coun- It was bad enough last year.