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2021 College Football Hall of Fame Inductees Jan. 15 - Jan. 21, 2021 Vol. 19, Issue 21 www.sportspagdfw.com FREE 2 January 15, 2020 - January 21, 2021 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 21 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com Follow us on twitter @sportspagedfw | www.sportspagedfw.com | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 - Issue 21 | January 15, 2021 - January 21, 2021 3 Jan.15, 2020 - Jan. 21, 2021 AROUND THE AREA Vol. 19, Issue 21 LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST sportspagedfw.com Established 2002 SMU Men's Golf schedule released Cover Photo: 4 AROUND THE AREA Floridian National Golf Club in Palm City, Fla., March 15-16. The final event of the 5 RANGER REPORT regular season is The Goodwin, which BY DIC HUMPHREY takes place March 25-27 at Stanford Golf 6 GOLF, ETC Course in Palo Alto, California. BY TOM WARD The American Athletic Conference SONY OPEN IN HAWAII SMU men's golf has scheduled several Championship takes place April 22-24 at 7 BY PGATOUR.COM of college golf's premier events, including Southern Hills Golf Club in Brooksville, West Virginia at Baylor Men’s hosting the Trinity Forest Invitational, in Fla. SMU's Mac Meissner won the indi- Basketball Game Postponed NFL PLAYOFFS PREDICTIONS the spring of 2021. vidual championship in 2019, the last time Irving, Texas - In accordance with Big 8 BY MIKE MCFEE The Mustangs begin their spring cam- the event took place. NCAA Regionals 12 Conference men’s basketball interrup- 2021 COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL paign with a match against TCU at take place May 16-19 at six predetermined tion guidelines, the West Virginia at Baylor 9 OF FAME HONOREES BY NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION Vaquero Club in Westlake, Texas on sites. The NCAA Championships take game scheduled for January 12 has been place at Grayhawk Golf Club in COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND January 16 to open the season. After the postponed. The Conference will work with 12 NOTES season-opening match, the Mustangs make Scottsdale, Ariz. from May 28-June 2. the institutions to reschedule. BY BO CARTER the first of three trips to California to par- 2021 Men's Golf Schedule In addition, West Virginia’s games 17 AUTO REVIEW ticipate in the Southwestern Invitational, Jan. 16 – vs. TCU – Westlake, Texas – against TCU (Jan. 16) and Oklahoma State BY KBB.COM hosted by Pepperdine. The event at North Vaquero Club (Jan. 19) have been postponed. 18 THE TICKET WINDOW Ranch Country Club in Westlake Village, Jan. 25-27 – Southwestern Invitational California is broadcast on the Golf (hosted by Pepperdine) – Westlake Village, 19 RESTAURANT REVIEW Channel. Calif. - North Ranch CC BY RICHARD POLLAK SMU returns to The Prestige, hosted by Feb. 15-17 – The Prestige (hosted by UC UC Davis at PGA West's Norman Course Davis) – Palm Desert, Calif. - PGA West in Palm Desert, California February 15-17. Norman Course In 2020, Ollie Osborne won American Mar. 7-9 – Trinity Forest Invitational (host- Athletic Conference Golfer of the Week ed by SMU) – Dallas – Trinity Forest Golf honors after tying for fourth at The Club Victor Rojas returns to north Texas as Prestige, and teammate Jackson Markham Mar. 15-16 – Valspar Collegiate President/GM of the Roughriders set an SMU 54-hole individual scoring Invitational (hosted by Houston) – Palm The Frisco RoughRiders, the Double A record at the concurrent Prestige Individual City, Fla. - Floridian National Golf Club affiliate of the Texas Rangers, announced Tournament. Mar. 25-27 – The Goodwin (hosted by today that Victor Rojas has agreed to terms Follow us on The fourth Trinity Forest Invitational Stanford) – Palo Alto, Calif. - Stanford GC on a multiyear deal to become the organi- takes place March 7-9 in Dallas at the Apr. 22-24 – American Athletic zation’s next President & General Twitter & Facebook Mustangs' home course, Trinity Forest Conference Championship – Brooksville, Manager. In his role, Rojas will oversee all Golf Club. SMU set a course record in the Fla. - Southern Hills GC aspects of the team’s day-to-day business twitter.com/sportspagedfw event in the 2019-20 season, firing a 16- May 16-19 – NCAA Regionals – & ballpark operations and will report under 268 in the second round to finish Albuquerque, N.M.; Nashville, Tenn.; directly to Managing Partner & CEO, facebook.com/sportspageweek- second in the event. Stillwater, Okla.; Cle Elum, Wash.; Chuck Greenberg. 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Saint Louis SportsPage Weekly, take more than one copy of each SportsPage Weekly issue. 25. Louisville 25. Uconn 4 January 15, 2020 - January 21, 2021 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 21 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com RANGERS WITH DIC HUMPHREY Victor Rojas new GM of the Roughriders pitcher Justin Anderson to a minor league arrives, teams will have cost certainty for contract with an invitation to Spring the salaries of their arbitration eligible Training. Anderson underwent Tommy players. There is optimism that finalizing John surgery last July so will not figure in the arbitration component of their salary the Rangers on field plans until late this structure will bring more certainty to the season or perhaps not until 2022. He made situation and perhaps spark the free agent 111 relief appearances with the Angels in market. 2018-2019 with a 6-3 record and five One free agent of interest to Ranger saves. He averaged an impressive 11.2 fans is Corey Kluber. The Coppell native strikeouts per nine innings. threw a showcase bullpen session of 30 On the free agent front, there is still lit- pitches this week, and representatives from tle movement. Often in a sluggish market 25 teams showed up to watch. His fastball like this off season, one event can spark registered in the upper 80’s to lower 90’s, a activity. There was hope that the trade of good number for a pitcher going into Francisco Lindor last week would be such spring training. It is still likely that he will Victor Rojas has been hired as the new GM for the Frisco Roughriders a spark. It has not happened yet. attract a contract with a low base and Financial uncertainty with the incentive clauses to compensate if he pitch- Coronavirus pandemic is the most promi- es to the level of his past performance. He Chuck Greenberg since last fall, but the nent reason for the lack of activity. One has after all won the Cy Young Award possibility of taking over this position with aspect of the uncertainty will come into twice and finished third in the Cy Young the Roughriders ramped up over the past focus this weekend. Friday at noon central Award voting twice. At one time, he was month. Victor’s wife Kim was diagnosed was the deadline for teams to work out a clearly one of the top two or three pitchers with Graves disease and thyroid cancer in deal with their arbitration eligible players, in baseball, so there is high potential.