Box Score 10/18: Tiger, Drake, Arizona and the Jets

Welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while we wait for the Jets to figure out their quarterback situation.

Happy birthday to Frank Beamer, Martina Navratilova, Rachel Nichols, Lindsey Vonn and Yoenis Cespedes. On this date in 1992 Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves in Game 2 of the World Series marking the first time a non-American team won a game in the World Series.

Around the League

• Ratings might be down for the NFL in the US, but Premier League's ratings are down a whopping 19% for SkySports in the UK. [Awful Announcing]
• Vice has profile of one of the few female sports agents representing clients in the NFL. [Vice Sports]
• We rarely get rundowns of what the real payment for players in the KHL are making when they leave the NHL, but some figures are starting to come out as the league looks to get a handle on its expenses. No surprise, Kovy and Datsyuk are at the top just on base salary alone[Puck Daddy]
• According to Australian Football League writer Ashley Browne American football is having a bit of a moment down under with the availability of U.S. sports packages. But in the 1980s, it was watching games a week later and hoping for any sort of box score to reach the southern shores. [The Guardian]
• Tiger Woods has a new brand (or is a new brand, really) he's putting everything under called TGR. [Golf]

YB ICYMI:

"The ugly here sits directly on the doorstep of one Jeff Fisher. After starting the season 3-1, the Rams have lost their past two games to move to .500 on the season. That seems to pretty much be the story of Fisher's tenure with the Rams. And it was predictable in every possible way." - Good, bad and ugly from Week 6

"Even though he is the one of the most successful artists in music, the sports world has a particular view of Drake. He’s the guy who is shooting air balls in a Kentucky warmup, showing up to locker rooms unannounced and looking very awkward, clapping in NBA players’ faces from his court side seats at the Air Canada Centre thanks to an arrangement with the Raptors as their ambassador, and just generally being around a bit too much." - All the ways Drake imposes himself on the sports world

"If The Simpsons was once unwilling to indulge in itself too greatly, that’s clearly no longer the case. Episode 600 is as much about fan service and winks toward big moments in the show’s past as it is creating new laughs now. I’m a fan so I can appreciate those references, but it’s a harsh reminder that The Simpsons is creatively stagnant and has been for some time. The Simpsons has always been self-aware and willing to have fun with itself, though at some point self-deprecation is just a lazy attempt at excusing what you really are." - The Simpsons hits 600 episodes, and hits us over the head with it

"When Brian Kelly first signed that Notre Dame contract, it was more than a handshake then. But the fact remains, after they imploded against Stanford this past week, Notre Dame won't be able to find enough wins to make a bowl game. And now, continuing a trend that has been active throughout his tenure at the school, he has lashed out once again – this time at a Stanford coach. Now, to be fair, the coach did utter a patronizing 'bye bye' to Kelly that prompted a heated exchange between the two, but regardless, Kelly is systematically alienating everyone around him." - Week 7 in college football as explained by The Who

"The conference is as shaky as ever. Not only are those feelings that the league is just a loose confederation of schools still there, this entire ordeal knocks them down a peg. When the ACC, SEC, Big Ten and Pac-12 expanded, the networks threw down major money to those conferences. They told the Big 12 to stand pat. It is yet another embarrassing moment for a conference that's already been a bit of a laughingstock." - Big 12 tables expansion, moves on to shaky future

And just when you think it can't be any worse for the Jets...