No. 24 Hamilton scores 15 points in final minute to beat No. 7 Bishop Gorman

Two onside kick recoveries. A two-point conversion. Eighteen points in 65 seconds. Hamilton announced it is back with an improbable comeback win over Bishop Gorman.

For years, Hamilton High School (Chandler, Ariz.) was the powerhouse of Arizona. To win a championship, one had to beat the Huskies. More often than not, Hamilton took the trophy.

But over the past half-dozen years, their stature fell. Only in the last few seasons have they started rising again to place themselves among the best schools in Arizona.

Over 65 seconds on Friday night, against one of the prolific powerhouses of the country in Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, Nev.), Hamilton proved they have reached that echelon.

The Huskies scored 15 points in the final minute to snatch victory out of the hands of the No. 7 Gaels, taking home the 25-24 win.

With 1:05 to play, Hamilton made a 46-yard field goal to cut the deficit to 24-10. They recovered an onside kick and, about 30 seconds later, scored a touchdown.

The Huskies lined up for another onside kick. Once again, they recovered.

Nineteen seconds of game time later, Hamilton scored another touchdown to cut the deficit to one.

The Huskies elected to go for a two-point conversion. They had recovered two onside kicks in less than a minute; who was to say they couldn’t convert this?

They did. West Virginia quarterback commit Nicco Marchiol rolled to his left with his eyes on the end zone, took it himself, and dove for the conversion. Here are the full highlights from that final minute of play:

In taking down No. 7 Bishop Gorman, Hamilton has its signature moment of the season. But the Huskies won’t be able to rest with their 3-0 record. On deck is Centennial (Peoria, Ariz.), another dynamic Arizona team.

Bishop Gorman, meanwhile, suffered its first loss of the season. The Gaels will now return to Nevada to play its first game in their home state this season. Arbor View (Las Vegas) is on deck, and the Gaels will have in-state opponents the rest of the year.

Watch Tom Brady belt out a ‘Hamilton’ song while golfing with James Corden

Tom Brady is getting ready for The Match with the help of some show tunes.

While enjoying the offseason, reigning Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady has been preparing for “The Match” — a charity golf event July 6 when he’ll team up with Phil Mickelson and go up against Aaron Rodgers and Bryson DeChambeau.

A lot of Brady’s prep appears to be trolling his opponents with jokes, memes and cheesy videos.

But he’s also, obviously, playing golf, as well, including for a bit on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

Corden’s best segments on his show are the “Carpool Karaoke” ones, where he and his guests sing together for often wildly entertaining performances. And his time on the course with Brady was no different — aside from them singing in a golf cart rather than in an actual car.

Brady revealed he’s a huge Hamilton fan and has seen the show live three times.

“Doesn’t everybody love it?” Brady asked before the duo broke out singing the opening number, Alexander Hamilton (just after the 10-minute mark).

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Hamilton‘s opening number isn’t the most challenging to sing along to, but it’s certainly not the easiest. Brady and Corden flubbed the lyrics a few (noticeable) times, and the clip doesn’t include them singing the whole song, which is a bummer.

But bravo, nevertheless.

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Former Notre Dame guard Nikoa Djogo transfers to Northeastern

A former Irish player has announced where he’s transferring to.

It’s been two-and-a-half weeks since former Notre Dame guard Nikola Djogo announced he would enter the transfer portal. With a year of eligibility remaining, Djogo decided he would use it, albeit elsewhere. Djogo announced his selection Friday, opting to play his final college season at Northeastern. There are no hard feelings from his former program, which wished him all the luck in the world:

Djogo, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, will join a program that been adding a lot of Canadian players lately. This past season, the Huskies had three freshmen from Djogo’s homeland — two from Ontario, and one from Quebec. Djogo undoubtedly will serve as a mentor for these players because of that connection, if nothing else. Of course, Djogo will be learning a system they’re already familiar with, so it will go both ways.

In four seasons with the Irish, Djogo averaged 2.7 points and 2.1 rebounds over 13.1 minutes a game. He saved his best season in South Bend for last, averaging 5.0 points and 3.0 rebounds on 53.9 percent shooting from the field. It will be worth watching to see if he improves upon that even more in Boston.

Notre Dame’s Nikola Djogo will enter transfer portal

Nikola Djogo just completed his fourth season at Notre Dame.

Nikola Djogo just completed his fourth season at Notre Dame. Although he was honored during Senior Day, redshirting his freshman season means he has another year of eligibility. Djogo intends to use that year, but he announced Tuesday that it won’t be with the Irish as he has decided to enter the transfer portal.

In his final season with the Irish, Djogo had career highs across the board. The Hamilton, Ontario native averaged 5.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and shot 53.9 percent from the floor in 24 games. His best game of the season was an 18-point, seven-rebound performance in a Feb. 14 win over Miami.

It’s possible he will continue to improve in his final college basketball season, but he obviously thinks his services will be better served elsewhere. When you’re most likely coming to the end of your competitive playing career, you might as well do so with the best opportunity available. Best of luck to him as he moves on from South Bend.

Laurie Hernandez shows off new Hamilton-inspired floor routine in gymnastics return

In her first competition since the Rio Olympics, Laurie Hernandez was in the room where it happens.

Two-time Olympic medalist Laurie Hernandez competed Saturday in her first meet since the 2016 Rio Olympics, and although the 20-year-old gymnast didn’t have a perfect day, she had a great time at the Winter Cup meet.

She finished fifth on balance beam and 11th with her floor routine — which she said, per NBC Sports, were “super watered-down routines so we could dip my toe back in the water” as she looks ahead to try to make the Tokyo Olympics team.

But watered down or not, a clear highlight of her floor routine was the medley soundtrack, which featured The Room Where It Happens from the musical Hamilton. (In For The Win’s complete ranking of Hamilton‘s songs, The Room Where It Happens landed at No. 8.)

It was fabulous, even if Hernandez is still looking to improve on it. Via USA TODAY Sports:

“There was nothing expression-wise to choreograph (because) I know that if I’m having a really good time, it’s going to just fly out of my face,” said Hernandez, who did her own choreography.

A musical theater fan, Hernandez tweeted Saturday about preparing for the day with the help of the Hamilton soundtrack, and last month, the Olympic gold and silver medalist also teased some of her choreography on TikTok.

Here’s her full floor routine from Saturday’s meet:

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Former Michigan State Football linebacker Chris Frey Jr. re-signs with Hamilton Tiger-Cats of CFL

Former Michigan State linebacker Chris Frey Jr. is heading back to the Canadian Football League in 2021.

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After an absence from the sport of football, former Michigan State Football linebacker Chris Frey returned to the gridiron in the Canadian Football League for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2019. It looks like his time on the field isn’t done yet, as he announced on New Year’s Day that he will be returning to the team in 2021.

Frey played four seasons with MSU from 2013-17, recording 193 tackles and 7 sacks over that time. He received a preseason tryout with the Carolina Panthers in 2018 before being cut and taking a brief hiatus from the sport.

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A reminder: Hamilton’s word-per-minute average is absolutely ridiculous

You might need to watch Hamilton more than once…

There are plenty of reasons to watch the Broadway show-turned-movie Hamilton more than once. Newly released on Disney Plus, the music is intoxicating, the story captivating, and if you’re going to listen to the soundtrack of a sung-through musical, you might as well just watch it.

But if you’ve never seen it before, there’s a good chance you’ll benefit from watching it a second time (at least).

The music and lyrics come at you so fast — some rapped, some sung — you might miss a lot of iconic lines while entranced by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s brilliance. So in the same way you pick up details the second time you watch any movie, we’re willing to bet the same is true for Hamilton first-timers.

In a 2015 interview with Grantland, Miranda said:

“You could do a Les Mis–type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you’re writing a typical song — that’s maybe got 10 words per line. Whereas here we can cram all this [expletive] in all the margins.”

So how fast is Hamilton? After its Broadway debut in 2015, FiveThirtyEight put together a couple mind-blowing stats about the pace of the Founding Father’s story. The site’s research says it wouldn’t really be 12 hours long if performed at the pace of a more traditional musical, but it would definitely be longer.

Hamilton averages a whopping 144 words per minute with 20,520 total words and a cast album length of two hours and 23 minutes. And it would take up to six hours to perform at the pace of other Broadway shows.

FiveThirtyEight compared Hamilton to other shows “that are roughly representative of the range of Broadway musicals,” such as Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma!, Pirates of Penzance, Company, 1776, Candide and Spring Awakening.

Of the seven musicals analyzed along with Hamilton, the next Phantom had the next highest word count at 6,789 but averages 68 words per minute.

Company is second to Hamilton in words per minute, but it’s still at only 83 and is barely an hour long.

Pirates of Penzance is the next longest musical on the list behind Hamilton at an hour and 43 minutes, but with just shy of 6,000 total words, it still only averages 58 words per minute.

More via FiveThirtyEight:

The “Hamilton” score still has a fair amount of variation in pace — the fastest tracks are just shy of 200 words per minute, while the five slowest fall in the range of 64 to 80 words per minute. Three of the slow songs belong to King George III (Jonathan Groff), a political and musical intruder in the show, and are explicitly intended to set him off from the rest of the characters.

If “Hamilton” were sung at the pace of the other Broadway shows I looked at, it would take four to six hours (Miranda’s guestimate was off by half).

Even more amazing, two of the fastest verses in Hamilton — one in the song “Satisfied” and one in “Guns and Ships” — average at least five words per second.

Per FiveThirtyEight’s analysis, in “Guns and Ships,” the character Marquis de Lafayette manages to shove 19 words into three seconds for an incredible 6.3 word-per-second average, and Angelica Schuyler in “Satisfied” sings 5.0 words per second with 121 words in 24 seconds.

So as we said, with songs that fast, you may need — and want — to watch it more than once.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda delightfully counted down to the ‘Hamilton’ premiere like he was on Broadway

“Hamilton” is officially on Disney+!

Hamilton fans — and those who never got to see the original Broadway production — were so pumped for the filmed version to drop on Disney+ a year earlier than expected.

Early on Friday, it was released on the paid streaming service, and judging by #HamiltonFilm being the top trend on Twitter in the morning, I’d say it’s living up to the hype.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the music, lyrics and book of Hamilton, had a fantastic way of counting down to the premiere on Twitter. He played the role of Broadway stage manager, providing the announcements he’d hear backstage before a performance. It pulled back the curtain — so to speak — on what it’s like before a show:

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What to expect from the Jags’ defense after new additions

The Jags had a lot of turnover within their defense. That has led many to wonder will it help in 2020, or will they decline?

Throughout the offseason, general manager Dave Caldwell and the Jacksonville Jaguars made it a point to rebuild an aging and depleting defense. The team had losses along the defensive front with the trade of Calais Campbell and the release of Marcell Dareus, as well as in the secondary with the trades of Jalen Ramsey and A.J. Bouye.

Caldwell entered free agency with limited cap space but seemed to make the most of it by signing Joe Schobert to a five-year, $54 million contract. Caldwell then doubled down on defense, signing other pieces such as Cassius Marsh, Al Woods, and Rodney Gunter. When breaking down these moves, it was apparent that Caldwell wanted to restore the once-dominant Jaguars defense.

No move made that more apparent than spending both of the team’s first-round picks on the defensive side of the ball. C.J. Henderson and K’Lavon Chaisson seem to be the future of the defense going forward along with last year’s first-round pick, Josh Allen, and linebacker Myles Jack.

Along the defensive line, the team looks vastly different from years past. The team needed to fill the holes left by Campbell and Dareus, and Caldwell did just that. One new addition within the unit to be excited about is rookie defensive tackle, Davon Hamilton. Hamilton saw limited snaps at Ohio State, but when he played he performed. With Abry Jones and Al Woods in place to groom the young buckeye, Hamilton could develop into a dominant interior piece for the Jags.

In continuing with the theme of young players, Taven Bryan will be returning for his third year in the league. While Bryan certainly hasn’t lived up to the hype coming out of college, he’s gotten better over the last two seasons. In 2019, Taven Bryan finished the year with one of the stronger seasons on defense according to Pro Football Focus, receiving an overall grade of 75.6. Here’s to hoping Bryan can still grow into that player we all had hoped he would become.

At defensive end, Jacksonville is young, fast, and physical. Allen is one of the league’s best young talents at the position while Chaisson could be if he is the player fans saw at Louisiana State. Allen will be coming off a league-best 10.5 sacks among rookies and with more playing time now as a starter, his game will only continue to improve.

Chaisson, on the other hand, is playing a bit of a waiting game while Yannick Ngakoue and the organization work things out. If Ngakoue does not suit up in teal in 2020, expect Chaisson to become an instant playmaker for the defense. As the team has mentioned, Allen and Chaisson’s versatility as pass rushers and edge setters allows the team to be versatile in their alignment and mix in both 4-3 and 3-4 looks (if they want).

At linebacker, the Jags should look much better in 2020. Myles Jack is projected to move back outside and will be much better suited to use his athleticism to create plays. Schobert will be taking over the middle linebacker position, and with Jack beside him, they should create one of the stronger linebacker duos in the league.

The secondary is the most intriguing group for me. Josiah Scott and Daniel Thomas were very intriguing players in the draft and I believe both players could develop into potential starters down the road. Thomas, especially, has a shot to see significant playing time by season’s end. He’s a violent and fast player who could help out at both safety positions.

At cornerback, Tre Herndon returns, coming off of a promising first year as a starter, replacing Jalen Ramsey. If Herndon can continue his development and Henderson lives up to his draft selection, the Jaguars’ corner duo could soon return to strike fear in the eyes of opposing quarterbacks.

In terms of creating pressure, the Jaguars should rank among the league’s best. If Ngakoue does play in 2020, the Jags should rank among the league’s best in sacks (around the 44 sack range), having possibly the best pass-rushing trio in the NFL.

In the back seven, Herndon and Henderson both have shown the ability to get their hands on the ball. Additionally, Schobert offers better coverage ability than fans have seen in the past for the linebacking corps. With these additions, I think fans can bank on Jacksonville creating a lot more turnovers in 2020 after they registered 19 (10 picks and nine fumble recoveries). From a ranking perspective, they could be around twelfth in the league.

Last season the Jaguars’ biggest issue on the defensive side of the ball was their porous run defense. The team was ranked No. 28 in the category in 2019, but much of that came following the core injury to Dareus. Now, with Dareus gone, some may have concerns about the team’s run defense going forward.

The team devoted a lot of capital to that area, however, and the defensive line depth got much deeper. Woods is highly respected around the league as a run-stuffing nose tackle while Gunter and Hamilton will come in and immediately contribute as well. I’d expect the run-defense numbers to drastically improve, too, and progress back to the mean.

This defense has gotten very young and with youth comes hope and promise. The pass-rushing duo of Allen and Chaisson is certainly encouraging and the influx of young secondary pieces should help remedy a previously thin group. It will definitely be a different team when the Jaguars return to the field once the 2020 season gets underway. If some of these young talents can develop, this defense might just be back to form sooner than some think.

¿Qué esperar de los cambios de pilotos en F1?

Foto vĂ­a @SpheraSports AĂșn no comienza la temporada 2020 de la FĂłrmula 1 y algunas escuderĂ­as ya comienzan a planear la temporada 2021 con importantes cambios de pilotos en su alineaciĂłn. La lucha por arrebatarle el puesto de honor a Mercedes ha …

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AĂșn no comienza la temporada 2020 de la FĂłrmula 1 y algunas escuderĂ­as ya comienzan a planear la temporada 2021 con importantes cambios de pilotos en su alineaciĂłn.

La lucha por arrebatarle el puesto de honor a Mercedes ha comenzado y tal parece que a los alemanes no les preocupa mucho todo el movimiento de pilotos que se estĂĄ confirmando y los que aĂșn faltan por confirmar.

Mercedes publicĂł en redes un divertido video donde se ve un personaje comiendo palomitas como si estuviera disfrutando de una pelĂ­cula. Un claro mensaje de que mientras todos los equipos ven cĂłmo desbancar a Mercedes, los alemanes trabajan con la confianza de tener un equipo sĂłlido para las siguientes dos temporadas con Hamilton y Bottas como sus pilotos principales.

Ferarri, renovarse o morir

Para la Scudería Ferrari la misión es muy clara, comenzar una reconstrucción total del equipo a largo plazo para recuperar el puesto de honor que mantuvo en la década anterior con seis campeonatos de pilotos y siete de constructores, pero que desde 2008 no lleva nada a las vitrinas de los italianos.