“If he hadn’t been a coach, ‘The Rock’ probably could have made it big as a public speaker …,” Nolan Hurt added in the Rock Island Argus. “He could stand up there and fire one-liners with the best of them, and he had a fund of sports stories that was never threatened with exhaustion.”

After a summer of relative inactivity in sports because of the pandemic, Wednesday was a pretty cool day for fans across the country.

There were eight major league baseball playoff games in one day along with Game 1 of the NBA finals. Action-starved fans were able to plop down in front of the TV and just pig out.

The only problem is that those eight baseball games took 29 hours, 43 minutes to complete, an average of 3:43 per game.

One of those games went 13 innings, but there was only one run scored so it really shouldn’t have lasted 4 hours, 39 minutes. The Yankees-Indians game went 4:50, making it the longest 9-inning MLB playoff game ever.

And that didn’t even include the 76-minute rain delay.

The University of Iowa basketball program received a verbal commitment Thursday from Waukee High School star Payton Sandfort, who chose the Hawkeyes over Drake, Stanford, Minnesota and Utah.