☀️ Good morning and welcome back to The Nosebleeds.

🐃 Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes are must watch television every time they take the field.

🤯 Cannot believe this is already the 30th edition of Nosebleed Sports—let’s dive in.

🤠 “It’s Personal”

You have one week to live, and you can only watch one more sporting event for the rest of your life. What should you watch?

• NFL RedZone? Nope.

• MLB Postseason race? No sir.

• WNBA Playoffs? …

If you could only watch ONE more sporting event, it should be Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes. But it’s not just because of Coach Prime, this team has some absolute ballers. Travis Hunter (pre-lacerated liver) dominates on offense AND defense, and Deion’s kid, QB Shedeur Sanders, is starting to take some of the NFL #1 overall pick hype away from Caleb Williams.

The combination of the buzz that Coach Prime has created for a team that won only 1 game last season, along with the high-end talent on the roster, Colorado games have become marquee sporting events of every week. And that was certainly evident in Colorado’s 43-35 double OT victory over Colorado State last Saturday.

Hats-off to Colorado State. They played an awesome 58 minutes of football in a hostile environment, with only their students and alumni rooting them on. But even an 8 point lead with Shedeur Sanders and co. pinned on their own 2-yard line with 2 minutes remaining wasn’t enough—as the young QB marched the Buffaloes down the field to tie the game with only seconds remaining.

When it mattered most, Shedeur could not be stopped. He put Colorado on his back and carried them to victory with plays like this:

But it isn’t just Coach Prime’s aura and personality that have everyone and their mom tuning in to watch this team, it is the relationships he has built with his players that is so special. A true leader and motivator of men, exemplified below:

Now that is a coach.

Colorado’s story continues on Saturday with their biggest match-up of the year (so far), as they take on 10th-ranked Oregon in Eugene. All I have to say about this match-up is…

Tune. In.

👋 Bye-bye Babcock

Mike Babcock has been fired by the Columbus Blue Jackets before he got behind the bench for a single game.

Babcock should have never been given a chance to coach in the NHL again after the stunts he pulled in some of his past coaching stints. If you don’t know about Babcock’s background, read this story of what he did to Mitch Marner in his rookie season. Sickening stuff seeing someone turn a young kid’s dream into a nightmare.

But a story told by Paul Bissonnette on the Spittin’ Chiclet’s podcast a little over a week ago, was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back, as this story began a formal investigation into Babcock’s antics.

Everyone who has ever played under Babcock, all say the same thing about him, and that is…

He is a piece of shit.

Good riddance. 

🦄 One-way Ohtani

Possibly the greatest individual season of baseball that we have ever seen, has officially come to an end.

Shohei Ohtani had season-ending elbow surgery on Tuesday—concluding his legendary 2023 campaign.

But that isn’t the worst part. Reports have said that Shohei will be ready for the 2024 MLB season, but only as a hitter—he will not pitch next season.

The announcement that Shohei will only hit next year makes his upcoming free agency even more interesting. Will this cost him hundreds of millions of dollars? Will he opt for a one-year deal to prove to the league his elbow is 100%? Only time will tell.

🤔 NCAAF Trivia

Colorado State @ Colorado was the fifth most-watched college football game of all-time.

• Question: what was the most watched college football game of the 2022 season?

Answer at the bottom.

🩸 Bloody Good Play of the Week

Cavan Biggio has become the second athlete (to Lionel Messi) to take home multiple Bloody Good Play of the Week titles.

🍿 Weekly Watchlist

Tons of high stakes games on tap this week, here’s the top 5:

1. NCAAF 👨‍🎓: (19) Colorado @ (10) Oregon

2. NCAAF 👨‍🎓: (6) Ohio State @ (9) Notre Dame

3. NCAAF 👨‍🎓: (13) Ole Miss @ (15) Alabama

4. MLB ⚾️: SEA Mariners @ TEX Rangers (Sept. 22-Sept. 24)

5. MLB ⚾️: TOR Blue Jays @ TB Rays (Sept. 22-Sept. 24)

👀 See y’all again on Tuesday!

• Trivia Answer: Michigan @ Ohio State (drew over 17M viewers).

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