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Friday Cup of Canis: 2⁄3 of the Earth is Covered by Water, the Rest by Robert Covington

For those of you who are of a certain age and baseball fans, you will recognize the headline as a reference to a quote by Ralph Kiner about the outfielder Garry Maddox.

It’s appropriate here because Robert Covington has entirely changed the Wolves defense in a way I did not think was possible for a single player. The Wolves, mired in the defensive basement seemingly forever, are now 16th in the league in defensive rating for the season, and second since RoCo was acquired.

And it’s almost all him, which is both amazing and scary at the same time.