OSG NAIA: Blind Hoopster Hits 3, Wins Food For A Year

((HT: NAIA/joeschmoe2011/Lost Lettermen))

Take you to College of the Ozarks...

Simple promotion... shoot a three and get free fast food from the Golden Arches for a year...

Michael Quin is blind...
You can see where this is going...
Evidence below...


Even if it is McDonald's, this is really cool...

Ice Dancing Results Spark Controversy... World Shocked...

((HT: Sportsnet))

Charlie and Meryl beat Tessa and Scott...

Scoreboard... and all that...

But there are those, mostly north of the border, who feel THE DANCE VOTING WAS RIGGED!!!

Wait...what...???

Judging rigged...???

Tin and Sid discuss...

Understand something...

Davis and White's scoring difference actually increased from short program to long program...
If Virtue and Moir were supposed to repeat, then why didn't the scores end up closer from one program to the other...???

Do we need to discuss the whole Sale-Pelletier situation where the world REALLY agree about Canadians getting jobbed...???

Just asking...

Your Average Normal, Every Day Line Brawl

((HT: AHL/youtube))

This time it's Adirondack and Portland


Translation: The game fell apart with Portland winning 2-0 and 20 seconds left...

152 minutes were issued in the first fight at 19:38...
Whoever was left, three seconds later, got another 75 minutes...

Totals...???

54 penalties, 299 minutes issued...

And we await the suspensions... at least the back-up goalies got 22 seconds of ice time themselves after the first-stringers were kicked out at the time of the first fight...

It's Bobsled Time!!!

((HT: MyJamaicaJTB))

The Jamaican Bobsled team made it to Sochi...

So what if they are dead last of the 30 teams after the first two runs in the two man...

They made it and they're back...

And they have they're own newly-minted theme song...


Love the old school Atari-looking flashback graphics package!!!

Eisenhower Pine Doesn't Survive Ice Storm

((HT: Scott Michaux/Augusta Chronicle))

For twenty golf-playing years, President Dwight Eisenhower lobbied to have a particular pine tree on the 17th hole removed...

This one...
((HT: Augusta National Golf Club/CBS))


In 1956, he wanted it down and told a meeting of the club so...
Even former US presidents don't get their way in Augusta...

But Augusta National chairman Billy Payne confirmed to Michaux that the tree did not survive the recent ice storm in east Georgia, so it looks like Ike got his wish anyway:

"The loss of the Eisenhower Tree is difficult news to accept," Payne said. "We obtained opinions from the best arborists available and, unfortunately, were advised that no recovery was possible."

So, now what...???

There's talk that there was already a substitute tree ready for implantation onto the 17th, but no one knows if the tree that may or may not exist has survived the ice storm or was or was not even be effected...

Got that...???

Is Team Canada Already Gripping...???

((HT: Sportsnet))

Although, at first glance, the HQ would wonder why in the hockey preliminaries...

But...

By failing to win in regulation and having to take the Finland match to overtime, Canada did not clinch the top seed and a favourable matchup in the quarter-finals. It means the Canadians are the tournament’s third seed and could face Switzerland in their next game.

Sixth-seeded Switzerland and 11th-seeded Latvia play Tuesday in the qualification round.
The winner meets Canada in the quarter-finals Wednesday.

So... is there cause for alarm...???
The Hockey Central team discusses...

TJ Oshie...Again...

((HT: CrossingBroad.com))

The folks over at Crossing Broad got it right...

A mash-up with Herb Brooks (well, Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks) and the shootout from the Russia game...

TJ Oshie, Again-- CrossingBroad.com from Kyle Scott on Vimeo.

That's all, gentlemen...