OVECHKIN!

Former best player in the world, Mr. Jaromir Jagr, meet current best player in the world, Mr. Alexander Ovechkin. Ouch.

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Good things happen when you win

The United States team of young NHL players held off a furious onslaught from Canada's older NHL players and secured the top seed in the medal round of the Olympic hockey tournament. Thanks mostly to goalie Ryan Miller's 42 saves, the US won 5-3. According to experts (in this case me) the top teams in the tournament are in no particular order, the US, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Thanks to finishing as the #1 overall seed, the US can theoretically advance to the gold medal game having played only, well "only", the winner of Finland versus (presumably) the Czech Republic. To see Ryan Kesler's spectacular game-icing, empty net goal go here. Note that you'll have to install Microsoft's peeping tom flashlight or something like that.

Ohno bags silver

I'm not entirely sure how to say "You're a cunt" in Korean, but if you were really curious you could ask Lee Ho-Suk and Sung Si-Bak of South Korea who took each other out of the 1500 meter final of the men's short track speed skating competition. With countryman Lee Jung-Su pulling away for the gold, Lee and Sung were jostling for position on the final turn when they knocked skates and fell into the padding. Opportunistic Americans Apolo Ohno and 19 year old J.R. Celski avoided playing grab-ass long enough to take silver and bronze, respectively. It was Ohno's American record-tying 6th speed skating medal.

NBA history!

The Dallas Mavericks and Washington Wizards made NBA history late Saturday night by exchanging Drew Gooden and DeShawn Stevenson. Gooden and Stevenson famously engaged in a contest a couple of years ago to see who could make himself less appealing to women. Back in the '07/'08 season Gooden and Stevenson tried to see who could go the longest without trimming his beard. This marks the first time in NBA history that two players who engaged in a beard-growing contest were exchanged for each other in a subsequent season. Also included in the deal were nothing all stars like Caron Butler and Josh Howard, signaling Washington's willingness to break up a core group of players that helped them finish in last place year after year.