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.