- Goalie gets offensive: It’s very rare in NHL hockey for a goalie to score a goal. It happens only once every decade or so when a goalie takes a shot at the opposing team’s empty net. More frequent but still rare is the goalie assist. San Jose Sharks goalie Antii Niemi got an assist last night in the Sharks 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Line: Goalie assists are like when a pitcher hits a home run in baseball — unusual and fun. - Past beats future, present beats the Nets: The Chicago Bulls, whose chance to win a championship may be in the rear-view mirror thanks to Pau Gasol’s age and Derrick Rose’s inability to stay healthy, beat the young, up-and-coming, Toronto Raptors 100-93 in Toronto. Meanwhile, over in California, a team built to win now, the Golden State Warriors beat the visiting Brooklyn Nets 107 to 99. Could be some of my own fan’s pessimism, but I don’t the Nets are built to do much of anything this year… or any year in the foreseeable future.
Line: The Bulls beat the Raptors but Derrick Rose hurt himself again. That’s like three injuries in twelve games. - High scoring college football games: In the two featured college football games last night, there were a total of 168 points scored! That’s a lot. The Cincinnati Bearcats beat the East Carolina Pirates 54-46 and the USC Trojans beat the California Golden Bears 38-30.
Line: I can almost guarantee that those were two of the five best college football games this weekend. Shame I missed them! - A throwback NFL game: The Miami Dolphins beat the Buffalo Bills last night in a game that looked, at times, like football from 20 or 40 years ago. For the entire first half and a good portion of the second, no one scored a touchdown. It wasn’t bad offense, just really good defense, so this was enjoyable to watch. Then, in the third quarter, the Dolphins finally broke through on offense, scoring a touchdown, and on defense where they scored a safety after pressuring Bills quarterback Kyle Orton to take an intentional grounding penalty in his own end-zone.
Line: I love watching that type of throwback football where the defenses dominate the game.
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