What happened on Tuesday, January 6, 2015?

  1. Late goal seals a draw for Everton: A late goal from Romelu Lukako, the Belgian striker who terrorized the United States National Team in the World Cup this past summer, helped Everton tie their game against West Ham and stay alive in the English FA Cup. Everton supporters hope that this is the pebble that stops the flow of losses their team has been suffering lately.
    Line: Sometimes a draw is really more of a win for one team and a loss for the other. It’s all about expectations and momentum.
  2. Spurs finally looking mortal: After more than fifteen years of sustained excellence, the San Antonio Spurs are finally losing some basketball games. They’ve lost six of their last ten games and December was their first month with more losses than wins since the mid 1990s! Last night, they lost 105-104 to the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons were considered one of the worst teams in the league until a couple weeks ago when they made the rare move of simply cutting a big-name player, Josh Smith. NBA contracts are fully guaranteed, so teams rarely cut players, but I guess the Pistons felt they’d rather pay him not to be on their team than to be on their team. Looks like they were right, because since then they’ve won six games in a row, including last night’s game against the Spurs.
    Line: What is going on in the NBA? The Spurs are bad? The Pistons are good? I don’t believe it. No, really, I don’t believe it yet and I won’t unless it keeps happening for another month or so.
  3. Vlasic comes through again: The Minnesota Wild had two high-profile games this week on back-to-back days. They won both of them thanks to game winning goals from defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic. Vlasic scored with less than ten seconds left to win the Sharks game against the Jets on Monday and in overtime against the Wild last night to win that game 4-3. Vlasic is not even known as a goal scorer, but he’s certainly having a good week!
    Line: I guess when things go right for you, sometimes they go really right!
  4. Kentucky shows weakness?: The University of Kentucky has the best college basketball team in the country this year and it doesn’t seem to be very close. They haven’t lost a game yet this year and have barely even been challenged. Last night their opponent, Ole Miss, played the game of their lives and forced overtime before eventually losing. Was it a sign of real weakness or just apathy from Kentucky? Or is apathy a form of real weakness?
    Line: I still think Kentucky will go undefeated this year and win the championship but I’m a little less sure today than I was yesterday.

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