An advice column for people who live with people who live for sports
What happened on Monday, February 2, 2015?
Cavaliers make noise in college basketball too: LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers have been on a winning streak in the NBA but it may be the Virginia Cavaliers college basketball team that has the better chance to win a championship this year. The college Cavaliers are 20-1 and beat the 12th ranked North Carolina Tar Heels 75-64. The game was virtually tied at halftime but Virginia put their foot down in the second half and put their customary smothering defense to good work. Line: I’d like to know how teams in Virginia and Cleveland got named after royalists in an English political conflict. (Oh, is that just me?)
Streaks broken: The Atlanta Hawks went into their game against the New Orleans Pelicans having won their last 19 games. The Brooklyn Nets went into their game against the Los Angeles Clippers having lost four games in a row and seven in a row at home. They both broke their streaks last night. The Pelicans beat the Hawks thanks to Anthony Davis’ 29 points and 13 rebounds. The Nets’ edged the Clippers 102-100 when Jarrett Jack scored with only 1.3 seconds left in the game. Line: Brooklyn wins, Atlanta loses? The times, they are a-weird.
The Sharks got Klinkhammered: Rob Klinkhammer has (a great name and has also) been on three different NHL teams this season. He started with the Arizona Coyotes, was waived and then picked up by the Pittsburgh Penguins, and later traded to his current team, the Edmonton Oilers. He’s a big, physical player, usually described as something like “useful.” He was certainly useful for the Oilers last night when he scored a shootout goal to break the tie between the Oilers and the Sharks as the fourteenth player on his team to take a shot in the shootout! Klinkhammer was quoted in this ESPN recap of the game as saying about being unexpectedly called upon to win the game, “I was laughing the whole time. I thought it was hilarious.” Line: The fact that you can’t repeat shooters and eventually guys who aren’t used to taking shootouts have to go out there is my favorite part of the shootout.
The Super Bowl gets discussed: Ad infinitum. Over and over again. Even by us! I posted two explanations of what was going on at the end of the Super Bowl for the non-football fan who may have had trouble following how the Patriots stole the ball from the Seahawks and what happened after that.
