What happened on Tuesday, March 10, 2015?

  1. Champions League Insanity: Entering yesterday’s second game of the two game series between Real Madrid and Schalke 04, Madrid was up 2-0 in aggregate goals. That meant, that, because the game was in Madrid, Real Madrid could win, tie, or lose by one goal and still advance. I didn’t expect that they would be in any real danger of not advancing — Real Madrid is one of the world’s best teams, so full of great players that it sometimes seems like an all-star team. I was wrong! Schalke 04 scored four goals and pushed Real Madrid to the brink. The final score of 4-3 in favor of Schalke 04, left Real Madrid still up by a goal (5-4) in aggregate, so they will advance but they certainly look beatable.
    Line: Seven goals in a soccer game?! That’s a lot.
  2. Headband? We’re talking about headband? Mimicking Allen Iverson’s famous rant, that’s the question basketball fans have for the basketball media members who couldn’t find anything more interesting to write about following the Cleveland Cavaliers 127-94 drubbing of the Dallas Mavericks than the fact that LeBron James played the game without a headband.
    Line: LeBron played the game without his headband? Who cares!
  3. Manhattan won the battle of New York but lost the war: There was a real battle of New York once, in the Revolutionary War, and the British won it handily. Today, we’re lucky that most battles of New York happen in a sporting arena. Last night’s battle for New York was between the New York Islanders and New York Rangers. The Rangers won the game 2-1 but won only two games of the five the teams played against each other this season. To be honest, this might only be the first campaign of the war. If the two teams meet in the playoffs, that would be the deciding campaign — and also very exciting.
    Line: I hope the Islanders and Rangers meet up in the playoffs this year.

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