Well, three ugly games for my teams, but they all won. My football teams also won tonight. Well, I was going for them, but they're not actually my football teams. The Panthers beat the Rams at home in 2OT, which is sweet. The Patriots beat the Titans, which, while not so great, is still heart-warming. Now to the important stuff. In my last column, I detailed some serious problems of the officiating crews of the Big Ten mens basketball thingamajiggie. Sorry, that was a really bad sentence. But I'm too lazy to change it. Anyway, tonight, the Gophers blanked Colorado College 3-0 in Colorado Springs, completing the sweep. The game had 13 penalties. It should have had many more. The Tiger players to a man were bent on killing the Gophers. Example- with two minutes to go in the game, and the win well in hand, the Gophers were fore-checking in the CC zone. A UM player, who wasn't even touching the puck was put into a headlock by a Tiger guy, wrestled to the ice, and then another CC moron punched him in the head. It was kind of ironic that the Gophers second intermission guest was an expert on head trauma in hockey players. Oh yeah, the result of that play? No penalty. CC got away with murder, but at least we won. the mens basketball team, on the other hand, barely escaped Princeton 57-53 at the Barn. We stank in the second half. The Wolves barely beat the horrible Miami Heat at Target Center 83-77. KG was the victim of some bad officiating, having a technical called against him, and then watching three or four Heat players do the same thing that he did and not get penalized. He had 28 points and 17 rebounds, plus 6 assists and 2 blocks. Latrell Sprewell had a bad game, shooting just 2-12 for the field and finishing with 7 points. Anyway, we won, which is all that counts. Have a good night, and oh yeah-Sprewell is a huge Packers fan. So are you, right? Good
Posted by Greenmantle at January 10, 2004 10:55 PM