The Sports Watercooler

By Kirby

Pretty slow news day in the sporting world.

After taking over the rein's from his dad, Pat Knight's Texas Tech Red Raiders got slaughtered by Kansas, losing by an astonishing 58 points last night, which I thought really wasn't even possible in DIVISION 1 BASKETBALL. NOT INTERMURALS. Maybe Pat needs to take a page out of his dad's playbook and start choking some players and tossing some chairs. At least that saw some results.

No big news in the NBA. Seems like a normal day. The Jazz won and the Knicks and Clippers lost. I might as well just make a Macro of that for future Watercoolers.

The big news comes from the NHL. In case you haven't been paying attention (safe bet), Alexander Ovechkin scored a hat trick in the first period. And as if that isn't impressive enough, it gives him 52 goals on the season. Unless he suffers a freak season ending Zamboni injury, he looks to be the first player since Mario Lemieux in 1996 to score 60 goals in a season. He is also only 22, and in the process of shattering every scoring record out there. Unless they decide to strike for a whole season or anything.

The NFL had a couple of big signings yesterday. Randy Moss decided to continue abusing both cornerbacks and women in the city of Boston with a 3 year contract. And Big Ben will be on Pittsburgh for the next 8 years. 8 more years of having your heart skip a beat as a motorcycle passes you at an excessive speed Steeler fan drivers!

And I have to tip my hat to NCAA woman's basketball. I feel like they constantly have teams in the top 5 playing each other. Sadly, when they are playing, its still a inferior basketball product, but the drama is there. Last night, it was 1 UCONN proving the deserve to stay at the top, dispatching 4 Rutgers by 20 points.

And finally according to ESPN, Brett Farve is retiring. After 17 years in the NFL and countless records and pain killer addictions, Farve is limping off into the sunset. He really was a treat to watch, a fact that Green Bay fans everywhere will soon realize as they watch Aaron Rodgers take snaps next year. John Madden has no comment on who is next man-crush will be.