Sunday, March 13, 2005
We are the champs
Washington won the Pac 10 men's basketball tournament yesterday, 81-72 over Arizona. This was a slight upset as Arizona is ranked No. 8 and won the regular season title, while the Huskies are No 14 overall. The game was much closer than the final score, and Washington was trailing until Will Conroy drained a three, net-only basket with just over 2 minutes to go. After that it was mostly Washington making free throws as Arizona was forced to foul. I was happy as this win was totally unexpected, and this is their first championship since 1985 -- yeah, exactly 20 years ago. The win will boost their chances of getting a No. 2 seed in the NCAA playoffs when the pairings are announced today. Woof woof, go Huskies!
Other dogs
Robert Sorlie and team Norway are leading the Iditarod. They reached Kaltag this morning, having traveled almost 800 miles and have another 300 to go. There are really only 3 teams that appear capable of catching him now, but they are a good 2 to 5 hours behind. He will have to falter badly or make a mistake for them to win, but it happened last year when another team Norway that led most of the way just ran out of gas near the end and ended up finishing 8th.
Martin Buser did an amazing thing in taking back his current No. 2 place after losing 2 hours looking for a dog from his team that went AWOL. The dog had somehow slipped off his harness while running and was sound asleep in the snow when Buser found him. Buser was doing an ironic hula dance on his sled when he finally reached Eagle Island with his team intact again. Imagine trying to explain a missing dog to everyone else if he hadn't discovered that first himself. His team was already thin, down to 11 dogs halfway through the race, whereas the other teams were still running 14 or 15 dogs. On top of that he was still dealing with the bandages over his severed finger; at one checkpoint he asked a vet to snip off some nerve endings that were just hanging there and had dried out. The vet reluctantly complied, but told him that he was a "tough SOB". He is truly a tough SOB.
A fresh look
I spent over an hour yesterday fine-tuning the look and feel of my Xanga blog. Now the color scheme is brighter, more open than the previous standard format and has that airy feel like this blogger here. Definitely a cleaner, simpler yet more elegant design. I think I should copyright it.
- posted by Woofwoof @ 9:02 AM
