Sports Madness
I’m writing this as day 1 of the Sweet Sixteen comes to a close. My bracket has been nuked, but what an incredible night of college basketball. First, LSU beats Duke thus sending the #1 seed Blue Devils back home. Sorry J.J. Redick, no championship for you! Then, West Virginia vs. Texas. WVU’s Pittsnogle makes a three pointer with 5 seconds left to tie the game at 71-71. No timeouts for Texas. Texas inbounds the ball and races down the court, and then they fire up a three pointer as the clocks reaches 0.0. It goes in! Texas makes a three pointer at the buzzer to win! Then we got to #2 UCLA versus #3 Gonzaga. Gonzaga is leading the whole game, at one point they had a 17 point lead, and then finally with 2 seconds left UCLA goes up 72-71! Gonzaga tries a desperate buzzer shot but it fails. UCLA pulls off the win!
On Wednesday, I dropped my parents off at the airport. They are flying to London to meet up with Sapana and then the three of them will go travel in Spain for two weeks. I was tipped off by my friend Frieder that Team Germany will be playing the US National team in a friendly match. We did the necessary trash talking before the game, confident in our respective team’s victory. A lot of pressure was on the German team to win. The game was televised here and fortunately without any commercials (just like in Europe). It was a fun match to watch, but at around the 70th minute the US team disintegrated and Deutschland made some really great goals. They won 4-1. I found out afterward that Team USA has selected Cary, NC (where I live) as their final training ground before they leave for Germany. Pretty cool.
In other news, there are some rumors swirling that the Carolina Panthers football team might get receiver Keyshawn Johnson. Would be a great combo with Steve Smith! Hopefully we’ll here more about it.