Sports Redux: Terriers Take The Crown

An actual matchup between a terrier and a husky - and we're talking "fight to the death" matchup, not "dog show being judged by someone who just had their hand up your..." competition - you'd have to wager on the husky. For the terrier to win, it would have to use cunning, smarts, and pick its spots, when the larger husky might let its guard down.

The point of this horrible metaphor is that the BU Terriers won last night's Beanpot with some unexpectedly good timing. Three of the BU goals in the 5-2 win came shorthanded, including two 30 seconds apart in the third period to put the game and Northeastern away. "I never saw that in my life," said Terrier coach Jack Parker, who's seen all manner of ways to win the Beanpot, having now done it 21 times.

Hope you weren't finishing dinner early in the game, when referee Scott Hansen took a puck right off the face. It kind of looked like his face exploded for a minute, and we feared the worst. He was able to get up and skate himself off to a hospital; we haven't heard anything yet this morning. Might want to think about the face shields, kids. BC beat Harvard for the figurative bronze.

Tonight, another big game at the Garden, as the East-leading Bruins get back to work and welcome the West-leading Sharks. Possible Stanley Cup preview? Let's hope the B's have better luck against Western superteams than the Celtics had last week.

And if you missed A-Rod's confession/infomercial for self-tanning cream last night, it's probably for the best. Seriously, baseball, let's just have all the names and move on with our lives. Someone somewhere made the good point, though, that whoever asked President Obama how he felt about A-Rod, might have been smarter to ask why Michael Phelps is going to have worse repercussions for his drug image than any of these juiced ballplayers.