For the weekend after the Super Bowl, it sure was a great weekend to be a sports fan. Even if it did mess some of us up on getting our Valentine’s plans together quite as well as we should have.
Usually it’s kind of sad the week after the final meaningful football game for about seven months. But this year, we bounced back in a big way.
From the Daytona 500, to the start of the Olympics to the NBA’s All-Star festivities, Bedlam basketball and even a few big college basketball upsets mixed in, there was seemingly something for everyone.
The Oklahoma City Thunder was well-represented in Dallas. Russell Westbrook was the leading scorer in Friday’s Rookie-Sophomore Challenge (scoring 40 points) but teammate Kevin Durant won his coaching debut, leading the rookies to their first win in the game in eight years.
Durant later went on to capture the HORSE challenge, and as of this writing was in double figures in the All-Star game.
The Olympics leave us watching a lot of sports we don’t watch all year. I think I spent a good 45 minutes on the biathlon today, successfully getting a child to fall asleep. I actually was pretty interested. Perhaps moreso than watching Team USA devour China in women’s hockey. The period I watched, the Chinese never even got the puck across our blue line.
I didn’t even make it to the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, won for the second year in a row by up-and-coming player Dustin Johnson, who’s taking advantage of the Tiger-less tour early in the golf season. He also had a strong outing last week in San Diego.
Two Big East powers lost Sunday, No. 2 Syracuse at home to Louisville, and No. 7 Georgetown at Rutgers. And then there was that Bedlam game, which  was a nice boost for the struggling Cowboys against an undermanned Sooner squad.
What was your favorite moment of the weekend?