Success! Go for three!

BANKSIDE, LONDON, UK -- Two games, two teams, two victories, two points! First up I got to listening to the Blackhawks play their second game of the season, still in Helsinki against the Florida Panthers, and this time they dominated. Each goal scorer from Friday night scored again last night, and so did one more, except this time, we didn't give anything up on defense. So instead of a 4-3 SO loss, we had a 4-0 shutout victory! And get this - our backup goalie, Antti Niemi, started the game and he's from Finland! They gave the number one star to the Hawks player who literally grew up 6 miles from the rink, what a story. So the Hawks are back in Chicago already with 3/4 points in the book, they get two days off, then start practicing for Detroit on Thursday. Detroit, by the way, is 0-2 to start the year, so a victory there would really be a great way for us to start off and an ugly way for them.

In the other big game from yesterday, the UW Badgers beat archrival Minnesota 31-28 in a game that never seemed to settle down one way or the other. The game was in the new Minnesota stadium that is actually on the UM campus (as opposed to a few mile hike to the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis), and UM took a 13-10 lead at halftime. In the second half, however, the "Clay display" and "Tolzein train" took over and brought the Badgers back for the 31-28 victory! Wisconsin is now 5-0 (2-0 Big Ten) to start the season, and next week travel to Columbus, Ohio to take on Ohio State. If we win that game, we're for real and this might be a special year.

Today I actually met someone else from our hall, Jacob, from Maine, who is a PhD student in international relations. We met up with a couple of guys from Germany and had brunch downstairs, and we're going to all meet up at 4pm for the Chelsea v. Liverpool game. Apparently there are 2 pound pints for the game and they'll have it on all the TVs, so it should be fun! After the game the Bears play Detroit, and much later I have San Francisco taking down St. Louis in the office pool. Here's hoping for a trio of victories on super Sunday in London round 1! Well actually round 2 (and last Sunday the Bears won, so that was a good precedent).

Also found a place that sells Brita's, so I'm going to grab one of those tomorrow.

That's all for now!