How MONUMENTAL was the USA's Win in Hockey?

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The key to this case He was on a phone argument about this might be I hit you want to truth They just want to conviction be blessed. We had a killer molks this murder at the you lives in now Pardon the interruption, but I'm like little bond what's a gold medal game between the United States and Canada Yesterday song

“I'm Tony Cornhizer. What better place to spotlight it than ESPN too?”

What's a hockey one of the early in a show one of the early things regularly on the juice like like 45 years ago. What's it that a thing? I don't know. I just know that we're on ESPN too So the people can hit golf balls into a bed sheet, which I like and you don't well Gonna beat the I boys and girls and today's episode the winter Olympics can clue

Duke tops Michigan and LeBron has some thoughts on MVP, but we begin today one last time with the winter Olympics And the gold medal hockey game yesterday in which the United States beat Canada two to one on a three on three gold by jack-use One minute and 41 seconds into the overtime the U.S. goalie Connor hellabuck turned away 41 shots in an outstanding performance in Canada's Jordan bittington stopped 28 shots for Canada Canada the United States were expected to make the final and they did will bond. How did you like the game and the outcome?

“Tony I had to outcome first because I mean that's what everybody's focused on even if people didn't watch the game”

And you had to wake up pretty early to do so in a Sunday morning It was almost anti-climatic as spectacular as it was You know, and as as wanted as it was for the United States of America and the people who follow the team The game was unbelievable. I thought the third period alone was just sort of the most sustained

Great period of hockey that did I've ever seen and so I'm comparing it to yes periods in game sevens in game sixes for the Stanley Cup final that's mostly what I'm comparing it to I've seen some Olympic hockey in person this surpassed that and I thought that was great

So the level of play was astounding the action the the end to end rushes were amazing and the goal tenders

Yeah, like you talked about Yeah, it's just that the score it seems could have been like six one Canada given all of the saves made and just just for the United States So just just by hell of a buck so the goal turning alone is a story and it's just it's wow I don't know how you get a better gold medal game and a better period of play that we got yesterday

Let me just say that in the East Coast the game started at eight 15 which is not a hard chip to get up on a Sunday morning at eight 15 Your couple of times on this away. I'm sure. I watched every second of the game And I'm not a hockey guy. It was as great a game as you could ever hope for it seemed to me the goals were Fabulous and there weren't too many of them and that's important because the goal-tending was terrific the goal-tending as you said

“Carried the entire game. I felt it's odd because when I think of NHL goalies”

I first think of Russian goalies, but they of course were not there. I held my breath throughout

Every power play. I didn't think the United States could get through the four-minute power play against them And it turned out that in Canada committed a penalty as well So they didn't have to get through all of that. I felt that that the goal the winning goal was right out of a textbook It was fabulous now. It's not a rusey-only. It's not but it's in the environs as we like to say Here's this kid his parents are there his brother is on the team and his smile of joy reveals all the teeth

Get got knocked out about three minutes earlier in the game. I mean it's tremendous right and and it's a great win for the United States Because it's first time in 30 years that best on best between Canada the United States of the United States won My small quibble mic is with three on three. It's a very small quibble. You don't like it. My fire ray in the world If I know I loved it, but if I ran the world that I've gone 15 or 20 minutes of five on five to get the three on three I wouldn't have gone three on three

Just as an experience to end the game. I found myself agreeing with the Canadian coach who said when you take four players off the ice hockey It's not hockey anymore, but it's a small quibble. I am totally satisfied by that experience. It was great I don't even have that quibble tone because I think the three on three is a lot closer to five on five than penalty shots

Three on three. I mean, wow. We saw and kind of the benefit it to get there from a three on three goal and over time So I you know they better get the leader Yeah, okay. Yeah, the game before so I don't want to I I'm with you. I can see a small quibble. I don't even have that because I find it breathtaking. Absolutely breathtaking. No thing So let's zoom out to look at these winter games as a whole a

Listen, Lou ended a 24-year-old metal drought in women's figure skating for the United States William Allen in the quad god one team goal but fell apart in men singles placed eighth a gruesome injury into Lindsey Vaughn's odds defying Olympic run McKayless Schiffen herdled her mental block and ski to go in her final race

“So these are just a few of the biggest stories American stories tell me how are you gonna remember the games?”

All right, are you and I've been to winter Olympics? We know what they're about I don't want to sound like a downer because I really like the winter Olympics, but for me Early on all of those disappointments

Took a toll on me. Let's start with Lindsey Vaughn. That was the first one. She has that terrible crash

The quad god as you said he falls twice He doesn't get on to the podium McKayless Schiffen her first two races is way out of the money. She's not even close to the podium Chloe Kim Silver instead of gold, and so this builds up in me now. I understand it got better second week

McKayless Schiffen had the most dominating slalom race into anybody's memory the most dominating As you said, Alyssa Lou. She wins for the first time in that event since Sarah use in 2002 men's and women's hockey win gold in over time against a big rival against the number one rival Canada. So it begins to balance out, but I I have to say there was a certain deflation for me early that made it hard for me to embrace what happened the rest of the way

“Elena myers right is at her name. I believe that's her name”

She won in the Bob sled in American and Stoltz won a couple of speed skating races But I had more negatives than positives. I did Yeah, I got a couple of three actions one What I love being at the Olympics Tony as you know, it's different you consume them differently I don't just consume American news when I'm at the Olympics. Yeah, I get to see a close and identify

International athletes that I would not if I was sitting in my house in front of a television Which is how I consume them now

So that is always missing and I'm just not into the only American stories. It's not exclusively the American Olympics to me

I cannot get away particularly with this latest post from Lindsey Vaughan The fall which could have been I mean it was just it was devastating as it was Athletically competitively it could have been worse than that it could have been tragic as she has posted and so I I hear that going into these games Lindsey Vaughan because we've known her from so many Olympic games in world championships and her public people magazine sort of life

in in the United States of America, maybe worldwide We know her and in my case, I was I've met her once. I was gonna root for her and she's not in yeah She's not didn't very long and now we get this updated account and I'm just like whoa Whoa, I need to move to something else here because I'm just glad that it sounds like she's gonna be okay

“That's what I leave these games hoping for”

Let me make a correction. It's a lane of Myers Taylor who won in the Bob sled event and I will just say briefly I know you don't watch a figure skating. I love the pairs figure skating love it love to watch it Thought we got completely holzed in the in the ice dancing, and I'll just I and I like most of it Although it's made up events. I mean Curling is not made up. It's probably still going on cross-country skiing probably still going on

Right there. Let's move to college basket ball and the terrific games that went on over the weekend among high ranking teams Number three Duke beat number one Michigan Saturday evening in Washington DC number four Arizona beat number two Houston in Houston number six Iowa state lost at number 23 b-y You would number eight Kansas lost at home by 16 to unrank Cincinnati. That is the most Lopsided home loss to an unrank team and build selves 23 years in Lawrence Kansas

Well by now after all that who would you make the number one seed right now Duke I'd make Duke the overall number one Over and Michigan the the the next number one if I'm ranking them one two three four I go Duke Michigan

And then there are you miss other way, you know, I think the AP put Arizona third

I'm fine with that so Arizona and Houston would be in that mix right

Incredible Tony and I found myself

Looking at that game more for the individual players because we're going to get tomorrow If you have plenty of time for that I want it to see the players we we talked to Jay Billis a few days ago about how many players he mentioned 20 and I certainly agree just watching all week in long Not just those games Saturday afternoon

“But AJ debansa on Saturday night. I believe it was for BYU. There's a whole slew of players out there since”

And that he's got a kid there's a slew of players and I wanted to individually Identify them so when we get to March I think I hope I know what I'm seeing but to answer your question Duke would be my top seed Yeah, if there are 20 then you don't have to tank and if there are 20 you can just flatten all the odds for the teams that are in the Lottery if there were 20 maybe there it's 20. I too would put Duke number one because it's very impressive that they beat Michigan on

neutral court because Michigan was the number one team You know Duke's got a couple of losses, but one of them I believe is the Iowa State who I think beat Arizona at Arizona at some point Is that in my notes? Yeah, and then they also lost well blood rival North Carolina in Chapel Hill So they're one I would differ with you. I would have Arizona too. I think the AP has Arizona too Because Arizona beat Houston and Houston here so else Arizona has beaten this year already Mike

Florida you can Alabama and be why you and that's very impressive. I was great resume. Yeah, I was slide Michigan in there Right at three and I would acknowledge that Michigan had a Incredibly difficult back to back Purdue and Duke You know coming out one and one on that is not bad at all so that that would be my top three I will say this that I'm getting very anxious for March and for the tournament because in the last couple of weeks

We have had really good teams play really good teams all the time We've been able to see this. It's just a continue like that and there are teams I haven't really dwelt on like you con for example and St. John says one 13 in a row

“Florida, you know, I think believe the defending champion so with football out of the way in the Olympics”

I've got to have something to watch so why not watch this guys? Houston Kansas you got Houston Kansas tonight In case you're not interested also spurs you got that. I think Arizona I think Arizona against Iowa State and Kansas at home in the next couple of weeks the guy who backed up the tournament At Pebble Beach and you backed it up by waiting to take a shot he wins at Riviera Pinchman and as Lebron right the Jalen Brown is being overlooked as an MVP candidate. There's good ball

There's good ball tonight. No let up Two good games tonight

Let's find out what's bumping with the bottom feeders and nail time. I'm going to get the first one now

All the glasses here

“Okay, here we go. How are you feeling about the golfing criticize for taking so long last week at Pebble winning this week at Riviera”

Tony the drama made it just fine as you know the drama trying to think of put and not look like you and me On a Sunday afternoon playing for money when you when you want to be admitting your hands You couldn't even feel your hands that your hands are shaking you couldn't feel him that's that's wow That's an admission. I love that that's that makes him more appealing to me I want to hear you by the way because even though I was annoyed by standing on the beach for like 40 minutes

He made you crazy because he did that a week ago, but I to meet Tony he's more appealing as an athlete when you have that kind of thing Happened to you before you've won before you've conquered the big stage and you admit it loved it

I tip my hat to Jacob Bridgeman who I always referred to as junior Bridgeman for obvious reasons

I knew he was not going to have his feet in the Pacific Ocean Trying to hit the ball over the rocks out of the sand like he had at Pebble at Riviera you can see it But you're not anywhere near it. You know and when what seemed to take hours and hours and hours But he went wired a wire at Riviera. He had a sick shot lead Going to the final round on Sunday and nobody was really pressing him

Kiriyama and macaroid certainly Kiriyama missed makeable birdie pots and I thought macaroid missed makeable birdie pots The pressure was all internal Bridgeman backed up. He backed up his last 11 holes He had 10 bars in a bogey, but then Mike as we've talked about he hit that great second shot on 18. It's a great shot And then his foot you heard in the booth they said oh no, it was like almost five feet short

Get up's nervous. That's nervous. So that's one what here we go Is Lebron I need glasses is Lebron right the Jalen Brown is being overlooked in the MVP conversation

“I think so Tony not wildly overlooked somebody asked Lebron about this yesterday”

The Celtics sort of you know gave the lake as a smack down in LA I if I and I do vote and I'm not I don't even have a like a ball of them my head yet But I'll put one in there now and I probably would go Kate Cunningham one

Jalen Brown would be no lower than third because I got wind by nyama in some somewhere in there probably fourth for wind by yama

And Nicole Yoke it might be second so those four guys would be in the mix and Jalen Brown could be second third or fourth So I wouldn't have him as low as sixth like apparently is the case now in some of these straw poles So I'm with Lebron two way player you mentioned early on kudos to you the Celtics look great because of Jalen Brown and they just right That's right. Yeah, so I mean, I don't know who Lebron is listening to. I don't know what Lebron is seeing But I don't know how you can have a ballad and not have Kate Cunningham and Jalen Brown actually at the top of it

“I'm what what are you watching? Kate Cunningham is the best player on the team with the best record in the NBA”

Jalen Brown is the best player on the most surprising team in the NBA a team with the out its best player without Jason Tatum They're up there they're elevated because of Jalen Brown. I know you slept when banyama all the time But I don't believe when banyama is more valuable this year than Jalen Brown Jalen Brown He has stepped up. I mean what would it look when you talk about Gilchus Alexander and Yokech and Luca They aren't doing what they're supposed to do. We know who says that supposed to do this guy is exceeding

Expectations Jalen Brown. I'm Jalen Brown is either one or two for me and Cunningham is he but what Tony I mean I said one two or three so is that like we're a massive disagreement there No brown. I haven't a healthy and by the way, don't mention Luca and no no Luca doesn't even get

No Luca's not first team all the NBA. I don't care about 32 points of game. The makers are like the 12

Out of all the playoff teams and I guess there's going to be 16 of them the makers are no higher than 12 He's playing with LeBron. He's playing with Austin Reeves. No no don't want to hear it Not female. Let's take one last break still to come angels owner Arden Moreno wonder how much fans care about winning well if you put a winning product out there they show you Been a while since they've done that who has the edge with the spurs when by yama who don't you don't like yet

Face the pistons tonight Happy time people happy 75th birthday ed two tall Jones history lesson kids Back in the days when the Dallas Cowboys will legitimately good and not part of the end of the morning show High school sheen two tall Jones is one of their true stars

He was the first overall draft pick in 1974 out of Tennessee State a perfect pick for a defensive

Mind and Coach like Tom Lander Jones was a star defensive end for 15 years in Dallas and ankle the defensive line on the Cowboys Super Bowl 12 championship team that beat Denver Jones was six nine got his nickname in college because his football pants didn't fit and his team made Said he was quote two tall to play football Two tall Jones and Randy white on that defensive line Tony Hall of Famers. How you blocked that I don't know you know this is a lot of terrific the edge rushers at all of that

“But them two dudes on one defensive line. I remember now. I was pretty young in the business not even the bug teenager”

Don't want to block the Happy anniversary Rex Chapman on this day 30 years ago while with the heat Chapman dropped 39 points on the visiting Chicago balls Including nine of ten from three point range to lead an underman Miami team with only eight eligible players To an upset over the Bulls team that ended up 72 in ten and NBA champions Chapman's 39 was the most against the Bulls all season Chapman later told Rich eyes and quote

The Bulls treated the trip to Miami like a mini vacation They were out all night long in South Beach. I know because I was with them part of the night They swept us out of the playoffs in three games like we were a JV team, but we got them that one night They'd be 73 in nine if not for us It was one more surprising loss the Bulls had that ear Toronto, which was 17 and 49

Beat the bulls who at the time were sixty and seven in that record set a year where Rex Chapman Tony If he was coming along now with his ability to shoot and shoot it from deep Rex was born too early as our friend Charles Barkley likes to say I mean Rex would be an even bigger star

Happy trails Dylan Brooks the suns forward broke his left hand Saturday night against the magic and will be out four to six weeks

“Brooks has known for his defense and his many technical fouls”

But this year he's up to scoring average by nearly seven points to twenty one again His play was one of the catalysts for the sun surprising rise in the standings

The 33 and 25 seventh in the west under first year head coach George not but with Brooks out

And Devon Booker's sideline at least a week with a hip strain suns could be setting Tony Brooks has probably been the MVP of that team who saw that coming But not a sort of hole the fort while he's out that long you're right it seems very unlikely One correction Duke lost the Texas Tech not I was state that's my bad. Let's go to the big finish quickly

“Let's do it Kevin Durant plans on playing in the 2020 eight summer games in LA are you surprised?”

No, no Kevin Durant likes to play every day if you let him you might see one of playground near your kid's school He likes to play that Riley got a bronze statue outside the lake was arena that makes sense to you, doesn't it? Every here a three-paint that's Riles in a messy and into Miami lost their MLS over to LA have seen you disappointed No, no, no magic team 75 thousand plus fans at the LA Coliseum

Second biggest trout in lead history tone angels owner Arty Marino set fans want affordability and security and winning isn't in their top five

You agree with that Cell the team cell the team to someone who wants to win selling last one spurs at pistons tonight. We got Business at one five straight spurs at one eight straight. I'm just going home court and van is with the pistons

“We're out of time trying to be better the next time. I'm Tony corn, how do you see this flag that's for the victory in the hockey game?”

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