Rangers 4, Bruins 3 (OT)

 

Morgan Geekie scored a goal, Elias Lindholm scored two, and David Pastrnak got his 900th career point last night, but the Rangers also scored three goals in regulation and beat the mighty Bruins in OT, handing Boston only their third OT loss this season. Goalie Joonas Korpisalo made 24 saves on 28 shots (.857).

The Bruins are 30-20-3 and remain eligible for the last Wild Card berth, four points ahead of the Florida Panthers. They host the Nashville Predators (24-23-4) tonight. 

  

Celtics 102, Trailblazers 94

 

Please allow me to be perfectly clear: I'm a big fan of Portland, Oregon - I spent a lot of time there in 2007 and 2008 and almost moved there. Visited many times since then, too. I'm also a very big fan of Jrue Holiday and Robert Williams III. Timelord got us within striking distance of the championship and his trade to Portland gave us Jrue, who took us to the mountaintop in 2024. 

So it saddens me to see them on a once-mighty Trailblazers team that's been struggling as of late. The team suffered two consecutive losing seasons, although they are improving and nearing .500 this year. So best wishes to Jrue, to Timelord, and to the Blazers, except for last night.

Last night, the Boston Celtics beat Portland 102-94 behind Pritchard's 23 points. Mr. Brown got 20 points and Mr. White scored 18. For the record, Jrue had 14 points for the Blazers and Timelord came off the bench for another six plus two steals and a blocked shot.

The Celtics remain atop the Atlantic Division at 29-17, one game ahead of Toronto and 1½ ahead of New York. They're five games behind Detroit in the Eastern Conference. The Atlanta Hawks (23-25) will come pay a visit on Wednesday. 

 

AFC Championship: New England 10, Denver 7

 

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Vermont 2, BU 1

It was a rough weekend for BU Terrier hockey - the men's team got swept by Providence and the women's team got swept by Vermont. 

Sydney Healey gave BU an early, 1-0 lead 20 seconds into the game, but little did the Terriers know that would be it for scoring last night. Vermont tied it up in the first and scored a power-play goal in the second. The Terriers pulled goaltender Michelle Pasiechnyk in the final minutes but couldn't capitalize on the extra skater, but at least avoided a late, open-net goal by the Catamounts. 

The Terriers are 7-15-3 overall and tied with Maine for seventh place in the Hockey East standings. Next weekend will see a home-and-away against Merrimack (5-16-3). 

Providence 4, BU 0

 

No. 11 Providence scored early in the first period and added three more goals in the third to beat the No. 18 Boston University men's hockey team, 4-0, on the Terriers' home ice to complete a weekend sweep. 

Even though the Terriers outshot the Friars, 33-26, the Providence goalie deflected every shot he faced. Mikhail Yegorov made 22 saves in the net for BU.

The Terriers fall to 12-12-1 overall and 8-9-0 in Hockey East play. They're in fourth place in the conference standings, seven points behind the first-place Friars.

Next weekend, they have a single game against archrival Boston College, 13-8-1 overall and four points ahead of BU in the Hockey East standings. 

Bruins 4, Canadiens 3

It was a pretty exciting game between two bitter rivals. Montreal's scored first on a Cole Caufield goal, but Viktor Arvidsson tied it up on a power play. Caufield took back the lead with a second goal, but Morgan Geekie tied it up again. Caufield completed the hat trick in the second period to give Montreal a 3-2 lead, but then Fraser Minten responded in the third with a goal. Finally, Geekie scored a second time to give Boston it's first lead of the night at 4-3, and the mighty Boston Bruins held on to win the game.

The Bruins and the Canadiens are the two teams in the East currently eligible for a Wild Card berth, and Boston (3-20-2) is now one point behind Montreal in the standings.

Speaking of rivals, the Bruins head to Madison Square Garden to play the Rangers (21-25-6) on Monday night.  

Bulls 114, Celtics 111

 

Total rebounds: Bulls 44, Celtics 38. Three-Pointers made: Bulls 21, Celtics 15. Hugo González minutes: 11:08. 

The result? The Bulls sink that 21st and final three-pointer, a 22-footer from the left corner, in the last second of the fourth to win the game, 114-111. 

When it takes two overtimes to beat the lowly Nets, don't expect to dribble into Chicago and beat the Bulls.

The Celtics return home to play Portland on Monday. 

Alex Honnold vs. Taipei 101

 

In one of the most amazing and frankly terrifying performances I've ever seen, climber Alex Honnald, the greatest free climber ever, successfully free soloed the 1,667-foot, 101-story Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan. No ropes, no harness, no safety equipment, just Honnold and 1,667 feet of glass and steel. Amazingly, it was covered live on Netflix with drone cameras and a very brave photographer hoisted on ropes and pulleys. 

Honnold completed the climb in 1:31:40, but it's not a race. I literally had tears of joy in my eyes when he stood on the very top of the needle spire at the top of the building.

The climb was postponed from yesterday to today because of rain, but Honnold still had to contend with strong winds.

WDW celebrates athletes playing their games, but this was just next level. The slightest error wouldn't mean a two-point penalty or even a season-ending loss but a sickening fall to sure death. Honnold was dancing with impermanence on the 11th tallest building in the world (tallest until 2010).

It's going to be a very long time before someone completes a more dramatic and more singular expression of athletic excellence.  

Providence 4, BU 3

 

The No. 18 Boston University men's hockey team lost their game in Providence last night, 4-3, against the No. 11 Friars.

Providence struck first with two  power-play goals in the first period, but BU's Cole Eiserman scored in the second and freshman Tynan Lawrence got his first collegiate goal early in the third to tie the game up. Providence jumped back ahead by one, but Eiserman got a second goal of the night to tie it again. However, Providence scored with 2:41 remaining in regulation to skate away with the win. Terrier goaltender Mikhail Yegorov had 36 saves on the night.

BU falls to 12-11-1 overall and 8-8-0 in Hockey East. They are in fourth place in the conference standings, four points back from first-place Providence. 

The weekend series moves to Boston for a game at 7:00 pm tonight.

Vermont 5, BU 2

 

The B.U. women's hockey team lost a home-ice game to Vermont last night. Vermont scored four unanswered goals, three on power plays, before the Terrier's Keira Healey scored her first collegiate goal on a power play in the third. Sydney Healey added another goal, but Vermont scored a shorthanded goal late in the game for the final, 5-2 score. Michelle Pasiechnyk made 27 saves in net for the Terriers.

What can you say? The Terriers fall to 7-14-3 overall, and 5-8-2 in Hockey East play. Their 19 points are tied with Vermont at fifth place in the conference, but they'll get a chance to break that tie and avenge the loss with another home-ice game against the Cstamounts at 4:00 this afternoon. 

Celtics 130, Nets 126 (2OT)

 

WTF? It takes two OTs to beat the lowly (12-30) New York Nets? You needed a Jaylen Brown triple double (27 points, 10 rebounds, and 12 assists) to beat one of the worst in the NBA? You needed Hugo González to make a 24-foot three-pointer from the left corner in the last 0.4 second just to tie up the first OT? 

The Celtics led the Net in total three-pointers, 22-13, but lagged in rebounds, 58-41. Payton Pritchard's 32 points helped, but to win the game, the Celtics needed 18½ minutes from González and his 4-4 shooting, including 2-2 on threes (he also hit a three in the second period from the same spot as his tying shot in the first OT), his seven rebounds, and an assist, a steal, and a block from him. González wins games, and the Celtics' success or failure this season is directly proportional to his playing time.

The Celtics are 28-16 after this game, 1½ games ahead of the Knicks atop the Atlantic Division and 4½ games behind the Pistons in the Eastern Conference. Jaylen Brown's 29.7 points per game is fourth highest in the NBA, and the Celtics' defense is third best in the league. 

The team travels to Chicago today (hopefully, ice storm permitting) to play the Bulls (22-22).

Outer Worlds 2

 

Hey, video games are e-sports, right? Any reason not to discuss video games in this sports blog?

Hearing no objections, last night I completed Outer Worlds 2, a first-person sci-fi Role-Playing Game released on October 29, 2025 by Obsidian Entertainment. I started the game on January 3 and completion took me 83 hours of gaming time. I played the game on "Normal" difficulty, but will admit that a couple of times early in the game I briefly switched over to "Story" mode when I kept getting repeatedly killed during early boss fights. 

According to Steam, I earned only 18 of 48 possible achievements (38%), but many of the unearned achievements are based on completing multiple play-throughs of the RPG. I did reach the highest level of the game (30), completed all the main story and companion quests, and killed over 50 raptidon juveniles, crabble hatchlings, mantiwasps, spiderlings, and other creatures in the process.

For this first time through this RPG, I selected a male Renegade as my character and my selected trait was Brilliant.  Initially, I chose Lockpicking and Hacking as my primary skills to help acquire weapons and ammo, but as the game progressed I loaded up Gun and Speech skills.

This wasn't my first Outer Worlds experience. Back in 2019, I played the previous game, The Outer Worlds, and its DLCs multiple times with different character builds for a grand total of 192 hours. 

Next up is a replay of OW2 as a different character, probably female, with different traits and skills to see just how much that changes the game.  

This is a sports blog and not a review site, so I won't offer a synopsis or critique of games but instead try and cover them like sporting events - stats, standings, achievements, and events. You know, just the facts, ma'am.