It has been another week full of great matches and races. It was disappointing that the Wisconsin Badgers was so close to the NCAA men's basketball championship game but couldn't make it. Instead of watching the championship game, I'd rather watch the replay of the Cricket World Twenty20 final between India and West Indies. What an exciting match (maybe the NCAA game was better but I wouldn't have known)! India batted first and the West Indies bowled so well that India couldn't put up big numbers during the last few overs. However, India bowled almost as good during the bottom of the inning and shutdown West Indies' offense for the most part. West Indies was lagging for such a long period that I thought they might not be able to catch up but they eventually got the bat going and hit quite a few big ones out to win the championship.
The 2 NASCAR races at Darlington also had exciting finishes. The young Chase Elliot winning the Nationwide races two weeks in a row was kinda surprising. He restarted well and seized the opportunity to move up. On the Sprint Cup side, Kevin Harvick was simply strong from the pole but had to fight hard at the late restarts to beat Dale Jr for the Green-White-Checker finish.
Another great race of the week was the Paris-Roubaix bike race. My cycling enthusiast friend was actually right there in Paris and watched it with the local folks! Good for him! Niki Terpstra made a bold move to break away while he was still a good distance from the finish and succeeded. That was one sweet victory.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
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