We had quite the weekend in sports... The Houston Rockets got gigantic news (no point intended) when their all-star center Yao Ming was diagnosed with a hair line fracture in his foot, thus ending the Rockets hopes of beating the Los Angeles Lakers... NOT SO FAST... The Rockets were a ten point underdog going into Sundays game, but to every ones surprise, they WON 99 to 87. Believe it or not, this game has nothing to do with the biggest moment in sports this weekend.
Another amazing sport story from this weekend is, despite Alexander Ovechkin's 2 goals in game 5, the Pittsburgh Penguins managed to win the game with an overtime goal to gain the lead in the series 3-2. This overtime goal was scored by a Washington Capitol player on his OWN GOAL..! Pittsburgh has now won 3 straight games to gain the advantage in this series. And again believe it or not, this still is not my top play of the weekend.
There were plenty of other games and plenty of other highlights this weekend in the world of sports. Including: Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau hitting back to back home runs for the Minnesota Twins for the first time this season, Torii Hunter's home run stealing and game saving catch over the wall in Anaheim to ice the win for the Angels over the HOT Kansas City Royals, and who will ever forget the top seeded UC Irvine beating USC in one of the best Men's Collegiate Volleyball Championships ever. This championship went to 5 sets with UC Irvine taking the trophy in a 15-12 over-time thriller. And, as you could probably guess, these still aren't my top plays of the weekend.
Hands down the best game and the best play of the weekend have to go to the Denver Nuggets vs. the Dallas Mavericks, this game 3 was close the entire way, and going into the last minute the Nuggets found themselves down by 2. However, they didn't give into the pressure they felt on the road, and with the clock winding down, the Mavericks still had a foul to give. Antoine Wright, a forward for the Mavericks, attempted to foul Carmelo Anthony with 1.0 seconds left on the clock, but the officials let them play on. Carmelo Anthony hit a 3 point shot and essentially won the game for the Nuggets, all of this action happened within the last minute of the game, and was all caused by a missed call by the referee's of this game. This is such a big play at such a big time because this puts the Nuggets up 3 games to 0 in a best of 7 game series and basically has the Mavericks with one foot in the grave.
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