"hang hoof, amigo" via reuters.com

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I'm having trouble keeping up with the IPL T20 tournament. How are my Chargers doing? Someone come by and school me. 

The Paralympics are still going on in Vancouver, but I've turned a blind eye decided I'm not the guy to be covering that, but I will tell you that the U.S. Paralympic curling team is doing well, only they got beat by the Swedes today. 

In this edition: How blind people ski, an old article about the Jamaican musher from this year's Iditarod, a Greatest Moments slideshow from slate.com where most of the sports are uncommon, and a Peruvian man taught an Alpaca to surf. 

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Lance Mackey, the world's fastest dog-sledding pot smoker throat cancer survivor, won his 4th consecutive Iditarod with a total time of 8 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 9 seconds; just a shade under 9 whole days. Just a dude and his dogs for nine whole days. Gosh, when I say it like that, Snow Dogs doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

The next closest guy, Hans Gatt, finished roughly an hour after Mackey, and the third place finisher, Jeff King, finished more than an hour after that. After Mackey finished, I would've gone inside to get warm. 

Listen to Iditablog's Live 2010 Finish podcast to hear it as it happened. Find it here.

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Man, the Olympics were fun, weren't they? But they're gone now, there goes our time in the spotlight. Did you know that they showed all those British Columbia tourism commercials to British Columbians, too? I never like the California tourism commercials. It's always the Governator and his celebrity friends, mocking the unemployed.

The Indian Premier League T20 cricket tournament starts in like a day, so get ready to start seeing that. Remember you can watch it on YouTube for free. I've chosen the rags-to-riches Deccan Chargers as my team, almost at random. 

On with news! In this edition: Tony Hawk says he thinks it's time for skateboarding to be granted Olympic status, the next episode of the Iditablog podcast is ready, and is worth an hour of your time to say the very least, tie-breakers are in order at the Curling Nationals in Kalamazoo, and TooJay's is hosting the Corned Beef Eating Championship in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida next Wednesday, St. Patrick's Day.

Reminder: Survivor is tonight! 

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"Don't worry, you can exterminate me soon enough!"

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I have to be honest, I'm a little miffed at the performance of the American curling teams so I haven't watched any curling lately, but I'm not staying away. The Olympic semi-finals are happening today, yesterday I heard from Bill Simmons that Cheryl Bernard is looking to get Chargers season tickets, and the 2010 USA Curling Club National Championships are still going on, so it's not leaving me alone, either. Incidentally, I watched this episode of the Flintstones when I was a young lad, and because of the way they whispered, "slalom," I thought it was a dirty word.

In this edition: Surfing? In Canada? It's more common than you think, you'll be free to murder the Spirit Bears that inspired an Olympic mascot soon, Lindsey Vonn broke her finger in her giant slalom run and has a rivalry with Julia Mancuso, the King of Norway got his pants, Kevin Martin looks like Wallace Shawn but is the Michael Jordan of curling, your preview for today's Olympic curling semi-finals, and an amusing story I'm not telling you about here. 

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Sven Kramer being comforted by Henk Gemser via nj.com

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Remember the guy who asked the NBC reporter if she was stupid, as if people outside the Netherlands actually paid attention to speed skating? Sven Kramer, the Dutch speed skater who thinks he's the kattekop's ondergoed, was disqualified for making an illegal lane change during his 10,000m run. He would have set an Olympic record, but he stupidly listened to his coach, who told him he was in the wrong lane. Then, he actually believed his coach and made a last-second change, skating on the inside track that he had just come from, when he was supposed to go to the outside track.

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Norway's new royal garb via nationalpost.com

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So NBC really messed up that hockey game, right? Since I'm writing this the day after and you're reading it the morning after that day, all the good jokes have been said about it. That also means if you're sick to death of curling, you've come to the wrong place. 

In this edition: The King of Norway has got a new pair of pants, Cheryl Bernard's comment on the fans that made Madeleine Dupont cry, curling is a big hit even though the Americans had a terrible showing, NBC.com sucks, the hockey game was MSNBC's highest ratings ever, Germany's gold-winning cross country skier has a knitting website, Olympians are issued condoms, pole dancing as an Olympic sport, and did Apolo Anton Ohno have a mom?

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The U.S. Women's Curling Team via nbcolympics.com

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Good morrow! The early curling session is already under way and the American ladies just got four points dropped on them by the lady Canadians in the third end, score is 4-1. I watched the entire Canada vs. Great Britain men's match yesterday, those are the two best teams out there, no question. The things those guys can do with the rocks are unbelievable. Then, last night, Apolo Ohno got his bronze medal, giving him his 7th medal, the most for a U.S. winter Olympian. You have to keep saying "the most for a U.S. Winter Athlete," because his seven medals don't even crack the top thirteen in the world. You need at least eight medals to do that.

The next men's curling session is at 2:00PM PST and the women go again at 7:00PM. The U.S. men face Great Britain and the ladies face Sweden, but don't get too settled in because Amazing Race is tonight. 

In this edition; Cracked looks at some Uncommon Sports, a DIYer made a halfpipe, an Ohno article, Canadians being rowdy, and the snowboarders can be rambunctious.

[Note by Axion, 02/21/10 10:50 AM PST ] The Canadians made Madeleine Dupont cry!

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Petra Majdic, Slovenia's bronze medallist, is helped to the podium Wednesday via vancouversun.com

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First of all, welcome, battery chuckers from Niners Nation and thanks again to Ninjames for the attention. I awoke to glorious news today, friends. The men of U.S. curling rode the momentum of yesterday's win for another last end victory today over Sweden. The women go at 2:00 PM PST against Great Britain. Today's links; six broken ribs plus one punctured lung equal one bronze medal, Canada promised to own the podium, but the U.S. is doing a lot of squatting, Scotty Lago has fled Vancouver because of racy pics, a video on how to sweep ice, and catching up with Michael Phelps.

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