three whole points

There was a lot of wrestling last week. With two major tournaments, Missoula and Choteau. Most teams now know what needs to happen in the remaining two weeks before divisionals start.
Polson wrestlers are definitely stepping up. I’m seeing new names pop up in medal rounds each week. They have a young squad, 11 upperclassmen out of 32 wrestlers on the roster.
Last night, the Pirates beat Whitefish 78-3. 78-3!!!
That is the second lopsided score I have seen this week, the other was the Charlo girls basketball team holding St. Regis to nine points last week.
I don’t know if Polson is that superior or what but three points?
The first five lowest weight classes were won by Polson by forfeit. That’s thirty points there.
The rest, except Polson’s decision loss, were pins by Pirates. Three were under a minute, Chris Cote had his in 22 seconds and Josiah Clairmont got his in 23.

This week, every team is in play. Polson boys basketball hosts Whitefish. They need to win to keep things rolling.
I’m going to Arlee on Friday and am interested in watching the Arlee boys. They are undefeated and seem to be pretty solid. I watched them against Charlo, but sometimes its hard to analyze and watch two teams, take pictures and write down the logistics of what’s happening while trying to stay out of the spectators way in a packed gym where everyone is yelling.
Charlo also hosts Noxon on Saturday, so I’m going to head there.

I’m not the biggest fan of basketball. I like watching March Madness and getting into that (last year, my family and I filled out brackets and I won, much to the displeasure of my brother whose pride was severely hurt. He failed to remember I'm the sports reporter, I know these things) but as far as NBA goes, any day that end in -day I would rather watch paint dry.
Than LeBron came.
I still don’t like the physical game and get angry every time nine of the top ten plays on SportsCenter are of some tall guy dunking the ball. You can’t hit/touch/breath on a player without getting in trouble. Very opposite of hockey.
But LeBron’s antics are something that I find pretty funny. He is like the Alex Ovechkin of the NBA: a young kid that has so much talent playing professionally but acts like he is 10 every time he scores.
Both look like they are playing with their friends instead of teammates.
They electrify any arena they step foot in. Home or away. Most superstars can’t do that.
Bill Simmons wrote a good piece on LeBron’s personality.
In high school sports, you don’t see anyone that can do that. Mostly because they will be labeled as cocky and no one will deal with them.
LeBron, and Ovie, are cocky but not to the point where they are labeled as divas and no one wants to have them on their team.

Here is Ovi being Ovi:

Link of the day: 13 simple rules for hockey parents everywhere
John Buccigross, of ESPN, came up with some pretty good rules that first-time hockey parents should live by. Coming from Minnesota, all of these rules ring true. That sport is what we do besides inflict pain on our selves for thinking the Twins will make it to the World Series and watching them crash and burn.