So, taking TChan's gamblers advice to heart and not wanting to be an complete EV Whore (as I have been accused) we now will have the parent set the line and the opponent choose the side for our kid's sporting events.

Today, RenoBoy participated in the first round of the Something something Reno Freshman basketball invite tournament His team is the Bishop Manogue Miners, otherwise known as the God Squad, the team of the Jesus, the Pope's Evangelical Army. Note that RenoBoy has been brought up in a non-denominational home (i.e. he's a fan of the Flying Spaghetti Monster) but "all my friends want to go to this Catholic School dad." Thus, here he is.

His Freshman football team went undefeated, crushing their opponents something like 216-20 over the year. Adam lost many a wager, but, as has been pointed out, he was given lines that did not perhaps match the quality of play of God's team.

So, tonight, the line was set at Bishop Manogue -8.5 vs the mighty Reno High School Huskies. Adam took Reno and, while they put up a noble fight, they were no match for the power of the trinity and Manogue won by 25 points.

Renodoc +1

Meanwhile, in the great white North- where hockey rules and girls are equal to boys (just terrific those girl sports) AdamSpawn #1- the Mighty Maple Ridge Barracudas, were booked as 3.5 goal favorites. Renodoc, seizing the opportunity, took said death fish. The 'cuds's outshot their victims 45-3 and somehow only won 6-0.

Renodoc +2

Tomorrows events include Jesus' favorite Freshman hoops team playing the somewhat weak Douglas Tigers. I asked our point guard "how much do you think you'll beat them by" and the line was set at 18.5. This time, Adam wisely has chosen the path of light.

AdamSpawn #2, who has a Clash song named after him and his Ridge Meadows Pee Wee's are a 2.5 goal favorite over some other poor bastard team. Reno, in a measure of spite, has bet on Adam's kid, the favorite.

Kid vs. Kid. Side betting encouraged....

Tried to explain this to one of the parents tonight at the game and they were horrified.

For clarity, here is the standings for Rudy's division. We're the Ridge Meadows Rustlers.



Friday, we're playing North Van and I set the line at Rustlers -2.5. We don't score a lot, but are very hard to score on. Goaltending obviously superb.

Current score: Reno 2, Adam 0.

Loser must buy dinner next time we're in the same city.

This.

Although living in Nevada i think we can get special dispensation from the Cardinal or Bluebird or whatever he's called

There's your problem right there!

Tonight, the mighty Manogue Miners ran the Douglas Tigers off the court in the quarterfinals of the winter classic nevada/world championship. Their center had 15 blocks, but other stats are not available. Covering the 18.5 pt spread, Adam takes this one, having bet on the god squad.

Meanwhile, in the frozen North, the Maple Ridgers crushed their hapless 11 year old victims 6-1, covering the 2.5 puck line. Boom! Everybody's happy- Dad's team wins, and Renodoc took them to cover. Heh.

Reno 3
Adam 1

Tomorrow we have a double header for Frosh hoops. Semifinal is Carson +22.5 What's your pleasure Mr. Schwartz?

I'll take Yahweh minus the points

The Jesus wins 53-44. Doesnt cover

Team was down by 4 pts in the second quarter. Adversity!

Reno 4
Adam 1


Final vs Spanish Springs HS at 230. They didnt have to play today, and in fact only played 2 games to get to the final. They won 56-32 and 59-20.

Adam takes Manogue +7.5. Bastard.

I have witnessed some badly officiated games of all sports on all levels. The championship game of this tournament was top 5.

Manogue, through the grace of god, prevailed however. Tournament Champions!

Reno 4
Adam 2

The mighty Ridge Meadows Rustlers take down the undefeated Squamish somethingorothers to keep their own unbeaten season alive. Also, Reno bet on the Squamishes.

Standings:



Team record:





Any questions?

this is amazing

I think its 4-3 after the Miracle on Ice 2.... I'll let others elaborate.

4-4

Sickest ending to a hockey game I've ever seen.

Scheduling oddity. we played a team back to back on Saturday and Sunday. The Burnaby Winter Club Bruins.

BWC is not very popular. They are a private club that steals the best players from all the associations around Vancouver. The club charges the parents a fortune to play there and comps the best kids, creating a system of subsidy that goes from the bottom team upward.

Anyway, we beat them 8-4 in October and hadn't played them since. They have lots of top end talent, but as it's their bottom peewee team there are some very weak players as well.

Saturday's game started badly (forgot to set a line for Renodoc for this one) with my kid letting in a bad one and the team totally asleep for the first period. 3-0 BWC after 1. We're undefeated so far this year and it seems like the kids feel like they can win just by showing up. Coach Jeff (Greg Adams' brother for any hard-core hockey fans out there) read them the riot act during the intermission. Even the guy in charge of music at BWC didn't play anything during the two minutes so the arena would be quiet enough to hear our coach ranting at the players to wake up.

Rudy shut the door the rest of the way and we dominated the second and third to win 7-3. Should have been more, but their goalie made a couple of ridiculous saves from point-blank range.

Sunday rolls around, game back in our barn so I set the line at Rustlers -4.5. Reno jumped on us and I thought he might have got the best of it. Hard to bounce back for them I thought. Both teams have two goalies that alternate, playing every other game. We got by their number 1 guy, so figured we'd run it up a bit.

Not so. They came out playing great (again their goalie was on fire, stopped 4 breakaways and several point blank and it was a close 2-2 game in the third. They score to go up 3-2 and we quickly tie it right back up.

With about 2:30 to go they get a goal to go ahead 4-3, but take a penalty only a few seconds after. We pull our goalie for the extra man to have the 6 on 4 power play. Boom, tie it up right away at 4.

With a minute left, one of their guys splits our defence, goes around the net for the wrap around and scores. Great goal. 5-4. Looks like the undefeated season is done.

Right off the face-off we get control and our best skating D rolls in takes a shot and gets a face-off in their end. We pull the goalie again. Win the draw, back to the point and we bang in the rebound to tie it again with 40 seconds left!

Kids are going crazy, of course. Everyone lines up for the draw at centre ice and we win it and take it right down and get a couple great chances that their goalie stops. On the last one, a big rebound bounces out to a wide-open guy and he slams it in the open net with 6 seconds left to win it.

Perfect scenario for me. We win and don't cover! Reno is un-pleased with my line.

Not sure I've ever seen a game where a team pulls the goalie on two separate occasions to tie it up and then wins in regulation. Fun stuff.

Season record now 9-0-1. We have two league games left before Christmas, then a big tournament boxing week that sees us play two different teams from Portland, Oregon. Can't wait to see how good they are.

Here they are, Rudy on the far right. Entire team rocking pink laces for my wife, which is awesome.

Now Rudy's team needs to win a tournament, and add a new drop from him. "We just won a hockey tournament"