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—Penguins winger Colby Armstrong nearly suffered a serious injury after taking a big hit…from a Christmas tree.

“I was setting it up, and it was a little crooked, so I reached in to just give the thing a little shake in the stand,” he said. “I gave it a shake, and one of the branches flickered and hit my [right] eye. “All night long, while I was laying in bed, my eye was just killing me,” he said. “I tried contact solution, everything.”

Eventually Armstrong did find some eye drops that helped and he has made a full recovery.

—Read this Ivan Carter story about how the Wizards’ happy-go-lucky team surprised new point guard Mike Wilks. If the NBA Championship was decided by locker room awesomeness, the Wizards would have the title wrapped up.

—Morris Almond is absolutely tearing up the D-League. In case you don’t remember, there were three shooting guards picked in the first round who people believed might have immediate impacts on their teams—Nick Young, Rodney Stuckey, and Morris Almond. Injuries have pressed Young into the Wizards regular rotation (where he is showing his enormous potential), but Stuckey and Almond haven’t been able to play their way onto the NBA court. The good news for Almond is that he has managed to find his way onto the D-League court, and his 32 ppg lead the league.

—”Cowgirls win by 71 points.” I saw this headline the other day and it just got me thinking of what it would have been like to sit there for two hours and watch the Oklahoma State women’s basketball team beat Arkansas State by 71 points. How many people were there? Were they all drunk? Was the Arkansas State team considering leaving at half time so they could get home early? Read the story and take joy in the fact that you didn’t have to be there.

—Don Cherry (a.k.a “The Bearded Suited One“) “understands” why Chris Simon tried to slice Jarkko Rutuu’s ankle in half with his skate blade. Cherry didn’t really elaborate, most likely because his foot was already to far down his throat.

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