It's Not a Dynasty Sure, the Patriots won three champi- onships in four years, but it’s still not a dynasty. Everyone knows that a dynasty consists of at least four wins. The Islanders were a dynasty. The Canadiens were a dynasty. But the Patriots still need next year to become a dynasty. That issue aside, this year’s Super Bowl was actually a pretty good game. It was no Grey Cup, that’s for certain, but it wasn’t 7. half bad. And the big story s the amount of records that were touched. Bill Belichick set a new record with his 10-1 coaching record in the playoffs. It was the team’s ninth-straight playoffs win, which tied the record set by Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers. The third championship in four years tied the feat accomplished only by the early 90s Dallas team. Tom Brady’s perfect 9-0 record in the playoffs is also an NFL record. Super Bowl MVP Deion Branch was Brady’s favourite target on the day and conse- quently he tied the Super Bowl record for receptions with 11. Now the only thing left is for the Patriots to win a fourth time and officially become a dynasty team. The World of Sports Darren Paterson, Sports Editor Its aWacky World Okay, this one is really, rea//y, weird. A prize-winning female track athlete from Zimbabwe has been found to actually be a man. The guy’s name is Samukaliso Sithole and he competed in domestic and regional competitions. His events were triple jump, javelin, shot put, and run- ning, and he brought home his country’s only gold medal from the Southern Regional Athletics Championships in Botswana last June. He’s now being charged in court for psychologically injuring the women that he competed with. And here’s the really weird part, according to Sithole, he was born con- genitally deformed and a tribal healer gave him female status with a spell. According to Sithole, the reason he got caught was because Sithole’s family didn’t pay the full fee so the spell didn’t work properly. In case you were wondering, Ellen MacArthur has managed to set a new solo around-the-world sailing record. She finished her 42,000-mile circumnaviga- tion in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 33 seconds, breaking the previous record by roughly a day. MacArthur was con- gratulated by Prince Charles and British sailing great Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who was the first person to do the solo thing back in ’69, when it took him 312 days. MacArthur rarely slept more than four hours a day, nearly hit a whale, badly burned herself on a generator, and sur- vived terrible storms en route to her record-setting achievement. Way to go, Ellen. CBC had their strangle-hold on Olympic broadcasting rights snatched away from Bell Globemedia teamed up to pay $90 million US for the 2010 winter games in a addition to another $63 million US for the 2012 summer games. It is the first time that a network has paid more for the win- ter games than for the summer games. What does this mean to you? Well, it means that for the first time since before the CBC took over the Olympic job in 1996, you'll be getting good Olympic coverage. The Roger-Bell team says they will offer over 4,000 hours of 2010 coverage with their multi- them when Roger Communications and _ pronged attack. The plan calls for CTV to carry opening and closing ceremonies, as well as all the major sports events on its free, over-the-air channels. After that, TSN and Sportsnet, on its four regional cable channels, will broadcast entire events from start to finish. So, if you want that jump-around, lit- tle-bit-of-this, little-bit-of-that style that CBC has created, then you can watch CTV. But if you want to actually watch bobsledding until the Jamaican team has their run, then you can watch Sportsnet or TSN. And if you want a good laugh, then you can consider that while the Canadian broadcasting rights cost $153 million US, the Americans, namely NBC, have paid $2.201 billion US for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics. FACIAL REJUVENATION CLINIC www-facialrejuvenationclinic.com 20 | www.theotherpress.ca No Drugs! 20% or, a] P Tee tite rey FEBRUARY 16/2005