• Though this may not be as timely as before, the University of Connecticut women's basketball team made history in late December 2010. Not only did the team match UCLA's 88-game winning streak from the legendary coach John Wooden's heyday, but it also went beyond, winning a total of 90 games before Stanford University shot it down. Regardless of whether you think women's basketball is a joke or not, that winning streak is nothing to laugh at.
• The New England Patriots were not supposed to lose to the New York Jets on Sunday. But the shock Patriot fans are going through is nothing compared to how Patriot running back Danny Woodhead must feel about this season. Woodhead, who attended Chadron State University in Chadron, Neb., was not selected during the 2008 NFL Draft. He was signed by the Jets after the draft, and started the 2010 season with the team. But the Jets cut Woodhead after the team's first game. The Patriots picked him up on Sept. 18, and as the season went on, he became one of Tom Brady's favorite targets. Woodhead finally has a home with the Patriots. He signed a two-year contract that will keep him in New England through 2012.
• Annie Duke, a professional poker player, plans to be the commissioner of a new league that aspires to be the PGA of poker, the top tier of cardsharks, defining the game's best players and hosting exclusive invitational tournaments. Sounds like someone is bluffing ... poker, a sport?
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