From The Sports Desk

The Sports Desk had a good weekend.  

The Georgia Bulldogs survived a scare and held off an Auburn rally to beat the Tigers, 21-14. Georgia is now No. 4 in the AP Top 25 poll, behind LSU, Ohio State and Clemson (in that order), and right above No. 5 Alabama. Auburn fell from No. 12 to No. 16 after the loss.  Despite an embarrassing loss to South Carolina, Georgia clinched the SEC East, and if they win the Conference Championship game against LSU ("if" being the important word there), they'll be back in the NCAA National Championship playoffs again.  Even if they lose to LSU, like every other team in the country has so far this year, if the game is close they'll still have a claim to a playoff spot, as unlike Alabama or Clemson, they'll have beaten three ranked teams this season (Notre Dame, Florida and Auburn).  But first, they have to focus on beating Texas A&M and Georgia Tech.

The Patriots also survived a scare last weekend, coming back from a 10-0 deficit to beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 17-10, and you know how I feel about the Eagles.  The Patriots are 9-1 on the season and are tied with San Francisco for the best record in the NFL.

The Celtics beat the Warriors at Golden State, 105-100, on Friday night although to be fair, Golden State in 2019 isn't the same team they were in years past.  On Sunday night, the Celtics 10-game winning streak finally came to an end with a one-point loss to Sacramento, but that 10-game run was a thing of beauty to watch.  The Celtics are 10-2 on the season, a half-game behind the 11-2 Lakers for the best record in the NBA.  

The Sports Desk doesn't follow hockey until the playoffs, but can't help but notice that the Bruins are 12-3-5 so far in this young season.

In the sport of politics, the desk was pleased to see that Team Trump had a bad weekend.  On Friday, Trump shot off one of his mean-girl tweets during the testimony of an American diplomat in his impeachment hearings, and instead of turning public opinion against her, he possibly wound up with another article of impeachment against him (intimidation of witnesses), and she got a highly unusual, possibly unprecedented, standing ovation after her testimony.  On top of that, despite Trump's endorsements and rallies in their states, the Republican candidate for Governor in traditionally red-state Louisiana  lost to the Democratic incumbent, and the Republican in the Kentucky gubernatorial race finally conceded defeat to his Democratic rival this weekend. 

It's been a good weekend.