I've been waiting since the weekend for these clips to become available. In case you missed it, this was one of the truly great championship battles of our times: Evan Lysacek vs. Johnny Weir in the US Mens Figure Skating Finals. There hasn't been a time in recent memory when two such bitter rivals... two warriors... clashed like this. Amazingly when it was done, they finished in a tie. A TIE! Which is the only appropriate outcome when two of the fiercest competitors in all of sports go head-to-head and leave it all on the ice like these guys did.

The rivalry between these two defies comparison. You could equate them to Tiger and Phil... Like Tiger, Weir is icy and introspective, where Lysacek shares Mickelson's populist, everyman appeal. But these two are much closer in talent and victories than Woods and Lefty. You could compare them to a modern day Russell vs. Chamberlain. But the NBA greats were friends off the court and spent holidays together. Weir and Lysacek truly do not like one another. You could say they're like Ali and Frazier, but those two never went at it with the same ferocity that Evan and Johnny do every time they square off. It's brutal between them. It's war.

Just go to the last minute of Johnny Weir's clip, and see how he bursts into tears at the end of his long program because of the pressure of this bitter blood fued. Then just try to tell me there's a better rivalry in all of sports.