EVERYONE, IT SEEMS, is talking about T.J. Oshie's four shootout goals that led the U.S. to a 3-2 win over Russia on Saturday.
Someone even updated his Wikipedia entry, calling him an "American hero."
That was quickly - and thankfully, according to Oshie - edited out.
"The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me," he said.
Then the question: Who is Oshie?
Well, before he became "T.J. Sochi," he was a center with the St. Louis Blues, who drafted him 24th overall in the 2005 entry draft.
There is, of course, much more to the story.
He went from a guy who was just hoping to make Team USA, to one that got a postgame, congratulatory tweet from President Obama.
"Can you top that?" Oshie said. "For him to go out of his way and take time in his busy life to tweet out to me and my teammates, that's pretty special."
There's a lot in Oshie's life that is pretty special right now.
He and his beautiful fiancée Lauren Cosgrove are expecting a daughter in April. They have been together for 3 years and he proposed right before he left for Sochi.
"I wasn't expecting it," she said. "He really is the most genuine, caring guy that I've ever met."
On Saturday, Cosgrove, her sister and some friends watched from St. Louis as Oshie single-handedly won the game for the U.S.
"We were just all on the edge of seats, we couldn't contain our excitement," she said. "I actually joked with my friends, 'I might go into labor!' "
She, of course, was only one of the millions who watched one of the most exciting games in Olympic history.
The residents of Warroad, Minn., all 2,000 of them, were also cheering him on.
Warroad bills itself as "Hockeytown USA" and has a unique connection to the Winter Games: A Warroad resident has been on the team both times the U.S. has won gold.
Dave Christian played on the U.S. squad that won the gold in 1980 after beating the Soviets in the "Miracle on Ice" semifinal. His father, Bill Christian, and uncle, Roger Christian, led the U.S. to the gold at the 1960 Games.
Warroadians also played on several silver-medal teams.
As if that isn't enough, Gigi Marvin a defenseman for the women's U.S. hockey squad in Sochi, was Oshie's high school classmate. They were king and queen of the Warroad Frosty Festival in 2005.
Whether Oshie becomes the latest gold-medal winner from the tiny town remains to be seen. But one thing is certain.
"I'm definitely going to try to represent the town and obviously the country as best I can," Oshie said. "There's some big shoes to fill in there so I'll just try to do my part."
More on Oshie
T.J. Oshie played at the University of North Dakota, which has 12 alumni (nine players, three support staff) involved in the Games.
The players are all rink rats, including six women - two each on Team USA, Team Canada and Team Finland.
The U.S. female players are twins Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux.
On the men's side, the U.S. is represented by Oshie and Zach Parise, while Jonathan Toews plays for Canada.
At the moment, the University of North Dakota does not have a nickname, having been forced to drop the "Fighting Sioux," which was deemed offensive to American Indians.
Here's a suggestion: Call the teams the "Oshies."
You're not likely to get any objections.
T.J., afterall, is of Ojibwe ancestry, one of the largest Native American tribes in North America.
'Cool Runnings 2'?
The Jamaican two-man bobsled team is in 30th place after yesterday's first two runs.
Driver Winston Watts, who competed in the four-man team that inspired the movie "Cool Runnings," said he never tires of the film.
"I still watch that movie as if it's the first time I'm watching it," Watts said. "It's very inspiring."
Watts, 47, was a member of the four-man team that crashed and failed to finish at the 1988 Games in Alberta, Canada.
The film's inspiring scene that shows the team carrying its sled across the finish line was dramatic, but never happened.
Miller emotional
Bode Miller, 36, tied for bronze in the super-G yesterday, making him the oldest Alpine skier to win a medal.
But it wasn't skiing that was on his mind after the race. It was his late brother Chelone, a competitive snowboarder, who died last year at 29 of an apparent seizure.
After finishing his race, Miller tried desperately to hold back tears.
"Losing my brother this last year was really hard for myself, my family, our whole community," Miller said. "It was just a lot of emotion. To have things go well today, as well as they did . . . everything felt pretty raw and pretty connected. It was a lot for me."
It was Miller's sixth overall Olympic Alpine medal. Only Norway's Kjetil-Andre Aamodt has more, with eight.
Bob's back
NBC said Bob Costas will return tonight to host the network's prime-time telecast.
Costas missed 7 days after an eye infection blurred his vision and left him sensitive to light .
Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira filled in for him.
Perhaps Costas can help prop up the ratings, which have sagged a bit.
Saturday night's prime-time telecast was seen by 17.1 million viewers.
That was the smallest audience to date and less than any night of the Vancouver Olympics in 2010.