In Israel, the success of local Alinskyites was on display this week as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu found himself squaringoff against his party's most committed constituency.
Despite the new district lines and some recent health problems, Rangel fought hard to keep his seat, squaringoff with his opponents in debates and taking them on during campaign stops.
The 2012 NHL playoffs were wildly entertaining with a sixth seed (New Jersey Devils) and eighth seed (Los Angeles Kings) squaringoff for the Cup with the Kings winning in six games.
And Herbalife (HLF) again garnered more headlines per dollar of market cap than it truly deserves, but the Street remained fascinated with the public display of fund titans squaringoff on opposite sides of the HLF debate.
Again Malbranque had a part to play, the midfielder squaring to Berbatov, whose lay-off was crashed home left-footed by Huddlestone with Niemi unmoved.