Page 2's Power Poll dares to rate the teams that are currently wielding the most power in the entire sports universe.

Each week, our poll will rank the 10 teams at the top of the power heap -- and the five teams that have lost the most power in the past week. And, by the way, Page 2 uses its own definition for a "team" -- any group of two or more bonded together for the common purpose.

Our Momentum Meter also predicts the direction these teams will be heading in future weeks (see the bottom of the page for a full explanation).

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TEAM		PAGE 2 SAYS	MO' METER
1. Canadian Olympic hockey teams		For the first time in 50 years, hockey gold medals (men's and women's) were back where they belonged ... in the land that invented the game.
2. Sarah Hughes		Never say never. The Games' Golden Girl was all heart and all class and All-American.
3. The Shea family		Seventy years after his grandfather won a pair of golds (and 38 years after his father competed in Innsbruck), third-generation Olympian Jim Shea Jr. delighted millions around the world by winning the men's skeleton.
4. Three-time gold medalists		Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (biathlon), who won four gold, Croatia's Janica Kostelic (alpine skiing) and Finland's Samppa Lajunen (Nordic combined), all virtually unknown to NBC, were the Games' biggest stars, quantity-wise.
5. Two-time world-record breakers		The Netherlands' Jochem Uytdehaage (men's speedskating), who also won a silver, and Germany's Claudia Pechstein (women's speedskating), both virtually unknown to NBC, were the Games' biggest stars, quality-wise.
6. U.S. bobsledders		USA ended a 46-year medal drought in style as the No. 2 team of Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers (the first black person to win Winter Olympics gold) won the Olympics' inaugural women's bobsled competition, the No. 1 U.S. team won silver in the four-man bobsled and 16-year veteran driver Brian Shimer led the No. 2 men to bronze.
7. UConn women's basketball		Nobody's really come close to beating them this year ... and nobody will.
8. Oakland Raiders		Bad Al screwed and tattooed the desperate Tampa Bay Bucs and their outmanned ownership, getting two No. 1 draft picks, two No. 2 draft picks and $8 million for the rights to lame-duck head coach Jon Gruden.
9. All golfers not named Tiger Woods		This week, it was virtual unknown Kevin Sutherland, the No. 62 seed, winning the Accenture World Match Play championship, after El Tigre took the pipe in the first round, becoming the first No. 1 seed ever to accomplish that dubious feat in this event. For Sutherland, it was his first win in 184 PGA tourneys.
10. Dallas Mavericks		Have the third best record in the NBA after an impressive rout of the No. 1 Sacramento Kings. Plus, much-reviled owner Mark Cuban showed his usual cojones by picking up much-needed big man Raef LaFrentz (and, in all fairness, famed team cancer Nick Van Exel) from the Nuggets at the trade deadline.
ALSO RECEIVING VOTES: Germany's Olympians, New Jersey Nets, Sacramento Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, Detroit Red Wings, Kansas men's basketball, Maryland men's basketball, Cincinnati men's basketball, Duke men's basketball, Gonzaga men's basketball, Stanford women's basketball, the people of Salt Lake City, Marc Gagnon, Apolo Anton Ohno, NBC

TEAM		PAGE 2 SAYS	MO' METER
5. World's best golfers		No. 1 Tiger Woods, No. 2 Phil Mickelson and No. 3 David Duval all lost in the first round of the Accenture World Match Play championship.
4. Big East basketball		Lousy against other top conferences, no team that could threaten for the Final Four ... and St. John's fell off the bubble with a thud after losing to Duke by 42.
3. New York Knicks		Closing quickly on the worst record in the NBA, they made no trade-deadline deals and figure to be capped out with a lousy team until after all their current fans are dead. All that, and the highest payroll in the league.
2. Olympic cross-country dopers		Johann Muehlegg of Spain and Larisa Lazutina of Russia had to forfeit gold medals for using performance-enhancing drugs. Muehlegg is the transplanted German who now competes for Spain (though he apparently cannot speak any Spanish, making him a carpetbagger, as well as a doper). Russian Olga Danilova also tested positive.
1. Russians		Whine, whine, whine. At least during the Cold War, they weren't wimps.
ALSO RECEIVING VOTES: Sweden men's hockey team, Chicago Bulls, Memphis Grizzlies, Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets, Jayson Williams, the Glazers

Mo' Meter explained:	No mo'; holding	Climbing the charts	Peaked; all downhill