Wednesday night posed a great dilemma: Attempt to watch both the Wolves and Gophers hoops games in real time, flipping back and forth ... or focus on one while either neglecting or recording the other for future watching? Granted, this is not a dilemma on the "meaning of life" scale, but these are the kinds of mini-crises that sports-minded people face.

With a bunch of other tasks on our plate -- including Wednesday night shufflepuck at Herkimer (LEAGUE GAME, SMOKEY) -- we opted for Wolves in real-time, Gophers on DVR.

We should have known from the start that it was a decision, unlike Luke Ridnour's magnificent floater in the lane, that was doomed to fail.

In this day and age, with texts flying fast and furious, Twitter dominating evenings and other dangers lurking at every corner, "Score Avoidance" is becoming an endangered species. It is nearly impossible for someone with sports fan friends to make it through one big game without finding out what's happening in the other. So it goes that around the same time Ridnour became a hero, we found out -- inadvertently, but unavoidably -- that the Gophers had fallen apart down the stretch and lost to Michigan State.

We should have seen it coming. It was a rookie move by a sports-watching veteran who has gotten a little too comfortable with the DVR. We once mocked that recording device as a terrible way to watch sports. But much like Zubaz, a DVR seems like an unnecessary luxury until you have it. Then you can't live without it -- and yet it comes back to haunt you.

Questions:

1) If you already know the outcome of a game you have recorded, do you watch it anyway? For us, in 99 percent of the cases -- particularly if a local team loses -- we have no interest in watching a game when we already know the winner.

2) DVR: Necessity, necessary evil, or something to be avoided when it comes to sports?

3) What was your viewing strategy Wednesday night?