Yesterday’s USA Today featured a column from hockey columnist Justin Bourne titled, “It’s time to end the use of gay slurs in hockey.” It’s a nice sentiment, but it feels like a blip on the radar the day after an entire state smacked us down.
There hasn’t been progress on this issue for years. When I [...]
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Column calls for end to gay slurs in hockey
Sports Tweet: Clueless Coach
I am not the biggest fan of Philadelphia Flyers head coach John Stevens. When the Flyers fired Ken Hitchcock and replaced him with Stevens after a terrible start to the 2006-07 season, I thought it was a panic move. Although Stevens won a championship in the minors, and the Flyers had a fine 2007-08 playoff [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning play strip hockey
It’s not as sexy as it sounds, but during practice Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Lightning players had a “strip shootout.” Basically, anytime you missed a shot you had to remove an article of clothing. But because hockey players wear so much gear, even the worst shooter — Martin St. Louis — never showed much skin.
St. [...]
The NHL is back
As usual, the National Hockey League has its problems. The Phoenix Coyotes are bankrupt and a judge is trying to sort out a mess in which the league is trying to stop the only bidder willing to buy the team, because he wants to move it to Hamilton, Ontario. All of this led to the [...]
Quick hits: Soccer, Favre, Blake, hookers
Miracle on the Pitch! The U.S. soccer team needed to beat Egypt by 3 goals and have Brazil beat World Cup champion Italy by at least three goals. They got both and move on to the Confed Cup semifinals. They play top-seeded Spain next.
Today’s tea-leaves: Favre is joining the Vikings, as the team has reportedly [...]
NHL Winter Classic: let’s play two?
The NHL Winter Classic, thanks to successful outdoor games at Buffalo’s Ralph Wilson Stadium in 2008 and Chicago’s Wrigley Field this year, is quickly becoming a New Year’s Day tradition. Now the National Hockey League may be expanding it. Multiple sources are reporting that the league plans to turn the next Winter Classic into a [...]
Stanley Cup in Mario Lemieux’s swimming pool
Of all the major pro sports, hockey has the best championship tradition — the Stanley Cup, awarded to the league champs, basically goes on tour and is found in bars, churches, businesses and just about every conceivable place. I have seen babies given baths in the cup, while Pascal Dupuis of the newly crowned Pittsburgh [...]
Quick hits: Favre, Coyotes, NHL, NASCAR
Todays’ Favre tea leaves: He’s coming back and expresses interest in doing so on the Joe Sucks Buck Show. Duh!
A judge rejects the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes and move to Canada. For now.
Lots of people watch Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals: Most in 36 years, highest rating in six years.
NASCAR driver in [...]
Quick hits: Lakers fans, Pens, Phelps, testicles
L.A. Lakers win title. And after 15 titles, Lakers fans still riot in the streets when their team wins. Police arrest 25 scumbags, police officers hurt. Adam Morrison (right) now has more titles than Charles Barkley and Karl Malone.
Pittsburgh Penguins win the Stanley Cup, become first major pro team in 30 years to win a [...]
More proof hockey players are manly men
In the aftermath of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ seventh-game Stanley Cup victory at Detroit, Red Wings star Nicklas Lidstrom revealed the reason he missed the final two games of the Western Conference semifinal series against Chicago: he had surgery after being speared in the testicles by Chicago’s Patrick Sharp in Game 3 of that series.
Lidstrom told [...]
Wanna see a champion? Visit Pennsylvania
A couple of months ago my friend Kurt and I were walking around downtown Philadelphia after lunch. We passed a steakhouse that opened recently and has become a favorite spot for celebrities. We saw a guy with a beard and some bruising on his face outside the restaurant and we both had the same thought: [...]
Quick hits: Pens, Magic, Favre, Brady
Magic have best shooting-percentage game in NBA Final history and beat the Lakers, bringing out the tired “It’s a series” cliche everywhere.
Penguins force Game 7 of Stanley Cup Finals. So far, the home team is 6-0 in the series. Game 7 is at Detroit.
The tea leaves this morning point to Brett Favre not playing for [...]
Quick hits: ‘Shrooms, Pens, Lakers, Big Unit
Pittsburgh Penguins even the Stanley Cup Finals, winning 4-2.
L.A. Lakers dominate the Magic in Game 1. What was that about the Magic giving the Lakers ‘fits’?
Pro skateboarder Jereme Rogers (right) said mushrooms drove him to strip down, get on his roof and start making a lot of noise. At 6:40 a.m. Oh to live in [...]
Quick hits: Pens, Serena, Obama, Cowboys
Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Red Wings for their first Finals win this year. BTW, is anyone else annoyed by the now-stale proclamation that “now we have a series”?
The world’s No. 1 player self-proclaimed world’s best player lost in the quarterfinals of the French Open today.
Obama picks the L.A. Lakers to win the NBA Championship. Anyone [...]
Good ratings news for NHL, NBC
Granted, the May sweeps ended and the summer television doldrums are upon us, so many network programs are in reruns. Plus, Saturday night has become a true dead zone for network television. Taking all of that into consideration, though, NBC and the NHL have to be happy with the ratings for the first two games [...]
