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2010 Olympic Hockey: Team Russia Looks to Reverse Fortunes
Preliminary play is underway in Vancouver and Team Russia is looking to erase more than two decades of frustration as they seek a gold medal performance here in the 2010 Winter Olympics after a string of disappointments.
In the ten Winter Olympiads spanning from 1956 to 1992, Russia was dominant. Under the old USSR regime, [...]
2010 Olympic Hockey: Team Sweden Angles for Repeat Performance
As preliminary pool play for men’s hockey begins in earnest during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Swedish national team comes to western Canada with swagger and focus. The Swedes are the defending gold medal winners, knocking off arch rival Finland in the gold medal game in Torino back in 2006.
Former NHL players Mats Naslund and [...]
NHL Trade Deadline Approaching Fast
With the exception of major league baseball, no sport has as much upheaval at the trade deadline as the National Hockey League. This season, teams are faced with a double whammy as rosters freeze February 12th for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
By the time they unfreeze following the Olympics teams will have just 63 [...]
2010 Olympic Hockey: Team Canada Primed for Success?
The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are just over a week away and all eyes will be riveted on Canada Hockey Place for the men’s Olympic hockey championships.
Teams from twelve countries spanning the globe will do battle to try and claim the gold medal for their respective nations. The teams representing the USA, Canada, Sweden [...]
2010 Olympic Hockey: Team USA Hoping for Change
With the 2010 Winter Olympics opening soon the United States men’s hockey team looks at Vancouver as a fresh start, a chance for redemption. The 2006 Olympics in Torino were unkind to the Americans on the ice, as they finished a disappointing eighth just four years after claiming the silver in the 2002 Olympics held [...]
Records that Stand the test of time
In sports, everything pertaining to performance can be measured by statistics. The success of every player and team can be broken down into columns of numbers denoted just by a few letters, allowing a hardcore statistical enthusiast to crunch numbers with the best minds pro sports has to offer. Was Dennis Rodman as good a [...]
The Answer Returns to Philly
They say you can’t go home again. They also say that when you make a decision to retire, you should stick by it, especially in pro sports where the game seems to pass the long in the tooth veterans by faster than ever with the influx of young talent, both domestic and foreign. They’ll tell [...]
The Week that was: Week 11 in the NFL
What a wild, wild world the NFL is. You never know from week to week what could happen, either with teams, injuries, personnel changes, rumors, speculation and a myriad of other issues. Week eleven has been another whirlwind, and if it’s any indication of the future, there could be a wild month and a half [...]
Luck of the Irish Run Out for Weis?
Once one of the proudest and winningest traditions in the history of college football, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have seemingly been in tatters the past decade plus. The school is laced with Heisman Trophy winners, seven in all, tied with Ohio State and USC for the most in college football history. However, even that [...]
Return of the No Fun League?
Remember when the NFL was full of entertaining players and personas? From the Fridge to Lawrence Taylor to Jim McMahon, Ickey Woods, right on down the line, the 1980s and early 1990s were a great time for the league and its fans. The league was exciting, celebrations and flamboyance were as common as the Buccaneers [...]
NFC at the Midway Point
Note: This was slated to go up Saturday, but inclement weather and a busy schedule postponed it. My apologies on that front.
So, the other day, we spun around the AFC at the midway point and gave a quick synopsis of what’s happened, an overall grade, and their potential for the second half. I’m [...]
AFC at the Midway Point
It’s the midway point of the NFL season, and we have to start taking stock of what’s happened, what might happen, who’s still got a shot at the playoffs, and who continues to rebuild for next year. This will be a brief, overall runthrough of the AFC today, then the NFC tomorrow and a quick [...]
Could the stench in the Dawg Pound be worse?
What was once a perennial powerhouse in pro football has turned into a shambles. A team with a proud history, a loyal fanbase, and a history of talented, respected players has turned into the biggest laughingstock this side of the XFL.
I’m talking, of course, about the Cleveland Browns. The Browns were a great team back [...]
Upset Special
These days in sports, no matter the level of competition, be it professional, collegiate, high school, pee wee, backyard pickup games or even video games, there is one constant. It certainly isn’t effort: no athlete or pseudo athlete wants to dog it and put up a less than stellar performance, even in defeat and be [...]
Can we get rid of the BCS?
Ever since 1998, when Tennessee defeated Florida State 23-16 in the Fiesta Bowl, the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS, has run rampant on college football. It was supposed to deliver a clear cut national champion, #1 vs. #2, in a no holds barred, winner take all battle. The reasoning was to pit the best of [...]
Larry Johnson: Troubled Back out in KC?
At some point in a troubled athlete’s career, their penchant for off the field issues leads their employer to cut them loose. Allen Iverson, Keyshawn Johnson, Ron Artest, Terrell Owens and others have burned their bridges with multiple organizations and in the long run, shortened their careers or earning potential.
Now, it seems Larry Johnson is [...]
A Shakeup in the Wrestling Biz?
In what be one of the more shocking results in sports this week, and let’s face it, it’s been a ridiculous week for stories, it’s come out that Hulk Hogan, who ushered in the Golden Age of professional wrestling a quarter century ago, has signed a contract with TNA Wrestling.
Hogan, who hasn’t been in an [...]
Captain Lou Albano Gone at 76: Link between old and new lost
They say that professional wrestling isn’t so much about in ring ability and big moves, as it is the ability to sell a character, and tell a story.
In these days however, it’s not so much about selling the story, as selling a look. Charisma has gone the way of the dinosaurs, cast aside for a [...]
Rush Limbaugh and the Rams: Yes or No?
Who would have thought that Rush Limbaugh would be such a polarizing force in the NFL, that even talk that he was interested in buying the St. Louis Rams, a team floundering in disarray and drowning in discontent, would string up such a hornet’s nest of activity to try and prevent him from getting membership [...]
Lingerie Football League: Quality Football or Titillating Entertainment?
What do you get when you combine the excitement of professional football with a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show? Why, the Lingerie Football League of course. Now, I may have overemphasized the “professional” and “football” part of that statement, but there is plenty of eye candy out there to pique the interest of both [...]
