I'm hoping to get more activity on this list, and I'm desperate enough to hope that a topic on hockey will do it. In today's Star Tribune (Sunday, March 25,...
... It's clear that Boogaard's occupation is something other than hockey player. He is employed in the NHL to play the role of goon. Further, the Russo story...
Letter of the day in the March 31 Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/563/story/1091104.html Michael Russo's March 25 column about the possible...
Roger Godin came up with an interesting newspaper clipping detailing a NHL hockey game between Boston and Montreal on Feb. 29, 1940. In the nets for the...
... City Pages, once a reliable weekly tabloid, now a shadow of its former self (ace reporter Britt Robson couldn't take it anymore and left), has a cover...
... hockey hack Ross Bernstein, who ... Now there's a great line. Oh, well, City Pages is still good for reading the personal ads and fantasizing (not that I...
Here's an interesting article on the future of fighting from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/sports/hockey/08hockey.html? ref=hockey It's...
True, but. Some choices are so egregiously bad they deserve mention. And the article did defend other choices that have been criticized, so they weren't...
I'm offering a list of my ten favorite games of all time, for each venue (live, television, videotape, radio) that I have experienced. (I've watched a couple...
Interesting item by Patrick Reusse in his Between the Quotes column today about Derek Boogard, now teaching a school for fighting in hockey while also facing...
Athletes are routinely expected to shoulder all the blame when their team loses. You know what I mean - "even if that call was wrong, blah blah blah" they are...
... bureaucrat non-leadership with the Suns' suspension, this was pathetic. I'm not going to argue about your issues with officiating, but what, in your...
Be a leader instead of making a non-decision that any low-level by-the-book functionary could have made. He could have acted like a commissioner and said that...
I'm not familiar with all that went on in that game other than Horry throwing his hip into Nash and a couple players, including Amare Stoudamire, coming off...
Bullshit. They did not "go after " Horry. They took a couple of steps towards their fallen teammate - who had just been attacked by Horry -- but did not take...
Then you're wrong. Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RDYD0EUBzY and then check any dictionary's definition of "bolting" and "walking". The only...
... Then you're double secret wrong. Watch this ... violent ... described? ... With Schultz, it was a systematic thing to have him to get banished with an...
I guess you probably think Rudy Tomjanovich should have suspended along with Kermit Washington, too, for rushing toward the action and getting himself...
... along ... Well, hey, he really knocked the shit out of Washington's fist with his face. After all, "players have some responsibility to make ... At the...
A rookie wins two races and he "could be the most talented driver ever to sit in a Formula One cockpit"?!?! And he "is one of those rare athletes who can...
Duncan knows what the rules are too. So why wasn't he suspended? (I sent you the internet link. I hope you looked at it.) And why are you defending Stern...
... (I ... Yeah, I did. I saw two Spurs take three steps onto the court and then step back. Was Duncan one of them? And why are you ... of why ... Spurs - ...
OK, you think this will not send a message that goonery is rewarded. I disagree, obviously, but that is certainly a matter of interpretation, so I agree that...
... rewarded. I disagree, obviously, but that is certainly a matter of interpretation, so I agree that you have answered that. I am still not sure what your...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/070625 A fun list from Caple. Don't disagree with his ten events to avoid either (except that rhythmic...
George Rekela is the only person I know personally (or at least that I know of) who has been present twice to see a single-game NFL rushing record broken. He...
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