Why Should Athletes Carry Our Moral Baggage?
Monday March 31, 2008
Everyone's least favorite nation is hosting the 2008 World Women's Hockey Championship. The tournament begins Friday in China.
Like the Olympians who will descend on Beijing this summer, hockey players from ... Read More
Don’t Blame the NHL for Junior Hockey’s Cage-Match Culture
Friday March 28, 2008
The media firestorm over the antics of the Roy family is so great that the Quebec government is wading in, demanding answers from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League:
(Education) Minister ... Read More
NHL Tiebreakers
Wednesday March 26, 2008
As of Tuesday, the NHL standings show six teams stacked within five points of each other in the Eastern Conference, and five teams separated by just four points in the ... Read More
Jonathan Roy: Head Case of the Year
Monday March 24, 2008
Hockey’s newest YouTube star is Patrick Roy’s boy, who flaunted his anger-management issues during a Quebec junior league game last weekend.
But while Jonathan Roy is a poster boy for ... Read More
The Road to the Frozen Four
Sunday March 23, 2008
For all you college hockey fanatics, here's the schedule for the 2008 NCAA Men's Hockey Championship, with regional rankings and television coverage noted.
Regional seeds and at-large teams were selected on ... Read More
Spin-o-Rama: The Next Generation
Wednesday March 19, 2008
The San Jose Mercury News offers readers an introduction to the spin-o-rama this week, after defenseman Brian Campbell thrilled Sharks fans with a rousing demonstration (watch it on YouTube) earlier ... Read More
How to Beat Vesa Toskala
Tuesday March 18, 2008
So far this season we've seen two stellar candidates for Goal of the Year.
Rick Nash made the Coyotes defense look like tree trunks in January. Jonathan Toews walked through the ... Read More
Stompers! Suspensions! Conspiracies!
Sunday March 16, 2008
Nothing sends the hockey world into a tizzy like a suspension.
Predictably, Chris Pronger’s 8-game sentence for his tap dance on Vancouver’s Ryan Kesler has set the fur flying:
Serial offender Chris ... Read More
Calling the Gutless Pigs as She Sees Them
Saturday March 15, 2008
Jennifer Floyd Engel, columnist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, isn't sold on the Stars as a Stanley Cup contender:
Don't be too upset about the Dallas Stars' gutless-pig meltdown Thursday.
They aren't.
In ... Read More
Icing the House That Ruth Built?
Wednesday March 12, 2008
When Yankee Stadium closes its gates in 2009, the final sound echoing across its hallowed ground won't be the crack of a Derek Jeter home run, or the roar that ... Read More
The Fallout from Toronto's Season of Horrors
Tuesday March 11, 2008
"I'm never going to another frickin' Leafs game ever again."
- Mary Young Leckie, jilted TV producer
The Toronto Maple Leafs can’t make anyone happy.
For most of the season, loyal fans loathed ... Read More
Losers for Stamkos
Sunday March 9, 2008
Sunday's Anaheim-Montreal match looked like the kind of game we could see in the Stanley Cup Final. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Meanwhile, at the NHL's rear end, here's ... Read More
Capitals Approach the Crossroads
Tuesday March 4, 2008
Any team blessed with the NHL's top points scorer, top goal scorer and top rookie scorer should be a lock to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
But the Washington Capitals are ... Read More
Don't Mourn the Departed Free Agents
Monday March 3, 2008
For a guy who's been in the sportswriting racket for a while, Bucky Gleason of the Buffalo News should know better than to blame "the system" when the home team ... Read More