Category: "Hockey"

NTSF 130: Flying with the Underdogs…

Zach breaks down the stories from Paris-Roubaix, the Malaysian Grand Prix and the Champions League in this week’s edition…

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NTSF 128: Rounding the quarter-pole on the track of 2011…

A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America talks technology and the record book, basketball and barbecue, fast cars and fierce rivalries — with a bonus rant to boot! — in this week’s edition…

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NTSF 123: The Gamble Inherent…

What do Pete Rose, Justine Henin and Riccardo Riccò have in common? Zach takes a look at that question and more in this week’s edition of NTSF…

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NTSF 121: The Life of a Blessed Sports Fan…

I’ve been thinking the past few days about just how blessed I am as a sports fan. Perhaps it is just the glow after finishing the first draft of my first book, achieving the New Year’s resolution I set on the first of January 2010 of having this thing completed and ready to edit by [...]

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Should the NBA Select Their All-Star Teams Like the NHL?

Rob Kelley takes a look at what an NBA All-Star Fantasy Draft would look like.

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NTSF 118: Blown away by in-flight technology…

As the New Year nears, this is the time slot when I would normally be breaking down all the events of the year, the biggest people and places of the past 365 days. But I pretty much did that last month, when I declared that we really ought to push the concept of the “New [...]

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NTSF 116: Why we root the way we do…

It is something that so wholly encompasses the sports fan’s consciousness that it seems second nature. Yet it is one of those things that the fan rarely thinks about as he goes about his daily existence. Rooting for his team or teams, year after year, there are precious few occasions on which he finds himself [...]

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NHL Fighter Rankings: Heavyweights

The ice clears around the two warriors, both stripped of gloves and helmets and standing astride their two sharpened blades. Towering above the ice they begin throwing punches at one another, grabbing at the other’s sweater for purchase and leverage. Pushing, pulling, reeling from each beefy fist colliding with septum, with cheekbone, with skull and [...]

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