With the NHL season back underway, the newest talks have been about where the sport will be headed in a few years: expansion. It seems the National Hockey League has its sights set on growing now that it has resolved the recent contract situations. The likeliest destinations seem to be Quebec City and Toronto. In [...]
Cleaning up the Old Items Folder I: Joe Paterno Funeral @darrenrovell: From what we know, Joe Paterno lived 99.99% of his adult life as a noble man. Some will remember the .01%. That’s nice, but this is not MLK having an affair or Mother Teresa farting in Mass. This is a man who contributed to [...]
Sometimes you just have to get away from it all, unplug completely and give yourself a true break from the world. I came back from a camping trip over the Memorial Day weekend that took me completely out of the loop for three full days. I came back to a plugged-in world where some essential [...]
Awakening Puckhead Nation, Zach previews the Western Conference final between the Vancouver Canucks and the San Jose Sharks…
Awakening Puckhead Nation, Zach previews the Eastern Conference final between the Boston Bruins and the Tampa Bay Lightning…
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday morning really left me with a lot of time to think, and boy was there plenty to think about. I was up before 4:00 am, waking up to drive my wife to the airport for a week away on business. (Sweetheart that she was, having been up awake all night unable to sleep, she [...]