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OLYMPIC HOCKEY: CANADA 3 USA 2 OT
Mar. 1 | By Alex Canada’s 14th and final gold medal came by way of Team Canada’s scintillating 3-2 overtime win over Team USA. No disrespect to the other sports, but this is the game everyone and their cousin from Nunavut was waiting to see. Despite...
OLYMPIC NOTES: ROCHETTE OVERCOMES GRIEF; TEAM CANADA POST- GAME CELEBRATIONS OVERREACTION
Feb. 26 | The death of a Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili wasn’t the only tragic even to hit the Vancouver games. Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette faced her own personal tragedy when she learned her mother – Therese Rochette – died suddenly...
STATS CORNER: PRICE AND HALAK COMPARED
Feb. 13 | By Chris Boersma Two years ago, in response to an e-mail from someone at Faceoff-Factor about M-A Fleury’s poor start, I stated that: There are very few 19-22 year old goal tenders (or players for that matter) in the league. For the most part players...
HOCKEY GOLD IS NOT THE ONLY PATH TO OLYMPIC SUCCESS FOR CANADA
Jan. 20 | By Beaker With the Olympics right around the corner, I’ve heard it be asked “will the Olympics be a failure of Canada doesn’t win a gold in men’s hockey?” In a land where hockey reigns supreme and runs paramount to anything...
AN OLYMPIC ATHLETE….WITH AN ASTERISK
Jan. 16 | For the first time ever, the U.S. Olympic Volleyball Team a berth in the Olympic Games. The year was 1980 and Debbie Landreth, now Debbie Landreth Brown, and her teammates were more than excited to be a trailblazing team in women’s sports and American...
PROUT IS BUSY ON AND OFF THE LACROSSE FIELD
Jan. 15 | One of the surprises of the National Lacrosse League off-season was veteran Colorado Mammoth star Gavin Prout being traded to Edmonton. Prout is a busy man on and off the field, as profiled below in this excerpt from the book WEEKEND WARRIORS: THE MEN...
General Motors Should Aim To Be Like The Red Wings
Jun. 17 | America's real team? Has anyone noticed those GM commercials? Yeah, the one about resurrection or something. Oh, reinvention you say? Well, good for them I suppose. It would have been nice if it was 100% private but hey…it’s a sports blog. Anyway,...
Clueless Sports Comments
Jun. 9 | And then I jumped over the net and smacked him -That didn’t take long. I was wondering how long before a sports writer would point out Roger Federer’s French Open victory (and 14th Grand Slam title) was over Robin Soderling and NOT Rafael...
Help Joel Stein Save Hockey At Time Magazine
May. 19 | By Alex To the editors of Time Magazine: Shit, shit, shit! In a poll asking readers to vote about whether writer Joel Stein should be banned from writing about hockey, I accidentally voted “Yes”. I morally ask you to ignore one vote. I was...
