Are you watching? Good. Because this is me, not panicking six games into the 2009/10 hockey season.
See? I’m breathing deeply, sleeping well and eating full, balanced meals. I’m drinking delicious Canadian beer in reasonable quantities and am not under any circumstances swigging straight from the bottle of American whiskey and cursing at my television set [...]
On June 22, 2009, along with thousands of other writers and editors who cover video games, sports or both, I received a press release from EA Sports, developer of the bestselling NHL franchise.
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today revealed that 20-year-old scoring phenom Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks will be the new face of [...]
These are, typically, the weeks of the year when nobody aside from true fanatics gives more than a moment’s thought to games played on ice in cold arenas.
Normally, I would count myself among those who ignore hockey through the dog days of summer. However, since ’summer’ in this city so far can be justly summed [...]
I’m really expected to wait patiently for two whole days until I can watch, gripping a tumbler of something only a little less potent than rubbing alcohol, my team play a Game 7 for the Stanley Cup?
What kind of retarded, egomaniacal, business-destroying, nerve-antagonizing, sport-ruining, monkey-faced joke of a businessman decided that was a good idea?
Right. [...]
How fervently do I wish they started these games at noon?
And imagine, should the unthinkable happen in Pittsburgh tonight (*knocks on wood*) we’ll all be waiting until Friday for another game. So we can play Games 1 & 2 on back-to-back nights three days after the end of the previous series … but we have [...]
(Trust me, it fits.)
No. 821 on the list of Sports Media Cliches can be phrased in several different ways. There’s no substitute for experience. You have to learn how to lose before you learn how to win. Never underestimate the will of a champion. Until somebody knocks you off, you’re still the champ.
Etcetera, etcetera. But [...]