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Hockey

NHL Financial Trouble Ahead – GM’s Will Have Less Money For Next Year

On October 13, 2008 Gary Bettman stated the NHL is still in growth mode despite the global economic downturn. While the rest of the world has been rightfully nervous about the months ahead, Bettman seemed pretty confident. If his statement seemed odd to you, you were not alone. Bettman came off as either naïve to […]

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Olympics

Who Really Won in the Medal Standings at Beijing – Jamaica?

Football season has just started and the stretch run of the baseball regular season is under way. My favorite baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays, are making their annual September push for 2nd in the wild card chase. So what better time to look at the Olympics, which everyone got tired of reading about as […]

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MMA

WCW’s Eric Bishoff’s (mock) Letter to EliteXC’s Gary Shaw

Dear Mr. Shaw: I first of all want to congratulate you on such a great show. I don’t know if you know me but I used to run a wrestling organization called WCW. We were just like you in the mid 1990’s. Our sport was becoming more popular, but got trashed by WWF and Vince […]

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MMA Ultimate Fighting

Kimbo Slice Vs. Brock Lesnar

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is becoming huge. Many young fans who grew up watching Tyson, Holyfield and Lewis are now following Randy Couture, Georges St. Pierre and Anderson Silva. The debate between boxing and MMA is a fun one to have but really they are two entirely separate sports. It would be as hard to […]

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Hockey

Phenom Fires His Agent

Next year, fans of the bottom feeders of the NHL will be rooting for their teams to lose enough games to have a shot at John Tavares, the 17 year old star of the Ontario Hockey League. Much like a Crosby or Ovechkin, Tavares has the hype behind him to capture interest from local fans […]