Post-Chase odds and ends
Ryan McGee...If we leave the racing world, the Boston Celtics are still...to seven consective NCAA basketball championships, beginning in 1967 and ending...company from 1949-53. • Hockey has had two four-time...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009
Niedermayer on Ducks' struggles, NHLPA mess
E.J. Hradek...the most decorated skaters in hockey history. He has been a key contributor to four Stanley Cup champions, as well as gold medal squads at the World Junior Championships, World Championships, World Cup of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009
The Spawn of 'Moneyball'
Buster OlneyAn American League executive, considered to be one of the best and brightest, chatted in the spring of 2008 about the résumés of the front-o...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009
And the inaugural HOF class is ...
Ryan McGee...Richard Petty: The no-brainer of no-brainers. The King leads nearly every major statistical category, from championships, to top-10s, to poles, to laps led, to career starts, to, well, you see where this...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 13, 2009
Despite Kadri craze, Leafs did the right thing
E.J. Hradek...star back to the Ontario Hockey League's London Knights for...strong Knights team to a championship? Those are some significant goals...Canada at the Under-20 (World Junior) championships in December/January...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 28, 2009
Joe Mauer's Derby power muse
...few days ago, O'Neill was surprised by a request from Mauer. O'Neill, 52, the longtime hockey and baseball coach at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minn., was at home when...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 13, 2009
Game 7 just the beginning for Price
The Red Sox had seen J.P. Howell's curveball, over and over, and they had locked in on Dan Wheeler's fastball, and they had come to be patient against...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 20, 2008
Tiger-less tour will lose some, but not all, golf fans
Jason Sobel...Earl Woods had placed a tennis racket or hockey stick in his son's hands during the...include the remaining majors (British Open and PGA Championship). I will be most interested to see if...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 24, 2008
Morning Skate: Eleventh heaven
There's a lot of hockey on Tuesday night. To be exact, 11 games. Here's the schedule with a few short and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 08, 2008
Morning Skate: Some good news for Isles
...at home. But, fortunately, the hockey news wasn't all bad...to turn pro after the World Junior Championship. Okposo, who was selected seventh...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 20, 2007
Better or Worse? A look at Chicago
...a dynamic draft season, leading the Canadian Hockey League with 145 points. Kane also impressed scouts with his play for Team USA at the World Junior Championship. Chicago later signed Kane, who hopes to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2007
How to define 'Hall-worthy'
Joy Russo...all seems right in the world, doesn't it? Well, not if you're a hockey fan, because you know we...1984, 1988) and four World Championships for Russia. When Larionov came...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 28, 2007
Will Scott Niedermayer retire?
...Olympic gold medal, a World Cup, a World Championship, a World Junior Championship and a Memorial Cup. He's the only player in hockey history to have won all six titles. As an individual...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 18, 2007
Friday Mailbag
...his hand in football through TV. The time and effort and stress spent delving back into that world is not something I suspect either wants to do at this stage of their lives. From Jack...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 30, 2007
30,000 shows, many NHL moments
Joy Russo...and every broadcast. The sports world has given SportsCenter plenty to...years, including plenty of great hockey moments. Let's take a...Cup finals and five conference championships. He was the Bruins. All...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 09, 2007

