It has to be one of the best traditions in all of sports. It isn’t a trophy or a ring, it’s a simple gesture, a show of respect that exemplifies why hockey, despite the many jokes about fighting and goonery, is one of the greatest sports around. What am I talking about? […]

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Augusta National is to golf fans as Yankee Stadium or Wrigley Field is to baseball baseball fans. It is not only the venue for one of golf’s great tournaments but it is an institution. I have had the chance to attend The Masters twice and both times I have been in awe of […]

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With March Madness done and gone we can set our sights to the NHL Playoffs which take off tonight. I won’t do a full breakdown, you can find some good ones here and here. Rather I just want to explain why if you aren’t a hockey fan yet, watch the playoffs and you […]

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Can you hear it? The beginning of spring is coming. It’s not the sound of Robins you hear, it’s the small thumping of basketballs hitting the sweet hardwood. If the NHL playoffs are the greatest playoffs in pro sports (and they are) then March Madness is the creme-de-le-creme of […]

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I wanted to take a day to write this for a few reasons. The first because I wanted to make sure it wasn’t a joke, the second well, because I have to admit, it was a little heart breaking. I wrote a post about Favre during the playoffs so I won’t go on […]

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Love him or hate him the man was a success.  He won three National Championships and an Olympic Gold Medal, won 902 games, more than any other college coach, and had was one of the most polarizing coaches to ever stalk the sidelines.
Bob Knight never had an NCAA violations, ran clean programs, won, and graduated […]

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He isn’t supposed to be completing passes nearly falling down.  He isn’t supposed to jumping into the arms of his lineman or throwing snowballs at his receivers after a touchdown catch or playing football like a kid, but he is.
Sure Favre has been given a pass (pun intended) many times, yeah he will throw […]

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I was flying out to San Francisco the later part of last week and I had a layover in Minneapolis.  As we were approaching the runway we flew over a school that had an outdoor rink behind it and it brought back some great memories of growing up in Wisconsin and playing hockey as a […]

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