Month: May 2008

  • Pens Crap the Bed: SCF Game 4

    Man, what a crap ass game of hockey, FOR THE PENGUINS!!!! I’m mired in the postgame coverage on ESPNews (seriously, they have hockey coverage, must mean there’s no NBA tonight), and these coach interviews remind me of why I don’t want to be a “professional” sportswriter. Actually, listening to the post game interviews by Crosby…

  • Pistons Are Done, SCF Ratings to get Bigger

    Detroit sports fans have no excuse not to watch the Stanley Cup Finals, now that the Detroit Pistons have fallen to the Boston Celtics. There were two interviews right after the game, one the stereotypical player interview (Kevin Garnett), tempered and useless, the other (Paul Pierce) full of raw emotion that an interviewer isn’t ready…

  • ESPN Reports on Self, Melrose

    ESPN just loves to talk about itself. If the worldwide leader isn’t doing it, it isn’t news. What could possibly be more entertaining than one of it’s own analysts in the news, this time in a positive way: Former Los Angeles Kings coach Barry Melrose brushed aside a rumor he is in line to become…

  • Luc Bourdon, Canucks Defenseman, Dies at Age 21

    CTv.ca tells the sad story: Luc Bourdon, a promising young defenceman in the Vancouver Canucks organization, was killed Thursday afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a tractor-trailer near his hometown in northern New Brunswick. More details from The Province: Bourdon died instantly at around 12:30 p.m. New Brunswick time when the motorcycle he was driving…

  • Theo Wants to Return

    With the Stanley Cup Finals going on, it’s a slow news month for the Avs right now. Other than the signing of Tony Granato, everything else is speculation and “want to” right now. In the want to category, Theodore wants to come back to the Avalanche. From the Rocky Mountain News: Jose Theodore wants to…