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Two Days of the Condors: Game 2
Game one of the Condors back to back series against the Victoria Salmon Kings (goofiest logo ever?) was a bit of a mixed bag. Lots of intensity, plenty of physical play, a dumb penalty which led to a shootout loss. What would game two bring? First, the old farts. Well, not really old, but the…
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Bakersfield Hockey-thon: or How I Learned to Skate Through Pain
One of the happy coincidences of my west coast hockey tour was that the Bakersfield Condors games that I had selected to attend lined up perfectly with the Bakersfield Hockey-thon, a charity event to benefit Links for Love, a breast cancer organization. And even though I am a simply awful hockey player, how could I…
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Bakersfield Gone Wrong: Player Arrested, Coaches Suspended.
And right after I leave town, look what happens. In what appears to be two separate incidents, the Bakersfield Condors have suspended their coach and assistant coach for an “internal matter,” and one of their players was arrested. First, the coaches. From the Bakersfield Californian: Condors coach Marty Raymond has been suspended for seven days…
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Two Days of the Condors: Game 1
If I were to do this in chronological order, I would be posting a Bakersfield Hockey-thon post first, But that is not how I roll. Well, occasionally, I have been known to roll that way, but not this time. Anyway… The first game of a back to back two game series between the Bakersfield Condors…
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Still Going: The Tour Continues
I haven’t updated here in a few days. If you have been following the west coast tour microblog (think twitter with the features of a blog), then you know what I have been up to for the past few days, namely two Bakersfield Condors games, one Condors Alumni game, and participating in a marathon hockey…