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The Battle
When we look at the death of a celebrity, of someone we don’t know but know of, we don’t look at their life so much as we look at ourselves. We measure the choices they made and the small sliver of their lives we know about in comparison to ours. We take the few things…
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Varlamov to the Avs: Why I’m Not Worried
Semyon Varlamov is now an Av. After making a lot of noise about going to the KHL, the Avs traded a first and second round pick for Varlamov, and the Capitals got out of a bind. To Caps fans, the general sentiment on Varlamov is, don’t let the door hit you. It reminds me of…
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Up Here
On this flight, there is no sign of the tension below. Thousands of feet above the world, the only sports represented here are the University of Wyoming wrestling team, and my lacrosse jersey. You wouldn’t know that the greatest trophy in sports was going to be handed out tonight. I’m on an Air Canada flight…
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Stewart Fights, Doesn’t Break Himself
Last night, Chris Stewart got in a fight with Derek Dorsett, and as you can see from HockeyFights.com, he overwhelmingly was declared the victor. Heck, as you can see from the video, he was the victor: And he did it all without breaking himself, much less his hand. While Avs fans wanted to wrap…
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Deadline Day Favorite Tweets
I wanted to compile a list of some of my favorite trade deadline day tweets, just to share the love as an overview. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/darrendreger/status/42251154725408768″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/darrendreger/status/42251413694320640″] I kind of liked the first one better. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/wyshynski/status/42273057171177472″] Hey, welcome to the new media landscape. Anyone else getting a little tired of this complaint from the…