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Archive for April, 2009
Sports Links And Videos Of Interest
Apr. 30 | The excellent soccer writer Rob Hughes offers his thoughts in “Amid Passion and Grief, Reminders That Italy Remains a Sleeping Giant”. They’re angry and they don’t care who knows it. Fire Jay Mariotti goes where no journalist...
Battle Of Texas: Dallas Eliminates San Antonio
Apr. 29 | Popovich and Duncan: Not done yet The Dallas Mavericks knocked off the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the NBA playoffs four games to one. If you’re going to be put down may as well be by a fellow Texan. No? Sitting from afar, I always feel...
NHL Playoffs: First Round Musings And Thoughts
Apr. 29 | Eastern Conference Boston Bruins vs. Montreal Canadiens. Boston wins 4-0. Boons: Next! And man was it easy for Boston. GM and Coach Bob Price, erm, Bob Gainey didn’t help his team by insanely relying on Carey Price. One has to wonder if he put his...
Talladega Recap: Dangerous And Exhilarating
Apr. 28 | By Bob Ellis Nascar Ranting and Raving In easily the most exciting race of the 2009 Nationwide Series season, David Ragan barely beat Ryan Newman by only .300’s of a second to take the Aaron’s 312 at Talladega Superspeedway. Coming out of turn...
NBA Thoughts And Notes
Apr. 28 | By Alex NBA Tipoff Hawks versus Heat Last night the Atlanta Hawks were able to ward off the Heat to tie their series at 2-2. It was a game of runs, their was never really a few solid minutes of back to back baskets. Some of that was because lots of...
NHL Western Conference Semis Set
Apr. 28 | By Chris Boersma Hockey Numbers Western Conference numbers for Detroit/Anaheim and Vancouver/Chicago. VAN CHI Winner Even Strength GF 2.67 2.8 EGF 2.33 2.63 GA 2.2 2.16 EGA 2.34 2.44 SV% 90.6% 91.1% Power Play GF 7.75 7.96 EGF 9.16 6.97 GA 0.84 0.64 EGA 0.66 0.6 SV% 89.8% 90.8% As...
MLB Power Rankings
Apr. 27 | By Rebecca Glass This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes So of course I hope you all understand why I didn’t get to these last week, but hopefully, now, they are back on track! We didn’t learn a whole lot this week, except that the Florida Marlins early...
Stats Corner: Greatest Boston Bruins Teams
Apr. 26 | Dit Clapper: Old Time Hockey Listening to the radio earlier this week, it was suggested the 2008-2009 edition of the Boston Bruins is one of the best ever. It was a bold proclamation to make publicly so let’s see if the commentator had a point. But...
Bulls Need To Adapt And Adjust Better
Apr. 24 | By Alex NBA Tipoff The Bulls suffered a blowout loss to the Celtics at home in game three. This happened mainly because they were never able to get comfortable on offense and score consistently. While it may be a sign of solid Celtic defense, it’s...
