Hockey…I’m back. No, seriously this time, I mean it. I’m back again…for the very first time.
Allow me to take you back to give you a better grasp of just how grandiose a statement this is. And it is, trust.
As a kid, I was 100% hockey all the time. And I don’t mean just for sports – for everything. I did nothing but play hockey, road hockey, and hockey on Sega, I re-enacted games, watched every Saturday night, and talked about nothing but hockey. Hell, I honestly learned how to do math as a kid from crunching hockey stats.
From birth right up until about 17, I was nothing but hockey, all the time. High-school kind of opened my eyes to more sports, but I still primarily played hockey and watched hockey. At 17 or 18, basketball and baseball became pretty obvious interests, but hockey was still held above all else.
I was, basically, a normal Canadian when it came to sports.
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T-Smith is back writing at Hoops Addict as the season approaches. For you, this means good basketball reading once again. Today, he looks at Kevin Garnett’s importance to the Celtics for this year.
Check it out!
As a card-carrying member of Roc Nation and one of Lucky Lefty’s biggest fans, I felt the need to provide some clarity around the most misinterpreted lyric on The Blueprint 3. What does this have to do with sports? Well, the line in question happens to double as one of the better sports metaphors offered up in hip hop at large in the last several years, and it further cements the interconnected relationship basketball and hip hop play in one another’s culture.
(Okay, so it more of a drug reference than a pure sports one…sue me.)
The lyric in question, from BP3’s “Empire State of Mind”:
I got it made/If Jeezy’s payin’ LeBron, I’m paying Dwyane Wade
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With all of the attention the National Hockey League has earned during the offseason, it can only be regarded as nothing short of a public relations’ dream. Has it been good publicity? No. Not entirely. But as most PR personnel would suggest, any news is good news.
In direct competition with the National Football League (NFL), National Basketball League (NBA), and even NASCAR and different soccer leagues, the NHL could use all of the publicity it can get. Other top dog leagues consistently sell out games not simply for the majority of their teams, as in the NHL, but for each and every one of their franchise clubs.
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There’s a reason baseball fans crave September. It’s certainly not the declining temperatures, shortened hours of sunlight, or hockey buzz that comes with the month. Instead, it’s September call-ups, it’s statistic tracking, and it’s playoff races.
And as I write this on September 3rd (it will be updated after the games tonight to be posted September 4th for your enjoyment), I’m starting to feel the excitement. The first few weeks of September, they say, is just a gateway to the winter in the sports world. Football training camps and fantasy drafts prepare us for the mid-September start of the NFL season, NHL and Olympic hockey training camps get most Canadians excited, basketball season is just an earshot away, and October…baseball playoffs…are just around the corner.
But the excitement to come is no reason to ignore the excitement happening around you at present. The MLB playoff races have already gotten hot; they are beyond the heating up stages. Races in nearly every division and complicated Wild Card scenarios are abound, making us all pay closer attention just a little earlier than it seems we usually do.
So here, heading into the first weekend of September, with a full month to go before playoff baseball, is a look at all of the teams still contending and their schedules down the stretch (American League only today…National League early next week!).
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Imagine moving four times in two months. Imagine just being TOLD you’re moving four times in two months. Imagine, too, that you are a serious baller and have a much bigger house to move in and out of than you do right now. Imagine your entire value as a professional (and a person, it seems) is that you’re overpaid but not for much longer. Imagine you’re Quentin Richardson of the New York Knicks Memphis Grizzlies Los Angeles Clippers Minnesota Timberwolves Miami Heat.
Well I tried. After changing teams four times in 50 days, I took a look (over at The Good Point) at what Q-Rich’s summer must have been like. Check it out!
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I couldn’t decide on an article topic today, so I’m rolling with five shorter ones in one (what a deal!). I could see this becoming a more common theme here as I struggle for writing time at work, and this style is invariably easier to chip away at. Name suggestions for this style of article are welcome, but for now we’re going with the following (ultra-creative, I know):
