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Jason Kidd hired as new coach of Brooklyn Nets
It’s a bold move. Might also be a stupid one, but we’ll see.
Bill Callahan says he’ll call plays
We shall see if this improves things…
Mark Streit contract: Isles won’t re-sign captain, according to report
I simply don’t understand the love that Gordon Gee still gets from the OSU community. He repeatedly makes the same mistakes, he is arrogant, condescending, rude, and offensive.
Sure he can raise money with the next of him, but is this really the person we want to be the face of the University? Personally, I don’t.
As the semifinals of the EA Sports NHL14 Cover Vote went down this past weekend, I was given a quick preview of what Twitter will be like for me next season. The Islanders John Tavares was up against the Blue Jackets Sergei Bobrovsky.
Now, I’ve been an Islanders fan for as long as I can remember. I used to go out to Long Island to visit my grandparents and watch the games on TV with them as a small child. I was heartbroken when the lost in the 1979 playoffs to the hated Rangers. (Especially since my brothers were Ranger fans, ugh!) I sat and listened to the games on radio when they weren’t on TV during the glory years, and I’ve hung with them through some tough years since.
I lived in Columbus when the Blue Jackets came into existence. Since they represented the chance to see NHL games locally, I was a big fan of Columbus getting a team, and since they were in the Western Conference, I was safe to root for them for 79 or 80 games every year. (The exceptions being games against the Isles, where I traded out my Blue Jackets jersey for an Islanders one!) I figured one day, they might meet in the Finals, but it was unlikely and I’d worry about that then.
Now, with both teams in the same division next year, there’s no rooting for the Blue Jackets. As I watched my Columbus followers push for votes for Bob, and my Isles tweeps push for Tavares, there was no doubt which one I wanted to win. They are the enemy. We maybe don’t have the same history as we do with the Rangers, Devils, Flyers, and Penguins, but the Blue Jackets are the same as those teams. A division foe that must be banished if we are to make the playoffs and ultimately win the Cup.
Sure, I’ll always have a soft spot for the Blue Jackets, and if the Isles are eliminated, I might just pick up some rooting interest for them. On the other hand, as the years go by, there will be incidents, games, and players who I grow to hate, that will up the emotional ante for competing against the Jackets just like with our more traditional rivals.
It’s been fun Jackets, but starting next season, it’s over between us.
Seattle Is Frustrated By the NBA’s Command Economy
Interesting look at the way market economics work in pro sports, and the difference in the US from Europe.
49ers WR Michael Crabtree could miss 2013 season after suffering a torn Achilles
This is a big loss for the Niners. Anytime you lose your top receiver it forces the rest if the offense into worse match ups.
Thunder Star Kevin Durant Makes $1M Tornado Pledge
Classy move.
Dick Trickle’s suicide was caused by severe chest pain, brother says
Texans Star J.J. Watt Surprises 12-Year-Old Leukemia Patient as Only He Can
Los Angeles Dodgers Could Fire Don Mattingly Soon, but it Wouldn’t Be the Right Move – Yet
A by-the-numbers look at this year’s official NBA early-entry list
It’s sort of insane to think there are 45 underclassmen, 31 foreign players and one post-HS player declared for a two round draft on top of any actual seniors who might get drafted as well.
Just when the hockey world counted out the Isles and gave the Peguins a walk into round two, the boys gut it out and steal game 2. We go to Long Island tied up at a game a piece and the old NVMC will be rocking come Sunday. I’m just sad that I will be on a plane instead of enjoying the scene, but I’m sure the fans will do us all proud.
The Pens may be the better team, and may yet win the series, but the Islanders are declaring themselves a team to be dealt with going forward.
