Hockey

Blue Jackets versus Wild, picking a winner ten years in

Four franchises in the National Hockey League are celebrating milestone anniversaries during the 2010-11 season. Wittingly, they come in pairs. The youthful twosome – the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild – will have a complete decade of NHL action under their belt come spring 2011, while the elder pair consisting of the Vancouver Canucks […]

Basketball

Francisco Garcia exercise ball injury, a precautionary tale

According to a local newspaper, the Sacramento Kings have filed a lawsuit against the parties involved with the manufacture and distribution of an exercise ball that led to a long-term injury for Kings forward Francisco Garcia in the 2009-10 season. The $4 million product liability suit stems from an incident back in October, 2009 when […]

Hockey

Gabriel Landeskog, from Sweden to the NHL Draft

Living 3982 miles away from your family can take a toll on a teenager and their family. That’s not the case for sharp-shooting Gabriel Landeskog and his family back home in Stockholm, Sweden, nor has it ever been ever since he left home at age 16 to suit up for the Kitchener Rangers of the […]

Hockey

Lamenting the Mighty Duck

It was four years ago when the city of Anaheim bore witness to an injustice that would change their lives forever. In 2006, after 13 years in the National Hockey League, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim became the Anaheim Ducks. Fact: “A Mighty Duck” – “Mighty” = “A Duck.” Fact: A Duck is not mighty. […]