With Canadian Hockey League drafts wrapped up and the 2011 NHL Entry Draft on the horizon, The Good Point had a chance to sit down with three influential figures within the hockey community. Former general manager and head coach of the OHL’s Guelph Storm, Jason Brooks, along with former Detroit Red Wings scout and current head scout and director of player personnel for the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye, Ed Burkholder, […]

Led by rotation ace Josh Johnson, hot starts from Gaby Sanchez and Emilio Bonifacio, and a revamped bullpen with the second-best ERA in baseball right now, the Florida Marlins are second in the NL East with a 23-16 record and are just two games behind the Philadelphia Phillies for the division lead. More impressively, they’re doing it on a $56.9 million payroll; […]

Teenagers growing up in the greater-Edmonton area often fantasize about what it would feel like to follow in the footsteps of past NHL greats. This is particularly the case for many aspiring prospects born in the early-to-mid 1990s, who arrived to the world just after several Stanley Cup runs by the Gretzky-led Edmonton Oilers less than a decade earlier. However, there […]

Being a high-level athlete in any sport isn’t an easy task, and football is no exception. Generally, football players who succeed at the NCAA and NFL levels have superior physical skills that they’ve honed through a lifetime of experience playing the game and years of hard work in the weight room to build their bodies. Even experience and physical […]

This year’s NFL lockout has a notable impact on just about everyone involved with football. Thus far, it’s affected the operation of the draft, kept some rookies from receiving playbooks, caused some veteran players to sponsor their own versions of training camps, launchedprotracted court battles and even served as an excuse for one owner to slash his employees’ pay. However, its largest […]

Jamie Moyer has spent half of his life pitching in the Major Leagues. Like an ageless wonder with a rubber arm as he’s made a living defying the critics and earning spots on seven different Major League rosters. His most recent tenure came with the Philadelphia Phillies where Moyer spent the past four seasons in the […]

Let me just come out and say it: Steve Nash is Prime Minister material. Last week, Canadians went to the polls and gave current Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party a majority government. And while we look to the future and wonder what the next four years will look like, some will speculate who the next Prime Minister will be. My […]

Concussions and head shots have taken over hockey at all levels. It’s something that the hockey masses think the NHL needs to deal with before someone dies. It has already ended careers (ask Eric Lindros) and is now the reason why hockey fanatics watched the Penguins in the playoffs without the game’s greatest player, Sidney Crosby. Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins have […]

Dare We Hope that Manny May be Famed? Ron Washington, manager of the Texas Rangers, shares a view point that a lot of baseball’s most respected minds have had recently – all in regards to recently defamed slugger Manny Ramirez. “Until the past couple of years, I thought he was on his way to the Hall […]

If the San Jose Sharks have ever had the potential to knock the playoff monkey off its back and take a legitimate shot at the Stanley Cup, Game 7 Thursday night is the time to do it. With an impressive first-round series victory over the Los Angeles Kings, the Sharks seemed to have emerged as one of […]