An already hot button topic in the past, following a dreadful summer, fighting has become the holy grail of issues in the game of hockey. The main arguing point, however, is if it is truly an issue to begin with. The Good Point writers Anthony Petrielli and Jeff Blay have teamed up with The Hockey […]

Despite hope in Edmonton last September, stemming mainly from the arrival of three dynamo prospects, the Oilers once again found themselves holding the first overall pick by season’s end. That made it two last-place finishes in a row for the “City of Champions.” It’s not surprising the Oilers placed as low as they did: they […]

One of the most unique things about college sports is the schools themselves have the power to remake their environment, and that’s led to the chaotic round of conference realignment we’ve seen lately. The recent decisions by Nebraska and Colorado to leave the Big 12 for the Big 10 and the Pac-12 respectively, while noteworthy […]

Imagine your favorite baseball team decided to eschew both home run hitters and strikeout pitchers. There would probably be some kind of fan revolt, since dingers and punchouts are nearly synonymous with offense and defense in the modern game. It’s a near-universal assumption that if a team wants to win it all, they have to […]

Major League Baseball, more than any other sport, is a game of numbers, players consistently reduced to mere stat sheets and meticulously scrutinized over their slash lines or ERAs. Thousands of players are asked to produce tangible results in order to stick at the Major League level each year, but numbers hardly tell the whole […]

Although three of its five teams advanced to the postseason in 2010-11, in terms of star talent and team success heading forward, the Northeast Division is far from elite. Whereas other divisions, like the Southeast, are anchored by the likes of Alex Ovechkin and Steven Stamkos, the Northeast consists of four mediocre teams that only […]

For much of the last decade, the AFC North has been dominated by the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers have been the more prominent of the two, claiming division titles in 2007, 2008 and 2010, advancing to the Super Bowl in 2010 and winning the Lombardi Trophy outright in 2008. But while […]

In addition to his contributions to The Good Point, Jesse Goldberg-Strassler is the full-time broadcaster of the Toronto Blue Jay-affiliate Lansing Lugnuts, of the Class A Midwest League. It is half an hour before first pitch, squarely situated amid the dog days of summer. I knock on the door of the clubhouse politely, receive an […]

To the casual observer, it would look as though the Jacksonville Jaguars came full circle when they released David Garrard last week and replaced him with Luke McCown (not to mention first-year Blaine Gabbert). After all, it was Garrard who had taken over the Jaguars’ starting QB position just days before the beginning of the […]

After an on-ice career seemingly defined by a small stack of controversial moments, Claude Lemieux certainly feels content with the mark he made on the game of hockey. “I have no regrets about how I played the game,” he told The Good Point recently. “We always say rules are made to be broken.” And, it […]