Growing up just north of Pittsburgh in Gibsonia, PA., Brandon Saad idolized the Penguins’ multitude of offensive dynamos — the likes of Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr and more recently Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. It’s ironic then that Saad, the 19th ranked North American skater and top-rated U.S. prospect on Central Scouting’s final rankings for the 2011 NHL […]

The social media juggernaut that is Twitter has caused a great many NFL headlines of late, but just how many of these headlines have come about solely as a result of the ongoing lockout is debatable. There’s a school of thought that ESPN and other mainstream sports sites are grasping at anything even remotely resembling news to fill the […]

Under a minute remained in the Detroit Red Wings’ season. The San Jose Sharks, up 3-2 in the third period of Game 7, were resisting another possible comeback. Having already overturned a 3-0 deficit, the Red Wings were ready to claw back into one last game. Pavel Datsyuk scored minutes earlier to bring the Red Wings to within […]

It is with great sadness that we discuss yesterday’s passing of legendary Hall of Fame slugger Harmon Killebrew at age 74. Since last Friday’s announcement that Killebrew would be stopping treatment in his fight with esophageal cancer and entering hospice care, there has been an outpour of support for the famed Minnesota Twin. For those new to […]

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 […]