Looks like the National Hockey League just wants to finish itself off once and for all. It’s bad enough that the league had given up broadcasting on the Worldwide Leader for the virtual anonymity of Versus. But now their new network wants to bring back a bad idea that will certainly have hockey hotheads […]

John Challis’ heart-wrenching but inspiring story is getting the national recognition it deserves. (Yes, even the Worldwide Leader is now on it.)

As the cancer-stricken high school baseball player keeps fighting against his terminal disease, he got to enjoy one more special evening - by meeting a couple of Pittsburgh’s biggest sports stars (with video after […]

BOING BOING wonders if you could play Tecmo Bowl with this controller.

YOU’VE BEEN BLINDED sits down with Jason Whitlock. And by “sits down,” we mean “probably exchanged emails.”

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE follows up the Cedric Benson water-borne fiasco by breaking down all the police activity on Austin’s Lake Travis for it seems the last century - with lotsa mind-spinning stats (help me with this … who is going to read that?).

The only interesting part of the piece is photo that accompanied it.

In order to bring some flash & flair to their March Madness coverage, ESPN invited Bob Knight to set his butt down at the Bristol anchor desk. Now, the Worldwide Leader is hoping to repeat the same success with the NHL playoffs (or at least the same media buzz) by bringing aboard Don Cherry.

(SbB Girls […]

Ryan Parker is back with his latest song, an ode to sports blogs in the wake of the Will Leitch/Buzz Bissinger fiasco. We were happy to be mentioned.

ODENIZED has his take on the Bruce Bowen - Chris Paul mini-melee from last night’s game (with video).

Poor museums. They have to grit their teeth and pretend Titanic and Star Wars are real reasons to have museum tours because they help pay the bills while actual museum work occurs behind the scenes or in little-visited sideshows. And if you’re not in a major metropolitan area with corporate and private money […]

A couple of Montreal Canadiens fans have been caught committing some blasphemy by blanketing Rocky in a Habs jersey.

THE 700 LEVEL shoots over pics & video of some neighbors to the north having fun with Philadelphia’s favorite fictional character. The desecration comes as Les Habitantes face the Flyers in the Eastern Conference semis.

FORTUNE magazine does the impossible this week, publishing a piece about NHL commissioner Gary Bettman that we found somewhat interesting. It’s not really a profile per se, but inside look at his daily life - with the focus on his travel habits.

Now we’ve always pictured a big-time sports league commissioner jetting around on a Gulfstream […]

As far as I can remember, I’ve watched one hockey game in my life. That being said, some people actually like hockey. You might even think that the VERSUS network likes hockey since, you know, they’re the only people who broadcast it these days.

(Is that Victoria Principal you’re wearing? YES!)
Of course, […]