THE VENT is a forum for rants, raves, pleas and laments from hockey fans across the world about the NHL lockout. It runs every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. If you've got a take on the lockout and need to let it out, email us at*[email protected], Subject: The Vent.
Following the lead of...
Time was when a Torontonian could round up a group of friends, make a reservation at popular local pub Real Sports, then head on down to take in the Leafs game while ingesting a half dozen tiny burgers.
It was a simpler time, before this frustrating NHL lockout made such an evening an...
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Can you imagine how soon this labour stoppage would have been settled if Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr were allowed to punch one another's heads clean off their bodies?
Super quick, probably. (Granted, if the new CBA was decided this way, Bettman and Fehr probably wouldn't be the guys doing the...
Jaymes Hall is a 41-year-old resident of Lancaster, Pa. He rocks a thick goatee, dark-rimmed glasses and a well-worn hat, looking very much like a guy you'd expect to see sitting in the cheap seats at a hockey game.
Hall is, in fact, a hockey fan — of the Philadelphia Flyers — and a frustrated...
If you needed more confirmation that Donald Fehr has become a pest of Esa Tikkanen proportions for the National Hockey League, know this: Commissioner Gary Bettman requested on Wednesday that the NHL and the NHLPA take a two-week moratorium on negotiations, according to multiple sources...
THE VENT is a forum for rants, raves, pleas and laments from hockey fans across the world about the NHL lockout. It runs every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.*If you've got a take on the lockout and need to let it out, email us at*[email protected], Subject: The Vent.)
We open today's...
THE VENT is a forum for rants, raves, pleas and laments from hockey fans across the world about the NHL lockout. It runs every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. If you've got a take on the lockout and need to let it out, email us at [email protected], Subject: The Vent.)
Wouldn't it have...
The whistle's been blown, and the (real) referees are coming back. After a roaring backlash following a controversial call during Monday night's game between the Seattle Seahawks...
The National Hockey League's counterproposal to the NHLPA is leaking like a faucet after their meetings finished up in New York on Tuesday, and it's certainly reframing the optimism that reigned earlier in the day.
From Kevin Allen at USA Today:
According to details provided to USA TODAY...
New Jersey Devils star Ilya Kovalchuk holds out hope that there will not be a work stoppage that delays the 2012-13 NHL season — but time is running short.
"Right now the player union and club owners have absolutely different views of the future. If we are told the decision must be made...
While the threat of an NBA lockout appears to be over, the wounds may just be beginning. A national sports medicine expert who published an article in a medical journal about the injury ramifications of lockouts, says that NBA players should learn from information analyzed after the NFL...
With training camps scheduled to start seven weeks from now, one would think that the NBA and its Players' Association would be hell-bent on explaining their respective sides to each other as they attempt to end the month and a half-long lockout. No dice, friends. Because David Stern's got some...
Nothing to watch tonight? Why not pull up a dissection of the Xs and Os, as brought to you by Coach Nick from BBallBreakdown, behind the 1962 NBA All-Star Game. Live, from the Missouri Sports Palace!
Elgin Baylor sticks out to me, as it does for Coach Nick. A reverse lay-in, which was just...
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To their credit, the NBA has always been near the forefront of using the internet to reach out to fans. Whereas leagues like the NFL and MLB have done everything possible to keep highlights from popping up on YouTube, the NBA freely disseminates videos. They've also embraced Twitter...