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Ales Hemsky, Ryan Whitney And Preferential Media Treatment
One of the finest yearly traditions in Northern Alberta is the turning of the fanbase. Each year management sours on a player, notifies the media of their sour disposition, and allows nature to take it's course. The Edmonton media takes up it's role as Oilers valet and begins to question the...
Setting Up The Play
Setting up the play. Iginla handles this with an amazing amount of patience and decency. I'm not sure what she was getting at, she obviously had something in her head about making a play and just went into complete brain lock when the words came out of her mouth. I've been tipped off that the...
Ryan Whitney's Injury And The Edmonton Media
Silence is golden But my eyes still see. Silence is golden (golden) But my eyes still see. --"Silence Is Golden", The Four Seasons Ryan Whitney returned to the lineup on November 25th after four weeks of rest and rehab for a knee injury suffered against Vancouver on October 25th. From his first...
When The Mainstream Media Ignores Your Team
To understand the plight of the hockey fan in Oklahoma City, look no further than the order of links over at NewsOK.com/sports. The online portal for the largest newspaper in Oklahoma has placed Barons hockey just in front of "Golf" and right after "Redhawks". Lost in the sea of college sports,...
Herschel Walker NFL Talk Doesn't Even Get Strikeforce in the Story
Herschel Walker brings one huge asset to Strikeforce -- his ability to garner mainstream media attention. He hit a rich vein today by hinting he wanted to come back to the NFL: Herschel Walker says he's thinking about making a football comeback. At age 48. After not playing for 13 years. "I want...
Ryan Whitney - Three Different Takes, Two Are Worthwhile
Edmonton's latest in a long line of extremely talented but troubled defensemen, (Sheldon Souray's injury and personal issues, Joni Pitkanen's perceived effort and locker room issues) Ryan Whitney, has been getting a bit of a mixed reaction in the Edmonton press since his arrival. I'll start with...
How the Washington Post's Top Sports Writer Saw UFC Fight Night 20
Dan Steinberg, the big dog and the top blogger at the Washington Post's sports dept wrote a column on UFN 20. His chief take aways: the limited demographic appeal of the UFC: I suggested to play-by-play guy Joe Rogan that the demographic seemed to be 30ish white dudes. "But that's the people that...
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Time is sometimes spent in this space criticizing the work of those in the mainstream media, be it Kevin Kernan, John Harper or Marty Noble. Not as much time is spent praising strong work. Ken Davidoff is a national baseball writer at Newsday and is one of the few in the mainstream who embraces...
Welcome to the Club: David Hale Receives Dumb Insult, Gains Blog Cred
Personally, I don’t follow recruiting. It involves commitments of time and resources (for a Rivals or Scout subscription) I simply am not prepared to commit to tracking the college choices of teenage boys. One of the many benefits MaconDawg brings to this site is his ability to write about...
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