Category: Sports

At the beginning of my second year as CEO of a housing non-profit organization, I thought I had prepared well for my first annual meeting until the day of the event when I realized that we had not produced an annual report as required. in our statutes. laws. Since this happened thirty years ago, before…

The New England Patriots, behind on the scoreboard for most of the game, playing lethargically and without their usual rhythmic style, overcame a large deficit in the third quarter to come back and tie the game in the last minute 28-28 forcing the first overtime. in Super Bowl History. Tom Brady, seemingly out of sync…

Yes, the legendary maker of the classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle, which has long celebrated its centennial, did sell a car … well, more or less. For many years in addition to their lighter Big Twin cruisers and Sportsters. Harley-Davidson made tricycles in the form of utility and police “tricycles,” but they were lumps of Barney Rubble…

During the 2012-13 regular season of yesteryear, the NHL and NHLPA agreed to a restructuring of the league’s divisions. The new NHL Realignment is a drastic departure from the old system of 6 divisions divided evenly into 2 conferences. When the 2013-14 NHL regular season begins, there will be 4 divisions. In the East –…

The Ontario Hockey League franchise now known as Sudbury Wolves has been firmly planted in that northern Ontario city since the 1972-73 season. The franchise started as Barrie Flyers in 1945 and moved to Niagara Falls to become Niagara Falls Flyers in 1960. Since moving to Sudbury, the team has been to the Robertson Cup…

Second place is not a bad place to be when July starts, as the season is at its midpoint. Now that there are two Wild Card clubs to qualify for the postseason, you’d think that no team in that position would want to ditch some of the players who helped them reach second place. Well…

Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s leading scientists, believes that to survive, humans must move into space: “Once we expand into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be secure,” he says. Today, the United States, India, China and Japan plan to send astronauts back to Earth’s closest neighbor – the moon. Every country…

When I was a kid growing up in central California, downtown San Jose was a place to avoid. Several years ago, Mayor Tom McHenry started a project to revitalize downtown that has given birth to a wonderfully new or renovated neighborhood. San José is the largest of the Bay Area cities named after its sometimes…

I didn’t like the head coach, so I left the soccer team my last year in high school. The following fall (1965) I enrolled at the local university in my hometown of Burlington, IA, primarily to avoid recruitment and the inevitable trip to Vietnam if I had been recruited. Back then, students attending college were…

As we get closer to the start of the 2008 NHL Playoffs, it’s time to take a serious look at Lord Stanley’s contenders. Again, there seems to be a jam around eighth place in both divisions. With only ten games to go, we still have a dozen teams competing for the chance to go to…