Category: Sports

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…

Some of the Air Jordan releases this year 2019 included soccer cleat variations of the Air Jordan 1, dressed in several of their original colors. Similarly, Jordan Brand has also transformed some of its signature Air Jordan styles into baseball cleats. During the 2018 MLB Memorial Day games, Jordan Brand baseball athletes Dexter Fowler and…

Jazz @ Grizzlies: Despite being on the road, the Jazz can win this game. Like Utah, Memphis struggles offensively and plays a similar game to the Jazz. Both teams are not very far from each other and it is not good for whoever loses this one. Memphis is not far ahead of Los Angeles and…

The 2011-12 IRB Sevens tournament is shaping up to be possibly the most critical in USA Rugby history. Since Sevens rugby was announced as an Olympic sport in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the game has been gradually gaining momentum. In October 2010, USA Rugby became a full member of the United States Olympic Committee…