The Vig

Here’s a fun little contest they’re running down in the desert.
The package will include airfare to Dallas on the team flight, one hotel room and two tickets to see the Coyotes take on the Dallas Stars on Feb. 11 at American Airlines Center. The winner will also receive two tickets to the Coyotes’ home [...]

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Walking back up to press row from the hospitality room, my new favorite place in the MC, I caught a glimpse of Cyr stretching in the locker room doorway. Head down. Even before the puck drops, he’s bent over looking at the ice. Motionless. Is he meditating?
-White leaves a rebound out that a PG player [...]

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PG on the PP. The Hawks still trying to get their bearings.
-Dudas, I think, rockets a shot from the point just wide. No one tries to block it. As the shot thunders off the board, I understand why.
-Hunt for high sticking. Francis is out with Ehrhardt on the PP. Ehrhardt let’s fly. Cyr gets just [...]

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Which Hawks team shows up tonight? With Jason Nissen reffing, I hope they’re prepared to get punched in the mouth. A lot. If the game gets out of hand late, look for a line brawl. It’s Nissen’s specialty.
-As the Hawks skated just before the puck was dropped, Chris Francis stood in one spot and high [...]

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Thursday night in Corvallis, the Oregon State Women’s basketball team beat Arizona 94-88 in double-overtime.
So what, you ask?
Well, due to injuries, illness, and academics, Arizona only suited up six players.  Two of them fouled out by the end of regulation.  Arizona, playing with only four players, built a six-point lead in the first overtime.  Oregon [...]

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The Sporting News has been running this fantastic series this winter re-running the 1986 Major League Baseball season through something called Strat-O-Matic. I’m not sure what it is or how to play it. I do know it’s fantastic.
They’ve got a few celebrity managers running teams against some uber-geeks. Curt Schilling, for example, [...]

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