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Returning to hockey for a moment, the NHL has been underway for about two weeks. It feels like the New Jersey Devils just won the Stanley Cup. For all of hockey's numerous virtues, it needs to reconsider the length of its regular season. The extended playoff format already renders most of the previous play irrelevant, so knocking off 10 games couldn't hurt. Of course, I would also like Commissioner Gary Bettman to knock off at least 5 teams. Sorry, Nashville...
...training camp to Loudon County. Snyder is a herald of what is to come; a group of tech executives is mobilizing to bring a professional baseball team to northern Virginia--not Washington. Ted Leonsis, an AOL executive, formed a group that bought a majority interest in Washington's NBA, NHL and WNBA franchises. Then Leonsis made it clear he wanted not only to own but to win: he hired Michael Jordan as president of basketball operations for the NBA's Washington Wizards...
...Sicilian porn star), but if Spawn comic-book creator Todd McFarlane knew using the Twistelli sobriquet would cost him millions, he probably would have gone with something else. Last week a St. Louis jury ordered McFarlane to pay $24.5 million to one TONY TWIST, 32, a former NHL enforcer for the St. Louis Blues, who sued McFarlane for using his name without permission. McFarlane, a sports nut who paid $2.7 million for Mark McGwire's record-breaking 1998 home-run ball, waffled in his testimony about the exact provenance of the Twistelli name, but in letters to fans he admitted...
Nowak 's future NHL employer is just a T ride away as the Boston Bruins took him with the 103rd pick overall. The winger bagged five goals and 10 assists in his rookie campaign for the Crimson...
...NHL teams normally draft college players before or after their first season and allow the school to develop them. Players are automatically eligible for the draft...