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Toute Acclament Fleury!
Game 5 showed every single reason why nothing compares to a sudden death Stanley Cup Playoff game. A team on the brink of elimination was getting pummeled. They held on by a hair, gritted their teeth...
Thoughts on a Thursday
—Arlen Specter does not have good timing. He’s chosen to launch his one-man assault on the credibility of the NFL just three months after the chair of Roger Clemens’ congressional h...
Isn’t There an Intern Who Should Be Taking Care of This
Gary Roberts was acquired by the Penguins at last year’s trade deadline. He was re-signed in the offseason. All in all, Roberts has been a member of the Penguins for more than a year, but appar...
Confidence? Confidence? Don’t Talk About Confidence
As Forrest Gump would say, sports and cliches go together like peas and carrots. Whether they come from a broadcaster, coach, or exceedingly glib journalist, you can’t be exposed to some athle...
Reason #2,178 to Love Hockey
The almost “goal of the year”…...
The Weekly Shakedown
(Every week there are a number of that stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. Here are just a few of them.) –UCLA is asking fans to refrain from bothering John Wooden during Br...
A Few Things That Might Interest You
—Penguins winger Colby Armstrong nearly suffered a serious injury after taking a big hit…from a Christmas tree. “I was setting it up, and it was a little crooked, so I reached in to ...
Steve Nash Has Got Milk
America’s milk producers have finally gotten over their intense longstanding hatred of Canada. Proud Canadian Steve Nash is the latest athlete to sport a white ’stache in milk ads. We̵...
The Weekly Shakedown
(Every week there are a number of that stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. Here are just a few of them.) –Michael Jordan’s son, Jeff, made his debut for the Universit...
The Weekly Shakedown
(Every week there are a number of that stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. Here are just a few of them.) –Chris Leak is returning to the football field. The former Florida...
Barry Melrose Is Not a Fan of Newark
Hey, Barry Melrose is still around. Despite the fact that his ESPN appearances have dipped from twice a day to twice a month (NASCAR is now on ESPN, the NHL is not), Melrose is still doing things to...
The Phoenix Coyotes Are Sharing Their Music
When it’s been five years since you last made the playoffs, it takes some outside-the-box thinking to generate fan interest. Fortunately for the Phoenix Coyotes, Wayne Gretzky has an iTunes pl...
The Weekly Shakedown
(Every week there are a number of that stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. Here are just a few of them.) –Indiana officials say that Kelvin Sampson’s recruiting viola...
The NHL Network? You Better Believe It!!
There’s not a lot of good news for NHL fans regarding the league’s TV coverage (I think NBC plans to show a few games in April), but the other night I was greeted with the surprise of a l...
The Weekly Shakedown
(Every week there are a number of that stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. Here are just a few of them, as well as some stuff that has gone unreported until now.) –Behind 1...
Glam Rock Returns to San Jose
As if we needed another reminder of the power of sports, the San Jose Sharks have become the latest team to overlook Gary Glitter’s child molestation problems and resume playing his “Rock...
The NHL’s New Uniforms Have a Problem
The NHL just can’t catch a break. The league spent years working with Reebok to design new uniforms that are lighter, tighter, sleeker, cooler and faster. The result was a special water repel...
Welcome to Linkville
This stuff is so good,O.J. wishes he could steal it… –Not being the subject of trade rumors must be boring for Andrei Kirilenko. This week the Jazz forward announced he wants out of Utah....
The Weekly Shakedown
(Every week there are a number of that stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. What follows are just a few of them, as well as some stuff that has gone unreported until now.) Dikembo...
Fun With Allposters.com
Hiding just below the perennial all-stars in the annals of sports history are the players who have only experienced a quick 15 minutes of fame. It might have been in the form of a memorable fantasy ...
For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure…
–It’s been an up and down ride for the new Steelers mascot. (Mondesi’s House) –Soccer can cure a horse’s mental problems. (Seattle Times) –An elementary school in ...