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Is There An Effective Method of Protesting an NHL Lockout?
If a person were to paint with a broad brush when describing fans of the four major sports in North America, there are a few conclusions that would be reached. NFL fans are the most prevalent, but the...
View ArticleLaboring Points: Between Prophets and Non-Prophets
A HOCKEY PROPHET In 1965– before league expansion and before the WHA, at a time when Clarence Campbell was still scoffing at the prospect of a league pool greater than six– Montreal Canadiens President...
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Who Fights Cancer In A Lockout?
If you don’t know someone, or of someone, who is struggling with a cancer diagnosis or who has died of cancer, you are either too young or in a state of denial. Cancer is indiscriminate, incessant, and...
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O My God Canada: Hockey Is Lost Without You
“Pretty soon hockey players will be playing just for money instead of for the love of the game—like American athletes. They think the world owes them a living, that playing baseball or football is a...
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The Seeds of War . . . and the Prospects of Peace
A popular historical precept holds that the seeds of a war are sown in the peace that ends the last conflict. The onerous terms of the Treaty of Versailles signed at the end of World War I contributed...
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Relocation Roulette: New York Islanders Do Right By Fans with Brooklyn Move
John Tavares (Icon SMI) Ever since the NHL lockout began in September, fans have been clamoring for their favorite sport to return to the ice. Twitter posts bemoaning the lack of hockey being played...
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Gambling on Hockey in South Florida
How do Las Vegas casinos make their money? From thousands of blinking slot machines? Massive poker rooms? Exclusive high-roller areas? The answer may not be what you think. Since the 90’s, Las Vegas...
View ArticleRepresenting the Establishment: Donald Fehr as Fringe Labor Leader
In Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, sports journalist Howard Bryant notes that when Marvin Miller headed the baseball players union, the public was...
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The CBC: Canada Lives Here, But HNIC Is Only Visiting
Of course it was a business decision. That is the way these things work. Someone crunches the numbers and people in suits argue about ROI and the next thing viewers know, there is an announcement...
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The Sports Commissioner: Reigning in Attack Dogs
How does a two-game suspension turn into an indefinite ban? The same way an owner can be banned for life, or a PED-user can lose a season and a half for something that occurred over a decade prior. It...
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