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Today in Sports History: April 1st
(Joe Berton, a school art teacher, posed as Finch for SI. Photo courtesy of SI) 4/01/1930 - Gabby Hartnett catches blimp ball In an April Fool's treat to the fans, Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett catches a ball thrown to him from a Goodyear blimp, anywhere from 550 to 800 feet in the air (the reports...
Hockey Summer Reading List
I'm not going to get all Oprah Book Club on you, but I thought I would share a few books on hockey that I have read over the past few years that I thought you might enjoy. Free feel to add some hockey books that you recommend in the comments section. The following books are Stanley Cup of Chowder...
Linkorama
We got some nifty new software this week that makes these posts a lot easier to make, so hopefully these will be more frequent. There's a new job opening in college hockey as Roger Grillo resigned at Brown to be a regional manager for USA Hockey's American Development Model. Here are the full...
Review: 'Paper Tiger' By Ted A. Kluck
Lyons Press sent me a pre-release of Ted Kluck's Paper Tiger before the start of the 2007 season. I started it, and it remained at the bottom of my book pile for a while. It's nothing new for me, my latest iPod is buried in there some where, despite my best attempts to find it. Maybe it's my lack...
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