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Running Diary: 2009 NHL All-Star Game

 
(Author's note, this article was originally published here , at www.aarontorres-sports.com) With all the work I’ve doing lately, I haven’t been able to do much, well, writing. It’s time for me to jump back into the game, but of course I picked arguably the worst weekend in sports—you know, the one before the Super Bowl—to do so. And with both the NBA and college basketball seasons still in the middle stages, I wasn’t sure where I’d go or what I’d write about. And then it happened. Through some nifty Internet investigation, I found out that the NHL is hosting its All-Star Game this weekend. As those old Guinness commercials used to say “brilliant!” Not only do I actually enjoy watching hockey, but the league makes for some of the easiest comedic fodder since Kevin Federline entered our lives a few years back. To get the journalistic juices flowing, I figured what better way to start than to keep my first ever running diary of the ... (link)

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