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Hockey has a huge following. Too bad the
NHL doesn't harness it the way that NECKCAR harnesses
its system of fans... Maybe if three guys jumped on to the ice and tuned up a defenseman in less than 15 seconds, we'd have something...
MLN followed GM Taylor Hall through two minor
league hockey club failures. So why does he rate
a third shot as a general manager with the Class-AA CHL Tulsa Oilers? MLN Sports senior editor Brian Ross revisits the career of Hall. Will he be better in Tulsa?
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Major League Baseball (MLB) just figures that we're
dumb enough to cheer on Barry's home run chase,
then be equally happy when they get the Balco verdict in (finally) and invalidate a chunk of his run. Just how dumb are we?
Yes, Virginia, there is developmental pro basketball, and
this op-ed piece by MLN Sports senior editor Brian
Ross hits the nail on the head as to why the NBA's D-League and the CBA need to merge into one healthy system.
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MAJORBLOGS.NET - The National Basketball Association Development League
2007 Draft, or the NBA Development League Draft, or
the NBA D-League Draft or the D-League Draft, or the hey-isn't-that-the-NBDL-still draft or the NBA-has-a-minor-league? Draft, depending upon who you catch, was a success, albeit a bit fuzzy one. Huge points to...
The Austin Ice Bats have been written off
by the local paper, the Austin Statesman, and the
TV media, but the players, the front office, and most importantly the fans won't let the club die. Why the 12 year old CHL minor league hockey franchise is worth saving, or promoting to the AHL if the Dallas Stars move into the neighboorhood
Monday night's ESPN-2 coverage of the AFL featured
"Open Mike Night." For every fan that wanted to
know the gory behind-the-scenes details of life on the sidelines, the Philadelphia Soul's passionate offensive coordinator Connell Maynard gave them the big show. Should what happens on the sidelines stay on the sidelines? Senior editor Brian Ross gives us his shiny two.
In the wake of the death of Mike
Coolbaugh, the Wichita base coach, Brian Ross of the
MAJOR BLOGS of Minor League News (MLN) asks: Should more be done to protect the base coaches?
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The Arena Football League (AFL) Las Vegas Gladiators
are marching out of town for... Cleveland? As the
only major league team in Sin City makes its exit, does this spell the end of Mayor Goodman's MLB pipe dreams? Brian Ross gives his shiny two.
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MAJORBLOGS.NET - The Boston Red Sox swept the
Colorado Rockies with last night's win, to give the
club its second World Series ring in less than a half-decade. The championship clubs of the Red Sox are like fine American whiskies: GM Theo Epstein has skillfully blended...
Barry Bonds is a bad guy, but isn't
the system that let him run loose worse? Baseball's
addiction to superstar players at any cost is the subject of MLN Sports senior editor Brian Ross' latest "Editor's Rave"
Say it ain't so! If baseball doesn't rid
itself of the hundreds of players cheating the game,
is it a sport any more, or just another entertainment like the WWE? Brian Ross gives you his shiny two...
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The following is a transcript of the testimony
of the most important witness to date on performance-enhancing
drug use and the Mitchell Report at the House Hindsight Committee. Speaking for the Committee is ranking Democrat Henry Waxjob...
Today's announcement by MLB and the PA is
a white-wash. MLN Sports' Brian Ross tells us how
the missing minor league component invalidates today's agreement.
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Why SZ, the first electronic sports "magazine" is
not a website, is green, and is the proof
that Bob Costas was dead wrong when he dissed electronic publications in the interview with the Miami Herald earlier this month.
Notice that base coaches are wearing helmets now?
MLN senior editor Brian Ross revisits the crusade to
get them on coaches after the freak death of Mike Coolbaugh last summer. What some said would never come to pass has come, with almost no one even noticing the change.
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MLN Sports senior editor Brian Ross takes you
on a behind-the-scenes tour of the June recruiting drive,
and gives you his shiny two on what MLB can do to make the Draft must-see TV.
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