LINCICOME: Step aside, Hockeytown: Avs in 6 : Columns & Blogs : The Rocky Mountain News

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Let the Red Wings, Avalanche love begin again
Published 4/23/2008 at Puck Daddy
... • Bernie Lincicome of the Rocky Mountain News tosses what will no doubt be one of several thousand bombs tossed between the Detroit and Denver media during the Red Wings/Avalanche series. On Detroit: "There are worse places, though the list is short. An active landfill. Reality television. Inside Dick Cheney's head." Ouch. [Rocky Mountain News] ...

Avs' media's trash talking begins in earnest
Published 4/23/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
... this afternoon, and they're likely to hole up at the Ritz-Carleton in Dearborn, where most teams stay during the playoffs. Now that we've established a pleasant tone, the Colorado Avalanche's press has begun its usual verbal assault upon the city of Detroit and the hockey team that happens to play there, and the Rocky Mountain News's Bernie Lincicome wrote a real gem today: April 23, Rocky Mountain News : And, so, back to Hockeytown. Well, there are worse places, though the list is short. An active landfill. Reality television. Inside Dick Cheney's head. How, exactly, this ...

Clichés remain the refuge of a newspaper hack
Published 4/24/2008 by Big Al at The Wayne Fontes Experience
... the same exact stories. Nevertheless, they are on the front lines, actually reporting. Columnists, on the other hand... There's a reason more and more fans are getting their sports opinion from the web. Because most columnists are phoning it in. The latest example of hackery I found tonight in the Freep. No, it's not a piece from the usual hacks (Though they are often guilty themselves), but a Bernie Lincicome column reprinted from the Rocky Mountain News. I'm not even going to bother rebutting what this clueless fool says ...

Red Wings, Avalanche set to renew playoff hostilities
Published 4/24/2008 by editor at Hockey News & Opinions – Hockey.com
Detroit and Colorado again! Colorado media taking shots at Detroit, again! Detroit bloggers responding again and that puck hasn't even dropped yet! My memories of the Wings/Avs battles are just that, a memory. I tend to reflect on them every so often before looking forward to the games yet to be played. That is what is important to me today: games yet to be played and new memories to be made. There is one key to this series and that is the play of the goaltenders. Both starting goalies, Chris Osgood and Jose Theodore, have had ...

Paige laments Swede-ness of Detroit
Published 5/1/2008 by Christy Hammond at Behind the Jersey
... I can’t say I usually enjoy reading the Denver columnists because, well, they’re biased towards the Colorado team (and have you read Lincicome’s column?). Anyways, I went to read Woody Paige’s column in the ...