thenhlarenaprogram.blogspot.com - 10/26/2008
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Damned throws the GM's down the river this weekend after this week's GM meetings produced nothing tangible as usual. Sure the seeds were sown in some cases but the frustration of these guys to keep finding ways for teams to score more has just gotten plain STUPID! Damned bombs away...check it out!
Rule-V (Rule 5) Draft 2008
minorleaguenews.com 12/13/2008 — For a handful of players, the Rule-V Draft shakes up the depth chart and gives them a shot at moving up in a new major league farm system.
A Review: The 2007/08 Rule 5 Draft
baseballanalysts.com 10/15/2008 — It's safe to say last year's Rule 5 draft was not as profitable as it has been in other years. There were no Johan Santanas , Joakim Sorias , Josh Hamiltons or Dan Ugglas selected in the winter of 2007. Some rule changes by Major League ...
Infield Fly Rule
lines-maker.com 10/28/2008 — As far as the infield fly rule as it applies to the World Series tonight, Brian Gould of ScoresOddsPicks.com believes the defenses would take the bigger risk under tonight's conditions by intentionally dropping a ball. Mike Godsey, Senior Handicapper at OffshoreInsiders.com agrees. What ...
OVECHKIN
blog.dallasstars.com 10/24/2008 — Alexander Ovechkin. He’s the NHL’s most intoxicating talent and the league’s marketing arm’s dream personality, while at the same time he is reviled as the NHL’s goaltending fraternity’s worst nightmare. And ...
Do the math - 10-28-08
community.post-gazette.com 10/27/2008 — A popular question for hockey
fans in the late 1980's and early 1990's was who was a better player: Wayne
Gretzky or Mario Lemieux?
There were viable arguments
to either side of that debate. Gretzky had all the records. Lemieux had ...
Morning Look: Capitals Invade FedEx Field
voices.washingtonpost.com 10/20/2008 — Top 10 Moments from the Caps full-scale funny-hatted invasion of FedEx Field yesterday, with pictorial assistance. 1) A Comcast SportsyNet official telling me shortly before 3 pm that the guys would appear on-set at 3:20, "assuming they show up," and ...
The five-day rule
blog.mlive.com 10/21/2008 — In discussing his return to the ice after missing the better part of a week with a groin injury, Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg told the Detroit News's Joanne C. Gerstner that even players in NHL shape can't miss more...
Rule 21(d)
hardballtimes.com 12/9/2008 — You know, until I read this story , the historical weirdness of baseball -- the most anti-gambling of all of the major sports -- holding one of its biggest events in a casino hadn't occurred to me. Really, it was not that long ago when Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays -- Mantle and Mays! The two ...
Afternoon Update From Dallas —
Capitals Insider 10/24/2008
After getting in around 4:30 this morning, the Caps held a team meeting at American Airlines Center this afternoon to review some video from last night's 2-1 loss in Phoenix. Practice was optional, and many players decided not to bus over to the ...
Ovechkin leaves Caps, out indefinitely —
SI.com - NHL 10/27/2008
Alexander Ovechkin, the NHL's leading goal scorer last season, has returned to Moscow to be with his ailing grandfather and will miss the Washington Capitals game Tuesday against the Nashville Predators.