The community skate on the ice rink at Wrigley Field was perhaps the coolest thing I've ever done, and that's not overhyping it, either. The Cubs gave a tremendous opportunity to several hundred of us who live within a couple of miles of the ballpark, to be able to skate on the ...

Total Pro Sports - After huge success with the 2009 Winter Classic in Chicago at Wrigley Field this past New Years Day, the Philadelphia Flyers have expressed their interest in hosting next years Winter Classic Game. The Flyers are not the only team who are interested in hosting next years ...

Detroit Red Wings vs Chicago Blackhawks at Wrigley Field Jan.1st 2009 I didn't get to see the third period but I did enjoy what I was able to watch. I could have done without the commentators fawning over how wonderful the game was going to be and was during the game. It's a hockey ...

From Bloomberg News: January 2, Chicago Daily Herald: The Detroit Red Wings' 6-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks yesterday at Wrigley Field topped last year's National Hockey League outdoor game by 12 percent in preliminary television ratings. The game at...

Posted By: Darren Rovell I'm a college football junkie and I watched as much of the hockey game at Wrigley Field yesterday as I did college football. I hate hockey. But this playing outside thing is pretty cool. Read More Topics: Television | Media | Sports Sectors:  ...

Yesterday, the NHL played it's second, soon-to-be-annual, Winter Classic, an outdoor hockey game, this year at Wrigley Field. By most accounts, the game was a success--both in terms of logistics and the game itself, a 6-4 Detroit Red Wings victory. According to an ESPN.com article , the NHL in ...

CHICAGO SUN TIMES FRONT PAGE WINTER CLASSIC SPREAD CHICAGO TRIBUNE FRONT PAGE WINTER CLASSIC HEADLINE More from the Winter Classic II and Detroit's 6-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks at Wrigley Field will be posted soon.

Just hours after more than 40,000 hockey fans filed out of Chicago's Wrigley Field, speculation about where the NHL will hold next year's Winter Classic was a hot topic on Canadian television. Joe Bowen, the longtime Toronto Maple Leafs play-by-play announcer, reported a rumor on Thursday's ...

Winter Classic: Detroit and Chicago are currently playing hockey in Wrigley Field. Pretty neat. It’s tied 1-1 in the first. In other news … “You want the truth? I was gonna drive around the corner and get a blow job.” Those are Charles Barkley’s words on the night ...

It won’t be right, but it won’t be wrong either. If you’re looking for some proper way to start off your new year, consider watching a game played at one of the most historic sports venues in the nation. I speak, of course, of Wrigley Field. I wanted to go to Wrigley Field and watch a game ...

Take note: AOL Fanhouse's Eric McErlain, Wingingitinmotown, Bethany's Hockey Rants, and Aftonbladet's Per Bjurman are all blogging from Wrigley Field. They're Twittering, too, as is that guy who asks you for $20 to give you made up hockey rumours....

by Eric McErlain With the 2009 NHL Winter Classic only a day away, Wednesday was a busy day at Wrigley Field. Both the Blackhawks and the Red Wings took to the ice for pre-game practices, with the players looking a little more like wide-eyed kids than hardened professionals -- if only for a ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the NHL Winter Classic : The Blackhawks got good. Very good. As a result, the spectacle that John McDonough begged his league to bring to Wrigley to help him reanimate a recently dead franchise has turned into something else: A signficant ...

Kicking off New Year's Day for hockey fans means the arrival of the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic. This year the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks face-off at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. Will there be a special 7th inning stretch? This game features two Original Six ...

Posted By: Darren Rovell Tomorrow afternoon will be the one day of the year I will be watching hockey as the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings play outside at Wrigley Field. The Bridgestone Winter Classic is the talk of the town and hockey outdoors has actually managed to get some ...

USA Today posted a slate of articles promoting the Winter Classic II, including a superb article about outdoor hockey from the usually-acerbic Ted Montgomery, a time-lapse video of Wrigley Field's transformation from baseball field to rink (see below the cut),...

NHL hits home run with new Classic - Sportsnet.ca : Walk into Wrigley Field, and it isn’t the rink in shallow centre field that grabs your eye. It is everything else. It is the hockey banners hanging in the concessions areas under the stands, Chicago Blackhawks players pictured where ...

In 1981, the Tribune Company purchsed the Chicago Cubs from the Wrigley family for $20,000,000 and expects to sell the club this winter for a sum anywhere between $450 million and $750 million, depending on concessions made for the state of Wrigley Field and whether or not the damn governor is ...

More than 40,000 are expected at Wrigley Field for the New Year's Day game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings. It'll probably be the fifth largest crowd ever for an outdoor hockey game.

The Winter Classic received its first anti-hockey journalist's rant courtesy of a whiny Rick Morrissey tonight, and the rink at Wrigley Field withstood about 3/4ths of an inch of rain today, but NHL facilities manager Dan Craig told the Chicago...