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With Bears Dead, Media Turns Lowly Eyes to Blackhawks
With Bears Dead, Media Turns Lowly Eyes to Blackhawks
In any typical year, this would be a bad time for Chicago sports media. It’s the winter. It’s cold. Trudging to work every day sucks. But more than that, once you get to work, you only have one professional team to cover — the Bears are done, the Cubs and White Sox are ...
Ty Conklin To Start 3rd Straight Outdoor Classic?
Ty Conklin To Start 3rd Straight Outdoor Classic?
totalprosports.com — Total Pro Sports - I bet that you did not know that Ty Conklin started both the... Heritage Winter Classic in Edmonton and the Winter Classic in Buffalo. On December 30, 2008 he may have the chance to do it again when the Detroit Red Wings visit the Chicago Blackhawks at Wrigley Field in the ... (more) Ty Conklin To Start 3rd Straight Outdoor Classic?
 Gene Wojciechowski: Blackhawks offer hope
Gene Wojciechowski: Blackhawks offer hope
sports.espn.go.com — CHICAGO -- If you're the 0-for-'08 Detroit Lions, there's hope. The galactically dysfunctional New York Knicks and... Dallas Cowboys? There's hope. The penny-pinched Pittsburgh Pirates, once-proud U-Dub Huskies, orphaned Oklahoma City Thunder there's ... (more) Gene Wojciechowski: Blackhawks offer hope
How the Blackhawks became the talk of Chicago
globesports.com — After arriving in Chicago to set up for Thursday's NHL outdoor game, NBC producer Sam Flood got... in touch with a high-school classmate living in the city. "I went out to dinner with him and met a bunch of his friends," Flood said yesterday. "The men — ... (more) How the Blackhawks became the talk of Chicago
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Puck Headlines: Attempting to rain on the Blackhawks love-fest
Puck Daddy — ... are getting heaping spoonfuls of love from the media as the Winter Classic nears. Eamonn Brennan collects the clippings, and would like everyone to take a deep breath and think about the fact that they really haven't accomplished much of anything yet. "The Blackhawks have a great short-term opportunity. It's worth getting excited about. But let's not drop all perspective at the first sight of outdoor hockey, hmm? The Hawks have a long climb yet." [Mouthpiece Sports] ...

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