Yankee Stadium Back in Running to Host Winter Classic

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 Yankee Stadium Back in Running to Host Winter Classic
Back in May, it looked like plans to bring the NHL Winter Classic to New York's Yankee Stadium were in jeopardy thanks to some infrastructure problems. Then, last month, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the league was all but ready to announce that the game would be coming to Wrigley Field in 2009 . Now the story has taken yet another turn. As reported by Rob Yunich at Random Reality ... [link]

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Over at FanHouse ...
Published 7/1/2008 by Eric at Off Wing Opinion
... Oh, and we seem to no longer have a definite site for the 2009 NHL Winter Classic . Stop by all day long, agents are undoubtedly looking over the big contracts as I type. Eric [image] 01:44 PM Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.ericmcerlain.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/8397 Comments Post a comment Thanks for signing in, . (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Yankee Stadium trying to steal Winter Classic from Chicago?
Published 7/1/2008 by PostmanR at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... Like Eric McErlain over at FanHouse, I’m a bit confused by this, but would think it’s safe to assume both cities are now bidding for a shot at hosting the game. Which is bogus. Yeah, it’s Yankee Stadium’s last year. And yeah: it makes sense to have it there. But does Yankee Stadium have the ability for someone to throw an octopus on the ice from a rooftop? ...

Free Agent Puck Headlines: Brad Stuart likes kissing Stanley
Published 7/1/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
... • Not free-agent news, but interesting nonetheless: Is Yankee Stadium back in the running for the Winter Classic with Wrigley Field?  [FanHouse] ...

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