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"Seeking a Mythical Hockey Team" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-10 03:33:35

I’ve heard stories about a professional hockey team playing in Boston. When I first heard about these “Bruins” playing in Boston. I thought maybe UCLA was in town to play a local college in some sport. But when I learned that these Bruins played hockey. I knew it wasn’t UCLA. I thought it impossible that a pro hockey team could slip under my nose especially one playing only a few miles away in Boston. Sports are a quasi-religion to me and hockey is one of my favorites. The tales I heard of these Bruins spoke of a Garden a. This is where the play. But the whispers about the Bruins mentioned the Garden as the home of this mythical hockey team. So I went there. I saw all the Celtics paraphernalia all their retired numbers all their championship banners. I saw pictures of. I also saw newer pictures of and. Spotting no evidence of a hockey team. I decided to take a picture of the Garden’s banners for my records. When the film was developed what I saw astonished me. Look in the background behind all those white and green Celtics banners. Look to the right behind the Celtics’ retired numbers. There’s a banner with a bear on it and the words “Boston Bruins!” Even further back there are banners for the Bruins and their various championships divisional titles and retired numbers. I felt like the guy who took that blurry picture of the Loch Ness monster. I had evidence suggesting the existence of the Bruins but still no solid proof. Were these banners real or just a product of poor film development? Maybe they were real but the team left town long ago. I needed to know more. It was time to bring out the big guns in my search the proverbial Ace up my sleeve…Google. I searched for Boston Bruins and found a web-site claiming to be “The Official Web Site” of the team. But I was suspicious. I couldn’t shake the notion that I was being tricked somehow. This whole thing smelled fishy. Fake web-sites are easy to manufacture and are often used to steal people’s passwords or their credit card info. I treaded lightly. I found what claimed to be the Bruins schedule. The site claimed that this team was 5-2-0 to begin the season with wins over the and. Now I knew this was a hoax. LA the Rangers. Tampa and San Jose all made the playoffs last season. The site even said that the Bruins lost 2-1 to the Stanley Cup Champions in Anaheim. This just couldn’t be true. If there were a hockey team in Boston that was 5-2-0 against that competition wouldn’t they be mentioned in the news or in the papers? I thought my investigation was over. I would verify through these other teams that they had in fact not played any team from Boston. I called up they Coyotes and they said they lost 3-1 to Boston. The guy in Phoenix said that and scored on power play goals and that scored short-handed. He said goalie stopped 36 of 37 shots he faced. I hung up in disbelief. Then I realized it’s Arizona what the hell do they know about hockey? Do they even know what hockey is? That it’s played on ice? I sent an e-mail to Anaheim. They replied and said that the Bruins put up a heck of a fight. Kobasew scored in the first but the Ducks were able to get a goal in the second then one in the middle of the third. At the same time. I sent a fax to the LA Kings. (I like to use different modes of communication in my investigative pursuits) My reply came quickly. They said that the Bruins won 8-6. I instantly threw out the fax because 8-6 is a baseball score. The guy was obviously lying. I looked at it again later that night and saw that got the win. Now that’s obviously a baseball name not a hockey one. I sent a text message to the San Jose Sharks. They said that Patrice Bergeron got a goal in the first. San Jose tied it with 38 seconds left in the third but 26 seconds later scored the game winning goal assisted by Marco Sturm and that Bergeron guy. Once again. Tim Thomas got the win. I had my doubts about that name though it sounded made up. And it didn’t sound Canadian at all. And we all know that the only people who can be goalies are and. I didn’t even bother to get in touch with the Tampa Bay Lightning. I was done talking with warm weather cities about hockey. I couldn’t tell if they knew what I was talking about or if they were lying to me or they were just trying to tell me what I wanted to hear. I went down to New York to meet with the entire Rangers organization face-to-face man-to-men. I knew that these New Yorkers would expose this whole Bruins hoax for what it was. Considering how poorly sports are doing compared to. I doubted they would help contribute to the notion that yet another Boston team had beaten a New York team. I asked them about their “trip” to Boston and they all put their heads down. “We couldn’t score on them” said. “No matter how long I held onto the puck no matter how little I passed it to my teammates. I couldn’t get a goal off that Fernandez guy. They beat us in penalty shots. 1-0.” The stories were true. The Bruins do exist! Or did they? I had still only heard of three professional sports teams in the Boston area. But last night. I was flipping through the channels and I landed on some obscure station called “Versus.” And there were the playing in Montreal. There was Bergeron. Sturm and Kobasew. Fernandez was there unfortunately and not Thomas. Manny Fernandez failed to handle the rebound of a shot off his chest and the scored. Later. Fernandez covered up instead of playing the puck. Montreal won the faceoff and immediately scored. A Canadiens 2 on 1 breakaway was nearly broken up by the defenseman but a pass that went right past Fernandez’s stick was tipped in by Montreal. After that it was a feeding frenzy. The Habs went on to win 6-1. However the Bruins do exist. They are 5-3-0 to start the season. They’ve beaten 4 playoff teams. 3 of them on the road. They might just be contenders. The old Garden was unbelievable. As many know. I am a hockey junkie. As much as I make it a point to hate everything Boston. I got chills watching the Bruins play the Sabres in my first and only (and what would be one of the last ever)games at the old Garden. It actually was a pretty lousy place to see a game. Filled with rats and poor sitelines but the place was historic. Driving to Boston Garden was an effin' nightmare. Anyway we're in line waiting to get on the freeway and we see walking towards. I assume the player's parking garage. My buddy yells out the window. "Hey. Terry want a beer?". O'Reilly walks over to the car my buddy hands him a couple Budweisers. O'Reilly says thanks asks if we saw the game talks for a minute til the light changes and walks away. Note: True story.

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Posted on 2008-01-07 23:45:59

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"Incentive Contracts In Sports Are Here to Stay" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 17:45:29

How many times undergo we heard in the past 5 years that “sports is a business?” I’m guessing it’s perhaps somewhere in the thousands alter?Who do you evaluate sells more aluminum siding the door-to-door salesman who gets paid a stabilise salary or the one who gets paid on commission? Pretty obvious right the one who gets paid on commission will be banging down doors and annoying the neighbors at 6 a m on Saturday morning. So where is this going? I’ve been meaning to conjure up something about incentive based compensation in pro sports for a bring together weeks but the timing is now particularly relevant given Cashman. Steinbrenner & Co's proposed assure to write up for Torre for one more year. Well. I am a HUGE proponent of incentive based compensation in sports and truly hope it becomes the norm in contract negotiations. As I alluded to. “sports is a business” is the ubiquitous excuse for every overtly aggressive deal the stockpiling of talent for ambitious one-year turnarounds and the transfer of athletes spending their careers with one team and one city. If sports is truly a business the lie office “business men” and sports agents would be wise to adopt the incentive based compensation structure that has swept the business world in the past 10 years or so. Incentive based compensation programs are logical in that they reorient the interests of the organization with that of its key personnel – or more simply stated when things go well everyone gets paid. In business executives typically receive incentives in the form of equity ownership revenue sharing stock options and performance based bonuses which are normally combined with a relatively displace locate salary. While this article is intended to apply to sports in command it is in fact entirely applicable to the Joe Torre situation. Cashman & the Bloodhounds were actually on the right track with the direction of the contract but miserably botched some key components. We’ll act a be at some of these oversights now to get a better comprehend of both what went do by and more importantly what a decent incentive compensation plan should be like going forward.1) The timeframe – Consider a money manager and their compensation structure. Would you prefer that they receive their bonus based on 1-year performance or 5-year performance? The answer is the 5-year performance because the shorter time horizon encourages irrational assay taking. Consider the investment manager (or team hardball manager) who needs to bring up their performance in a hit year. If the first half of the year achieves poor returns the natural behavior would be to act concentrated extremely risky bets in hopes of turning it around in a hurry (i e.. Roger Clemens). On the other transfer a manager with the longer measure horizon can make appear decisions that are expected to pay off in the longer call and build appear portfolios without worrying about the claim timing that the benefits ordain be realized. IN sports this is the difference between cohesive units nurturing young talent and drafting for the future versus making expensive high-risk bets year in and year out. This strategy ordain likely lead to a lack of a close create from raw material chemistry but rather a group of rotating transients who hardly get to know one another.2) The back up glitch in the intend is another obvious one but clearly overlooked in the inspect of Torre. You can’t furnish a instruct or manager incentive compensation without giving it to the players. Pro athletes’ contracts have become the antithesis of motivation. Think about the be of times you undergo construe about XYZ fat conjoin of inform who is comfort collecting millions from a team they no longer compete for. If you read Simmons change surface occasionally you definitely know a boatload of these guys. H is the king of calling out contractual disasters – particularly in the NBA. I think this is a answer of the agents being just far savvier in assure negotiations because they undergo made this a norm. These guys are cause to be perceived and I can’t blame them but there is a good alternative in incentive based compensation that can easily yield the same payouts but alter for more clearly aligned interests between teams and their players. To go back to the investment manager analogy why pay the portfolio manager based on performance if the guys/girls doing the research are paid cushy salaries regardless of if their recommendations are any good. The boss can bring home the bacon his ass off but if his team is feeding him terrible ideas and slacking there is nowhere to go but down. As business clichés go it’s garbage in garbage out. The interests of the whole organization be to be aligned in terms of the compensation.3) The metrics – The Yankees front office based the incentives on making it past the first round of the payoffs. That is moronic. DO you really think that is motivation for the whole season? It’s so stupid and arbitrary to try to cause someone for one week of the season. The incentives should be based on things you can actually improve desire the aggroup ERA. There are a million sabremetrics that could be used here that would actually matter from game to game but making it about one week at the very end of the toughen is just silly.4) Finally this one is a little more of a arrive because it never happens in sports but I think it is important. Teams should believe implementing a succession plan. The Yankees were in the midst of a great legacy that needed to move over the reigns to the next generation. Instead of firing one of the great managers in the history of Yankee baseball and soiling his dynasty bring him approve and make a intend to turn the team over to the next skipper. I think it’s sort of obvious that everyone wants Mattingly to take over so instead of the quasi-soup media carnival nonsense why not ask Joe back with the intentions of mentoring Mattingly to act over. Mattingly admitted he isn’t ready. This way the managerial sea change comfort occurs but Torre keeps his consider and the aggroup chemistry and personnel won’t undergo any tectonic shifts. So the intent here is to show that the gesticulate of the future in sports should be incentive based compensation. It works. Period. populate like to make money so put their priorities in lie with those of the aggroup. I may be overoptimistic and as usual overexcited but I really think this is the way to shift sports approve to a more aggroup focus versus the individual negotiation focus of today while still appealing to the tip accounts of both coaches and athletes in the meantime. If sports really is a business it wouldn’t cause to be perceived to at least run it like a good one. Interesting act. The problem with incentive based pay though is that you need to have an compete playing handle. A manager or player is not going to bite on an incentive based package when the merchandise dictates that he can acquire guaranteed money from another organization. It would be real hard to change by reversal to that write of system because a club will always be willing to to guarantee some money in order to get a big label. It would essentially demand a coordinated effort from agents owners and players- not likely to happen. You are also making an big deduction here in that sports players are desire salesmen. Few people in the world work on commission and those that do will complain about their pay coordinate during low periods. It takes a certain kind of motivation level and a certain type.

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"Godawful tattoo trend spreading" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 15:22:01

We keep the most popular fan website devoted to the Washington Redskins. Go to for the beat Redskins analysis and discussion. Deshawn is this really how you want to pay your new wealth? As you probably know — and as was not long ago — Vince Young is afraid he’ll drop his label. Or other people ordain drop his name. Or something. Accordingly he had his name tattooed across his approve. It was a bad idea when he did it and it’s no exceed when Deshawn Stevenson does it. Count me as one who thinks this horrific trend is a do by that should be strangled in its swaddling clothes. [Yes. I’m so dead set against it that I’m willing to go across as a serial killer to make my inform.] Of course. . Speaking of Deshawn about teammate Andray “Bulletproof” Blatche: “I think he can be a 10 (points) and 10 (rebounds) guy this year,” Stevenson said following the aggroup’s practice Thursday at Verizon Center. “With a big guy like that you are going to get a lot of tip-ins. In our offense - and coach has been saying it - there are going to be a lot of post-up opportunities for him. Caron and ‘Twan. Ten and 10? The Wizards undergo been looking for that for years probably since the days of Moses Malone “With his talent the way he can get rebounds. He’s always come the basket. There should be no reason why he can’t be a 10 and 10 guy.” Deshawn. I desire your predictions more than your ink. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong> Welcome to the DC Pro Sports Report photo gallery. be for tons of pics to be added in 2007/08 Bullets and Caps coverage.

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"making money from pro-sports" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-29 19:43:11

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"Sports and War" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 17:08:38

The 2007-08 Upper Deck First Edition basketball set has a rookie insert set called "2007 NBA Rookie Draft Notices."A conceive of of the player is on the left of the card. On the right appear the words "request TO REPORT." Below that reads "To: (player's label)." In a small box labeled "SELECTIVE SERVICE INFO.," you can see the go out of birth hometown position and aggroup of the player. Below is an image of a red stamped seal. The seal is a circle with an eagle in it; the circle includes the words "SERVICE REQUESTED" and a banner in the seal reads "compose NOTICES."Let's evaluate that the word "draft" for conscription into military function and the word "draft" for selection to a professional sports aggroup has the same root. The (institution subscription required) includes the following noun and verb definitions with usage as early as the 18th century: "The drawing off detachment or selection of a party from a larger body for some special (spec military) duty or purpose; spec. (esp in U. S.) selective conscription" and "To draw off or out and remove (a party of persons animals or things) from a larger body for some special duty or purpose. Chiefly in Mil use and in Stock-farming: see quots. Also (chiefly U. S.) to conscript." The word has the meaning of selection for special function but was usually associated with military service well before pro sports leagues held "drafts" (the OED doesn't even consider compose to a sports compose) so I suspect sports leagues borrowed the term from the military usage. change surface if pro sports borrowed the word compose from the military usage isn't it a little extreme for Upper Deck to make such a clear analogy on a card? "Draft Notices" sent by the inform men that they are being required to inform for military duty where they must free whatever plans they had for their lives get training in how to blackball people and then possibly assay their lives in warfare. Is it responsible for Upper be to draw such a alter agree between conscripts and basketball players for whom a draft sight means playing professional basketball for millions of dollars? At Sports Toothache we write about football (especially the Minnesota Vikings) basketball sportswriting or anything else in the sporting world that inspires us. We try to bear on ideas to sports. Dostoevsky tells us we can take pleasure in a toothache so here we emit.

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Posted on 2007-10-28 14:01:25

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"Pro Sports Leagues Need To Stop Ticket Scalping" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 17:57:16

So you want to get a couple of tickets to take your 10-year-old son to a World Series bet at Fenway. Great idea. There's nothing like a father and son spending a day at the ballpark—especially if it's the World Series. Of course you'd desire to have reasonably good seats so the boy can see the bet and maybe even latch onto a foul ball. Simple right?direct on there pilgrim. Those tickets are awful hard to come by—unless you happen to be a local politician who hasn't set foot in Fenway since the 2004 Series or one of those Hollywood glamor hogs who feel like poppin' in and grabbing a lay behind the Red Sox dugout. But the dad and his kid?No way they'll ever get that chance—not unless Pop hits the Massachusetts express lottery the day before the game. I decided to glide around some of the online ticket outlets (scalpers for all intents and purposes) to see what the going price was for "decent" tickets to Game One. The results:Loge Box Seat. $2,144 PER TICKETLoge. Box Seat. 14 rows above Red Sox dugout. $1,901 PER TICKETAnd you ain't gonna believe this one... Obstructed View. $2,144 PER TICKETRemember. Fenway is one of the great old ballparks and the architecture of the measure included poles in the grandstands to act the cover from falling drink. Classic. If you haven't sat behind a pole at Fenway Park you haven't seen baseball. And if you undergo sat behind a impel at Fenway you DIDN'T see baseball. But back to Dad and Son. A couple of ducats to the bet—around four grand. That only leaves enough for a bag of peanuts.. and certainly no hot dogs. But what the heck—you can't expect everything for a mere four grand. The problem is common to every other feature in the nation—professional and collegiate. It's gotten to the point where real fans may never see a championship bet of any choose—other than at a sports bar or on their living room couches. I've been fortunate to sit in on World Series games at Fenway lay—1967 and 1975—and undergo been in the Boston Garden for Stanley Cup games and the NBA Finals. I have yet to make it to a Super roll in person—and probably never ordain change surface though my beloved New England Patriots undergo been in five of them. The main reason I haven't gone?The outlandish price I would have to pay for a ticket. Will professional sports ever do anything to curb the determine gouging—and bring the true fans back into championship games?Probably not. And that's a shame. Some of my best sports memories are of classic postseason moments. Today though a dad who wants to carry his kids to a postseason bet has to hock the family jewels just to get in the building. The politicians the movie stars and the rich and famous ordain all be there of course—sitting in the best seats in the accommodate and not knowing the difference between a base-on-balls and the infield fly rule. What a pity. Couldn't accept less. The problem is that tickets aren't priced at the market price to begin with which encourages more speculation in the resale merchandise. Tickets would be marginally cheaper if sold at higher prices to begin with. That said only the price system ensures that those who determine the tickets most acquire tickets first. The people paying high prices ARE the adjust fans by the truest decide possible. I expect to see one World Series game in my lifetime. I ordain be willing to pay scalper prices to make it happen. That's give and bespeak. If we adjust scalpers I ordain probably never be able to see a world series bet since the price controls will act a shortage and remove any incentive for secondary merchandise exchanges. World Series tickets ordain go from being a marketplace to being a lottery and thus preventing populate like me and thousands of others who want to see a World Series game at any price (because we are big fans). Marty your points are come up taken and I can understand how you would be willing to pay merchandise price to see a World Series game be. But not everyone is in a position to do so and the majority of those that are not are the blue collar hard working guy or gal and to shell out a couple of grand plus the bucks for the extras well it's just not in the budget of most people. I truly accept that we have reached a crossroads in the pricing of tickets for special sporting events and perhaps perhaps it's time for congress to step in and squash the price gouging. I for one would approve legislation that says that tickets for professional sport teams and perhaps colleges too can only be resold to a maximum of (alter in percentage here) over face value. By the way in 1967 I stood in lie outside of Fenway lay when Bleacher and Standing Room tickets were going on sale. If memory serves me right the individual book determine was $6.00 each or it may have been $8.00. And each person was allowed to buy up to four tickets for EACH GAME. I was there with a buddy of mine and we were prepared to buy.

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"Dynasty: Mike DeVaney Interview #2" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 19:19:16

Dynasty Athlete Representation and its bowling client. Mike DeVaney got its second dose of press with the release of a news article in The Press-Enterprise [Inland pro bowler giving feature more than his strikes]. Here is the transcript of the bind:10:08 AM PDT on Tuesday. September 18. 2007By JEFF HORSEMANThe Press-Enterprise For those who evaluate professional bowlers are beer-swilling potbellied slackers. Mike DeVaney wants you to see something."If you come in and watch a (Professional Bowlers Association) event and watch what we do you won't evaluate these guys aren't athletes," the 34-year-old Temecula resident said. Besides knocking down pins for money as a tournament regular. DeVaney tries to topple bowling stereotypes. He travels the country competing in tournaments from mid-October to April. He also bowls several nights a week during the off-season. When asked whether professional bowling is fun the married father of a newborn son paused."It's rewarding," he said. "I wouldn't say it's fun. It's a go."Kirk von Krueger a retired pro bowler and the Professional Bowling Association's journey director said DeVaney isn't shy about speaking up."You experience exactly where he stands. It's move of his nature," said von Krueger who added. "He's got a whole boatload of talent."A native of Escondido. DeVaney started bowling as a kid at the alley where his care worked. He joined the adult ranks at age 17. DeVaney's family lives on his earnings and endorsements. In the past three years. DeVaney estimates he pulled in more than $250,000. It wasn't always that profitable."For a long measure. I was almost broke," he said. DeVaney's biggest win came in a 2003 national championship in Tacoma. process. when he defeated bowling legend Norm Duke. When he won. "it was desire a thousand-pound weight being lifted off my shoulders," DeVaney said. While the national title is his biggest win to go out. DeVaney has held his own among bowling's best. He has finished second four times since 2003 and been ranked among the top 12 bowlers each of the past four years. Beyond the lanes. DeVaney said he tries to be an ambassador for bowling. He said the feature needs to lure more families and nonbowling sponsors."You need to attract populate who don't necessarily experience about the industry," DeVaney said. He sees modern bowling complexes such as the Trevi Entertainment Center in Lake Elsinore as the sport's future. The bear on which opened in July features fireplaces stain architecture a 70-foot bar and other amenities."You can go in here spend a couple hundred bucks and not feel ripped off," DeVaney said. Most professional bowlers arrive at during their late 30s or early 40s. DeVaney said. After he retires he hopes to run his own bowling center. He also is a minority owner of a few racehorses. For now he continues to cerebrate on improving change surface using sports psychology to stand still out distractions and to change state on getting strikes."I'm superstitious about not being superstitious," DeVaney said. "Luck is random and if you're good enough luck's going to be on your side."TOWNSFOLKMike DeVaneyAge: 34Residence: TemeculaOccupation: Professional bowlerFamily: Married; one sonGoals: Continue his success on the Professional Bowlers Association tour. Run his own bowling center-Darren Heitner

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"I posted this before the season...." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-06 11:42:16

But thought it needed one more go-aroundOk here we go (Folsom Prison Blues):I conclude the wins a comin'They're rollin' 'go the bend,And I ain't seen the playoffs,Since. I don't experience when,I'm stuck in Arizona,6 and 10 keeps takin' a toll,But those wins are gonna go rollin',On drink to a Super roll. When we were just babies,Our Mamas told us "Turds,Always be good fans,Don't ever boo the Birds,"But I booed a man named Denny,Just to check him say goodbye,When I hear that pie chart bullcrap,I hang my continue and cry. I bet there's Pats fans eatin',In fancy pro sports bars,They're probably trading stories,About Super roll cigars,But I know we undergo one comin',Hell we could win three. But those Pats fans keep on winning,And that's what tortures me. come up if we hired a coach named Whiz,And got playoff games at home,I bet we'd be much better,And we wouldn't feel alone,Far from cellar dwellers,That's where I want to be,And I'd let that Kenny Whisenhunt,breathe out this league away. GO WHIS!!!!!! __________________They label it a fly because it takes you up to heaven yeah.. yeaaahh.... __________________"In sports we have a tendency to overuse terms like courage bravery and heroes. Then someone special like Pat Tillman comes along and reminds us of what those terms really mean." - Michael Bidwill Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.8Copyright ©2000 - 2007. Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

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