Archive for May, 2011
Fourteen consecutive scoreless innings are usually enough from a JV pitching staff to get the team on a roll. Usually. But this game was not like any other game, not at all. Canisius High School’s JV Gold team — the school’s ‘B’ team, if you will — lost by a final of 3-1. The boys, […]
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Tags: Canisius High School Crusaders, free baseball, JV, marathon games
The NCAA released its Academic Progress Rate public report earlier this week, which listed the men’s basketball teams at Niagara, Buffalo and St. Bonaventure all to have APR levels below what it considers acceptable, as well as UB football. Instituted in 2005, the APR is a coarse measure of how many student-athletes are on track […]
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Tags: APR, Big 4, Canisius Golden Griffins, Jeff Quinn, Joe Mihalich, Mark Schmidt, NCAA, Niagara Purple Eagles, Reggie Witherspoon, St. Bonaventure Bonnies, Tom Parrotta, Turner Gill, UB Bulls
The Crimson Chins
If you follow hockey in any extent, these two bearded gentlemen need no introduction. But in case you forgot, these are the Sedin twins, Henrik at left and Daniel on the right. Henrik has the upper hand as the older twin, but Daniel has the honor of being drafted first. Both are by the slimmest […]
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Tags: 1999 NHL Entry Draft, Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Henrik Zetterberg, Jordan Leopold, Martin Havlat, playoff beards, Ryan Kesler, Ryan Miller, The Crimson Chin, Tim Connolly, Trixie Tang, trust me I'm a twin, Vancouver Canucks
Misplaced anger in Ryan Miller
The farther removed we get from Buffalo’s playoff exit, the more I find myself appreciating Ryan Miller. Maybe it’s that we just witnessed consecutive playoff games with 10 goals scored (it was 11 on Tuesday if you want to get technical). I can’t help but watch these games and think, “I’d be furious if that one […]
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Tags: Antti Niemi, bad goals, Buffalo Sabres, Dominik Hasek, Dwayne Roloson, Logan Couture, Martin Broduer, misplaced anger, Patrick Roy, Roberto Luongo, Ryan Miller, Tim Thomas, Vincent Lecavalier
