- 10:02 PM
- 07/06/08
NHL Faces Competition from Russian Tycoon's New European League For years, the NHL has poached stars under contract with teams in Europe and Russia, scuttling existing agreements and angering owners. This may be coming back to haunt them, now that Russian energy tycoon Alex Medvedev is working with former NHL player Igor Larionov and former player's union chief Bob Goodenow to begin a league in Europe that will compete for players with the NHL. Here's a line from the Toronto Star that should chill NHL owners: "It's unclear whether the league -- which Medvedev said could formally be announced as soon as today -- would honour NHL contracts."
posted to Hockey at 11:39 AM CDT
Awesome short video from last night's CBS News an autistic student being called into his first basketball game. Watch it until the end, it kicks ass.
posted to Basketball at 12:55 PM CDT
No way, Disney actually inquired about buying the rights to the story.
posted at 7:42 PM CDT on February 24
Don't give me this MTV generation crap. Give me a real Extreme Sport.
posted to Extreme at 2:13 PM CDT
Hey, quit metafiltering up this thread.
Ha!
posted at 9:09 PM CDT on February 27
I was amazed when I took my first trip to London recently and I noticed the free newspapers provided by my hotel mentioned the scores of NHL games on the front page of the Sports section. I couldn't help but wonder if anyone in London really cared if the Ducks beat the Sharks, since I as an American couldn't care less. :)