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Entries in Hockey (10)
Hall of Shame? - Taylor Hall Takes Tulsa GM Slot (OPINION)
MAJORBLOGS.net - 05.05.08 - OPINION - New Tulsa Oilers GM Taylor Hall had better hope that the third time is the charm.
For those of you unfamiliar with the career of Mr. Hall after he left the ice in Tulsa as a player, let's take a trip down Flashback Alley.
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It's Not Easy Being Green (OR: Bob Costas, You Can't Handle the Truth!)
MAJORBLOGS.NET - 04.28.08 - I always love the casual put-down that print journalists like to drop on those of us who are digital magazine publishers.
Print Guy: "So, you have a magazine that's been around nearly ten years covering minor league sports?"
ME: "That's right SZ was the very first digital sports magazine in the world. Cover and sections and everything, going back to 2000."
Print Guy: "Oh, so you're just a website."
That is the unjust 'just' to which I usually smile and politely reply:
Brian Ross
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I'm Not Dead Yet - Austin Ice Bats Endure Through Rumors of Their Demise
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - AUSTIN, TX. - This month marks my 10th anniversary covering minor league and indy pro sports. Thank you all for the tin cups. So why, when I've seen more than a hundred professional clubs come and go, do I care one iota what happens with the Austin Ice Bats? Because they do, owners, fans and players alike. Like the Monty Python joke about "Bring out yer dead!" where the old man being thrown on the cart of rotting corpses during the Black Plague complains "I'm not dead yet" to his son, the Ice Bats are alive and well, even though many in the local media have officially written them off with an impending decision on bringing Triple-A American Hockey League (AHL) hockey to the market...
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Austin Statesman Engages in Unstatesmanlike Behavior With the Austin Ice Bats
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - If you look at my previous blog on the Austin Ice Bats situation, you will know that a key component to their being abandoned by the community that they have served for twelve years has been the decision by the local media outlets, most notably the town's biggest newspaper, the Austin Statesman, to abandon the club in its hour of need. Our friends at the Statesman are gambling that the Ice Bats have gone Sixth Sense, and are...
Brian Ross
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Reviving the Classic Sports Illustration
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - The minor league games have MAJOR sports fans, so, along with your passion for the purer form of the sport, we brought back something equally cool and old-school. Most of us are too young to remember the sports illustrations that used to appear in newspapers across America. Ever wonder why they call it "Sports Illustrated" and not sports photographed? Illustrations became a vanishing art form by the...
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GRUDGE MATCH - Hey Gary! Six Minor League Owners Are Smarter Than the NHL Marketing Mavens
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Hey GARY! Factoid for your next NHL governors meeting: After baseball, professional hockey is the second most watched sport in North America. So why aren't you and the NHL governors making more money and tooting that horn in the face of the NECKCAR guys trying to lap you? Right now you have six hockey team owners in the CHL and the ECHL who are far smarter than their respective leagues, and yours. You might want to pay some attention to...
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Boston Herald Columnist Steve Buckley is Full of Bulls
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - On Monday Steve Buckley, "general" sports columnist at the Boston Herald, rattled out "At heart of Duke-ness," one of those homer tomes on Beantown college basketball that die-hahd Boston fans eat up, but which land like Lunesta on anyone outside of the hallowed ground of the Massachusetts sports mecca. In the process of trashing Duke basketball, a time-honored ritual of the sports writers around college programs jealous of the Coach K machine, he decided to nuke Durham Bulls baseball, Toledo Mud Hens baseball and Minor League Baseball in the process. "In the end, though, that’s all there is to Durham, N.C. When there is no college basketball being played, it is just another minor league tank town. The Durham Bulls. Oh. Lovely," drops Buckley into his March madness beantown bombast. He then winds up with: "And I’d rather be watching Red Sox-Yankees on a steamy August night than Bulls-Mud Hens." Now, admittedly, that qualifies as pretty progressive thinking from a sports writer in...
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Richard Brosal Departs. Good for the UHL. Good for Hockey. Good Riddance.
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - [Opinion] I come to bury Richard Brosal, not to praise him. The President and CEO of the United Hockey League (UHL) announced yesterday that he would be stepping down to pursue an opportunity at B2 Networks (See "UHLs Richard Brosal Accepts Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for B2 Networks," RAW FEED, 02.09.07). Good for the UHL. Good for hockey. Good riddence. Brosal may be the worst league president of an established hockey league in the history of independent professional hockey. After all, how many leagues can say that their president was involved in...
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May Mayhem to Hook 'em on Hockey
The Kelly Cup winds up. The Calder Cup wraps. Who cares? The minor league hockey season is too long. The American Hockey League (AHL) and the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) playoff systems follow the NHL format to capitalize on weekend dates, but winding down in late May to early June is tough in a lot of the markets where it is now summer. Sure, the hard core hockey fans will...
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When the Message Owns the Media
The internet was a big boon to minor and independent sports leagues and teams. Everyone from ESPN to the local fishwrap used to ignore them, favoring college sports and the majors. What better way to get the word out than via the Internet, where anyone interested could tune in? Major League Baseball kicked off the trend of building your own internal news organization to create a...
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