This Weekend in Sports: NFL Conference Championships, NHL Season Opens
This weekend we'll find out who's playing in the Super Bowl, and hockey fans get their game back. Here's what to watch:
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The NFL Playoffs or the Return of the NHL — Which Has You More Fired Up? — Sports Survey of the Day
Normally we would be knee deep into the NHL season by now, but the puck will drop later this month on a new season thanks to the lockout, which ended last weekend. And the NFL playoffs are in full swing.
So what are you more pumped for -- the NHL's return, or the NFL playoffs?
NHL Lockout Ends as Players, Owners Reach Tentative Agreement
The National Hockey League and its players' union reached a tentative agreement to end the league's 113-day lockout on Sunday.
Protest the NHL Lockout by Mailing Them Your Beard
If there's one thing that sucks about sports, it's lockouts. Lockouts mean no games on TV, no dude time, and a greater chance we'll have to spend time with our women learning how to cook cheese fondue and make potpourri centerpieces. That's why we've been pretty annoyed about this whole NHL lockout.
Molson Coors Wants the NHL to Pay Them for All the Beer People Aren’t Drinking
Executives at Molson Coors, the oldest and largest beer company in Canada, are not very happy with this whole NHL lockout thing. The brewing giant says the lockout is to blame for a sobering decline in beer sales.
When Will the NHL Lockout End? — Sports Survey of the Day
Remember hockey? The NHL lockout is looking as ugly as, if not uglier than, last year's NBA lockout. We are now in day 53 of it—is there any hope?
NHL Lockout Update, No Winter Classic?
The NHL lockout continues and hockey fans could be in for a long winter.There has been recent communications between the NHL Players' Association special counsel Steve Fehr and NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly. However the stalemate continues, making it likely that the Winter Classic will be cancelled.
Check Out the Official Song of the 2012 NHL Lockout
The 2012 NHL lockout is only about a week underway, but singer/songwriter Vicki Shae of Winnipeg-based radio station QX 104 already has a song ready to mend the broken hearts of fans everywhere. And it's a nifty parody of Taylor Swift's 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' to boot. Nothing lessens the sting of a painful labor dispute more than a heartfelt breakup tune, right?