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This Weekend in Sports: NFL Conference Championships, NHL Season Opens

Joe Student — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:58:26 +0000

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: Friday, January 18 Australian Open Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia; 12 a.m. (ET) on ESPN2; Through Jan. 27 The 101st Australian Open moves into its first weekend of play with returning champs Victoria Azarenka [...]

The NFL Playoffs or the Return of the NHL — Which Has You More Fired Up? — Sports Survey of the Day

BJ Ragone — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:30:16 +0000

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

Joe Student — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:01:30 +0000

The National Hockey League and its players’ union reached a tentative agreement to end the league’s 113-day lockout on Sunday. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr announced the deal early Sunday morning in New York after a 16-hour bargaining session in Manhattan, which started on Saturday. The new collective bargaining agreement [...]

Protest the NHL Lockout by Mailing Them Your Beard

Cameron Simcik — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:00:19 +0000

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. After 66 days [...]

Molson Coors Wants the NHL to Pay Them for All the Beer People Aren't Drinking

Mike Adams — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:28:04 +0000

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

BJ Ragone — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:43:18 +0000

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? So far the NHL lockout has cost fans dozens of games, plus the 2013 Winter Classic. The players and owners met on Wednesday in New York City [...]

NHL Lockout Update, No Winter Classic?

Andy Capwell — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:00:18 +0000

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

Donald Deane — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:15:55 +0000

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?