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The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The Chicago Blackhawks say their internal studies show that 92 percent of their fans are also fans of the Chicago Bears, which is not a difficult thing to believe. Two teams that have the Windy City all to itself in their respective sport. Nothing potentially divisive about that. Unless you're the NFL and you steadfastly refuse to share the cachet of your juggernaut brand with anyone else, especially...
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Inside Track - Breaking News Blog (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
NASCAR Star Closes Out 2009 Season With Another Major Super Late Model Victory PENSACOLA, FL (December 6, 2009) – NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standout and 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Kyle Busch has won the 42nd Annual Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida. Busch started third in the 300-lap race and took the lead late from 2005 Snowball Derby winner Eddie Mercer...
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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
With the Chicago Blackhawks recent resignings of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith, we have a very good idea what the core of the team will look like for the next several years. With their length contracts that would be hard to move, we can assume that Marian Hossa, Brian Campbell and Cristobal Huet will be part of the Blackhawk core as well. Anyone else will be hard to keep around for...
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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
In ten years, I’m guessing that NHL inflation wouldn’t have accelerated to a point where $5 million is an average salary. In other words, it’s still going to be a premium price for a premium player. Knowing that, the Chicago Blackhawks, the king of the bizarre long-term contract, are poised on signing Duncan Keith for a lucky 13 years. He’ll be 39 at the end of the deal. Maybe...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
All images via BikePortland Some might say that Brian Campbell has been living on the street for thirty years; others might suggest that he has mastered the skill of lightweight mobile living, with a blue styrofoam roof over his head and wheels under. He rode his previous pedal powered RV from Mexico to Oregon, reaching speeds of seventy miles per hour. The design was inspired by the lunar lander...
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Tiny House Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Dylan alerted me to an update on a story I covered a while back on Brian Campbell and his bike motorhome. Brian is the man known far and wide for his amazing RV bike. Jonathan Maus editor of Bike Portland says: Now, not only has Brian rebuilt his own bike-home, he’s also started making them for [...]
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BikePortland.org (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Brian Campbell is selling this trailer home. (A weather-proof siding is yet to be added).-Slideshow below-(Photos © J. Maus) The Thanksgiving holiday is all about home for many people. For Brian Campbell, home has been a bicycle for over thirty years. Brian is the man known far and wide for his amazing RV bike. [...]
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Pension Plan Puppets (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
by Nathan Denette - AP Mr. First Overall meets Mr. Eighty-Ninth Overall's behind. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette) View full size photo » ...and looks fantastic in the process. The little man with the big moustache plays all out every night, and last night was no exception. The rumour was that there were 19 NHL scouts at the game last night, and chances are #7 was on their radar....
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The Battle of Alberta (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I'm not actually down on Dion Phaneuf. He can do things that few other players can do, and by my eye he makes incremental progress in his all-around game and decision-making. Occasionally I have this dream where he gets dumped by his girlfriend, and is so goddamned mad and frustrated that he goes on an absolute tear: the kind where he becomes the player Pierre McGuire always thought he'd be, and possibly...
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Hockey Leaks (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
While Chicago fans will be thrilled that Kane, Toews and Keith are all locked up long-term, the fact of the matter is that these kids are RFA's and were never a real threat to be going anywhere. What isn't good news for Chicago fans is that they are now officially in cap hell. Toews and Kane are getting $6 million each, while I'm hearing Keith's deal will be between $4 and $5, so lets say $4.5. Total...
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Pension Plan Puppets (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
by Graham Hughes - AP Welp. View full size photo » Puck Drop 8:30 ET Sportsnet Ontario This is going to be short and sweet: it's Friday, PPP doesn't really blog anymore and I'm about to head out of town. The Chicago Blackhawks are a fantastically talented team with a rich history of success that we should aspire to. Personally I feel very lucky that we'll be afforded the opportunity to see Toews,...
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Out of the Woodwork (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Have been away for a bit from this blog -- a lot of work and a number of personal matters to attend to. Even now I have a number of deadlines I'm working on. But I thought, over the coming week or so, I'd share with you this: an essay I wrote that first appeared in Rock Salt Plum Review in Spring, 2006, that surveys reactions over the previous 15 years to Dana Gioia's seminal essay, "Can Poetry...
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Sens Chirp (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
( UPDATE 12:09 PM )- The Ottawa Sentors have announced that rookie defenceman Erik Karlsson has been assigned to the AHL team in Binghamton this afternoon. I spent yesterday evening and this morning doing some digging to see if there was anything to the Senators apparent interest in Hawks defenceman Brian Campbell. The consensus among those that I spoke with is that there is just no way the Senators...
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Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
— “Now everything comes from China,” said Brian Campbell, whose book of prose poems, Passenger Flight, invokes global warming, globalization, 9/11 and state-sanctioned torture. — *** — “Ninety-eight percent of the time I agree with them,” said Graham, referring to the current processes that her book is undergoing. “It really shows how important revision...
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From The Rink (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Bears announced today a historic partnership between the two franchises, marking the first of its kind between an Original Six National Hockey League team and a founding franchise of the National Football League. The cross-branding promotional initiative includes commercials, representation inside the United Center and Soldier Field during home games for each team...
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