Remembering the Great One

Remembering the Great One

Hockey

It pleases me that the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup this year — and not just because, as a diehard Ranger fan, I can never root for the New Jersey Devils in a Stanley Cup Final. No, I’m pleased because I have a soft spot for Wayne Gretzky. (What...
The Couch

The Couch

Hockey

Well, the good news is that I don’t have to sleep on the couch tonight and then wake up to the sound of my iPhone alarm at 4:00 a.m. The bad news: I really wanted to have a reason to sleep on the couch tonight and then wake up to the sound of my iPhone alarm at...

Let’s Go Rangers, Let’s Go Mets!

Baseball, Hockey, Uncategorized

I may be living in the Middle East, but I’m still a dyed-in-the wool New Yorker. And it’s a rare moment for a New York sports fan of my persuasion: both of my favorite teams are in first place. That would be the New York Rangers (hockey) and the New York...

The Athletic Sublime

Hockey, Moby-Dick, Sports

I watch professional sports for the narratives they produce. In the pilot for the series Friday Night Lights, which is about big-time football in a small Texas town, the coach’s daughter, who is reading Moby-Dick in her English class, tells her father:...

Making Hockey Bush-League

Hockey, Politics, Sports

The owner of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team, Ed Snider, a prominent supporter of John McCain’s presidential campaign, arranged for Sarah Palin to drop the ceremonial first puck at the Flyers’ home opener tonight, providing yet another reason for me to...