Archive for May, 2007

Super Fans

May 29, 2007

Bears 62, Manchester 1. Ditka with 14 hat tricks.
I’m Bill Swerski and with me as always are the Super Fans.
I’m back from spending the holiday weekend in Manchester where the Hershey Bears finished off the Manchester Monarchs in the AHL’s Eastern Conference final series. The Bears made quick work of the Monarchs, ousting them in [...]

No Need to Go the Curb Anymore

May 22, 2007

My pals over at onfrozenblog.com have written a fair bit about the lack of hockey coverage in The Washington Post. I was reminded of that today when I learned that the beat writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution is working on a series of pieces on the Thrashers’ top prospects. It’s also worth noting that [...]

Who’s Driving?

May 21, 2007

So it’s Saturday afternoon, and The Dude and I are looking to watch a period or two of hockey before we drive up to Hershey for Saturday night’s Bears-Monarchs game. We’re eating lunch, and I tell The Dude to go turn on the game.
“What channel?”
“Eleven. It’s on NBC today,” I say.
A few minutes later comes [...]

Moscow Lag

May 16, 2007

Having just returned from my first ever trip across the ocean, I am now dealing with the after-affects of that travel. I pulled into the driveway of my palatial Baltimore estate minutes before midnight on Monday. A luggage snafu had separated me from my dirty laundry, and that added another hour to the end of [...]

From the Worlds

May 4, 2007

Tried to put our “widget” technology here for our coverage of the IIHF World Championships in Moscow, but it didn’t take. For ongoing coverage of the tournament updated daily, go here.
The widget is a movable piece of internet technology that anyone can “grab” and post on their own page. It updates itself afterwards, so I [...]