After about a six-week hiatus I’m back and here are my 2014-15 National Hockey League picks.Eight teams from each conference will challenge for Lord Stanley’s Cup, so here it comes (not in any particular order):Eastern ConferenceAtlantic: Tampa Bay, Boston, Montreal, TorontoMetropolitan: Pittsburgh, N.Y. Rangers, Columbus,
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Hockey has the Stanley Cup, the NFL the Super Bowl, baseball’s got the World Series.Well, golf’s Ryder Cup takes place at the end of this month and both the defending champion Europeans and challenging Americans have picked their 12 players to represent their respective countries in
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As promised here are my picks for the National Football League’s 2014-2015 season:AFC EAST – New England, Miami, N.Y. Jets and, yes, BuffaloAFC WEST – Denver, Kansas City, San Diego and, yes, OaklandAFC SOUTH – Indianapolis, Houston, Tennessee and JacksonvilleAFC
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There were two big hockey stories last week: the out-of-court settlement between Steve Moore and Todd Bertuzzi, 10 years after the famous on-ice attack; and Toronto’s new wonder boy Tim Leiweke saying he’s leaving after only 18 months or so heading Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment!The Moore/Bertuzzi saga
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Shame on some of those sports reporters covering the men’s and women’s Canadian tennis championships (especially from our own country) that to me threw both of our Canadian tennis stars under the bus in Montreal and Toronto after they were eliminated in their events by better players on that
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It’s hard to believe that while we don’t have a World Series, a Grey Cup or even a Ryder Cup winner yet, the Hockey News already has its predictions out for the top four playoff teams in each division of the two conferences in the National Hockey League, which