While Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin get most of the ink for the Pittsburgh Penguins, another key performer who doesn’t seem to get enough credit for the Penguins success is goalie Marc –Andre Fleury.
Taken first overall in the 2003 draft, the Penguins never wavered in their confidence with Fleury even during the rough times such [...]
Wanting to avoid a repeat performance, Anaheim Ducks general manager Brian Burke put his foot down this week when he gave veteran defenseman Scott Niedermayer and veteran forward Teemu Selanne a strict deadline of the NHL Entry Draft (June 20) to decide if they’ll come back for another season.
Last season Burke received his fair share [...]
Detroit Red Wings veteran defenseman Nicklas Lindstrom is only four games shy of not only capturing his fourth Stanley Cup title, but also being the answer to what one- day will be a popular trivia question.
Regarded as one of the best defenseman of his day, this five time Norris Trophy winner, who has suited up [...]
New York Mets manager Willie Randolph showed what kind of passionate gentleman he is when on Wednesday he made amends to the Mets ownership group, media outlets and his players for his controversial comments suggesting that he is perhaps being treated differently than his fellow white managers.
Randolph, who played for the New York Yankees during [...]
Former Major league pitcher Rick Sutcliffe will be making a giant step towards his recovery from colon cancer on Wednesday when he makes his season debut at Turner Field in the ESPN booth broadcasting the Atlanta Braves vs. New York Mets baseball game.
Sutcliffe, who won the 1979 NL Rookie Of The Year with the Los [...]
Cleveland Indians ace pitcher C.C. Sabathia moved his team not only into sole procession of first place in the American League Central Division but also that much closer to team history when he threw a five hitter in shutting out the Oakland A’s 2-0.
Sabathia, who has a 1.49 ERA in his past five games, has [...]
Team Canada was only twenty minutes away from defending their hockey World Championship title, when sniper Ilya Kovalchuck finally broke out of his goal-scoring drought on his way to breaking hearts all over Canada.
Leading 4-2 heading to the third, Russia got a quick goal from Alexei Tereshchenko and generated many chances before Atlanta Thrashers’ Kovalchuk, [...]
Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Brandon Webb continues to be the talk around Major League Baseball.
This 2006 CY Young Award winner made some history on Thursday night as he became the first pitcher since Chicago White Sox ace John Garland in 2005, to win his first eight decisions. Webb who beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-3 on [...]
Less than two years after making a courageous comeback from non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester had reason to rejoice on Monday night after throwing a 7-0 no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals. It’s been a long road back for this 24 year-old lefty who learned in the middle of the 2006 season [...]
Even though he doesn’t play for the Pittsburgh Penguins anymore, Mark Recchi registered the biggest assist in the playoffs and it didn’t even happen on the ice.
Recchi, who played for the Penguins until being put on waivers and picked up by the Atlanta Thrashers in December, took it upon himself to make sure that his [...]
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