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Schaefer, Warren To Sort Out Burns-Broner Fight Issue
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Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is already pondering alternative scenarios for undefeated super featherweight contender Adrien Broner (21-0, 17KOs). The Cincinnati native was scheduled to take part in a homecoming showdown against WBO champion Ricky Burns (39-2, 9KOs) on November 26th - but the champion's manager, Alex Morrison, is advising his boxer to turn the fight down. Morrison disclosed that his fighter is struggling to make the division limit of 130-pounds.
"Nothing is signed or sealed [to face Broner] but I am advising him against the fight. Ricky is on the verge of taking my advice and saying no. I would like him to relinquish the [super featherweight] belt and move up to win a second world title," Morrison said.
Schaefer is waiting to confirm the situation with Burns' promoter Frank Warren. If Burns vacates the title, then Broner, the WBO's mandatory, would face another ranked fighter for the vacant title. According to Schaefer, the next ranked fighter in line is another Golden Boy promoted boxer, Eloy Perez (22-0, 6KOs).
If Perez takes a pass, then Broner would face the highest ranked available contender. Perez is positioned at number four, per the WBO's August rankings, with Luis Cruz [2] and Will Tomlinson [3] ranked above him.
"I'm waiting for a call from Frank Warren. This morning I spoke with his matchmaker, Dean Powell, and Frank was at a soccer game. He said he would call me back. They are going to meet with Ricky tomorrow, but based on what I've read - the fight is not a possibility and Burns is going to give up the title, and the next available [contender] would be Eloy Perez. And then Broner and Eloy Perez might be fighting for the vacant title," Schaefer told BoxingScene.com.
"Adrien Broner is prepared to fight whoever there is. If it's Burns, then he'll fight Burns. But if it's Eloy Perez, then he'll fight Eloy Perez."
I smell *****,he really is goin to look bad if turns down the fight...Comment by PD21 on 09-07-2011
Disappointing! I thought Burns was ready for the step up but looks like he is having second thoughts. It took Calzaghe and Hatton a few years to get their courage up before they were willing to risk it fighting abroad…Comment by Ringlife on 09-07-2011
I don't want to see Broner fight this Perez guy. I would much rather see Broner fight Luis Cruz but I doubt Bob and Cotto let that fight happen. Who knows they were going to let Cruz fight Rocky Martinez…Comment by Trapped Bird on 09-07-2011
[QUOTE=LegendOfLink;11095386]Where did all the Burns fans go? Burns wants to stay in the UK fighting soft opposition.[/QUOTE] You're basically talking about 95% of British fighters.Comment by uoykcuf on 09-07-2011
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As a commercial agency we are getting more and more UX design work in
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One of the issues that we have come up against is how difficult it
can be to test the user experience on social network sites.
The way we use these sites evolves over time, so its not possible to
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I don't have experience with this technique, but I have heard of studies
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On Feb 13, 2009 2:20 AM, "Frank Long" <frank at frontend.com> wrote:
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can be to test the user experience on social network sites.
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Last night, Jean Béliveau ("le Gros Bill"), former Montreal Canadiens captain and winner of 10 Stanley Cups, passed away at age 83. Noted for both his skill on the ice and his gentlemanly conduct off it, he had 507 goals and 712 assists over a 20 year career, all with Montreal. Rare is the talent so great that a sports franchise would buy an entire league to secure his services. Jean Béliveau of the Montreal Canadiens was such a talent. [more inside]
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Roman Gonzalez To Face Francisco Rodriguez on 9/21
By Osman Rosales Cruz
Accompanied by his characteristic smile, WBA junior flyweight world champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez (35-0, 28 KOs), was present at a press conference to announce his opponent for September 21 at the Crowne Plaza in Managua, Nicaragua. The show will be presented by Prodesa. Gonzalez will face Mexico's Francisco Rodriguez Jr. (15-1-1, 9 KOs). Gonzalez will be making his official debut at 112-pounds.
"That night I'll be much better prepared than when I faced Colombian Ronald Barrera. He is a southpaw boxer and eager to rise, and he's used to fighting at 112 pounds, where I just dabbled [at the weight], but I'll be ready," Gonzalez said.
If he wins on September 21, Gonzalez's immediate plans will likely be against Argentina's Juan Carlos Revecco (31-1, 17 KOs), who holds the WBA crown at 112 pounds WBA and defends the belt on the 28th of this month against Panama's Ricardo Nunez. Gonzalez-Reveco would happen in the month of November in Japan.
"No disrespect to the Mexican on September 21, but the truth is my goal is Reveco. I want to become a triple world champion and I trust in God that I will be. The Argentine is one of those opponents that I've wanted to face and according to Mr. Akihiko Honda, my international promoter, the fight will happen because they are offering him a good purse," Gonzalez said.
what the fck is chocolatito doing in junior flyweight just move up everyone is in the flyweight divisionComment by Suavecito80 on 09-05-2013
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Payment upon arrival by cash, credit cards, debit cards.
Taxes included (5% city tax excluded)
Breakfast not included.
No curfew – we are here 24 hours at the reception
Non smoking.
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- Reception 24 ore su 24
- Aria condizionata
- Scambio di libri
- Prima colazione non inclusa
- TV via cavo
- Sala comune
- Carte di credito accettate
- Ascensore
- Mappe della città gratuite
- Wi-Fi gratuito
- Asciugacapelli a noleggio
- Docce calde
- Accesso con chiave elettronica
- Cucina
- Lavanderia
- Biancheria inclusa
- Armadietti
- Deposito bagagli
- Nessun coprifuoco
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- Parcheggio
- Macchine per thé e caffé
- Asciugamani inclusi
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Politica di cancellazioneQuesta proprietà ha una politica di cancellazione di 2. La mancata cancellazione entro questo intervallo di tempo si tradurrà in una penale pari alla prima notte di pernottamento.
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By car:
We offer you a parking space for 10 € per 24 hours.
Coming on the A 3 (Oberhausen): Take the exit at the interchange 27-Kreuz Köln-Ost and follow signs to Köln-Deutz/Zentrum. Keep driving on B55a. Exit at Deutz/Tanzbrunnen. Keep on going straight. After the underpass of the trainstation Köln-Deutz, take a right onto Opladener Strasse and stay in the left or central lane. Cross Deutzer Brücke (bridge). After a few meters (just behind the Dorint Hotel) turn right onto Grosse Sandkaul. Right at the beginning on the left-hand side is the ramp to our parking garage.
Coming on the A 555: Follow the signs for Köln-Zentrum and continue on B51. After the underpass take a left and follow signs for Heumarkt. At the Heumarkt take a right towards Neumarkt. Continue on Augustinerstraße. Just after the Dorint Hotel turn right onto Grosse Sandkaul. Right at the beginning on the left-hand side is the ramp to our parking garage.
Please note that as of 01.01.2008, parts of the city of Cologne have been declared a low emission zone. You can obtain an emission sticker and further information via the website www.umwelt-plakette.de.
By train:
Take a train to Köln Hauptbahnhof (main railway station). Once you get off the train it is about a 10 minute walk to our hostel. (Alternatively, you can take a taxi – cab fare will be about € 8). Go through the main exit of the railway station and walk towards Cologne Cathedral. Continue along the shopping street Hohe Strasse until you have reached the end of it by passing Galeria Kaufhof. Now turn left. We are the building in-between Galeria Kaufhof and the Dorint Hotel. The hostel main entrance is underneath the red REWE sign. Take the elevator up to the 6th floor.


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League legend Reg Gasnier, the Prince of Centres, passes away in Miranda nursing home
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- May 12, 2014
THE rugby league world is mourning the loss of legend Reg Gasnier, who has passed away just one day short of his 75th birthday.
The former St George Dragons centre died in the Miranda nursing home where he has lived for several years.
He played 39 Test matches for Australia, scoring 28 tries and 127 matches for the Dragons during their world record 11-straight premierships.
.Sad to hear of the passing of Immortal Reg Gasnier. One of rugby league's greatest ever players. RIP.— Dave Smith (@DaveSmithNRL) May 11, 2014
RIP REG GASNIER. One of the all-time greats. Also one of my boyhood idols. Sincere condolences to family, friends and the Big Red V club— Phil Gould (@gusgould91) May 11, 2014
RIP REG Gasnier your family and the league world lost a true legend... Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends on this sad day...— Anthony Watmough (@AnthonyWatmough) May 11, 2014
Very sad to hear the great Reg Gasnier has passed away today #legend— BUZZ ROTHFIELD (@BuzzRothfield) May 11, 2014
Gasnier was known as the Prince of Centres, an absolutely brilliant attacking player.
He was the uncle of recently retired Dragons star Mark Gasnier.
Dragons team mate, fellow Immortal and friend Johnny Raper was devastated by the news.
"It's a very, very sad day," Raper said. "I went and saw him last Tuesday.
"He didn't look the best, but he was a fighter like he always was on the football field and I thought he'd get better.
RIP a superb Rugby League player and Australian Reg Gasnier.xmb— Mark Bosnich (@TheRealBozza) May 11, 2014
"He was just a phenomenal player – the best I played with.
"He used to just say give me the ball, we'd give it to him … and he'd score.
"He was a rare genius. I saw Clive Churchill play and always wanted to play with someone as good as him."
"I think I did that by playing alongside Reg Gasnier."
Sad 2 hear about 1 of the greats, Reg Gasnier passing away. My late grandfather used 2 always tell me stories about how great he was. #R.I.P— Keith Galloway (@kgalloway85) May 11, 2014
Raper remained close to Gasnier after their playing days, with the pair enjoying great times and memories in retirement.
"He was an ornament to the game," Raper said. "A man who led by example and was a great captain.
"Away from football he was a great man. A wonderful citizen. We will miss him dearly."
The Immortal, Reg Gasnier, has died. A sad day for rugby league.— Dean Ritchie (@BulldogRitchie) May 11, 2014
Gasnier had been ill for a number of years after suffering a stroke.
Until recent years, he attended functions and reunions and would often help the Dragons with promotional work.
He was a St George junior who grew up in Mortdale and was awarded an AM not long after retirement when he took on roles in the media.
He was also named as a centre in the Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century.
Fellow immortal Bob Fulton was devastated to learn of his passing.
"He was my hero when I was used to come to Sydney and watch St George play at the Sydney Cricket Ground," Fulton said.
"I remember in 1967 we both got selected in a City side together but Reg was injured and had to pull out.
"It would have been a career highlight to play alongside him.
"To be selected as one of the original Immortals alongside him was a humbling experience."
St George 1959-67, 125 games, 127 tries
Vs touring sides 1962-63, 2 games, 3 tries
Total: 127 games, 130 tries
City Firsts 1959-65, 5 games, 3 tries
Vs touring sides 1960-64, 3 games, 4 tries
Vs Queensland 1959-67, 16 games, 13 tries
Vs touring sides 1959-67, 5 games, 4 tries
Total: 21 games, 17 tries
Tests and World Cup 1959-67, 39 games, 28 tries
Tour matches 1959-67, 38 games, 37 tries
Total: 77 games, 65 tries
All senior matches, 233 games, 219 tries
* Gasnier captained Australia in eight Tests and was captain of the 1967-68 Kangaroos.
* He played third grade with St George in 1958 from junior club Renown United, and played first grade and Test football the following season. He played four games in reserve grade and then five in first grade before being chosen for NSW in 1959.
* Gasnier played President's Cup (junior representative) 1957-58.
* He scored three tries in his second Test against New Zealand, three tries in his first match on the 1959-60 Kangaroo tour and three in his Test debut against Great Britain.
* He played in six of St George's grand final winning sides (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965).
* Former Sydney Sun sportswriter EE Christensen chose Gasnier as the NSW Player of the Year in 1959, 1961 and 1964 (with Johnny Raper).
* Injury ended Gasnier's career prematurely in France in 1968.
* With Clive Churchill, Johnny Raper and Bob Fulton, he was named as one the original "Immortals" in Rugby League Week in 1981.
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Nice But Rather The Leaves Were Dried
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It seems like most Hawkeyes fans fall in two camps.
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A warrant for the arrest of Dana Wescott, 30, had been issued in August, when police said he received a $10,000 check in the mail, gathered up a few belongings from his home in Stockbridge and left Vermont.
Wescott pleaded innocent Monday in White River Junction criminal court to a felony charge of escape, which carries a potential five-year sentence.
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The National University Library (Biblioteca nazionale universitaria in Italian) in Turin, Italy, is one of the country's main libraries.
It was founded in 1720 as the Royal University Library by Victor Amadeus II, who unified collections from the library of the University of Turin and from the library of the Dukes of Savoy. It was renamed as the National Library in 1872, after Italian unification.
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- G. Ratti, Dal libro alla biblioteca. Le biblioteche pubbliche, Alessandria, Dell'Orso, 1993.
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By personal choice I do NOT subscribe to ANY sort of eQSL service---neither do I subscribe to LotW. I'm an old-fashioned dinosaur in that I STILL prefer the look and the feel of "real hardcopy" QSL cards, both in my hands, as well as on my shack wall. Sorry, but that's the way it's been here for 43 years now, & that's the way it will continue to be for the NEXT 43 years...!!! Hi Hi
I was first licensed in 1971, at the tender young age of 19...
My station at that time was 100% homebrewed, with the singular exception of a 3rd hand Hallicrafters S-77A receiver. The tradition of homebrewing still continues here, as I've now built---from scratch---three complete Ham stations.
Presently, my primary interest revolves around 160-meter CW DX'ing, although I enjoy vintage Ham radio, "rolling my own", AM fone, antennas, etc. etc. etc.!
I've also had articles published in QST, two pieces in CQ, as well as innumerable write-ups in The Oldtimer's Bulletin, The AWA Journal, Electric Radio, and The Canadian Amateur.
Pictured above is my QSL card that serves for BOTH of my call signs: to the left is my 1929-style regenerative RF pre-selector / 100-KHz crystal calibrator, consisting of a 224A tube, and a 227 tube, respectively. To the right of it is my 12 tubed 1929-style superheterodyne receiver, which again is composed of nothing but vintage balloon / globe envelope tubes from the 1929 era, i.e. 224A's, 227's, 245's, and a 280. Both rigs were built in the 2000's, and WORK as well as they look, even in to-day's crowded band conditions, on 160-, 80-, 40-, 30-, and 20-meters.
The receiver itself took exactly three months to build, from its initial inception and design, to my finally being able to tune-in European DX stations on 80-meters CW.
For more information on this receiver, just click onto: www.superhets.info/page9.html Complete construction details on it---including a schematic diagram---were published in the January 2005 edition of "THE OLD TIMER'S BULLETIN", the official quarterly organ of "The Antique Wireless Association", in Bloomfield, New York, USA.
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December 20, 2006, 10:43 PM
Was thinking of getting a cz 550 safari in 458 Lott. Do any of you have any experience with the cz 550 American safari rifles or 458 Lott? Are the cz safaris good quality rifles? Thanks
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December 21, 2006, 07:46 AM
Lot's of folks in the big bore groups shoot the CZ's. They are decent guns for the price. There were some stock cracking problems but this was fixed by glass beding the rear tang, but almost any factory big bore should be looked at before firing. Most of the big bore shooters understand the need to have the stock really well bedded and maybe even add an extra recoil lug if not already present. They also generally have good triggers.
The .458 Lott is a lot of cartridge, don't know if you have shot one yet but it's definately not a 30-06. I shoot a .458 Win Mag pretty regularly which is tolerable for me, the Lott version is just getting over the limit of what I can shoot well (in the same weight gun). But plenty of people shoot them well in a 10-11 pound gun.
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December 21, 2006, 08:25 AM
I have a client that I helped spec out a custom CZ bigbore in 416 rigby. Great rifle.....I wouldn't hesitate to get one myself if I needed something bigger than my current .375 M70.
We chose the CZ in 416 Rigby.....felt it suited his needs for his African hunts better than the .458, either the Lott or Win Mag. Mainly due to better ammo selection than the Lott, and better ballistics at moderate ranges[less drop] incase he needed to press it into service on plains game while on safari.
December 21, 2006, 12:20 PM
I have a CZ 550 American Safari Magnum in 458 Lott.
They do have a reputation for stock cracking. I had no trouble with mine in the 100 rounds or so I put through it before having it glass bedded. I like the single set trigger and it has a nice cushy recoil pad that really takes the recoil bite out. I frequently shoot it from the bench with no other special recoil protection. One of my loads with 350 grain bullets will do about 2.5 MOA off the bench. With 500 grain bullets, 3 to 4 inches at 100 yards has been the norm but hopefully I'll be able to improve that somewhat.
I think there can be quite a variation in stock quality in CZs. I got mine at Cabela's (the best price around) and there were 2 to choose from. The stock of one had quite nice figure; guess which one came home with me?
December 21, 2006, 04:08 PM
How would you compare the recoil on the 458 Lott compared to a 12 gauge Remington premier core lokt ultra slug from a single shot slug gun or a Ruger M77 in 338?
December 21, 2006, 04:17 PM
A page that might interest you:
A good quick rundown of recoil, the hows, whys and wherefores.
And I don't think that the .458 Lott will compare favorably with the longarms you mentioned.:evil:
AFAIK it's ballistics are somewhere between .458 Win Mag and .458 Weatherby, I think, which puts the recoil energy somewhere near 3 times the recoil of a .338 Win Mag, at least by the table.
Real-world numbers place that somewhere between "Oh, ****!" and "Ouch! Oh crap, that hurts! Hey, where did my new rifle go?":D
You might want to attach a lanyard to it, so you can find it in the brush after a shot.:p
And make sure to do your rotator cuff exercises.
December 21, 2006, 05:02 PM
When I shoot my Mossberg 500 12 guage with 3 inch 1 oz slug loads, it hurts. The Mossberg doesn't have a particularly good recoil pad. When I shoot my 458 Lott, it doesn't hurt. I've never shot a single shot slug gun or a 338 Win. Mag. so I can't address those questions. I think the major things that contribute to comfort in shooting the 458 Lott are the weight of the gun and the good recoil pad.
December 21, 2006, 05:07 PM
That doesn't make much sense.
500 grains are over 1 1/8 oz. and a .458 Lott bullet is going almost twice as fast as the slug. AFAIK recoil energy varies as the square of:
bullet weight x muzzle velocity
with a little thrown in for powder weight, which should be similar, or higher in the shotgun.
What kind of recoil pad are you using?
December 21, 2006, 07:25 PM
Armed Bear, he's talking felt recoil. For me at least, a good big bore rifle stock seems to make recoil not feel as bad, and most shotgun stocks don't seem as good at absorbing recoil to me.
But you are right, numbers don't lie and the Lott is a high energy round. The Lott is usually running around 2300 with a 500 gr. load so recoil is probably around 30% more than a Win Mag. I shot a 338 Winny pretty regularly in a fairly light Mannlicher stocked carbine, it wasn't even close to a Lott.
December 21, 2006, 09:55 PM
I have a Rossi 12 gauge slug gun and was shooting Remington Premier Corelokt ultra slugs. It has a decent recoil pad on it and the barrel is ported. I shot about 17 slugs through it to sight the red dot and the irons in and I was about to cry by the time I got done. It hurt like h***!!. I have a 50 call muzzle loader barrel for it also. I loaded 150 grains of triple 7 pellets with a 200 grain sabot and that didn't have half the recoil of that 12. I'd say it is way worse than the 338 I shot but that has been 15 or more years ago so I can't say for sure. If I remember correctly, I saw somewhere that a 12 gauge slug was supposed to have somewhere around 3-5000 ft.lbs. of energy at the muzzle. It couldn't be that far off from the 458 Lott.
December 21, 2006, 10:06 PM
Yes, I was referring to felt recoil rather than some theoretical number.
After shooting slugs with my Mossberg 500 off the bench recently, my shoulder had visible bruising for a week or so. That has never happened with my 458 Lott. The recoil pad on the 458 Lott is the standard factory pad and the best I've used.
December 21, 2006, 10:29 PM
Stock cracks - CZ is learning - I've heard that the new CZs in the big cartridges have two crossbolts and are glass bedded !! That' s exactly as it should be for those cartridges !!
December 21, 2006, 10:40 PM
Man, any rifle that you have to worry about the stock cracking under recoil is not for me! How much muzzle blast do these monster calibers have?
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"I walk around in the summer time saying, "How about this heat?"
Ahhhhh, August.
Steeler camp is in full swing. Roethlisberger is taking more pictures with fans than a Presidential candidate on the campaign trail. Jeff Reed manages to sound dumber every time he opens his mouth. Peter King has written in his 20th straight Monday Morning QB column that he's willing to bet Brett Favre is coming back next year. Oh, and Madden '11 is out next week. And I'm sure there's a Pirates joke here somewhere, but we'll let that be.
Ahhhhhh, August.
There is, of course, hockey to talk about here in Pittsburgh. New Years Day, to be specific.
Last week's press conference announcing the 2011 Winter Classic in Pittsburgh was mostly a formality. The NHL got itself a little face time on the national airwaves during what is typically its most dead time of year. OK, thanks to Max Talbot, the league managed to even steal a little bit of coverage from the start of NFL training camps. Bettman got to publicly outline his next step towards his master plan of making Pittsburgh the center of the hockey universe. Even Dan Onorato and Mayor Luke got to speak.
Accompanying the excitement for this event is an undercurrent of displeasure by some hockey fans – even some Pens fans – that the Winter Classic is going to be played in Pittsburgh. Most of this stems from two things. First, the Pens played in the inaugural Wnter Classic just a few years ago. Second, this is another instance for the league to push the whole Crosby-Ovechkin thing down the throats of diehard and casual fans alike.
To the first point, yes, the Pens did just play in a Winter Classic game on January 1, 2008. But the landscape of this game has changed drastically since then, and that's worth noting here. Prior to the game actually being staged in 2008, don't forget that it was mostly a punchline. Never mind the logistical risk the NHL took when it decided to stage the outdoor game given the uncertainty of the weather. The NHL was roundly ridiculed for daring to stage a hockey game – a sport that doesn't exactly get a lot of play in certain areas of the United States – on a day synonymous with college football bowl games.
The moment the broadcast opened to reveal those idyllic images of the rink at Ralph Wilson Stadium, the light snow falling and the entire atmosphere took hold, the jokes stopped. It wasn't the greatest hockey that was played, but it was a great event to watch. All of a sudden, the NHL had something.
This is a league that doesn't put its games on network television until late February when the season is already more than half-over. This is a league broadcasts the first three games of the Stanley Cup Finals on Versus, not NBC.
It's a regular-season game, but not just any regular-season game because of its setting. That being the case, the Winter Classic has become almost as much an event for the NHL as the elimination games of the Cup Finals.
The kicker for the NHL is this – the Winter Classic is really the only "event" game in which the league can directly hand-pick the participating teams AND that it's played on a day when most of America is in front of their televisions watching. So maybe from a marketing standpoint, it's probably only eclipsed by a Game Seven in the Cup Finals.
Yes, Crosby vs. Ovechkin is a tired angle for many diehard fans of the game. Non-Pens and non-Caps fans are sick of it. Hell, most Pens fans are sick of it. I'm sick of it. Caps fans are probably sick of it, too, but I can't seem to distract them from the sirens, flashing lights and video prompts of the Verizon Center long enough to find out.
But if there's one thing the league has done with these two, it's correctly recognized that they are the two biggest superstars in the game and the closest things the league has to household names. Toews and Kane are getting close and the Cup win by Chicago helped, but it's still going to be Crosby and Ovechkin until a few other players emerge the same way the Toews and Kane did this year.
It's not like other leagues don't do this with their own stars or their own marquee teams.
Think Crosby and Ovechkin are overplayed? Wait until January when we've had three straight months of flipping past ESPN and hearing Lebronwadeboshandkobe, Lebronwadeboshandkobe, Lebronwadeboshandkobe.
The NFL tries to get its best teams and marquee players on Monday night. How much have we seen Brady vs. Manning over the last ten years?
ESPN has played the ever-living hell out of Yankees-Red Sox to the point that most baseball fans now root for a stadium collapse rather than pick sides. Tune in to ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball and you're almost guaranteed to see a game that involves the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Mets, Phillies, Cardinals or Dodgers. Pirates, Indians and Royals aren't even in the MLB vocabulary at ESPN and Fox anymore.
Welcome to pro sports, 2010-11.
Not that any of this should or likely will detract from the event. And that's why maybe it's a good idea to avoid taking this whole thing for granted.
It wasn't all that long ago when the Pens weren't on TV because they had no stars to sell. It wasn't all that long ago when the Penguins wouldn't have merited consideration for an event like this. Granted that time didn't last all that long; we had a few down years between the Lemieux-Jagr era and the Crosby-Malkin era.
But there will also come a time where there is no more Crosby and Malkin for the league to sell here, either. And maybe that superstar drought lasts a lot longer than three or four years. Ask fans of the Florida Panthers, who have been in the league now close to twenty years and have never had much more than a couple of years of Pavel Bure to call a superstar of their own to watch.
There's a good chance that some time in the next few years, the NHL will award Pittsburgh an All-Star Game. That's in part the product of having a new arena, but it's a new arena that may not have been possible without the presence of a couple of marquee names who play 41 nights a year in that arena. And if the NHL continues to promote the Winter Classic as an event, there's a good chance that Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Alexander Ovechkin won't be limited by the one they'll play a few months from now.
There are a lot of things the league fails to do when it comes to properly marketing its game, but the Winter Classic has proven to be one of the areas where the league has really achieved a good deal of success. We're all tired of Crosby vs. Ovechkin, but it's what the league was bound to do for an event like this. And as old as the storyline gets after a while, it shouldn't detract from what should be a great event for the city and the fans of the Pens.
Besides, you can't hear Edzo and Doc yammer on about the rivalry from your seats in Heinz Field, anyway.


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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Geno Smith totally is cool with camping out with Mark Sanchez.
The New York Jets' rookie quarterback clarified his "no comment" responses from Wednesday — that seemed to suggest there could be some tension between the two guys competing for the starting job — when asked if he would join Sanchez's "Jets West" workouts next month normally held at Mission Viejo High.
"Myself and Mark had never discussed that," Smith said Thursday after the team completed its three-day minicamp. "It kind of caught me off guard because it's not on my schedule or anything. So, I was like, `What is Jets West?'
"Basically, I didn't comment because I was always taught that if you don't know exactly what you're answering about not to comment on it. We haven't talked about it, but from my understanding, it's something that's done annually and all the guys go out there and it's a great event."
Sanchez usually invites all of the team's offensive skill players to spend a week working out together at his alma mater, and to bond as teammates as they wait for training camp to begin.
While Smith said that Sanchez hadn't "officially extended the hand to me," he insisted that there's "no problem there" between the two.
"I'm more than willing to go there, get some work, work with the guys and do all that stuff because it helps team bonding," Smith said. "I fully support that."
With Smith and Sanchez locked in such a tight competition, some wondered Wednesday if the second-round draft pick planned to go.
"No comment," Smith said curiously.
He was then asked why he wouldn't comment.
"I'd rather not comment on that," he said, raising a few more eyebrows.
He offered no comment again when asked if he had been invited. Sanchez didn't want to discuss "Jets West" on Wednesday, saying his focus was only on minicamp, but he did add that "everyone's always been invited."
Both Sanchez and Smith have said all the right things during the offseason, complimenting each other and never showing any signs or suggesting — other than the "no comment" this week — that there's any rift between the two.
"Mark's a great guy, and he welcomed me with open arms," Smith said. "All of these guys have. I've never felt any type of negative vibe from him or any guys."
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