When you think of hockey, you usually think of fights. In fact, that’s how most of the players get injured. But a very sad story out of Sweden reveals that a ref has died after being hit with a puck. He was just 62.

Fox Sports says Roland Hedberg was hit in the “hit in the back of the head by a puck during a junior game.” He was hit and then fell to the ice. Within ten seconds, he was attended to by someone who happened to be an off-duty ambulance driver, but to no …read more

I’ve waited a very long time to make my Super Bowl prediction. I needed a little time to let the hoopla of the regular season die down so I could really think about the dominant team. The obvious choice is the Colts. But the more I’ve chewed this around, the more I lean toward the Saints. Here’s why.

Saints Emotions
The Saints have had the emotional edge this entire season. People want them to win. They want the city of New Orleans, who has received such a bad deal the last few years, so have something …read more

There’s an interesting phenomenon I’ve noticed in the last couple years when it comes to Brett Favre. It is simply this: Favre playing in a game makes sports casters lazy. Allow me to explain.

Like the rest of the sports world, there seems to be a polarizing effect with Favre. You like him or hate him. He’s the greatest thing since sliced bread or he’s overrated. I expect fans to be of this mindset, but for sportscasters it’s their job to call all the details of a game.
Either, the sportscaster will …read more

Fumblicious is my new name for Adrian Peterson, but I’m not the only one that thinks the guy needs to change the way he carries the ball. Peterson had plenty of wake up calls this year, and plenty of fumbles that should have told him carrying the ball like a cardigan sweater just wasn’t going to cut it when it came time for the NFC championship game. Many folks have chatted about Peterson’s ball handling skills, but Tiki Barber (who was known to fumble a time or two himself in the beginning of his career) actually called Peterson …read more

Sorry, but does anyone really care about the Pro Bowl this weekend? It was bad enough when they played it the week after the Super Bowl, the week after football ended and no one cared. It was something you watched as a consolation because you knew it was the last bit of football you were going to get in for the next few months.

But putting the Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl just seems to underscore the ridiculousness of it. Players getting voted in are the facts that fans care about. We want to know who …read more

Fox sports has just broke the news that Kurt Warner has retired from football. Warner most recently led the Arizona Cardinals to the playoffs, beating the Green Bay Packers in one of the most highest scoring games ever.

He’s the got the stats to be a hall of famer, as Fox pointed out, “In a comparison with the 14 quarterbacks to make the Hall of Fame in the last 25 years, Warner has a better career completion percentage, yards per pass attempt and yards per game.” But it’s his personal story which makes his career in the …read more

Giving birth in your bathroom, in the bathtub no less, might seem like something that would happen in an emergency birth. You know, like you couldn’t wait to get to the hospital, so you just jumped in the bathtub and out came the baby. But in Gisele Bündchen’s case, she chose to do it that way.

But you know Bündchen, who is married to Patriots QB Tom Brady, probably didn’t have the size bathtub you and I did. I mean, really, it was probably the size of a pool. Oh and by the way, People also reports …read more

Who really ever believed that it was a good idea to have the Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl? Anyone? The Colts, for one, are none too happy about it. They were up in arms about the whole thing and there were even rumors of them boycotting the game.

Now, apparently, the Colts have come to terms with the league and will send their guys to the game. The Colts players will go down ” via charter jet (reimbursed by the league),” hang out in Miami Sunday night and then wait for the …read more

Did everyone see the same game I did on Sunday? I think some in the sports media get so wrapped up in Brett Favre hatred that they sum up the game like this: interception and lost the game. But I saw a lot more than that.

First of all, I talked about having an emotional edge in my prediction post about Sunday’s games. I had predicted that the game would be close, but that emotions would run high, especially on the part of the Saints. I knew this game meant a lot to the team …read more

As a Packer fan, I’ve watched Brett Favre for over a decade now, and closer to two. Love him or hate him, he is definitely the best player I have ever seen play the game of football. He’s fun to watch, always exciting, and the controversy he always seems to drag along with him keeps him in the headlines. Even before the Vikings final game this past weekend, people were whispering about his retirement.

People say he has gone back and forth, and while there is some truth to it, there is also a lot we don’t know. …read more