This week on 15 Minutes of Fame – lots of overtime and lots of fighting to kick off the NHL playoffs, the Oilers win the draft lottery & discuss the future of their coach, the Maple Leafs apologize and a number of top players head to the World Championships. Also – the head of the MLB players union talks steroids and the Hall of Fame.
In the GABBYs: Martin Brodeur, Thierry Henry, the NFL, Lamar Odom, Lingerie Football and Dwyane Wade. The Punchline this week involves Augusta and an attempted cup of sand!
This week on the show we’re discussing the latest big suspension from the NHL and some of the major playoff races – who’s in and who’s out? Meanwhile, in the NFL, the league comes down hard on the New Orleans Saints over the team’s bounty program and the Denver Broncos win the Peyton Manning sweepstakes!
In the GABBYs: Kevin Love, Leo Messi, Fernando Torres, Ben Eager, Wayne Rooney and Joba Chamberlain. The Punchline this week is a Tim Tebow inspired drink!
This week on 15 Minutes of Fame we look at the reasons behind the Toronto Maple Leafs firing their coach, an idea that would make the final month of the NHL season more interesting for non-playoff teams, the “expanded” MLB playoffs and Ryan Braun’s overturned doping case.
In the GABBYs: Bat boys, the LA Clippers, Brad Keselowski, Danica Patrick, Tiger Woods/Peyton Hillis and the New Orleans Saints. The Punchline this week is USA Yoga!
It’s Monday, which means it’s time for another episode of “15 Minutes of Fame,” your favorite weekly sports video-blog’s favorite weekly sports video-blog!
There is a lot to discuss this week – in the NHL: we’re looking at the NHL’s Conference Finals and the latest in the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg rumors. In the NBA: the Lakers are swept, Phil Jackson ends his tenure in LA and a new champion will be crowned as the playoffs continue! This week’s GABBYs include a beauty snipe from the World’s, a World Cup apology, a coaching milestone, a costly celebration and more!
Only four teams remain in this year’s battle for Lord Stanley’s mug as we get set for the Conference Finals to begin this weekend.
In the West, the San Jose Sharks will travel to Vancouver to face the Presidents’ Trophy winning Canucks on Sunday, after avoiding a complete meltdown on Thursday with a game seven win over the Red Wings. The Canucks had a much easier time with the Nashville Predators in round two, though it did still take six games for them to finish the job. This will be an interesting series because, as good as both of these clubs are, there are still question marks next to certain aspects of each team’s game. (After the jump: Who wins this series? Plus, a preview of Boston/Tampa Bay and a costly celebration continues to cost the LA Angels!) (more…)
Forget Vince Young – there are a couple of new Titans in Tennessee!
The NHL’s Nashville Predators and the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies aren’t quite “deep” into the playoffs in their respective leagues yet, but they’re both further than they’ve ever been before, simultaneously capturing the imagination of sports fans in the Volunteer state.
The Predators finally managed to shake their first-round jitters this season and win a playoff series, beating the Anaheim Ducks in six games about a week ago. Just five days later and a few hours down the road, the Memphis Grizzlies closed out their opening round series with the San Antonio Spurs, also in six games! Not only was it the first series win for the team that originated in Vancouver, it was also just the fourth time in NBA history that a number eight seed knocked off a number one!
Not a bad time to be a sports fan in Tennessee eh? (more…)
The “15 Minutes of Fame” boys are back in the saddle for another go-round, taking a look at the best and worst from the world of sports in the past seven days! This week, Geoff Driscoll & Jim Kerr are recapping the first round of the NHL playoffs (the biggest surprise, most interesting storyline and the best moment) and UFC 129, while trying to figure out what’s happening in the NFL lockout.
In the GABBYs: MLB streaks, NHL celebrations, red cards, NBA upsets & lots more! In Quick Hits: Patrick Chan is at the top of the figure skating world, but how good is Kerrzy’s quad?
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Eight teams remain in the race to sixteen wins as the NHL playoffs continue with second round action this week.
The opening round had a bit of everything – a sweep, four matchups that went the distance, blowouts, shutouts, overtime drama and a ton of suspensions as well as some other questionable conduct that went unpunished. Oh, and did I mention that a new champion will be crowned this spring?
Let’s get right to it with the Western Conference semifinals…(After the jump: Previews and Predictions!)(more…)
Get ready for another big night of NHL playoff action on Tuesday!
A day after the Tampa Bay Lightning forced a game seven against the Penguins in Pittsburgh and the San Jose Sharks got a big goal from their captain in a series clinching win over the LA Kings, we’ve got a pair of Game Sevens to look forward to. First up, it’s the Sabres in Philly, followed by the Canucks looking to avoid a total collapse when they host the Blackhawks.
Also on Tuesday night: the Habs can take it the distance with a win over the Bruins, which would give us the most seven-game series’ since the 1995 playoffs!
So, who will join Detroit, Washington, Nashville and SJ in the second round? (more…)
If the Phoenix Coyotes have, in fact, played their last game in Glendale, Wednesday night’s loss was a fitting finale to what has been a nasty, yet productive couple of years in the desert.
It all started with the team going bankrupt back in 2009 and ending up as property of the NHL after a long, drawn-out battle in the courts. As potential deal after potential deal fell through for one reason or another, talk of relocation heated up and the distractions grew large for the team. Despite that, the Phoenix Coyotes won 93 games over those past two seasons and, at times, looked like one of the better clubs in the league.
The NHL’s second season gets underway on Wednesday as we get a glimpse of five of the eight first round matchups, including two from the Eastern Conference.
Earlier today I took you through each pairing in the West, from the Canucks to the Predators. Now, it’s the East’s turn!
Washington (48-23-11) vs. NY Rangers (44-33-5)
It was a tough season for the Washington Capitals, as their big three of Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and Alex Semin each saw dramatic drops in their offensive output and the team finished…wait, hold on a second. Those three each saw their point totals drop off big time and the Caps still finished first in the East and second overall? Oh boy, the Rangers have their work cut out for them! The Capitals committed to team defense this year and it paid off for them in a big way, but will it mean playoff success? New York might have something to say about that! It’ll be up to Henrik Lundqvist to hold off what is still a high-powered Capitals offence through the course of this series and give his team a chance to hopefully chip away at the inexperience of Washington goalies Semyon Varlamov and Michal Neuvirth. That inexperience between the pipes could be the Achilles heel of the Capitals. (more…)
Well folks, the NHL postseason is finally here: sixteen teams looking for sixteen wins and an opportunity to sip out of Lord Stanley’s famed mug.
The first round of the playoffs begins on Wednesday night and features some burning rivalries, new and old, and some others that are slowing inching toward “rivalry” status. Whatever the case, it won’t be long now until we see the captain of one of the sixteen remaining teams lifting the Stanley Cup proudly over his head…but who will it be?
Here’s a look, through my eyes, at the Western Conference pairings! (more…)
If the Calgary Flames don’t make the playoffs this year, and it’s not looking like they will at the moment, there’s a good chance that fans will be looking back on the events of Wednesday night and cursing the NHL.
During the second period of what was then a one-goal game, the Flames appeared to make it 2-2 when Tim Jackman and Matt Stajan crashed the Anaheim crease and looked to have pushed the puck into the net. However, an inconclusive replay kept them from claiming that goal and they went on to lose 4-2, a big blow for their playoff hopes. Had the goal counted, they’ll say, who knows what might have happened in the final period and a half!
For a team that just barely misses the playoffs, there will always be a ton of “what if” moments, but was this one preventable? (more…)
It’s a good thing Lucas Gore isn’t allergic to rubber, because he’s certainly seeing a lot of it these days.
The Chilliwack Bruins netminder has been left out to dry by his teammates more intensely than any other goalie in the league on a few occasions this season, but still has some pretty solid stats to his name. A prime example of that would be a March 16th shootout loss to the Spokane Chiefs where Gore made a whopping 77 saves, giving up just one goal!
No, you’re not seeing things – the kid made 77 stops in 65 minutes! If you’re wondering, and I’m sure you are, that appears to be a WHL regular season record (via Buzzing The Net).
Gore and the Bruins were back on the ice on Friday night for game one of their first round playoff series with the very same Spokane Chiefs, and guess what? He may very well have set a league record for saves in a playoff game! (more…)
Preview: NHL Conference Finals
Forget Vince Young – there are a couple of new Titans in Tennessee!
Eight teams remain in the race to sixteen wins as the NHL playoffs continue with second round action this week.
Down to the Wire
If the Phoenix Coyotes have, in fact, played their last game in Glendale, Wednesday night’s loss was a fitting finale to what has been a nasty, yet productive couple of years in the desert.
If the Calgary Flames don’t make the playoffs this year, and it’s not looking like they will at the moment, there’s a good chance that fans will be looking back on the events of Wednesday night and cursing the NHL.
It’s a good thing Lucas Gore isn’t allergic to rubber, because he’s certainly seeing a lot of it these days.
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