If you’re looking for music articles, like my Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival coverage, it’s no longer here. I have split apart into separate blogs! All of my music-related content is over at my new domain: Sweet Blog of Mine. Please update your links!
My current plans now are to create a new domain for a wrestling blog, and a third domain (if I don’t keep this one) for a massive wrestling information archive project. Stay tuned, folks.
To make up for the inconvenience, click ‘read more’ to see some classic wrestling memories. (well, classic enough.)
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Time for a change of pace from the first two live blogs. This time the NFL has a Christmas present for us and it’s in the form of leading rusher Chris Johnson.
The Titans will try to keep their playoff hopes alive versus the high powered offense of Phillip Rivers and the Chargers.
If you missed the first two Live Blogs check them out: Celtics-Magic, Cavs-Lakers
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Merry Christmas everybody! The first game was like a present you play with for 5 minutes to amuse you’re relatives. Now we get the real presents. LA. Cleveland. Kobe. LeBron.
Last year when the two faced off it became an instant classic. Kobe was the reigning MVP at the time, but now it’s LeBron. Who will take it this year? Only time will tell. One things for sure, this game will certainly have a huge barring on who wins come August. Read more…
It’s Christmas day and while most people are likely enjoying some Christmas cocktails and opening presents I’ve decided to spend this non-holiday (I’m Jewish) hunkered in front of the TV.
What to watch? Well, the NBA and NFL have delivered in the form of two marquee NBA matchups with the Celtics and Magic facing off in a Eastern Conference battle; along with the Cavs faces the Lakers or as I like to call it, the Lebrons facing the Kobes.
And to top it all off we get to watch the Titans and Chris Johnson face the Chargers and Phillip Rivers. Not a bad day of sports TV. Thanks Santa! Read more…
The Boston Bruins signed center Marc Savard to a 7 year contract extension worth just over 28 million dollars last Wednesday. Savard who would have been a free agent this coming off season will likely finish his career in black in gold, which he has been very out spoken about doing. “I think I stated earlier in some articles that I wanted to stay in Boston for the rest of my career and it looks like I’m going to have that chance,” Savard said at a news conference last week. “I’m happy about that. Over the last few years, I’ve watched this town grow back into a hockey town. And, hopefully, our goal as a team and as a staff comes true, that we can bring a (Stanley) Cup back to Boston.”
Savard has been Boston’s leading score for each of the past 3 seasons, and since coming to Boston in 2006 has scored 70 goals and 206 assists over the past 4 years. Savard’s contract will hit the salary cap at about 4.2 million dollars each year, which is very cap friendly for Boston. The deal allows the Bruins to keep cap space, while being able to keep their most productive offensive player, yet it also gives Savard the money that he deserves. Players will similar offensive numbers to his hit their team’s salary cap at around 5.5 million dollars a season.
Savard responded to his new contract last Saturday against the Toronto Maple Leafs scoring a hat trick in a 7-2 romping, which saw former Bruins wing man Phil Kessel make his return to Causeway Street for the first time since he was traded back in September for a first and a second round draft pick. The first round pick that Boston received for Kessel looks more and more valuable with each Toronto loss. Toronto has the second lowest point’s total. The team with the lowest point total at the end of the season has the best percentage of getting the number 1 overall pick in the draft each year. Read more…
Eager MMA fans in the Boston area can rejoice: Governer Deval Patrick has signed a new bill that allows regulation for mixed martial arts in Massachusetts.
The number one mixed martial arts promotion, Ultimate Fighting Championship, will benefit greatly from this signing as it breaks into new territories as more and more states sign legislation to sanction fighting events.
UFC President Dana White, born in Connecticut, considers Boston his ‘home’ and is excited to have the opportunity to debut Ultimate Fighting Championship in the state.
White wants to hold an event at Fenway Park, but TD Bank Garden is the likely option. This is a big step for the sport as it allows it to expand into markets that may have only previously been reached by pay-per-view. Read more…
When it comes to driving in a car for days at a time claustrophobia isn’t the best virtue.
In the past five days we have driven over 2000 miles, gone through five states and defecated in some of the best gas station bathrooms The South has to offer.
We did get to stretch our legs on a few separate locals. First when we went camping in the Arizona desert, about an hour away from The Grand Canyon. I busted out my wife-beater and bought a 32 ounce bud light so I would look the part. When in Rome I suppose. Read more…
It has been a few days since my last post, and quite an eventful few to say the least.
After countless failed attempts at renting a car in San Francisco the future of our road trip was in jeopardy. On Thursday, what seemed like a last ditch effort to secure a ride home went up in smoke when Hertz screwed us over for a fourth time. There have been a lot of ironic titles on the trip so far, but Hertz is more fitting than any because they’re a pain to deal with.
Anyway, lucky for us blood is always thicker than water, and Sophie’s cousin Jason Carey came to our rescue; allowing us to the rent the car under his name.
We got on the road Thursday afternoon, and were able to get to the City of Angeles by dust. The ride was an epic one. Lots of winding roads along the coast of California. A beautiful site that everyone should have the joy of seeing in their life time. Read more…
“Everything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
Unfortunately, this was our motto for the first day of travel, but before we get to the nitty and gritty let’s talk about the good.
I “awoke” at six am to my mother calmly telling me to wake up. She did everything other than pack my clothes for me. She drove me to the airport, and packed me a lunch for the plane. I’m 22-years-old and not ashamed to say I’m still a mama’s boy. I arrived at Logan around seven a.m. for a flight which was leaving at 9:30.
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If you have frequented random ramblings before (all five of you) you might have to come to read about basketball, wrestling, video games or other random topics. Over the next two weeks we will be mixing it up a bit by posting a running diary of my two-week odyssey I am about to embark on.
Tomorrow I leave for San Francisco with two of my closest friends. We’re flying out of Logan Airport in Boston, and landing in the city by the bay. There will be no flight back as we plan on driving our way home via rent-a-car. Read more…
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