These hockey commentators are cracking me up. Earlier, I heard them say that a particular toe drag was "succulent", and now they've said a play was "chock full of sagacity".

ETA: And also, Evgeni Nabokov is apparently "hermetic".

Seriously, you guys. My worlds are colliding again. And not because of David this time.

Of all the things I never expected to see in hockey analysis, it's the Buffy Summers Cookie Dough analogy.

Allan Muir of Sports Illustrated, in writing about the St. Louis Blues, says:

That's the sort of lesson that teams learn the hard way. To paraphrase the ( Read more... )

Heh. I have the NHL network on the TV with no sound -- depending on the season, it's either the NHL Network or the MLB Network as my background shiny -- and I just looked up to see DB's name and picture during the weekly recap of the Best of NHL Live ( Read more... )

Violent fights are normal in hockey. It's a rare game when there isn't at least one fight, and sometimes they're pretty damn bloody. It's completely legal to ram an opponent into the boards as hard as you possibly can (hard enough to break the glass in some cases) -- as long as you do it in a league approved manner. "Hits" is a recorded stat, and I ( Read more... )

Okay, most of my latest story, Down, But Never Out, hinges on whether Booth is a Pittsburgh Penguins fan or a Philadelphia Flyers fan. As I said in my author's note for the story, I'd believed that Booth has said at different times that his family comes from Philly or from Pittsburgh. He has a Steelers mug on his desk, but the story was written for ( Read more... )

Okay, so I haven't posted here since Christmas. That is going to change. I'm doing my best to write again, so I'm hoping to update my LJ regularly ( Read more... )

1. Do you watch sports? If so, which ones?
Baseball, hockey, and football, mostly. Boxing, when I'm flipping through the channels and it's on and nothing else is.

2. What/who are your favorite sports teams and/or favorite athletes?Anaheim Angels (baseball) - Scott Spiezio ( Read more... )