TO: Dean Barbara O'Keefe, Medill School of Communication, Northwestern University

If live 900 years, type so good you do not.

Perry is an all star, gold medalist, and a Stanley Cup champion. Avery is **was** just a glorified goon. Doesn't excuse his actions, but it puts Perry closer to Marchand territory than Avery land

To add to what the team itself does, we in Chicago are incredibly lucky to have some really great hockey writing here. Lazarus at the Sun Times is solid, but the independent bloggers kick all of the ass. HockeeNight.com and TheCommittedIndian.com are fantastic daily reads (and what Yahoo let them do the other day is…

you don't see Expos stuff in DC largely because Expos fans don't give a damn about the Washington franchise. That said, if you want to see massive amounts of Expos stuff, come to a Montreal. You can't take 30 steps without seeing somebody wearing a 'Spos jersey or cap, or seeing a flag or something Expos related. The…

Claiming to like the Nordiques when they were in Quebec has been a long-standing (forever-standing) Denver mechanism for dodging the bandwagon label. There's simply no other explanation for wearing the hockey jersey equivalent of post 5 year old birthday party vomit.

I think it's because they recognize the history more than they do in Carolina, nothing wrong with either doing it their own way. And I wouldn't put it pass Bud to have standing orders of ignoring the Nats' past.

Picture it: Cornhuskers vs. Gophers at the Metrodome. I was wearing one of those Gophers caps with the stuffed Goldy face on it. Nebraska had beaten the piss out of Minnesota, per usual. We had just left the stadium when some stupid Nebraska fan got up in my face, knocked my cap off, and yelled "Gophers suck!" or…

Who cares, it's only the money of Detroit taxpayers.

WTMJ hedged their language, i.e. "shaka smart to be new MU head coach; we're awaiting confirmation" and "we're waiting for an announcement that Smart will be the new MU coach" and "We know both sides are talking" (which, I mean, if you believe VCU that "talking" consists of Marquette leaving Shaka Smart a voicemail).

Sounds like the only college football player who was afraid to come out of the closet was Craig James' kid.

I'll gladly change places. Lived in Chicago four years, loved every second of it, stuff open all night, I can get anywhere I want via the CTA, and 7-11 sells booze.

Compare that to Boston, where I am now, and it's like choosing between Chuck E. Cheese and oblong building blocks.

Can't go wrong when you got free shrimp.

In 2012, the city rejected a plan that would have pumped $700 million in taxpayer dollars into improvements on the Edward Jones Dome,

Started with the '98 World Cup, actually. Zidane was my favorite player, so France was my favorite team. Still is, probably. Anyway, Thierry Henry featured, and I took a strong liking to him, for some reason. I think it was his pace. A year later, he signed to Arsenal. It's also why I have residual, yet strong love…

I have stayed and suffered with them for long enough that I feel at least a little OK disclosing this, but for me: Sega Dreamcast.

"Does this Shawn Andrews story make me kind of a dick? Yes or no?"

Minute Maid Park, love the Citgo sign over the massive wall.

"GOOOOAAAAAAL The US of A PUTS us in the playoffs!!!!!" USA!
"It is because of the USA that we are being placed in the playoff ...BECAUSE OF THEM , NOT DUE TO YOU..NOT ANY OF YOU in the green shirts ....IT WAS THEM!!.NOT YOU!..THEY DID IT!!!!!NOT YOU! remember this forever..... KEEP THIS CLEARLY IN MIND FOR THE REST…

MARYLAND IS ONE WORD GENIUS, ALSO "...OUR TEAMS" NOT "ARE TEAMS". LETS NOT EVEN GET INTO THE PUNCTUATION.