The television ratings for Memorial Day weekend are interesting to consider. If the weather is good, the first summer like weekend can bring disaster for the television ratings of major sporting events. But this past Memorial Day weekend, brought more good news than bad to television ratings
The Indy 500 on ABC had a 4.5 rating, [...]

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The Stanley Cup Finals are taking place between the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. The series is expected to tighten up, but so far through the first two games in Detroit the Red Wings have been dominant. In fact Detroit has pitched a couple of shutouts thus far winning 4-0 in Game One and [...]

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The Stanley Cup Final, between the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins is shaping up to be one of the most entertaining, and most anticipated, in recent history. Not only do we have two of the most exciting teams in the NHL, two teams who can move the puck up and down the ice, [...]

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In case you missed it, the NHL played its second outdoor game on New Years Day in Buffalo. It was a great event.
The score of the game didn’t matter (Pittsburgh beat the Sabres 2-1 on penalty shots). What mattered is that the NHL delivered a game where even casual hockey fans could get excited about [...]

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It seems hard to believe, but we are already a month in to the 2007-08 hockey season. Most people don’t pay that much attention to hockey until January, but there is already a lot happening that will matter come Stanley Cup time.
Ottawa in the East and Detroit in the West appear to be the teams [...]

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