Here we go again. My first NHL Blog Central entry of '07 is right here and below:
You are my destiny
”I quit.”I’ve told my friends just that past months. I quit hockey. I just don’t have the energy or the commitment anymore. Hockey just doesn’t seem to do it for me like it used to.
Here’s another story from about a year ago.
Business is a contact sport
Major sporting events attract billions of people around the world. Major sponsors are lining up to be affiliated with the Olympics, the World Cup, and different world championships in different sports to grab the loyal fan’s attention. And loyalty. And money.
Business and major sporting events have always gone hand in hand. For example, Coca-Cola has supported the Olympics since 1928 and it recently extended its Olympic sponsorship through 2020. The Olympic Games will be the staging ground for a host of new Coca-Cola products in the future as in the past.
When I was about ten years old, I used to write pages and pages of hockey play-by-plays. In my neatest writing, of course. Mostly it was Sweden vs. the USSR, and Mats Näslund used to score the game-winning goal. (After Göran Högosta’s amazing split saves).
That’s the generation my idols are made of. And the coaches of my idols.
Tässä Leijonat-lehdessä julkaistu tarina Suomen ensimmäisistä kotikisoista Tampereen Hakametsässä.
“Kyllä ”Mölli” Keinonen osaa. Ei se mitään, vaikka hän ei olekaan tamperelainen, onhan hän suomalainen. Kuinkahan mahtaa olla takamusten lailla, kun se Kalevi Numminen meni ja löi mailalla arkaan paikkaan.”
– Aamulehden haastattelema katsoja.
“Vuoden 1965 pioneerit” (pdf).
