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Philadelphia Flyers Road Trip Starts. The Philadelphia Flyers are entering their biggest road trip of this season, starting off in Buffalo Tuesday night followed by a trip into Canada Thursday facing a young Toronto Maple Leafs squad before heading to the Boston Gardens. If ever a road trip offered the Flyers a unique opportunity to make up ground in the wild card standings, it's this upcoming three-game road trip to Buffalo, Toronto and Boston which begins Tuesday night at the Sabres.…

Jackie Robinson, the first black professional baseball player credited with breaking the color barrier in sports, described his battle against racism when he said, “I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made” (Calcaterra). Here, Robinson conveys the challenges of African Americans in modern professional sports. The ongoing struggle against racial discrimination is seen in the NFL today through the extremely low number of…

One of the most popular sports conspiracy theories to come out of the past Century will probably go down in history as the deflate gate . It entails the fact that the Patriots were accused of deflating footballs in the AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. Many believe that the Scandal has married a lot of holes and that is not fully born to be convicting Tom Brady quarterback of the New England Patriots of any wrongdoing. Though the Patriots have had a history of some sport…

According to Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL says that ¨the league is more safer than it has been over the past thirteen years¨ but during the games there have been times that the players deliver heavy hits to the head and they just get up like if it's nothing. Not to mention, they start to forget what happened the last twenty four hours and also begin to start vomiting, which can lead to a concussion protocol and end their football career for good if they get more than three…

Mario Lemieux Changed the history of ice hockey, the city of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Mario Lemieux also known as Super Mario or Mr. 66 made pittsburgh a place where football and baseball wasnt the only important sports in the city he added hockey to the market. Super Mario was one of the greatest ever and this is why. Mario Lemieux was a small boy coming out of Montreal, Canada. Lemieux was born on October 5,1965 and soon…

Coca-Cola is one of the largest and most well known brands across the entire world. They’ve been around for 130 years, and have one of the most popular drinks across the globe. The amount of power and influence they possess is limitless. They have all the money and resources to reach out to billions of people and make a permanent change globally. Marketing has always been a high priority for every large corporation, as for Coca-Cola, they take a strong initiative to make sure they get their…

“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take!”- Wayne Gretzky. This was one of Wayne Gretzky’s amazing quotes, and will be passed on forever, and . He is a big inspiration to me. Wayne Gretzky, also known as “The Great One,” was and still is “the greatest ice hockey player ever.” When he was 13 he had more than 1,000 goals scored. As he got older and older he won more and more trophies, scored tons of goals, and broke a lot of records. After he retired he held 61 NHL records, and…

Green Bay Packers Green Bay Packers. I’m going to tell you some information about the Green Bay Packers. They were the first to become an actual NFL team. They started playing real games in the tournament on August 27th, 1921. Review by: Nathaniel 1/26 at 8:33 a.m. The Green Bay Packers, the most storied franchise in the National Football League, were made or organized on August 11th, 1919. Green Bay was a powerhouse from the first time the team set foot on the field. When the Packers did their…

Nice Guys finish…. First? Teams of the Midseason & Awards We have now reached the halfway point of the regular season, and all that we know is that Nathan’s The League in Review was right. Figuring out which teams get a spot in the postseason will be difficult, because after this past week’s match-ups, the gap between teams #2-#10 is a measly two games, and the gap between teams #6-#10 is at one game. It was a tough week overall for the teams in the Douchebag division as the top four teams in…

Maybe you think the Winnipeg Jets are garbage but listen here, listen good, and listen up. Pause your 21 savage, tell your boys to simmer down, and put down your phone. I’m going to explain to you why the Winnipeg Jets will be the most established team in the NHL in the next couple of years. The Winnipeg Jets are a great team because of the different skill sets of the players on the team. You probably heard the Winnipeg Jets are straight up trash but please hear me out. The Jets currently have a…