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Rarely does a professional hockey player find themselves being released from an NHL team, playing overseas in a European league, and then finding their way back to an NHL team in the thick of a playoff hunt. But for Montreal Canadiens forward Glen Metropolit, that is exactly where he finds himself this season. The 35-year-old journeyman from Toronto has seen his fare share of minor league hockey teams before finally finding a ...

Chris Chelios: Atlanta Thrashers Call Up the 48-Year-Old Defenseman

Posted: 10th March 2010 by Eddie Garrison in NHL
You read the title to this story correctly. The Atlanta Thrashers are calling up 48-year-old defenseman Chris Chelios from the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League. Chelios, apparently going Reggie Dunlap (Slap Shot reference), has not played in the NHL since May 27, 2009, with the Detroit Red Wings against the Chicago Blackhawks. "Chris has been an outstanding leader and mentor for our young players in Chicago and his level of play ...

NFL Pro Bowl to Once again be Played Week Before Super Bowl

Posted: 2nd March 2010 by Eddie Garrison in NFL
Well the NFL has gone and once again done something that I feel is completely and utterly wrong for the game itselfùthey are planning on playing the Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl...again. Are you really kidding me here? Why on earth would you do that AGAIN!?!? The league announced today that the 2011 Pro Bowl will not only be played a week before Super Bowl XLV, but it will ...

2010 NFL Draft: Deep Inside Does Tim Tebow Keep His Options Open?

Posted: 1st March 2010 by Eddie Garrison in NFL
One of the biggest stories of the 2010 offseason, the NFL combine, and NFL draft is what will Tim Tebow show in his pro day that he missed out on showing at Florida in college and by not throwing at the NFL combine? Everyone by now has seen the videos that he released showing off his "new" mechanics and what he has been doing to try and improve on one of ...

2010 NFL Draft: Would The St. Louis Rams Take Bradford Over Suh?

Posted: 1st March 2010 by Eddie Garrison in NFL
With the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 NFL draft, the St. Louis Rams are at a cross roads in what they want to do and what they could do with that pick. For now and the better part of the offseason, it has been the general consensus that would go ahead and take defensive end Ndamukong Suh out the University of Nebraska with the first pick. But as every offseason and ...

2010 NFL Combine Results: Five Questions Answered on Saturday

Posted: 1st March 2010 by Eddie Garrison in NFL
Every year as we near late February, all eyes turn towards Indianapolis and the NFL Combine. The combine, a virtual meat market of collegiate players heading to the biggest job interview of their lives. They are put through drills to determine where the excel, and where they are lacking. The players are then subjected to hundreds of interviews with NFL scouts and management to answer everything from how their family life was ...
The 2010 NFL Combine is right around the corner beginning on Wednesday Feb. 24th. There are of course big name players heading to Indianapolis for the biggest job interview of their lives but no more so than at the quarterback position. Now we all know the likes of Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy and Jimmy Clausen will NOT be throwing at the combine. So what we are going to be looking at in this ...

2010 NFL Combine: Ten Players Who Got The Snub

Posted: 19th February 2010 by Eddie Garrison in NFL
The NFL offseason it seems starts the same every year, with the focus moving quickly from the Super Bowl to the NFL combine in Indianapolis. Every February the top 256 college football players make the trek to Indy for the most important job interviews of their lives. For five days they will poked, prodded, asked questions and had background checks done on them to find out if they ever stole a ...

2010 NFL Free Agency: The Indianapolis Colts Have Some Decisions to Make

Posted: 17th February 2010 by Eddie Garrison in NFL
After losing the Super Bowl to the New Orleans Saints, the Indianapolis Colts are going to have another battle play out before their eyes: the 13 players that will be either restricted free agents or unrestricted free agents this offseason. Among these 13 players, five of them are starters and four of them are unrestricted free agents (though only one of the unrestricted players is a starter). The 13 players are: Keith ...

2010 NFL Free Agency: Quarterback Carousel Maybe to Come

Posted: 17th February 2010 by Eddie Garrison in NFL
The 2009 NFL season is now officially in the books after "Who Dat" nation defeated the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami in early February. Now the next season of the NFL beginsùenter the offseason of the NFL. Yes, who can forget the offseason, with the combine on our doorsteps and of course, the NFL Draft and the lovely free-agent market that is upon us for the 2010 season. What we ...