Hi
folks this is John, and this page will be where the blog for
headlinehockey.com will be from now on. It probably won't be daily.
Gosh no. I'm too lazy for that. And it won't be once a millenium, like
some of my past blogs have been . No this blog will stick this time. It
has to because every good sports site has to have a blog right. Its
like bacon and eggs.Milk and Oreo cookies. Toronto Maple Leafs and bad
management.
So to get this to work there will have
to be some structure, some routine, some thing that's going on in the
real world to tell me, hey, got your #%&@! blog up. And so for
now, the blog will come up everytime, the NBA Toronto Raptors play this
season, since I like following the Raptors and hey its something. Why
the Raptors and not the Maple Leafs, you might ask? Well have you seen
the Leafs play?
With the Raps playing tonight,
Friday and Saturday that means three blogs this week. I can see that
you are holding your breath already.
Also I
should have up a quick blurb on here other days when I've
something dumb while doing my morning work that I think you'd want to
see. i.e on
Oct. 30 in
a Florida website had the Buffalo Sabres celebrating a win
against the Tampa Lightning, when alas the Lightning lost 3-1 to the
New York Rangers. These will be classified under the title,
'Americans don't get hockey.'
So what is
a hockey collator? Well its what I do. Every morning I get up and go
through all the local news sites for 30 NHL teams and collect
and organise them on my website so you can see them. Just think of it
as US Sportspages with more stuff on it and sustantially less monthly
hits.
From doing the site you get to see how hockey
is viewed in North America. You learn from the amount of coverage in
Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver that hockey is king in Canada. And you
also learn that while there are some areas where hockey is popular,
like Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York. In most places like
Washington and Phoenix the NHL is barely a blip on the radar.
You
also see how the Internet has revolutionized how newspapers cover
sports, with the Toronto Star and the Globe &
Mail breaking news throughout the day. And all the blogs on all the
sites. Everyone and their kid has a blog. It seems a long way from the
time where the Buffalo News put
their day's sports section up at 9:00 AM.
Before I leave,
I'm going to start another tradition, an uncovered story of the day. So keeping with the basketball theme: Born agitator (Columbus Dispatch) compares Blue Jackets' tough guy Jared Boll to Cleveland Cavalier rebounder Anderson Varejao.
