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Dallas Stars Daily Links: Stars Special Teams Fail Them In Loss To Avalanche
While a lot can legitimately be said about some of the travel issues that might have caused Saturday afternoon fatigue, the Dallas Stars really lost their game to the Colorado Avalanche because of some special teams sputters. The power play couldn't come up with a goal in critical situations,...
Memo from the Euro-Desk: In Czech with some Finns
Over the course of the next day or two, I will be completing my series of European hockey cultural exchanges. These posts were originally written while on the road, and now that I have recovered from both jet lag and the reminder that Kingston Ontario does not compare to Europe in the slightest, I...
A Visitor's Guide To Cincinnati and GABP, Part 4 - The Game Experience
You've made it here, you found a place to eat, and even had a little fun. Now for the reason you came in the first place - to see a ball game, right? Great American Ballpark is a wonderful venue to watch a game. We hope you'll be as happy to see the fireworks at the end of the game as we are! via...
From the Sound to the Shores (non-soccer)
If you've been missing my posts for a week is because I spent a weekend out in Ocean Shores, the aspiring Atlantic City of the West. My mother-in law and I are shortly ready to get to work on our Sounders FC quilt For those looking for soccer only, this post ends now I also went to an Irish pub,...
Stadium Checklist
Anyone out there got a goal of reaching certain stadiums? I know I do. I'm trying to hit up the entire ACC/SEC before I pass by my football game traveling prime (young/single) years.So far my fandom has taken me to the following ACC/SEC houses:* Alumni Stadium (BC)* Carter-Finley Stadium (NCSU)*...
Top 10 Road Trips I'd Like to See: #9: San Diego State
For those of you that missed it, #10 on the countdown was Rutgers, ultimately for the proximity to New York City. For vacation purproses, I typically enjoy warm weather places more than I do cold weather places, so despite having inferior football to Rutgers, San Diego edges out NYC for the #9 spot...
Come fly the friendly, Boise State Broncos skies
Horizon Airlines has chosen to celebrate 25 years of service to the city of Boise by painting a plane with Bronco colors. When we turned 25, all we got was free resumé counseling. "Our four university-themed aircraft have generated an overwhelmingly positive response, and they hold a special place...
Top 10 Road Trips I'd Like To See: #10: Rutgers
As you can tell from the current series "Stadiums I've Been to for College Football Games," I like to travel to watch football. Furthermore, as I'm sure you've astutely observed, my team doesn't even have to be involved for me to want to make the trip (e.g. Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem, Starkville,...
CFB Stadiums I've Been To: Kenan Stadium
Kenan Memorial Stadium (website) North Carolina Tarheels Chapel Hill, North Carolina Capacity: 60,000 I went to the North Carolina vs. Notre Dame game last year during Alabama's bye week (and just two days after the game in yesterday's post.) This is one of my favorite stadiums I've been to so...
CFB Stadiums I've Been To: BB&T Field
The season is over, spring practice is over, A-Day has happened, signing day is finished and even the NFL draft is now but a distant memory. We're now in the "silly season" as we like to call it here at RBR....that crappy place where we're starved for football content. In the spirit of that, I'm...
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