Friday, 11 February 2011
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Francois Beauchemin Traded to Anaheim for Joffrey Lupul, Prospect
Filed under: Ducks, Maple Leafs, Trade Deadline
All eyes are on the Toronto Maple Leafs during the trade deadline season, and over the past couple of years the name everyone keeps watching is defenseman Tomas Kaberle. On Wednesday, general manager Brian Burke made a significant move on his blue line, only it wasn't Kaberle leaving town. It was veteran rearguard Francois Beauchemin who was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Joffrey Lupul, defensive prospect Jake Gardiner and a conditional 2013 draft pick.
For Beauchemin, it will be his second stint with the Ducks as he spent parts of four seasons with the club between 2005 and 2009, helping them to their first Stanley Cup win during the 2006-07 campaign. He signed as a free agent with Toronto prior to the 2009-10 season, scoring seven goals to go with 31 assists over the past season-and-a-half.
In return, Toronto gets the 27-year-old Lupul as he continues to assemble an impressive collection of team-issued luggage, now playing for his fourth different team in his seven-year career. Injuries and a blood infection have limited him to just 49 games over the past two seasons, but he's shown the ability to score between 20-25 goals when he's in the lineup.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Source: http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2011/02/09/francois-beauchemin-traded-to-anaheim-for-joffrey-lupul-prospec/
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Ten Years After: Inside Daytona Hospital, Tony Stewart Was a Witness to Grief
Filed under: Tony Stewart, Daytona Int'l Speedway, NASCAR Crashes, FanHouse Exclusive, NASCAR
More often than you'd guess, Tony Stewart calls up the YouTube video of his wild, death-defying crash in the closing laps of the 2001 Daytona 500. But not for reasons you might think.
In the short video clip, he watches his orange No. 20 get hit from behind on the massive Daytona International Speedway backstretch, turning it directly toward 200-mph oncoming traffic. As the rear of Stewart's Chevrolet catches air and starts to launch vertically, cars take evasive action.
That's where Stewart pauses the video. He even has a still photograph of this very moment (right).
Just as Stewart's car lifts off the ground -- seconds before he endures violent barrel rolls and smashes into a half-dozen cars -- the black No. 3 Chevrolet escapes through the smoke and frenzy unscathed. Its driver, Dale Earnhardt, heads to the front of the field to contend for the win. As usual.
"That's the part that bothers me the most,'' Stewart explained in an exclusive interview with AOL FanHouse, speaking in depth about that fateful Feb. 18, 2001 afternoon when NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt was killed on the final lap of the Daytona 500.
"It's like, if I could have just nicked him on the way by, would it have changed things just enough to keep his accident later from happening? There's no way anyone would ever wreck and think about hitting someone else believing it would do any good. I was along for the ride.
"But, it was just like, what if?'' Stewart adds, shaking his head, lowering his voice and making eye contact for emphasis. "If you looked at the two wrecks, you would have swore I was the one. ... that if one of the guys passed away, you'd have swore it was from my crash, not his.
"Like a parent or, really, any person that loses a loved one, it makes you think of things that aren't realistic, but I always see that picture and think what would have happened if I had clipped him just a little then, would it have changed all this?'' -
Mike Pereira Gets Super Bowl Stage as FOX's Newest Innovation
by Milton KentFiled under: NFL Media Watch, Super Bowl, NFL Referees, Sports Business and Media
Besides commercials, the Super Bowl has been the spot for the networks to trot out new hardware, like a special camera or tape machine, or a spiffy graphics package or some other whiz-bang technological advance for the hundreds of millions of viewers.
But, for FOX, Sunday's biggest and best new addition isn't a machine, but a person -- namely rules analyst Mike Pereira, whose presence on the network's football telecasts is just as significant as the constant score and clock and the heightened sound, to hear FOX personnel tell it..
"I gotta be honest," said FOX Sports President Eric Shanks. "When I watch other guys do football, whether it's college or pro, I just don't know how you do a game without Mike. We're sitting there filling for three minutes sometimes when a guy is under the hood (on replay review) and we're just thinking, 'How do other people do this now?' I can't even imagine."Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/02/04/mike-pereira-gets-super-bowl-stage-as-foxs-newest-innovation/
Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Sehawks Sign Barrett Moen
Filed under: Seahawks, NFC West
SEATTLE -- The Seahawks added some depth and some familiarity to their defensive line Wednesday with the signing of defensive tackle Barrett Moen.
Added to the active roster, Moen was on the roster from June 9-24 this season as a backup.
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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/02/09/sehawks-sign-barrett-moen/
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Of Mark Sanchez and the Pratfalls of Teenaged Romance
Filed under: NFL Quarterbacks
New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is 24 years old and has already won four road playoff games in his career. But he was no match for a 17-year-old ingenue whom he met in a New York City nightclub.
Now that Deadspin and the New York Post have tag-teamed this story, we know that Sanchez and the17-year-old high school girl had a sexual relationship of sorts. Somewhere the writers for "Gossip Girl" are kicking themselves for not exploring this storyline, pro quarterback dates popular high schooler. (And you thought hooking up in high school was tough when you only had to compete with high school quarterbacks).
Sanchez is already coming in for a degree of criticism that I don't remember existing for Jerry Seinfeld or Kobe Bryant, two other grown men who dipped down and dated 17-year-olds. The Seinfeld story is even more absurd. He was picking up his girlfriend, Shoshanna Lonstein, at her high school when he was 40.
What I want to focus on is this: the girl in this case is no victim and Sanchez didn't do anything wrong. Reflexively, that's the response, blame the older man, in this case the quarterback. That isn't fair in this case.
Consider what we know, first the 17-year old finagled her way into a New York city club that was for ages 21 and up. Second, when she met Sanchez at this club and gave him her number according to Deadspin she actually referenced her age: "You know I'm 17, right?" she remembers saying. "Well, we can still talk, but I can't see you until you're 18," Sanchez said. "Actually," E.K. (Deadspin chose not to picture or name the girl in question, but the New York Post had no such qualms) replied, "17 is legal in New York."
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/02/09/of-mark-sanchez-and-the-pratfalls-of-teenaged-romance/
