General manager Kelly McCrimmon stood at a podium at City National Arena on Monday afternoon, addressing a small group of reporters who had made their way to the Vegas Golden Knights’ headquarters to try to understand the firing of Pete DeBoer as the franchise’s head coach. Whoever McCrimmon, owner Bill Foley and the VGK’s Wizard of Oz, George McPhee, the
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The seeds of the epic collapse that saw the Golden Knights’ miss the playoffs after entering the season as a favorite for the Stanley Cup were sown long before that 4-3 shootout loss Wednesday to the Blackhawks at the United Center in Chicago. Oh, we could look at the NHL record of more than 500-man games lost to injuries to
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I feel great, and more than great, I am extraordinarily grateful. I’m thankful to my doctor for being so thorough and encouraging me to do the heart scan. I’m thankful to my cardiologist for getting me in to have the catheterization and I’m grateful to my surgeon for taking such good care of me.
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There is no dispute what Kelly McCrimmon’s job is: As the general manager of the Vegas Golden Knights, he’s charged with putting the best team possible on the ice. And given that his team has gone the Stanley Cup semifinals in three of its four years of existence, it’s been a job well done. And so the news, stunning as
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Thirty-six years ago today, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns staged one of the most thrilling, breathtaking and, yes, violent fights in boxing history. All these years later, it’s still recalled fondly and on Anniversary Days, scores of memories of the bout fill social media. What isn’t so conveniently or fondly remembered is the deleterious impact those kinds of fights
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Perhaps it was obvious in the Western Conference finals, when the Vegas Golden Knights made Anton Khudobin look like a prime Marty Brodeur and were dumped from the Stanley Cup playoffs in five games after scoring just eight goals. Maybe it was obvious back in January, when Gerard Gallant was shockingly dumped as head coach and replaced by Peter DeBoer.
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It wasn’t until I read his obituary, decades after I’d moved from Pittsburgh and years after he retired, that I knew former Pittsburgh Press and Post-Gazette sports columnist Phil Musick lived in the small town, Harmar Township, where I grew up. When Musick died at 71 on Jan. 5, 2010, I was saddened. He was one of the major influences
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For those of us who are sports fans, I’d be willing to bet our most enduring memories occurred during our childhood, or at worst, early in adulthood. Four memories stand out for me: • In 1971, Roberto Clemente led the Pirates to the World Series championship with a fantastic performance, capped by a great game in Game 7. I’d just
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For much of the past 36 hours, I’ve had a pit at the bottom of my stomach. I slept poorly. I couldn’t concentrate on anything other than the quickly increasing number of mentions I had on Twitter. It wasn’t a good thing. I did a dumb thing. I tweeted something that many people took as racist at worst or as
Read moreWhen Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill that gives her state the dubious honor of having the most stringent abortion legislation in the country, she invoked God in an attempt to argue in favor of her position that the state has the right to tell women what they can do with their bodies. “Today, I signed into law the
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