Letters: Hockey steals the show in Vancouver
I have always been a rabid follower of basketball and not much of a hockey fan. but last Sunday I did the previously unthinkable and after switching channels back and forth between games for an hour or so I finally turned off the Lakers-Denver game to watch Team USA against Canada in the Olympic hockey finals. Wow, the excitement and passion of that game blew me away! When the match finally ended, I compared its nonstop action to the NBA’s endless free throw parade and decided to follow the NHL a bit more and the NBA a bit less. If the objective is entertainment and the ideal is athletes giving their all, why do the local media and fans treat basketball as such a given and hockey as such an afterthought?
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The Sports Media column Friday ponders how many people will watch the NHL after the Olympics, and specifically asks about this Sunday’s Red Wings-Blackhawks contest on NBC.
But when I perused down Page 2 to the “Weekend TV Highlights” box on the lower left of the page, there was no listing for the Red Wings-Blackhawks game on Sunday!
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All the best to Canada for the wonderful Games the country hosted. However, the ice hockey gold is of a baser metal.
The U.S. and Canadian teams completed the competition with one loss only and each loss was to the other. How does that make Canada the superior team? The only mistake the American team made was it won the first game against Team Canada and not the second.
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The victorious Canadian women’s hockey team partied hard, just like the men. but the Canadian Olympic Committee’s adverse how-dare-they reaction burst my bubble. I had naively assumed that, unlike the United States, Canada was not controlled by sexist “family values” dogma. O Canada.
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My favorite part of the Vancouver Winter Olympics? The amazing photographs by Wally Skalij and Robert Gauthier. How they consistently managed to be in right places at the right times befuddles me. And speaking of befuddled, I also enjoyed Chris Erskine’s, um, we’ll call them “insights.” He’s a treasure, whether he’s a fan or just a man.
Letters: Hockey steals the show in Vancouver
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