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• 1 revgeorge // Mar 26, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  It was an interesting article about Rowling’s thoughts of suicide & depression back after her first marriage failed. I hope none of the Harry Haters jump on this & say she’s any less of a Christian because of it. I thought HP Progs last episode was very prescient on this topic, when they were talking about the dementors & the depression they cause.

  I did read your interview. I must say that hockey is not a sport I follow. Baseball, football, & NASCAR are the ones I follow the most. Basketball occasionally & sometimes cycling. I must follow sports because I can’t play them worth a darn. Never was any good at any sport.

• 2 reyhan // Mar 26, 2008 at 10:28 pm

  I used to be a Sabres fan until they failed to sign Briere (doing fine now after a few months in the scoring doldrums) and Drury (ditto). I still like and secretly root for Miller.

  My team this year is the Capitals. It’s because of Alexander the Gr8. I get almost as much of a rush watching him play and score and celebrate as he gets from doing it. And I love the way he shrugs off the money. Money is just money. Being the best, that’s everything.

  If Washington fails to make the playoffs (they still have a chance of getting that eighth spot) the world will be an infinitely duller place.

• 3 Travis Prinzi // Mar 26, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  After the way Buffalo has mishandled the signing of players over the past two years - if I were emotionally capable of severing ties with them, I would. I’ve always been a die hard, through thick-and-thin type of fan, though, and I’ve been a Sabres fan almost as long as I have memory.

  If someone would take a moment to notice we need a new GM and a new coach, I’d be happy.

• 4 Travis Prinzi // Mar 26, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  And yes, Ovechkin is something else.

  I think I’ll be rooting for the Red Wings come playoffs (since the Sabres are not likely to make it). I’d like to see Old Man Hasek (best. goalie. ever. Sorry, Roy.) get a second Cup (and maybe a Conn Smythe) before retirement.

• 5 revgeorge // Mar 26, 2008 at 11:11 pm

  You seem to be a Sabres fan, Travis, in the same way I seem to be a Cubs fan. The difference being the Sabres have been successful in living memory.

• 6 Eeyore // Mar 26, 2008 at 11:45 pm

  College basketball, for me. Purely as a spectator, and a loud one when I used to live in Lawrence and we went to all the University of Kansas games in Allen Field House. It’s the best place for college basketball, especially when the Jayhawks are playing well.

  So Friday night will find hubby and I, also a KU graduate and avid fan, driving into Seattle to a sports bar near the Space Needle (called “Sport”–ahem, how original ) to join the other Jayhawk alums to watch the game. We could stay home, but it’s more fun to watch with everyone else.

  (Our grown daughters are now fond of telling us just how scarred they are from all our years of ignoring them while we watched March Madness. Yeah, right.)

  Pat

• 7 Victoria // Mar 27, 2008 at 8:12 am

  ahhh….. this whole conversation is going past me…… What ??!? Sabres ? Which line of sports is this you’re talking about ?

  Sorry living in the US has not made me appreciate American sports much yet and I don’t think it will. I’ll stick with the ol’ Formula 1 but of course that’s not something that is aired on TV over here….

• 8 Travis Prinzi // Mar 27, 2008 at 8:14 am

  Victoria, it’s hockey - and living in the US would hardly get you a great appreciation for the game. The only station that carries games nationally is NBC/Versus, and their coverage is abysmal.

  ESPN needs to get hockey back. Or Hockey Night in Canada needs to be broadcast to every TV in America.

• 9 revgeorge // Mar 27, 2008 at 9:16 am

  If you have Dish Network, they broadcast the Avalanche games on Altitude every now & then.

  Victoria, in the US NASCAR is the main car racing sport. IRL/CART is kind of a dead letter, & we’ve never gotten into Formula 1. Drag Racing is still kind of popular here, too.

• 10 Victoria // Mar 27, 2008 at 9:20 am

  Hockey ! No wouldn’t have guessed that indeed, as you said have never seen a hockey game on the tele here once.

  Yeah, NASCAR seems to be the racing sport here, but I’ve in turn never gotten into that. I’ll just stick to the Paris-Dakar.

• 11 Travis Prinzi // Mar 27, 2008 at 9:23 am

  If I had Dish network, I could get the NHL Center Ice package, as well as all the Sabres games.

  Actually, the Yahoo Sports website carries games online. Sometimes it’s a little choppy, but when it’s working fine, I can catch some hockey here or there.

• 12 Victoria // Mar 27, 2008 at 9:53 am

  Just for me, did you mean land hockey or ice hockey ? My mind automatically switches to land hockey, cause where I grew up people go into a bout of panic when they see a fleck of snow, so ice hockey is not as prevalent of a sport…

• 13 revgeorge // Mar 27, 2008 at 11:03 am

  Let’s see…College fund for Sophia or NHL Center Ice? College fund for Sophia or NHL Center Ice? It seems like a hard choice but I think the priorities are clear for a true hockey fan.

• 14 Dave the Longwinded // Mar 27, 2008 at 11:11 am

  As Spring Training winds down and the regular season begins, I start the summer with the deluded hope only known to a Chicago Cubs fan. Now that the frikkin’ Red Sox are something akin to a minor dynasty, and the White Sox have rubbed Cubs fans’ faces into a deep well of “nana nana boo boo, stick your head in doo doo” with their World Series title, we hold a special place in the fabric of Americana — we are the Platonic essence of optimism, walking and talking, looking perpetually forward while everyone else talks about “100 years of futility”.

  We see our leadoff hitter — almost no stolen bases last year, an abysmal on-base percentage, but with 30 or more homeruns every season — and we smile. Our third baseman is good for 30 homers every season, too; he just takes a play off every so often. And our ace! How could I forget a guy who is a brilliant pitcher with a blazing sinking fastball. His heater is only cooler than his temper — he beat the crap out of the catcher in the middle of a game last year…

  Play ball. Go Cubs Go…

• 15 revgeorge // Mar 27, 2008 at 1:11 pm

  Yes, we Cubs fans are eternal optimists. Or pessimists, depending on how you feel about their chances. I watched one spring training game where they were talking about how people are predicting the Cubs to go to the World Series this year & all I could think was, “Don’t jinx them!!”

• 16 Dave the Longwinded // Mar 27, 2008 at 10:01 pm

  Sorry I didn’t say so earlier — I was rushing off to a panel presentation here in St. Louis!

  But…..Thanks for the tip to my blog Travis! I do appreciate it.

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