Category Archives: Czech Points

The Carolina Hurricanes are a whale of a hockey club. Pun intended. The franchise that began its hockey life as the New England Whalers captured the Stanley Cup last weekend, winning the last three ga...

With seven Super Bowl rings, Tom Brady ranks among the greatest NFL quarterbacks to ever play the four-down game. Not so in the broadcast booth. Since leaving the field and inking a mind-blowing 10-ye...

The first thing I noticed about Dennis Hull was the size of his hands. My right hand disappeared when we shook. His fingers were like sausages. The man had huge mitts. And Dennis Hull put those huge m...

I hate the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Not the players. The organization. As the longtime fan of an original NHL expansion club, it still bugs me that - overcome by his unbridled passion for getting a t...

Hulk Hogan once said: "Nobody told me this gimmick stuff was fake." Hogan - who arguably stood behind only Andre The Giant as the most famous professional wrestler of his era - endured 25 surgeries, i...

Oh you poor, tortured souls who call yourselves Toronto Maple Leafs fans. One day after introducing their new hockey management team at a press conference that was variously described by many in the T...

The buzz around Ottawa just won't go away. Brady Tkachuk, the 26-year-old Ottawa Senators team captain, has two years remaining on a contract that pays him more than $8 million per season and his pact...

The 2026 NFL draft takes place this weekend in Pittsburgh where 43 years ago the hometown Steelers made a major first-round fumble that would end up haunting the Iron City squad for several years. And...

When Bryan Crawford took over as commissioner of the OHL in 2024, he said expansion was a top priority for the league. Looks like he wasn't just blowing smoke. And recently, Crawford has been doing mu...

Juvenile hockey, I believe, is pretty much a forgotten division these days. Not 50 years ago. Not in the spring of 1976 when a juvenile team from Belleville became the first - and only - minor hockey ...