With the Stanley Cup Finals slated to begin tonight, sport fans will see something that doesn’t happen frequently in the NHL playoffs. The Los Angeles Kings are only the second team to eliminate the #1, #2, and #3 seeds from the playoffs in the same postseason and make the Finals as an 8 seed. They will face-off against the 6 seed out of the Eastern Conference, New Jersey Devils. So how rare is it that two lower seeds meet for a championship in the NHL? Let’s take a look back at past NHL seasons and find out. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2012
NBA Award Winners and Team Success
We always hear as a sport fan, you need a great team to win a championship. A sport like basketball requires more than one piece to win it all, and teams have rushed out to assemble all-star like rosters to achieve success. With all of the individual awards being handed out during the NBA Playoffs, I wanted to research how many of these award winners were actually on teams that had success. Continue reading
Kentucky Derby Dreamin’
One dream of mine and something I always thought would be an interesting venture is to own a racehorse. From a small circuit horse to a Kentucky Derby thoroughbred, the excitement of watching your horse race (not to mention, having a little wager on him) would be a great experience. Of course, this would be a challenging and expensive dream to obtain due to many factors. For one thing, my knowledge on horse racing doesn’t extend further than walking up to the window and placing an exacta or trifecta, and even that went up in flames on Saturday with my 4,6,8 horses. Financially, horse racing is very expensive to enter, but after I read an article by Darren Rovell last week on the prices of the competing Kentucky Derby horses I noticed that some horses sold for reasonable prices. I know the purchase of a horse is only the beginning, and the annual up keep and training is where the money is at, but hey it’s fun to dream. Three horses closed as clear-cut favorites heading into the Kentucky Derby: Continue reading