In their inaugural year, the Vegas Golden Knights have provided the chief feel-good story this season, as they have registered the Western Conference’s best mark and rank behind only the Tampa Bay Lightning for league supremacy. While I enjoy literal battles, the expansion club’s roster members and ownership personnel have become combatants in a figurative fracas, as the United States Army is opposing their team name and affiliated uniform colors…
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Some New Year’s resolutions require their originators to use the entire calendar to make them realities, yet the completion of such time-consuming endeavors deserves no less praise than the execution of easier aspirations. In fact, the former might merit a bit more recognition because they often involve overcoming conundrums that have long been burdens. McDonald’s…
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This morning, more than three years after their filing of a lawsuit against Iowa State University, former students Paul Gerlich and Erin Furleigh must have woken on quite a high. Yesterday, the State Appeal Board voted to pay the two $150,000 in damages stemming from their assertion that the institution violated their rights in banning…
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College football fans who hold allegiance to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) have found themselves quite fortunate since the 1992 season, when the University of Alabama Crimson Tide throttled the University of Miami Hurricanes, 34-13, to win the national championship. That upset victory initiated a run that has yielded 12 more national crowns for the conference’s…
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Since her premature birth last January, a hippopotamus named Fiona has proven a literal example of animal magnetism, with the mammal’s presence at the Cincinnati Zoo helping the location to draw large crowds as staffers tend to her welfare and increase enthusiasm for her species. The Ohio destination has been a considerable beneficiary of the…
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We find ourselves only a day away from the commencement of the National Football League’s postseason slate, with eight teams set to take to the gridiron this weekend in wild card round action. Each tilt has interesting plotlines, but one would be hard-pressed to top the sentimental elements of the Jacksonville Jaguars/Buffalo Bills matchup, with…
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With “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” proving a force at the box office, the last three weeks have registered as an earth-shattering span for science fiction fans. For those among that gregarious group who also find themselves over the moon when talking about actual celestial bodies, yesterday must have felt as if all the stars…
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Thanks to having claimed three Stanley Cup championships since 2010 and employing standouts such as right winger Patrick Kane and center Jonathan Toews, the Chicago Blackhawks have no trouble drawing large crowds to the United Center. Along with winning regard for their style of play, they do not struggle to reap renown for their attire,…
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With the National Hockey League having recently concluded its centennial celebration, players, owners and fans should consider themselves very pleased with the state of their beloved sport, which this season has already produced some amazing results—come on, who, even with their geographic location, could have bet that the expansion Vegas Golden Knights would hold the…
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Thanks to 1969 and 2003 releases by directors Peter Collinson and F. Gary Gray, movie buffs can enjoy the high-stakes antics present in “The Italian Job.” Through the European Union Intellectual Property Office, fashion aficionados can have a variation on that title, The Italian Jobs, if you will, as it deemed brothers Vincenzo and Giacomo…
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