“Willie”, an ESPN Documentary
He’s not the Jackie Robinson of hockey, he’s the Willie O’Ree of Hockey. “In 1958 I broke the color barrier in the National Hockey League. Every game that I played in there were racial remarks directed towards me. They would say the ‘N word’ and they would say you should be back picking cotton and […]
The Ghost of Marty McSorley’s Stick
May 30, 2012 enters uncharted territory for Los Angeles Kings hockey. Never before has a Kings squad entered the Stanley Cup Final as the favorite – – ESPN’s “experts” picked L.A. to take Lord Stanley’s Cup home by a vote of 10 to 3. Heck, they have only been in the Finals once. (Sheesh once? Why […]
