Sports Are Back to Save the Ad World
In case you missed this memo while watching CNN bash President Trump in every story or opting for Fox News’ overt love for the President in every story, let me remind you that SPORTS MATTER. They mater because they generate revenue. They generate jobs. They generate passion. Now with the return of the National Football […]
The 43 Postcards Project: Montreal
I kicked off 2020, by adding intriguing visuals from my lifetime of travels around the world and called it the 43 Postcards Project. So far, my quest has taken me to places familiar and others remote, in 43 countries and counting, from the deep Pacific to the deserts of the Middle East to the snow-crusted landscapes of the Arctic […]
“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 […]
Cardboard Magic
I believe hockey cards have supernatural powers. This is why, in the winter of 1975, I starting arranging my Los Angeles Kings cards like players on a hockey rink on the top of my mammoth hand-me-down stereo console. And then challenged the NHL All Stars—or at least the cards I was able to collect—to a […]
Behind the Curtain: A Peek at the KHL
Repping the great Ilya Kolvachuk at a KHL game will earn you mad props. © Michael Lloyd I took a wild trip to Moscow to get up close with Russian hockey. I wound up meeting Igor…read on! While we wait for the boys to return from the combination All-Star break and mandatory five-day bye week […]
The Worst Fans in Hockey—10 through 1
Note: Part I can be found here. Part II. I’m back from the holiday break and what did we learn (or were reminded of) between the trading freeze and today? Drew Doughty is an All Star. The Kings have fantastic goaltending and goalie coaches. Willie D. has no idea how to build team chemistry. The […]
The Worst Fans in Hockey—20 through 11
Number 14 – Big Hat Guy (c) Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports It’s time for a break from criticizing the Kings, so I turn my gaze on some fans instead. I started this column a few weeks back by previewing and revealing the Number Five Worst Hockey Fan: Obnoxious Loud Guy. Today, I look at the […]
EMERGENCY HOCKEY COLUMN: See Ya, JS…Welcome Willie D.
I penned this article for my PERSPECTIVES FROM THE CHEAP SEATS column on Jewels From the Crown. I couldn’t hold myself from posting it here too, because why? The Los Angeles Kings, that’s why. Note to reader: Due to unbridled anger scheduling conflicts, I was forced to write the inevitable “John Stevens has been fired!” […]
ANAHEIM DUCKS: You Should Have Called The Media Guy!
Post-Thanksgivings are always difficult, It’s nearly unfathomable to me how two days of eating turkey and unlimited carbs can set you back. So there I was struggling on the elliptical machine at the club when this video pops up of a tattooed man waltzing through an office with nothing on but an electronically super imposed […]
The Infamous “Hockey Puck” Incident
First off, if you didn’t work with me in New York (yes, most of you are gone—yes, really gone), that headline will mean absolutely zippo to you. You’ll have to read the book that I hope to finish by 2018. Okay, so for now there’s some grey area. Now onto the countdown, uh, story… It […]
