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Return of the Viking: Landeskog at the Olympics
Gabriel Landeskog is my favorite active hockey player and is the captain of my team,the Colorado Avalanche. He is also incredibly snake bit. After lifting the Stanley Cup for the Avalanche following the 2021/2022…
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Five Rings, Five Things: The Good, The Bad, and The Ridiculous of the Olympics Thus Far – 10 February
The end of competition on Tuesday brought a close on the fourth day of competition since the cauldrons of Milano Cortina were lit. Already the Games have produced a ton of memorable moments like…
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A Not At All Scientific of the Best Milano Cortina Opening Ceremony Outfits
The downside of having a day job is that its impossible to to watch anything that occurs outside of prime time in the central timezone. As a result, I spent the day trying to…
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Olympic Memories: Reflections on What I Remember From Different Winter Olympics
I don’t know what happened to the month of January went. I had ideas for things I wanted to write about, and then life got in the way. Now we are roughly two and…
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Olympic Legacies: Olympic Museums in North America
I’m a huge nerd. I love history and I love sports. Ranked high among all the places I have been in my life are two sports museums, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and…
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Feeling Olympic? : Winter Games Watch Parties and Events in the United States
If you’re at all like me you’ve been reading all the news about the upcoming Olympics. However, the Olympics are not the only major sporting event this year making news this year. FIFA will…
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Experiencing the IIHF World Juniors Championship
When I started up this site, my goal was to write not just about the Olympics, but about topics that interest me and are either directly or tangentially related to the Games. This could…
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Olympic Geography: Where Do US Ice Hockey Olympians Come From?
Team Canada put a capstone on the year 2025 on New Year’s Eve with the announcement of their Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey rosters for the Milano Cortina Olympics. Today USA Hockey countered by…
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2026 Olympic Hockey Jerseys Ranked By How Much I’d Like to Find One Wrapped Under My Christmas Tree
One of the things I love about sports doesn’t actually have to do with the play on the field itself. Instead, its the jerseys the players are wearing. There is something about either a…