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I like the back to back games. Teams that lose the first game try harder in the second game. Like baseball, shooters sometimes find their mark in the second game in the same manner as a hitter...

The fourth estate have printed Canton had the prized weekend dates available in a nice older arena whereas Youngstown didn't in a new arena. The Cavs will update the locker rooms, and buy a new basketball court. I am sure if Canton supports the franchise sufficiently, the Cavs will update the audio-...

The Dallas area is a large market with huge advertising fees any indoor football club owner would probably be better off advertising in the local papers, not the Dallas Morning News, and a billboard on US Hwy. 75, Sam Rayburn and George Bush turnpikes... North Dallas and Collin County aren't little ...

While I am not familiar with Bakersfield, I can't imagine there isn't a high school gym capable of sitting a thousand or more in town. Even University of Texas Arlington has enough sense to play their games in an auditorium, with seats facing one side of the court...

Chicago wasn't mentioned with the press release of the ECHL new division names... We'll see... Flint and Port Huron have folded, a NAHL club got the lease in Flint...

Now we know why Columbus has a NHL club and Cleveland doesn't....

Four IHL clubs, Quad Cities Mallards , Bloomington Prairie Thunder, Dayton Gems, and Fort Wayne Komets are merging with the CHL. More information by tne end of June, 2010. Rumors of an expansion club in Saint Charles, and another one for the 2011 season in Evansville...

The Amarillo Gorillas and Corpus Christi Ice Rays CHL franchises fold, but are replaced by NAHL junior hockey franchises. Consolidated Holdings, who recently bought the Frisco Texas Tornadoes, bought Albert Lea and moved the club to Amarillo. And the Ice Rays bought Alpena... The summer silly season...

Oklahoma City fans chose Barons for their own reasons having nothing to do with any previous AHL club. I am not even sure the fans knew there used to be a Cleveland Barons club. They surely didn't care or gave a hoot. Barons was one of the finalist names for the NBA Thunder club as well. In Oklahoma...

Well, you are in luck. The Texas Stars and Cedar Park will spend some funds this summer to increase the leg room a couple of inches by resetting every chair in the bowl. I believe this would involve raising the back legs with a bit higher angle aft, as the concrete bowl is undoable.