It was a city of lights and sounds. Lights lined the streets of Broadway. The city was a town of music, music city to be exact. As you walk through the street, music came from every bar, every restaurant. The air in the street smelled of smoke, and alcohol. People filled the streets and bars, mostly intoxicated. People from all over the country gathered there that night. These people all funneled into a single building, a large building. The people were here for one thing, Hockey. They gathered for a dwindling event, and event many thought was worthless. This city was trying to revive that game, trying to bring back meaning to the word “All-Star”. This city was home to the NHL All Star Game. Inside the building was lined with pictures. You could feel the sense of pride this city had for their team. Everything painted Blue and Gold. There were food …show more content…
Emotions filled the air, from the players to the fans. Their long piercing cheers flooded the arena. So loud that you could barely hear yourself think. Music blared through the stadium, after all it was Music city. The players entered the ice in their black and white All-Star jerseys. The fans were eccentric. The day would consist of three tournament style games, lasting 20 minutes long. There would be 3 mans on each team, and a goalie. The first game was the Metropolitan division versus the Atlantic division. This was a game full of energy, full of skill. The Atlantic division won the game. The next game consisted of the last two divisions, the Central and Pacific. This was an extremely high scoring game. Mostly due to the fact that everybody was barely trying. The last game was the best of them all. The Pacific versus the Atlantic. The players all wanting a taste of the winning check of a million dollars. The game was filled with wonderful plays from each team. The goalies making unbelievable saves with their stick, glove, and legs. The Pacific division came away with a
One more drop of the puck I thought. All of the work, for the Grand Rapids Griffins at least. Winning the first series, a best-of-five, against the Houston Aeros in a winner take all game five, winning the Conference Quarter-finals, best-of-seven, against the Toronto Marlies in six games, defeating the Oklahoma City Barons in the Conference Finals, and finally one drop of the puck away from the American Hockey League’s most prized possession, the Calder Cup. The game had been a back and forth game with the Crunch scoring first.
Canada Hockey Place is the venue for 2010 Winter Games ice hockey tournament. The name Canada Hockey Place was given to Rogers Arena during the Olympics. Opened in 1995, Rogers Arena is an indoor sports arena located in Vancouver. Rogers Arena is very close to several other visiting spots and services such as BC Place Stadium, Historical Chinatown Tours, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver Cruises, Vancouver Fishing Charters, Vancouver Mysteries, Science World just to name a few. Reaching Vancouver is not a difficult task as the city is strategically connected to other big and small cities including Canada via bus, air and railway
The Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays had a remarkable playoff game for Major League Baseball that all came down to the bizarre seventh inning. This game was a very important one, deciding which team would move on from their Division Series. It was the fifth game in the series of best out of five games with each team having won two games. The Rangers got ahead at first with a very odd and controversial play, but the Blue Jays came back with an incredible hit.
The Blackhawks failed to give up. They pushed a Game 6 after Patrick Kane scored in the thrilling double overtime. They forced a Game 7 with a dominating presence on the ice. They even managed to tie this game when the odds were against them.
It was the longest playoff ever at 5 hours and 17
Not only being located in a great city and their unique ballpark benefits the Storm Chasers’
The Black Sox Scandal Introduction Have you ever thought about baseballs pastime? People associate baseball with teams like the Yankees or the Red Sox or teams that have played the game fair. There is a team known as the Black Sox (White Sox) that threw the World Series for money. There were events that caused it, stuff that happened during the game, and consequences that were placed on the players. The Slack Sox scandal was a World Series thrown by several White Sox players.
It was a beautiful Saturday in Miami Gardens, Florida at the Sun Life Stadium on September 19 . That night there was a big game: The Miami Hurricanes and The Nebraska Cornhuskers battle it out on the football field. The game ended, but the score was tied. Both teams went into overtime. By the time the game ended the Miami Hurricanes had one the game with an ending score of 36-33!
Conference Championship Takeaways 1. AFC Championship From kick off till the end of the game, the Denver Broncos outplayed the New England Patriots- and it wasn’t even close. Tom Brady was hit a season high 20 times. Their offensive line was embarrassed- specifically Marcus Cannon who was routinely beat by Von Miller. Miller finished the game with 1.5 sacks and an interception.
Conversations about the Bettendorf vs North Scott basketball game, like the one Bryce and I had, were debated, discussed and argued ever since the high school basketball season had started. The vaunted Bettendorf
One hundred and fifth teen years, twenty-eight titles, forty pennants and countless memories, the New York Yankees, the most storied franchise in sports. They have an insurmountable amount of accomplishments in their history but forget all that for a moment. Travel back to a time before all the greatness and before all the legends who dawned the pinstripes, back to a time before the Core Four, before Mantle, Berra, Joe DiMaggio, even before the original Murderers’ Row. Back to a moment of time where one man created the American League and more importantly brought a team to New York.
Pride in many ways drives a sports team 's revenue, because it speaks to the investment of fans in their hometeam. And having a place to gather, to eat good food and watch a team you love play, can directly contribute to a City 's pride in their team and furthermore, the money they are ready to spend on supporting that
Trey Jones wrote a Bleacher Report article on the Miracle on Ice that captures what the game really meant to America. Jones says, “The result of this match restored hope to a wounded people, gave promise to the future to those who had none, and completely reversed a mental decline that had gripped our country by the throat for several years.” To completely understand what affect the game had on the American public, one must understand why it mattered so much. At the dawn of the 1980’s US patriotism was at an all-time low thanks, to many of the events that occurred to diminish our patriotism to almost nothing. “But to put things into perspective, let’s take a stroll down 1980 memory lane…President Carter signed legislation approving a $1.5 billion loan to help bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
Hockey arouses Saul’s interest in doing something fulfilling once more. He develops a sense of purpose. The narrator states, “Father Leboutilier brought me hockey books and answered all my questions. His passion for the game was contagious” (Wagamese 58). Thus, hockey gives Saul the chance to start healing emotionally.
The sun illuminates countless all-American names, with the occasional Coke or Papa John’s sponsor signs. The play clock ticks down to zero, and the stadium is finally filled to maximum capacity. Kickoff commences, players scramble across the field, and suddenly the only problems in the world hinge on if the Nike plastered football is past the downs marker. There are the elite suites high above the stadium cloaked in shade, but the majority are cramped and blisteringly hot. We are all united as one, cheering our team to victory, and thriving on the culture that is modern day sports.