Summer posting: Blackhawks A-Z

It’s summer, and, even though I didn’t really make any posts during the season (focused too much on video games and stuff), it’s time for my yearly tradition of ripping off stuff other sites do but for the Blackhawks and doing my own thing, because I’m too lazy to come up with ideas.

This time it’s Puck Daddy’s A to Z series, with something starting (or related to, or something) with each letter in the alphabet from the team. It should be obvious which team I’m doing, but some of the letters are just plain hard. So I’ll put in honorable mentions as necessary.

Revisiting Soccer in America

So wayyyy back in June of 2011, I made a post about soccer in America.  It still has the most comments of any post I’ve made, meaning it has more than 2.

Rating the 2013-14 season for all 30 teams.

So now that the season has come to a close, we can determine whether or not the campaign was a success for all the teams.  For this I’ll only give a straight up/down on its success, and an explanation.  All records are from the NHL.

Evaluating the Hawks Pending Free Agents

So it’s come to this, the Blackhawks season is over.  The beards are shaven (mine was awesome btw), the ice will be melted today or tomorrow, and we’re all Rangers fans now (because let’s be honest, the Sox are hovering around .500, the Fire are the second worst team in their conference, and the Cubs are still the Cubs, so there’s not much excitement in Chicago until fall comes back around).

The Case for Expansion

First, I hope everyone keeps the tragedies of this summer in their hearts and minds throughout the year, and that the hockey community can use these to help educate itself on many of the underlying issues on the fringes of the game that contributed in any way to these horrible events.

That said, I hope this becomes a better season than last year, and I personally have more than a few of my next games planned out (if anyone has some cheap tickets to the Winter Classic...)

Ok, on to what I already wrote.

Soccer, ways to fix it, and the start of summer

Well, it's the beginning of summer, and you know what that means!  No hockey until October.  While I need to keep posting on this blog for at the very least my own sake, so I don't completely forget it and not chronicle my journey, I really can't post about anything new.  So, I plan on making a post every week or month or so about something preferably sports related, until I can start on the next season.

And I've looked at the new schedules, and see a few trips to the East Coast in the not-too-distant future...

However, on to the post which took by far the longest of the posts I've written.

I like soccer.  There, I said it.  It’s a very entertaining sport to watch, especially in the summer, where the only other major sports are baseball (which is as exciting as watching Astroturf grow) and NASCAR.  Now, as any snobby European will tell you, soccer is for some reason not very popular in the States.  So I decided to suggest ways to fix it, because, to quote Top Gear, how hard could it be?

Pictured: Soccer