I’ve never been a believer in the Vegas Golden Knights, but they keep winning playoff rounds I don’t expect them too. It was true in 2018 when they knocked off San Jose and Winnipeg, both 100-plus point teams, en route to the Stanley Cup Finals. And it was true again this year when I picked […]
The long-awaited NBA postseason tips off this afternoon in the Orlando bubble. This is a league that is noted for the relative lack of drama in the early playoff rounds. In the NHL or MLB, big favorites go down routinely. Not so in pro hoops and a big reason is that—for whatever reason—homecourt advantage seems […]
The University of Iowa has been playing basketball in the Big Ten since 1909 and for the most part, have been successful. The Hawkeyes are consistently in the running for the NCAA Tournament. One thing they haven’t done much of is win the conference championship. 1970 was the last time the program won the Big […]
The Boston Red Sox endured their fair share of heartbreaking finishes through an 86-year championship drought. One thing they often did was make credible bounceback efforts. The one-game playoff loss to the Yankees of 1978 was followed up by 91 wins in 1979. The 2003 devastation at the hands of the Yanks was followed by […]
The NHL playoffs are set to begin for real. We’ve watched the top four teams in each conference play a round-robin against each other for seeding. We’ve watched eight other teams play their way in through a best-of-five preliminary round. Now, at 3 PM ET today, the puck drops on a traditional best-of-seven series in […]
On Friday night it looked like the worm might finally be ready to turn for the Toronto Maple Leafs. A franchise that has endured heartbreak after heartbreak since their last Stanley Cup in 1967 was poised to turn the tables. They had made a stunning rally from 3-0 down to Columbus in Game 4 of […]
Two years ago the Winnipeg Jets were on the rise. In the spring of 2018 they won a big seven-game series against the Nashville Predators, a battle between two of the top teams in hockey. Winnipeg had a rising star at goalie in Connor Hellebuyck. Both the present and the future were looking bright. READ […]
Henrik Lundqvist has given the New York Rangers some great moments in his career, most notably leading the team to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2014. But the 37-year-old goalie, his standing in New York already teetering, may have finally given up the ghost. The Carolina Hurricanes beat Lundqvist in the first two games of […]
The proud Boston Celtic franchise suffered a rarity in 1978—they missed the playoffs, only the second time that had happened since Red Auerbach arrived in the Hub in 1951. Auerbach made a big move in the draft to help the aging roster—he used the sixth overall pick on Indiana State’s star forward Larry Bird. But […]
The long-awaited arrival of the NHL playoffs gets here in Saturday. There will be 24 teams congregated in two hub cities in Canada to settle the Stanley Cup. The top eight teams (four per conference) will get a bye and simply play amongst each other for a week to decide seeding. The other sixteen teams […]
Tune into a fun discussion of the 2020 baseball season. Dan Flaherty, owner of TheSportsNotebook is joined by Steve Rhoads and Michael Edwards to discuss the following… LISTEN TO THE 2020 MLB PREVIEW PODCAST *How hot is the seat for Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts? Should it be hot? *Are there any viable challengers to the […]
In the most recent edition of The Notebook Nine, I ranked the greatest wins in Washington Redskins history. By necessity, those were playoff wins. But my memory banks are filled with so many other notable regular season wins that it seemed necessary to do a separate listing that would focus on those. Upon further review, […]
