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 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 […]
Thursday, July 9, 2020 Sports is finally on the way back! Two weeks from tonight, major league baseball begins their 60-game schedule. Six days later, on July 30, the NBA will play out eight more regular season games inside the Orlando “bubble” before moving into the postseason by mid-August. The NHL will start its 24-team […]
1984 Nebraska football came into the season looking to bounce back from the heartbreak to end all heartbreaks. They came within one play of winning a national title in 1983 before an upset loss to Miami in the Orange Bowl, a game where Cornhusker head coach Tom Osborne eschewed playing for a tie and a […]
The Indiana Hoosiers had slipped a bit after their glorious run of 1975 and 1976, where they posted undefeated seasons and in ’76 capped it off with a national championship. They missed the NCAAs in 1977 and 1979. Even allowing for a Sweet 16 run in 1978 and the fact that punching a ticket to […]
USC was in their third year under the coaching stewardship of John Robinson. In his rookie year of 1976, Robinson beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl and finished #2 in the nation. Even though the Trojans slipped in 1977, expectations were still high. The 1978 USC football team was ranked ninth in the preseason polls. […]
The 1978 Alabama football team felt like they had something to prove. They finished #2 in the polls in 1977 and felt like they were robbed of the top spot. They had gone undefeated in 1966 and been overlooked. While Bear Bryant’s program had consistently dominated the SEC over the past several years, they were […]
Penn State produced unbeaten but uncrowned teams in 1968, 1969 and 1973. Much to the chagrin of the Nittany Lions, their rival Pitt was honored with a national title after a perfect season in 1976. After two years out of the major bowl picture, Joe Paterno’s 1978 Penn State football team was ready to return […]
Barry Switzer led the Oklahoma Sooners to national championships in 1974 and 1975 and nearly won another in 1977 before a stunning Orange Bowl defeat cost them the final #1 ranking. Expectations in Norman were that the beat would go on, and 1978 Oklahoma football was #4 in the preseason polls. OU’s wishbone offense might […]
Nebraska last won it all when they went back-to-back in 1970-71 with Bob Devaney as the head coach. Since Tom Osborne, Devaney’s offensive coordinator, had taken over, the Cornhuskers kept winning, but had a monkey on their backs out of Oklahoma. As if to affirm that Osborne had a black cloud following him around, the […]
There’s always something special about the month of September if you’re a sports fan. The smell of fall is in the air. Baseball is fun during the long summer, but now it kicks up to an extra degree of intensity. College football and the NFL are getting rolling, giving every weekend the feel of a […]