Midwest Mountain Sports Report 6/7/23 It’s a beautiful, sunshine-type of day in the Midwest, and there’s plenty of exciting sports to celebrate. The Nuggets tip off in Miami tonight for a pivotal Game 3 in a series where they need to steal at least one of the next two in Florida to swing the …
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Game 1 of the Finals, and the NHL Home Stretch
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 6/2/23 Game 1 is in the books, with your Denver Nuggets beating the Miami Heat at home to put a bow on their first ever Finals victory, and keep their 2023 postseason home record unblemished. The more that we talk about the success of the Nuggets, the more I strangely find …
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Tik Tok, Time is Running Out for the Stars
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 5/24/23 Did you know that the WWE is one of the most influential brands on TikTok? I admit, I have no desire to create a TikTok account for myself, nor do I spend any time with the app apart from passing through it in my lofty “marketing insights” emails I have …
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The Ballad of Gabe Landeskog
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 5/15/23 What does it mean to be a leader? Is it the first person to put themselves into harm’s way, securing safe passage for the rest of their team? Is it the last person to abandon their post, so that their compatriots might safely escape? True enough for maritime shipmen and commanders of …
8 Tentacles are Stronger than 3
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 4/25/23 I’ll begin this edition of the sports report with a confession; I didn’t want to write this post today. Nor did I want to watch the Avalanche play hockey. And as I ultimately caved, and am watching the Avalanche at the time of this writing, it doesn’t seem like they …
The Empire Strikes Back in the West
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 4/21/23 Things are heating up in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League. While the game 1 contests were ballads of the underdogs, you could say that in game 2, the Empires struck back. The Edmonton Oilers and Colorado Avalanche, oddsmakers’ favorites in the West, both dropped their first games …
How the West was Won
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 4/13/23 What a Tuesday night that was. The Avalanche played a home contest against the Edmonton Oilers for the prospect of maintaining first place in the Central Division, the Minnesota Wild hosted the Jets of Winnipeg in a game that should have been retribution for the injury Kirill Kaprizov sustained in …
Opening Day and the Bad Guys Win
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 3/30/23 It’s finally here: MLB Opening Day 2023!! And yet I want to start by talking about the most important rivalry in sports: The Colorado Avalanche and the Minnesota Wild. We will return to baseball, have no fear. There’s 162 games, so with the new pitch clock rules, we have about …
Embrace the Ides of March
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 3/14/23 “A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March”, said Brutus to Caesar before his fateful assassination on the floor of the Roman senate in 44 BC. Such prophetic words written by William Shakespeare have been applied to any situation in which the speaker urges caution. In this blog post, …
A Very Belated Super Bowl Send-Off
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 2/28/23 As the great poet and singer Chris Cornell once said, “I’ve been away for too long.” And so have I. When we last spoke, the 49ers and the Bengals were still in contention for a spot in the Super Bowl. Remember those guys? One of them has the toughest quarterback …
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