All Entries Tagged With: "Long Island"
News and Notes From B’s Training Camp 2011
As we sit, a mere 2 nights away from the opening of the Bruins’ pre-season schedule, when they will take on the Senators, at ScotiaBank Centre in Ottawa, 54 members of the Black and Gold have reported to Boston for training camp. While the rookies were in town at the beginning of last week, [...]
Winning At Any Cost
by Brenna Solop Just some musings on a slow sports day… With the All-Star Game tonight, no baseball tomorrow and most of the hockey news centering around the newest Carrie Fisher – unless you’re on Long Island and you’ve been Light-hosed the last few days – I started thinking about the recent sports headlines (but [...]
BARE ISLAND: Free Agency Day 1 In Isles Country
All it takes is one day of free agency to have the draft good vibes come crashing down. You’d have thought Isles fans all committed some group hari-kari from the tone of frustration and melodrama on boards, site comment sections and Twitter. It happens when the blind are leading the blind, with stories on potential [...]
EXTREME MAKEOVER LONG ISLAND EDITION: Help Nominate Nassau Coliseum
So, I got this note today, as the show is looking to do a home on Long Island. I can think of no better family more deserving of a new home as NY Islander fans. Do you know someone whose home deserves an Extreme Makeover? If so, the producers of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition [...]
(Small) Movement on Lighthouse Project
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Yesterday at Town Hall, before a “roll back the raises” protest began, the Town of Hempstead voted unanimously to authorize its environmental consultant, Frederick P. Clark Associates, to prepare an alternative zoning plan for the Nassau Coliseum property. This represents a major reversal for the Town of Hempstead, which has since [...]
Halak and Markov in vs Islanders, Gionta practicing with team
Carey Price’s back-up Jaroslav Halak will start in net for Montreal tonight , and all-star defenceman Andrei Markov will return after missing 36 games with lacerated tendons in his left foot. Power play specialist Marc-André Bergeron will move up onto the fourth line and man the point on the first power play unit with Markov. [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: Lighthouse Project Stops Payments to FP Clark
Maybe the Brooklyn contingent is right. In a special exclusive, a highly placed source has told us that the Lighthouse Project has stopped paying FP Clark (again). Now is this oversight? Or another payment snafu like the last time? Last time there was a giant issue between the two as FP Clark never told the [...]
Islanders and their Fans Must Demand Respect, Not Expect It
The New York Islanders have been, for many years, the Rodney Dangerfield of the National Hockey League. Some people have worried that the franchise “don’t get any respect,” and the constant hit pieces in the press (including that pathetic piece from last year suggesting John Tavares refuse to play for the team if drafted by [...]
The L.I.ttle Things
It’s the little things. The little things that make us happy and the little things that win hockey games. Tonight for the Islanders and their fans it was all about those little things. Despite the fact the Bronx Bombers were hosting an intense Game 1 of the World Series, there still seemed to be a [...]
Wednesday satire – Juggernaut Penguins disbanded, Crosby achieves world peace
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and twenty-nine disgruntled team governors convened an emergency meeting in New York Monday evening and voted 29-0 in favour of disbanding the Pittsburgh Penguins, the defending Stanley Cup champions and after eight games, the best team so far this season. “Enough is enough. Eight is enough,” cried Boston owner Jeremy Jacobs, chanelling Dick [...]
IS THE LIGHT STILL ON? A Special Report On The Lighthouse Project
If one listened to the cacophony of voices that were left as October 3rd came and went, one would have heard shrill and concerned voices fraught with panic, anger, frustration, rumor and innuendo. Listening, one would construe that Brooklyn or Queens were imminent. Brooklyn and Queens, two places that are rife with the kind of [...]
Why We Need a Lighthouse Project – In Numbers
There is a financial reason why the Lighthouse Project exists when the Islanders technically just need an arena.
Wang & Kate Plus Fate
by Brenna Solop You know that show on cable where the chick with the short, choppy blond hair and the Asian-American dude are always locking horns, and the fates of lots of children hang in the balance? No, not the one on The Learning Channel. I mean the one on News 12, the one determining [...]
CONTENTION AND DISSENSION AT LIGHTHOUSE HEARING: Two Sides Clash And Have Alternative Takes On The Procedings
You could see this coming miles away. When the ToH complained that is was the Lighthouse Project themselves not willing to negotiate a few weeks back over size and scope, they plied a letter to Suozzi and then to people on Long Island in an Open Letter. Meanwhile, the Lighthouse stuck to their momentum and [...]
Let’s Tip the Scales for the Lighthouse Project Tomorrow
Re-Zoning hearing looms for Lighthouse Project, and the stakes are high.