| Hockey Fans Flock to the Brinkley Report
A scroll through the "Related Blogs" page (the link is to your right) will confirm just how crowded the online hockey community has become, with many accomplished and insightful bloggers vying for your attention. So how does one get a leg up on the competition? Well, it helps if you've made the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Christie Brinkley is a newly minted hockey fan, and among a handful of celebrities recruited by NHL.com to chat up this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs. According to the National Post, her blog is a runaway hit. Brinkley's web diary appeared for the first time a few weeks back, and within a day it had generated 50,000 page views. It does not feature any pictures of the 53-year-old mother of three in swimwear, though there is a series of Brinkley at a game in an Islanders sweater.
Astorino profiled in Sports Illustrated
Drew Astorino is used to being in the sports pages of the local newspaper, but why stop there? Astorino didn't.In the most this week's Sports Illustrated, the General McLane senior was listed among SI's "Faces in the Crowd" column. The Lancer standout was nominated through TAKKLE.com, a sort-of MySpace for athletes. Astorino profiled in Sports Illustrated By Matthew Digiacomo April 13, 2007 — Drew Astorino is used to being in the sports pages of the local newspaper, but why stop there? Astorino didn't. .
Samuels a huge hit at US high school
Sensational is one of the terms often used to describe Samardo Samuels, the 18-year-old basketball sensation who came out of the KFC/ISSA schoolboy competitions and who was listed by the prestigious Sports Illustrated magazine among the top five underclassmen in the US in 2006. Recruited at age 15 from a KFC-sponsored JaBA Star Search Camp, the youngster from Muschette High in Trelawny left Jamaica for St Benedicts High School in New Jersey and quickly established himsel as a centre and power forward.
He is currently the No 2-ranked high school basketball player in the USA, and is the top centre for the Class of 2008. .
Meet My Least Favorite Former Mets Minor Leaguer
Unless you were a huge fan of the "Man on Street" character so craftily portrayed in "What Women Want," you've probably never heard of Joe Petcka. He was drafted by the Mets in 1992, and knocked around the minor leagues before giving up baseball and taking up acting. And cat-beating. Joe had a fight with his girlfriend, a fight in which he reportedly told his girlfriend (Sports Illustrated reporter Lisa Altobelli) that she loved the cat more than she loved him (Lisa's a pretty good judge of character, as it turns out). Anyway, Joe allegedly left after the fight, came back the next day when Lisa wasn't there, and beat Norman the cat to death. That's the sickest thing about it. This wasn't even a moment of rage, where he tried to make some grand, passionate, disgustingly misguided point by hurting the cat in front of the girl.
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