Tag: sports (Page 17 of 27)

Dear ESPN: Could Your New Site Make Things More Difficult?

3 February, 2009 / Kat

I woke up Tuesday morning and literally bounced to work from my new apartment. I woke up early, stopped by my neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts, got my iced coffee, put on the iPod, put on Kevin Rudolf’s Let it Rock (my obsession since October) and bounced to work.

I bounded up the three flights of stairs to my office, jumped through the door, smiled to the student who was working the main desk, skipped into my office, and fired up the trusty laptop. I fired off a few emails, and then opened up Google Reader to catch up on the morning’s recaps of the event that had made me full of so much bounce – BU’s blood-pressure-raising win against Harvard in the Beanpot semifinal the night before.

And then, there it was, in the Terrier Hockey Fan Blog. Yet another BU Beanpot goal had made the Sportscenter Top 10. In 2006, it was Chris Higgins’ crazy “How’d He Do That?!” slide into the boards goal. Monday, it was his classmate from down Route 1 North, Jason Lawrence’s game-winning goal that made the Top 10.

It’s Beanpot Monday, and I’m Live Tweeting. (Updated Tuesday Morning)

2 February, 2009 / Kat

My BlackBerry photo of the clearly relieved Terriers at the end of their too-close matchup with Harvard.

Oh, what a Beanpot first game. I think it’s a good thing I have low blood pressure, because I think my blood pressure was at an all time high last night, meaning it was normal.

While I’ll have a more indepth recap later, here are my live Tweets from the game. If you notice, I was too busy hyperventilating when A-Number-Twenty-One scored his winning goal to update the Twitter feed. Start from the bottom up to read in chronological order. Continue reading

The Everyone’s Favorite Goalie Watch: Keep On Trucking

1 February, 2009 / Kat

It’s been a while since …On Being a Sports Girl checked in on the play of Everyone’s Favorite Goalie. No, John Curry hasn’t been called up to Pittsburgh again, but he has spent the last two weeks playing out of his mind in the AHL.

Take Friday night againist the Hershey Bears, for example. Curry stopped four shots in the shootout to lead the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-3 win. He made 46 saves that evening.

On Saturday night, Curry stopped 21 shots as the Penguins rolled over the Syracuse Crunch 4-1. Curry faced former Terrier teammate Brian McGuirk, who plays for the Crunch.

Trusty Baby Pens beat writer Jonathan Bombulie had this fun Curry fact on his blog after Saturday’s game:

Since being touched up for five goals in a 6-4 loss at Binghamton on Jan. 16, John Curry is 5-0 with a 1.55 GAA and .953 save percentage.

The Penguins organization has made a gesture of faith in Curry with their recent trade of Dany “Now We Don’t Have To Worry About Pronouncing His Last Name” Sabourin for former Edmonton Oiler goaltender Mathieu Garon. According to many a Penguins blogger, Garon will be a free agent after this year, leaving the Penguins with the option to bring Curry up to be Marc-Andre Fleury’s backup for good. We’ll see…

At That Rate, I’m Surprised They Didn’t Give the Arena Away

25 January, 2009 / Kat

The Whittamore Center at the University of New Hampshire (photo by yours truly)

The Whittemore Center at the University of New Hampshire (photo by yours truly)

Before I get to the body of this post, I would like to take the opportunity to let you know that this is a Unitel Power Post, sponsored by Jewelry Creations of Dover and with special thanks to Margarita’s. We’d also like to thank our local fishery for providing our first goal fish, and take this opportunity to give away a 10 percent off coupon to the Tea Times Inn in Conway to everyone sitting in sections 120, 121, and 122. And students, if you’re sitting in section 112, row H, seat 10, you have just won a piece of pizza from Wildcat Pizza. Wildcat Pizza, where wildcats eat.

Oh, the University of New Hampshire. I’ve been attending hockey games at the “Whit” (UNH’s Whittemore Center) for just about four years, and they always make for an amusing evening. Saturday evening’s BU-UNH tilt, however, had to be the most amusing of them all.

And Your Leading Goal Scorer for the Terriers As Of Tonight Is…

24 January, 2009 / Kat

Bad cell phone photo, but it'll do.

A-Number-Twenty-One, on your left.

BU decimated the University of New Hampshire Wildcats tonight, 5-0. This is not always a good thing, for the two teams meet again Saturday evening, and when UNH gets angry, they get…angry. Like, I may be assaulted by a smelly, slimy, dead trout when I walk into the Whittamore Center Saturday evening with my BU hockey jersey on. At least my cat will want to cuddle with me afterward.

Have I mentioned that I love this hockey team? Holy heck – they’re fast, they’re great penalty killers and they try so hard most of the time. This team is amazing. There’s nothing else you can say. In the mobs of people exiting the arena after the games, you just hear people in awe talking about what they’ve just watched. Tonight I heard about six people as I left the arena use the word dominance. That might be what this is. I prefer the word fun. This is fun.

I’ll report back from New Hampshire. Check the Twitter feed to your right for in game updates Saturday night.