...the major headline of the sports section in the state's largest
newspaper reads: Local Dentist Croquet King!  You also know its
getting bad out there when inside the article it is announced that
ESPN was actually on hand to tape the event for future broadcast!
Yes, there is a reason I am posting this here:  Perhaps (I know it
hasn't worked all that well in the past) if a large number of college
hockey fans lobbied ESPN and other networks to carry college hockey
rather than croquet tournaments and lumberjack festivals (I'm not making
that up, to borrow a line from Dave Barry) with baseball on strike
 
and the NHL and (perhaps) the NBA about to shut down their seasons.
If the NHL isn't smart enough to capitalize on their new national
TV contracts at a time when the only major sport on the dial is
football, and thats only 3 days a week, then maybe those venerable
people at the NC$$ can work something out to get more coverage for
college hockey...certainly hockey would get better ratings than
2 hours of watching a man and his axe or a bunch of people playing
croquet.  (No offense intended towards any lumberjacks or
croquet-o-philes in the reading audience)
 
John Forsyth
 
PS: regarding Hobey-Baker award winners, David Emma went to Boston
College, not Harvard