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game recap

Henrik Zetterberg has won the MVP.

 It was a crazy day in sports today!

Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester threw a no hitter against the KC Royals at Fenway Park. Here are some interesting stats to the game:

1. Jason Varitek has now caught 4 no hitters, and is the only player in the MLB modern-era to do so (Nomo, Lowe, Bucholz, and Lester)
2. Jon Lester is the first lefty since 1956 to throw a no no at Fenway (Mel Parnell)
3. The Red Sox now have 18 no hitters in their history (Dodgers have 20 for the top spot on the list)
4. Lester never even pitched a complete game before tonight
5. most importantly, Jon Lester is a cancer survivor at 24

Also today the San Antonio Spurs became one of the few NBA teams to have a road win. They defeated the New Orleans Hornets 91-82 in the Game 7. San Antonio now faces the LA Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. Manu Ginobli lead the team in scoring with 26 and hit 4 critical free throws in the final minute.

The Stanlet Cup Finals are set, Pittsburgh vs. Detroit! The Red Wings defeated the Dallas Stars today in 6 games and with vengance! If there was any doubt the Detroit was lacking effort down the stretch they made sure to make fools out of the doubters tonight! Chris Osgood made 28 saves tonight and Detroit scored 3 in the first period to send the Stars packing with a final of 4-1.

And finally the Cubs defeated the Astros today 7-2, but Geovany Soto had an inside the park HR today for the Cubbies in top of the 4th. However, replays showed that it should’ve been an automatic HR because the ball bounced OFF the yellow line. With my love of the Yanks aside, it seems that Umps have a problem seeing proper HR lately! But great hustle by Soto! Also, Lance the Great went 0-4.

And I’m out of breath, Good Night! The Chick will be in the Bronx tomorrow for the Yanks v. Orioles because I like to torture myself and see this mess in person! Make sure you stop by, and maybe buy me a beer or two!

xxoo 

-The Chick

 As if the world of internships isn’t competitive enough, we now have Sean Avery to compete with. And no I’m not talking about dealing with the Rangers bad-boy at the Garden. I’m talking about Sean Avery being Vogue’s newest intern!?!?!

Avery has stated that he is the resisdent “fashion-ista” in the Rangers locker room, and has also stated that he has helped his various Hollywood starlet girlfriends with their Red Carpet choices. But is he for real in wanted to be a Vogue intern? Apparently so. And how did he do it? He simply wrote a letter to Vogue Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour!

Here’s an excerpt from the New Yorker article about Avery’s dive into fashion:

“Avery’s more conventional provocation techniques, such as trash-talking, wife-slagging, face-rubbing, slew-footing, slashing, diving, and flopping, may irritate his adversaries even more on account of his unconventional off-ice persona. Not for Avery the typical prairie-boy self-effacement of the hockey man. He has said that he finds sports, and athletes, boring, and that he’d like to be an editor of a fashion magazine. (He’s planning to do a summer internship at Vogue.) Unlike most hockey players, he sees nothing wrong with the fact that he likes to “smell nice occasionally.” He has said that he prizes his black patent-leather Yves Saint Laurent high-tops, “a lovely cashmere throw from a friend who works at Calvin Klein,” and his Philippe Starck machine-gun-shaped lamp (“It lets you know there’s a man living in the house”). For a while, he wore black nail polish on one hand—“my fighting hand.” He told one magazine, “Sometimes I’ll wear a scarf to the game and my teammates have no idea what to do.” He is a conspicuous dater of starlets, such as Elisha Cuthbert, and was recently linked, by rumor, to Mary-Kate Olsen, and, in error, to the alleged Manhattan madam Kristin Davis. He’s sort of a puckhead’s Dennis Rodman, except that there’s more fox in his crazy. He does research on his opponents and tailors his intra-whistle banter accordingly. Avery is a skilled player, agitations aside, but not so skilled that it would explain how much better the Rangers do with him than without him. The discrepancy testifies to the genius of the idiot. “

“Editor of a Fashion Magazine!” Dude, your a freaking Hockey player! Grow a pair and work on getting healed for next season, and not on which nail polish your gonna wear to your newest internship! Also, did you see The Devil Wears Prada? Fashion magazine internships suck, especially with the Ice Queen, Anna Wintour! 

Only time will tell if Avery shows up to the Garden next season wearing sheer tights and a fur coat ala Joe Namath!

Vinny Testaverde signs with the Carolina Panthers, Alex Rodriguez will likely opt out after Yankees fail again, Michael Vick owes Falcon 20 Million, Curt Schilling to start game 2 for Boston, Marion Jones admits steroid use - Those are the headlines around the sports world, but you need to scroll all the way down the ESPN webpage to realize that the 2007-2008 Hockey season has begun. More and more we see that the NHL is falling out of favor with American fans. All we care about lately is the MLB Playoffs, Week 5 in the NFL, and exhibition games starting in the NBA.The NHL has many storylines in this season so far, but nobody cares! In fact, The New York Islanders had a huge upset over the heavily favored Buffalo Sabres. But what were the headlines in the respected cities? Yankees Lose ALDS Again, and Buffalo Gets Beat at The Last Second on Monday Night Football… nothing about hockey!