Exile in Portales

The weekend wasn't the best o' times here at  El Casa Inmóvil De Pennington , but it was far from the worst.  Saturday was almost a...

Keith Olbermann on Gordie Howe: I used to hate, Hate, HATE Olbermann when he was doing politics on MSNBC.  Sports is quite another thin...

From last night's game at The Joe: That demonstration brought a tear to my eye.  We love him here in P-Ville, as well. Oh, yeah.....

... go out to Gordie Howe and his family.  From the Detroit Free Press : Gordie Howe — the hockey legend and giant among Detroit sports...

So, there I was... watching the Beloved Wings play the Hated Flightless Birds last evening with about four minutes left in the game and the...

We almost had two such endings yesterday... one worked out and one didn't.  Here's the one that worked: The game was a 0-0 tie ...

Department of Redundancy Department: Sigh.  Our teevee is getting a LOT of rest this summer.  Which ain't new or different from su...

What?  It's June already?  Why, yes... yes it IS.  And here's what we were on about exactly six years ago today: Sunday, June 01...

Final score, Game One : Datsyuk 1, Boston 0. That's the way to start, Boys.  Don't let up and keep on as you've begun coz B...

Rodney Crowell ... Tired ol' story, sad but true We mama's boys have got it in for you Our faults are many, our virtues nil We ...

By way of Puck Daddy , yet another FBFU*... And there's this about that: All that said, this map may not be that accurate. Lots...

Last year I put this up around this time... Sunday, April 28, 2013 It's 22 , Bitchez*! From NHL.com ... The Detroit ...

Gordie Howe turns 86 today.  That's the good news.  The bad news is he's battling dementia and we all know that's a losing figh...

Meh.  OK, we sprung forward.  In so doing we slept until well after noon MDT and missed the first two and a half periods of the Wings game,...

High in The Joe Louis Arena rafters, that is.  Here's the full Lidstrom Number Retirement ceremony from last evening, courtesy of YouTu...

There's an upside to gettin' up at oh-dark-thirty to watch hockey.  Today we watched the Swedes... our second favorite team in th...

I love macro photography and NatGeo sent along a link to some astounding examples of that sort of work in a weekly e-mail I receive from th...

That's an old hockey term and the Wings have been decidedly short o' said luck for the past ten games or so, snake-bit, even.  Unti...

The third period o' the Winter Classic is just under way... and speakin' o' which: It's a great, great game so far... a...

That's when the first o' TWO Winter Classic Alumni games today between the Beloved Wings and the Hated Leafs begins, where we'l...