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Posts tagged "Blackhawks"

Chicago's Conflicted Relationship with Injured Athletes: The Wood/Prior Effect

Chicago's Conflicted Relationship with Injured Athletes: The Wood/Prior Effect
Attend the convention – read any “ask the beat writer” column – and the calls for Woody still come pouring in. “Will he come back?” “He’s back!” “Can he still start?” Kerry Wood’s right arm could fall off and fans would begin planning his career as a lefty. In 2003, Mark Prior went 18-6 with... Read more »
By Dan Bradley,
January 25, 2011 at 3:00 am
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Kids Who Break Curses

(Game six is in overtime…)Me: There are people in Finland on the edges of their seats! In Slovakia! Canada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Buffalo…Lisa: Not the cab driver. Not even a year ago I sat in my garage and listened to fans on sports talk radio bash Patrick Kane: “Immature,” “He’s a thug. Trade him!,” “Gasp! Underage... Read more »
By Dan Bradley,
June 15, 2010 at 12:11 am
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To the Blackhawks Bandwagon: Always time to climb aboard!

Something my brother Anthony said a few years ago struck me as a pretty legitimate point on bandwagon fandom: someone was giving him crap about his White Sox hat, pointing out that he’d never heard him talk about baseball before and was a bandwagon jumper. Anthony responded: “HELL YEAH I AM! But the 2005 run... Read more »
By Dan Bradley,
May 23, 2010 at 4:23 am
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Blackhawks Hockey Saved My Life

If I look insane for the next month or so, don’t mind me – I’m growing a playoff beard. At the beginning of November 2008 I approached Brad Zibung – founder and editor of The Heckler (TheHeckler.com) – with an idea to write about the Chicago Blackhawks from the perspective of a bandwagon fan. I... Read more »
By Dan Bradley,
April 27, 2010 at 4:32 am
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"Dude, You're Lance Armstrong," or How to Correctly Define A Survivor

I am in the MRI tube again. “Wonder if anybody has ever tagged one of these. ‘For a good doctor, call…’.” I’ve been through this before: lying still for longer than I’m used to, scanned by every scanner (the ultrasound revealed I wasn’t pregnant), sending teams of trained professionals back to the board to devise... Read more »
By Dan Bradley,
March 10, 2010 at 1:27 am
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