2012 NHL Lockout

With any luck, terms like hockey-related revenues, variance, defined-benefit pension, make-whole provision and disclaimer of interest will soon seem like nothing but murmurs from an old nightmare. But on Monday, as several members of the Kings skated in...

Sitting in a hockey locker room, Steve Chase became the latest die-hard fan fed up with the NHL lockout.  Living in Los Angeles, Chase believed the league had squandered all the goodwill built in the area after the Kings won the Stanley Cup. His...

The latest round of NHL labor talks ended with the two sides in different rooms from each other.  The players’ association and league negotiators met separately Wednesday with federal mediators in suburban New Jersey, holding discussions that...

TORONTO -- NHL labor negotiations will resume today, with mediators rejoining the talks at an undisclosed location in an effort to save the hockey season.   The Canadian Press on Tuesday reported the restart of bargaining between the league and union,...

With a new year comes new hopes and anticipations. It’s what makes New Year’s so great. It’s also part of what defines sports. Happy New Year Northern Michigan. There’s a lot of reasons to look forward to a great 2013 year in...

NEW YORK -- The dribs and drabs -- almost like an annoying dripping faucet -- have taken a sizable toll. All has proved quite costly in terms of the pocketbooks of the players, owners and arena workers. For some perspective, the last hockey game...

Half-baked Jake is back in all his half-bakedness … News: The steroid-dripping Baseball Hall of Fame ballots are distributed. Views: After leaving the box unchecked twice, I'm voting for Killingworth's Jeff Bagwell. My fuller view of one of the...

5:30 - 9 a.m.  Jonathon Brandmeier 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.  Mike McConnell 10:05 a.m.  Mike McConnell hears the struggles of raising a ‘G’ rated family in an ‘X’ rated world. 12 - 3 p.m.  John Williams 12:05 p.m.  Recently the...

5 - 6 a.m. The Saturday Morning Show with Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong  5:05 a.m.  Good-eating Christmas gift ideas are the subject of two guests from Wisconsin.... Rochelle Ripp, Wisconsin’s “Alice in Dairyland”, makes her...

What a game! It went into overtime Wednesday night tied at 1-1 with Ilya Bryzgalov in net for Moscow and visiting St. Petersburg goalie Sergei Bobrovsky performing just as well at the other end of the rink. Finally, Bobrovsky let the second puck of...

Barry Alvarez isn't coming back to coach Wisconsin for one game because he wants to boost his chances of getting into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame. Alvarez is already in it -- he was inducted in 2009. Wisconsin's athletic director is returning to the...

NEW YORK -- Instead of closing in on a deal, the NHL and the players’ association are further apart than ever before.   Union executive director Donald Fehr began the first of his two news conferences Thursday night by proclaiming he believed...