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Adams Hockey

Like many hockey fans, I was happy that hockey was back this year. I did not care that ESPN did not renew its television contract with the NHL – I thought OLN which could have a few hiccups, but overall they were going to do well. I was wrong. OLN has been a disaster for the entire season and not getting better.

I understand they've never done before in the NHL, and had only a few months to hire announcers, cameramen, build a set, etc., but worst of all is that no have been improving and learning from their mistakes. Emissions are still as mediocre as they were on opening night.

After watching the opening weekend of the 2006 NHL Playoffs, here are my thoughts:

– The camera angles are mediocre at best. The camera for the first 10 minutes of Oilers vs Red Wings Game 1 was enlarged to the point where I could see the entire ice. This would be great except for the fact that it is impossible to see the disc or read a number T-shirt (and no, I'm not seeing on TV of 13 "). which is fixed within minutes, but are these things we should address in the postseason? should t they have discovered how a movie playing in the Joe Louis Arena during the regular season?

– Jack Edwards should not do play by play for the playoffs nationally televised. I miss the days of Gary Thorne / Bill Clement and Steve Levy / Darren Pang on ESPN and ESPN2.

– Speaking of Bill Clement, who is not a type study, which is a color commentator. Next season please find a type of study so you can move back to the cabin Clemente where it belongs.

– No OLN's fault, but no other network (ie, ESPN 2) is detrimental to the fans. We used to get to see two playoff games at once, now have one.

– The score takes up too much of the screen at the top. Must we see the giant logos of each team at all times? All it does is take up space and force to OLN put a black bar at the top of the screen so that the logos can fit, losing more space. Good luck trying to find the disk when scoreboard updates and pop-up ads (which is quite often) eat even more space.

– With two minutes in the Oilers vs Red Wings Game 1, with the score tied at 2, the camera cut to the … less than thirty seconds. This is unacceptable. Period.

– The second game of the double header on Friday, Anaheim vs. Calgary, was "the coverage premiums, "ie CBC feed OLN broadcasts only. Boys weak, weak. What, you can not afford to send more than a film crew one night? Maybe the NHL should have given coverage to a network that could handle it (of course, if the NHL does not demand as much money from ESPN, would not have this problem first).

And that was just the first weekend of coverage. It will be a long playoff season …

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Adam McFarland owns the SportsLizard.com Network – a network of sports sites including collectibles, movies, books, video games, and more. SportsLizard.com was recently awarded honorable mention in the Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards.

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David Adams Richards is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. His meditation on the joys of fly-fishing,iLines on the Water/i, published by Doubleday Canada, won the Governor General’s Award in 1998. His previous non-fiction book with Doubleday Canada,iHockey Dreams/i, was a national bestseller. As a novelist, Richards is best known for his Miramichi trilogy:iNights Below Station Street/i(1988), winner of the Governor General’s Award;iEvening Snow Will Bring Such Peace/i(1990), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; andiFor Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down/i. His noveliThe Bay of Love and Sorrows/i, published in 1998, received widespread critical acclaim.“Richards has used a novelist’s gift for character, dialogue and imagery to produce a touching portrait of hockey-crazed kids.” –iMaclean’s/ibrbr“A lyrical and unapologetically personal narrative about the place of the game in the Canadian psyche…[Richards] has raised the standard of hockey literature.” –iVancouver Sun/iIf you think that you are a Canadian, then my boy I will show you I am a Canadian too–if they check me from behind I will get up, if they kick and slash I will get up.  If we play three against five for fifteen minutes I will get up.  I too am a Canadian.  They will not take this away from me.  Nor, can I see, will they ever take it away from you.  At the moment they think we are defeated we will have just begun.  I will prove forever my years on the river, on the back rinks, on the buses, on the farm teams.  I will prove forever that this is what has shaped me.With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul.brbrThe lyrical narrative ofiHockey Dreams/iflows from Richards’ boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professor@™™™™™šÿ¾Úx

Adams on Adams

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John Adams insisted that his was a life insignificantly lived, yet he took great pride in having played an integral role in the birth of a nation. His writings were spiced with the wit and humor of a person who took his ideas seriously but not himself. When Adams began writing early in his career, he realized, "A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man?s attention and to inflame his ambition." Through his writings, both public and private, John Adams speaks of his rise from a country lawyer to the nation?s highest office by the force of his personality. Adams on Adams is an autobiographical account of an extraordinary journey. Drawing from Adams?s own letters, diaries, notes, and autobiographies, editor Paul M. Zall creates a fresh portrait of the nation?s second president. Adams?s words reveal how a man lacking the advantages of money, connections, class, or patronage promoted American independence at home and abroad. Zall focuses on how the president?s inner strengths, although at times conflicting with his sense of inferiority and his obsession with fame, helped win self-rule for America and national respect abroad. Adams?s writings are passionate and persistent; according to Thomas Jefferson, Adams was "always an honest man, often a great one?but sometimes absolutely mad." His abrasive personality earned him the name "The Last Angry Man." Despite this, Adams achieved respect, diplomatic recognition, and peace for an emerging nation, as well as credit for the country?s survival during its difficult early years. Although he believed the voice of the people was as sacred as the voice of God, Adams learned through experience that Americans could be "the silliest people under Heaven," and sometimes he counted himself among them. As president, Adams took pride in establishing a navy whose presence ensured stability and helped in peace negotiations with Native Americans and foreign countries. After he retired, Adams spent a quarter-century writing memoirs, letters, and articles in newspapers defending himself against being labeled an "aristocrat" or "monarchist" for insisting on a strong, well-balanced government as the best defense against the self-delusions of blind ambition or personal gratification. Adams on Adams is a new look at one of America?s most famous presidents as the determined leader follows his passions for America and her future. Adams?s feisty temperament, combined with his conversational style of writing, depicts a man who lived and died by his word.