A little of this, a little of that...

The NHL might be close to a deal. Maybe not-- it really depends who you ask. I can't wait to see someone calculate whatever the final salary cap will translate to for each team. I have a sneaking suspicion that because fans are pissed off and there's really no TV deal to spreak of, revenues are going to be way, way down and the players could actually end up with less money than they would have if they'd just taken the first offer the owners made (whatever it was) 12 months ago.

If it's even close, then Jeremy Roenick isn't the only imbecile in that union (although he's probably still the biggest).

Incidentally, I've been in sort of a "hockey hibernation" and didn't realize that ESPN had bought its way out of their NHL deal. We've got the CBC up here (Don Cherry. Sweet.) but with only NBC scheduled to televise games nationally, I'm more than a little worried about how difficult it will be to watch playoff hockey this year.

In the spirit of college football time-wasters (which are starting to become a specialty of this site, replacing bad punctuation and stupid/irrelevent posts), may I suggest taking this quiz. It's the "getting a squirming 7-year old into the back of your panel van" of college football quizzes; that is to say "more challenging than you might think."