So LeBron James’ mom gets caught with a little of the drinky-drinky, drivey-drivey. I’d give anything to see him walking around the courtroom waving a towel yelling at anyone that will listen that it’s his mom in the defendant’s chair.

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ESPN baseball-esque scheduling (of the same eight teams) aside, the in-game content of NBC’s NHL broadcasts seems to be pretty sharp. The rest of it is crap. Not only the fact that they have, as ESPN and FOX do with baseball, and ESPN did with hockey, picked the smallest handful of teams which to feature each week, but they fill the intermission “Rockefeller Center Studio Show” with features on players from those teams. Again, it’s no wonder the same few teams build the biggest fan bases, see the biggest return from merchandise, and in return, the top teams. At least the NHL has a salary cap to keep that at least somewhat under control.

All of this just makes it that much more evident how ridiculously fixed the NHL Draft lottery was. I’m pretty convinced now that they put two slips of paper in a hat, one with “NY Rangers” written on it, the other with “Pittsburgh”, and drew for #1 that way. Why else would the second-worst team in hockey be on national TV repeatedly, if the NHL didn’t want Mario Lemieux to come out looking like the fish that saved (hockey in) Pittsburgh?

And yes, I am bitter that Carolina, despite a loss tonight, has the best record in hockey and one national TV appearance to show for it.

In other hockey news, BG beat Michigan tonight, splitting a weekend home-and-home in just as spectacular fashion as they lost the game last night, in front of almost 5,000 fans at the BG Ice Arena. Good to see BG hockey on the road back from crappyness.

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