Monthly Archives: May 2007

More misery for Sharks followers

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 24, 2007 | Comments closed
You may or not not know that the Stanley Cup playoffs begin Monday, and that the Ottawa Senators will face the Anaheim Ducks. For any Sharks fans out there, prepare to watch a team from California skate with the Stanley Cup for the first time in history. Sharks fans better prepare to be envious. Four California [...]
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The NHL’s "Heidi" Moment

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 21, 2007 | Comments closed
Four decades ago, NBC got a black eye when it cut away from a Raiders-Jets AFL game — and missed the dramatic ending — to start its regularly-scheduled programming. It came to be known as “The Heidi Game.” Furious football fans created a national uproar following NBC’s ill-advised programming decision. It happened again Saturday at NBC, though [...]
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Lightning coach suspends 2 starting DBs

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 20, 2007 | Comments closed
Lightning coach Doug Murray has announced that he has suspended DBs Diamond Francies and York Frierson for two games —  tonight’s home game against the Central Valley Coyotes and next week’s game at Boise. Francies and Frierson both started in Monday night’s victory at Everett. Murray said the two had a brief but heated dispute during [...]
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Chris Henry makes waves; Mauia not bad either

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 18, 2007 | Comments closed
Stockton’s Chris Henry is getting a big opportunity at the Tennessee Titans’ minicamp because second-year running back LenDale White is sidelined with a hamstring injury. It appears that not all of the Titans are sold on White because of what one player called his “nonchalant” attitude. Another player called the battle at running back “wide open.” [...]
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Taking coddling to a new level

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 17, 2007 | Comments closed
Look back at the Houston Astros’ season last year. The Astros finished 1 1/2 games behind the St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Central. The Cardinals went on to win the World Series. The Astros missed the playoffs. Now, consider Prince Roger Clemens of Katy, Texas. Rightly venerated as one of baseball’s best pitchers ever, [...]
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More details on Lightning’s victory

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 15, 2007 | Comments closed
To report on road games, The Record relies on a late-night phone call from a Lightning spokesperson for the story that appears in the paper the following morning. But there was a little bit more to Monday’s one-point victory at Everett than what appeared in today’s game story in The Record. Yes, Alex Walls booted a 39-yard [...]
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Are you ready for some football?

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 14, 2007 | Comments closed
Al Michaels won’t be doing the play-by-play. Tony Kornheiser won’t be cracking wise. Still and all, the Stockton Lightning is playing Monday Night Football, visiting the Everett Hawks, who are based in Everett, Wash., if anyone asks. If the Lightning has any thoughts of making a playoff run, a win tonight would be a good idea. Both teams [...]
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Everything is "OK" with former Lightning coach

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 11, 2007 | Comments closed
Former Stockton Lightning coach Richard Davis, fired after the team’s inaugural 5-11 performance last season, is back in his native Oklahoma, where next fall he will be the coach of the Wewoka (Okla.) High football team. Davis, 44, thus is able to live with his wife and two young children, whereas when he was in [...]
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Hockey rules!

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 9, 2007 | Comments closed
John Feinstein of the Washington Post has some raves for the Stanley Cup playoffs. It’s a must read for hockey fanatics weary of seeing their favorite sport either ignored or criticized by much of the media. As for non-hockey fans, or those who think the season ended when the Sharks and Stockton Thunder were eliminated from [...]
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Chris Henry, Reagan Mauia updates

By Roger Phillips | Published: May 6, 2007 | Comments closed
Click here for the latest article from Tennessee on Stockton’s Chris Henry. And here’s an article that includes some quotes from new Miami Dolphin Reagan Mauia of Stockton.
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