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3/4/10 episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Recapping the Olympics

Poor Man’s PTI is back!  After a brief mid-winter hiatus, Ryan and Vin are back running down the biggest and dumbest stories for the week in sports. This week we’re also launching the Stat Boy half-hour where Burton aka Stat Boy is all growns up and is doing his own show with Tony Kornheiser Mike Ciccarone.

This episode, as always, is rated R so potentially NSFW.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Canada wins hockey gold. Was it ok to root for them?
  • Other Olympic stories including media whores, fellating a medal, curling
  • Tiger Woods
  • NBA Talk: Lebron’s just trying to sell more jerseys than Kobe
  • NFL Talk: Potential change in OT rules
  • Miscellaneous: Hank Gathers, womens basketball (yes, that’s correct) and the perils of chatroullete
  • We finally joined twitter: http://twitter.com/poormanspti

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NHL General

Fighting in the NHL: A Different Take

Over the past couple of months, fighting in the NHL has been lambasted by so-called “sports experts”. Most of this fodder is coming from people who have no interest in the sport. They have no interest, therefore, are ignorant to the history of the sport, and what role fighting plays in that vast history. True hockey fans know exactly why fighting is in the sport. It exists for many reasons. Maybe a skill player is getting too much physical play from a defenseman, or maybe that player has crossed the line with your skill player. Also, fighting can be the same as the two-out hit that sparks a rally.