Tuesday Things Other Than Football

• There are those who are in favor of naming Pat Tillman in various sportsperson of the year awards. I for one am pleased that Sports Illustrated has selected the Boston Red Sox for 2004. Whatever value is to be judged of Mr. Tillman’s heroicism and sacrifice, it has little to do with sport.
• MLB’s Hall of Fame Ballot is out. Darryl Strawberry? So, coke is okay, but just don’t gamble?
• Sports Blah seems to be the place to for off season baseball speculation.
• The Sports Prof is keeping an eye on Joe Paterno and other college coaching changes. Specifically, the coaching vacuum that has been re-opened in Indiana.
• Today’s Lockout Log is interesting. Since they update daily, I’ll archive it:

  The following is a daily log of the NHL lockout, which began September 16:
  
  TOTAL DAYS: 73
  
  GAMES ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR TODAY: 2
  
  GAMES CANCELED TO DATE: 638
  
  LAST WORK STOPPAGE: 1994 (103 days)
  
  NEWS OF THE DAY: As the number of canceled games continues to pile up, the two sides of the NHL labor dispute appear no closer to coming to an agreement.
  
  After a feature in The Hockey News suggested that the league may be willing to agree to a luxury tax, NHL vice president told TSN in Canada that it was not true.
  
  “We have said repeatedly that a proposal will not work for us,” Daly said to the network. “A tax-based system is too unpredictable and the league’s problems too severe for us to take chances on the future of the game.”
  
  In other off-the-ice news, Atlanta Thrashers star Dany Heatley, who is charged with vehicular homicide in the death of teammate Daniel Snyder, appeared in a pretrial hearing Monday, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that a plea bargain is not imminent in the case.
  
  “I believe this case, at this point, appears to be heading to a trial,” Heatley’s lawyer Ed Garland said.
  
  WHERE ARE THEY NOW?: New Jersey Devils center John Madden became the 287th player to sign with a European team Monday, when he agreed to play with HIFK Helsinki of the Finnish League.
  
  Three other players, Washington center Jeff Halpern, Los Angeles center Sean avery and Chicago center Tyler Arnason, all left their European clubs Monday.

  At least people are talking about what they thinking. That’s more than we had a month ago. The Hockey News story mentioned I believe is this one.
• Go here and watch Ales Hemsky skate. He’s good.
• Don’t forget that Ken Jennings loses tonight on Jeopardy. If you want to know the Final Jeopardy question he misses, go here.
• I like this post about baseball juicing from Swing and a Miss.