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As seen, I've been an advocate of having the team stay for hockey reasons, if it was something even remotely reasonable. It's just never going to be reasonable. Hell even if the team moves, Glendale is still going to be in their own world of .

If the team moves, then Glendale can use the arena for concerts etc without having to pay the exorbitant hockey

subsidy. I've seen reports that the city could actually make money on the arena if they didn't have to support the Coyotes.

Having lived 10 minutes from the arena and based on the number and type of non-Coyotes events that roll through the Jobber, I have a hard time believing that. Unless they

make money by simply not turning things on. Most of the higher profile events go on at the Univervisty of Phoenix Stadium, US Airways Arena, and even the Ashley Furninture Pavilion. I don't know how many more of those events would transfer to the Jobber, but I just don't see that.

Don't forget the Arena on the Fairgrounds where the Suns used to play. (Though I don't know if they use that for events). Also the next event at Jobing.com isn't till a month and a half(Some skateboarding tour).

The PAC better not expand past 12! The conference needs to retain SOME sort of stability.

Doesn't Buffalo's new owner have a lot of money though Ice Cap?

In late February, who had the Coyotes chances of staying stronger then the Sacramento Kings' chances?

It's official...geography officially means NOTHING to college football anymore.

Fixed it for you

I remember getting a jersey from there 10 years, and it was fine(Deutscher eishockey bund).

And Utah State and San Jose State are poised to join the Mountain West.

Methinks Idaho and New Mexico State might either move down to FCS or drop football altogether...

I gotta be honest, every time I see an Idaho home game on TV (mostly clips). It has the feel of watching an FCS game. Something about the Vandals seems like they don't belong at the highest division. I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it's the success and popularity of Boise State that

makes them look minor in comparison.

They do play in the smallest stadium in FBS if I'm not mistaken.

Ah, gotcha. Wasn't 100% sure about it. I had a feeling Glendale wasn't as conservative as other parts of the area.

Come on, Glendale...please, please just pay the money. I want them out here still. It's a decent team we have here, and it'd just be another blow to our civic pride.

I think "we close libraries and swimming pools to subsidize a failing sports team" is a blow to civic pride. Or it should be. I don't know. All those teabaggers in the desert really

cherry-pick which socialism they like and which socialism they don't like.

Sad but true. But are these particular politicians teabagger darlings? I honestly don't know the political scene in Glendale, beyond the car-crash aspects.

Arizona is considered one of the most tebagging states so,

I'd think at least a few members of the city council adhere to that ideology.

Not really a good assumption. That's like assuming everyone in California is a pinko commie super liberal.

It's in Maricopa County, Arpaio territory. In the 2008 election, Maricopa voted nearly 55% for McCain. In fact, since 1948, Maricopa hasn't voted for a Democrat.

Glednale's congressional representative is Republican

Trent Franks. Franks was reelected with nearly 65% of the vote in 2010.

In the state congress, a Republican (Linda Gray) represents Glendale.

It's safe to say this is a conservative area of a conservative

state.

I thought Glendale was a part of Democrat Ed Pastor's district, who is one the 2 most liberal congressman from Zona.

I don't remember the timeline last year, but at what point did it become clear the Thrashers would be moving instead of the Coyotes? I seem to remember us speculating they would announce the Coyotes moving between the conference finals and the Cup final. I ask because I am still somewhat anticipating an unexpected team getting

moved just to keep the Coyotes there.

What unexpected team is there though this year? The Thrashers weren't totally unexpected. But there's no one

else in nearly as dire a situation as they were yet.

Watch it be "Les Insulaires"

You might as well change it to the California division instead of Pacific.

Check out this fake:

just for reference, here's what the Patriots 2003-2006 silver alts were supposed to look like:

http://sportslogos.net/logo.php?id=to5kt2h9wg4tftvem7hqhmdh8

I believe that WSU uses those numerals currently.

Out of curiosity, have old Nordique fans became other teams' fans(Montreal, Toronto, etc), or have they just been waiting for their Nords to return?

For fun I posted this in the NFL thread, if the NFL went the NHL route(in their current standings)

Western Conference

1. SF

2. DEN

3. OAK

4. SEA

5. AZ

6. SD

7. KC

8. STL

Eastern Conference

1. NE

2. NYJ

3. DAL

4. NYG

5. BUF

6. PHI

7. MIA

8. WSH

Southern Conference

1. NO

2. HOU

3. ATL

4. TEN

5. CAR

6. TB

7. JAC

8. IND

Northern Conference

1. GB

2. BAL

3. PIT

4. DET

5. CHI

6. CIN

7. CLE

8. MIN

The 1 seeds would get byes and the 3's would visit the 2's on Wild Card Weekend.

The teams with byes would be: 49ers, Patriots, Saints, Packers.

The opening games would be: Oakland @ Denver, Dallas @ Jets, Falcons @ Texans, and Steelers @ Ravens.

While it wouldn't be as feasible with the NFL, here's what I would do with the schedule: 6 games with the 3 teams that were in your division before, to preserve rivalries.(for example the Niners would play Seattle, Arizona, and St.Louis twice) Then 4 games with the other teams in your new division, but were previously in the other conference(Niners would play Denver, KC, SD, Oakland, and flipping off year after year where they play). 4 more games would be switched off among the 6 other old divisions that would be in the other conferences. The 2 last games would be against the same slot in the other 2 conferences the year before(for example, if the Niners are playing a group in the Eastern conference, they would play the same position teams from the Northern and Southern conferences)

Here is what the Niners schedule would be under this scenario for next year:

Home: Seattle, Arizona, St. Louis, Denver, Kansas City, Dallas, NY Giants, New Orleans

Road: Seattle, Arizona, St. Louis, Oakland, San Diego, Philadelphia, Washington, Green Bay

The year after for them would conceivably be(if rankings are the same):

Home: Seattle, Arizona, St. Louis, Oakland, San Diego, Green Bay, Minnesota, New England

Road: Seattle, Arizona, St. Louis, Denver, Kansas City, Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans

The Packers would be for example:

Home: Minnesota, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, San Francisco

Road: Minnesota, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Carolina, New England

The next year for them would be:

Home: Minnesota, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Arizona, St. Louis, New England

Road: Minnesota, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans

I read during the Sharks-Stars recap that Dallas in last in attendance. Didn't think there would be a team lower then Phoenix if it's true.

Yeah, I mean a great as the Rangers are playing, their season ends this week. As for the Cowboys, even though they are arguably the most popular team in America, they still only play once per week. (Though with the ups and downs of Romo, it seems like more). The Stars have no excuses to try to market themselves better in their area.

OK, to be fair.....to those of you who say relocate, name me some REALISTIC places that could get them. Don't just name places you WANT them to go.

Charlotte, NC, Portland, OR, or Vancouver, BC come to

mind.

Portland doesn't have stadium anymore after they renovated their's into a soccer specific one.

http://www.azcentral...epossessed.html

Westgate City Center, the Glendale entertainment complex that serves as a pre-game party destination, is

now partially lender-owned after a foreclosure auction Monday.The lender iStar Financial took back the property from the developer, the Ellman Cos., after setting a minimum bid of $40 million and receiving no offers.

Well, only one option left for Westgate then.

POTD?

If the Treasure Valley can grow some more, and BSU can remain a great team, then maybe the end of this decade is when they jump to a power conference.

If WVU leaves for the SEC (and honestly I wouldn't blame them with the BE's mismanagement), say goodbye to the

Big East as a football conference. In that case, I hope the ACC's ready to take in Syracuse/UConn/USF/whoever the B10 doesn't touch between Pitt and Rutgers

Where does that leave TCU? Pac-12?

Nope, the Pac will never take a religious school. It's why

we didn't take BYU along with Utah.

I thought the reason stemmed from BYU's religious obligations concerning athletic competition on Sundays (which would have messed up the Pac-12 basketball tournament, among other things). There would be no such

issue with TCU.

The PAC 10/12 basketball tournament has never been on a Sunday to my knowledge.

I'm sorry, but teams from Oklahoma and Texas should not be in the PAC. I will admit that I was used to it being 10 teams for the longest time, and most of the teams excluding the Arizonas were next to the coast. It was like that for 33 years until last year when the conference added Utah and Colorado. I'm fine with the way that it is now with 12, but can't it just stay the way it is for some time? It just seems silly that the conference is suddenly considering adding teams from the Midwest. I wonder how fellow PAC fans feel?

Here's another we can add to the "Rex F-cking Ryan Collection":

Is that a DOG TAG!?!?

Well, yeah. Homie's gotta keep it real.

More Rex:

He should get an Avalanche jersey if you know what I mean.

Pick mine apart

The numbers could be a little off-center

I have a Darrelle Revis jersey I got off a site called styleJerseys.com, and I'm pretty sure it's authentic. It

has high quality material and I got it for less than $20 (the shipping cost a fortune, though).

Maybe you shouldn't use the same name of a website you're trying to peddle. Seriously, a Zito Giants "jersey" is clearly a T-shirt