Author: Michael

This season’s edition of the NHL Winter Classic was held on New Year’s Eve after last season’s Winter Classic on New Year’s Day found itself getting shellacked in the ratings thanks in large part to the fact that it was in direct competition with the Rose Bowl.
So did the move work?
It appears that it did not, but there is more to it.
According to Newsweek, the game between the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues at Wrigley Field — which the Blues won 6-2 —drew an average of 920,000 viewers on TNT and TruTV (peaking at 1.2 million).

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The Durham Bulls lost a beloved member of their community on New Year’s Day in Ripken the bat dog.
Ripken, an eight-year-old black lab, died of “complications from a serious, undiagnosed medical condition which he sadly could not recover from.” While Ripken was well known for retrieving bats at Bulls games (they are the Triple A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays), he was also an integral part of several athletic programs in the North Carolina Research Triangle area.

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