Derek Boogaard's Dad Goes Public

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There's a new book out on the troubled life of NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard- the HQ encourages picking it up...

The Boogey Man's dad, Len, went on "Prime Time Sports" for the first time to discuss what he thinks happened to his son through the eyes of the National Hockey League...

Bottom line- he thinks his son's problems, mounting as he continued to play, were left and not addressed in a timely fashion...
Brett Popplewell addressed Boogaard's last days in the premier edition of Sportnet Magazine back in 2011. John Branch wrote in his book on Boogaard as Sportsnet reports: "Within a year, Derek would have teeth knocked out and be prescribed vast amounts of painkillers by team doctors.In another year, he would be in substance abuse rehabilitation. In another year, he would be in New York, rich and miserable and alone. And in another year, he would be dead."
Boogaard was diagnosed, after his death, with CTE and his father went on to do his own investigation surrounding his son's passing.

25 Years Of Prime Time Sports

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BobCat is an acquired taste...

But there is no mistaking that Bob McCown is a legend in the sports talk industry- and it's wild to think that he has been at the forefront of the industry, based in Toronto, for a quarter-century...

Sportsnet put together a special on him and his impact that includes some of the FOSG

Here's Segment One of the special...

JR Isn't A Fan Of The Concussion Lawsuit

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And we now have a player coming forward who isn't a fan of the current lawsuit where people are piling on to turn the thing into a class action suit rather quickly...

Jeremy Roenick was a guest on "Prime Time Sports" with Bobcat and Damien Cox...

Rogers Gets The Next 12 Years Of The NHL Up North...

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And this is huge in a few ways...

1) The dollar figure- C$5.2-billion over 12 years... the largest deal in league history...

2) Sportsnet gets the "Hockey Night in Canada" brand, but can sub-lease it back to the CBC for four years...

3) It completely boxes out TSN nationally- the top-ranked cable network in the country and puts CBC under the thumb of Sportsnet- as it barely hangs on to any kind of sports branding...

Any kind...

Which means that the future of Don Cherry is in flux right now... and he can't even tell you what his future is...

4) CBC, run through public funding, can't flip the profits they make from hockey and turn them into other shows...

So, Sportsnet outspent everyone and CBC continues to fall behind in sports programming, but one of the first things the commissioner had to do was survive "Prime Time Sports" with Bob McCown....

Here's The Bettman with Bobcat...