Hey Everyone,
We hope you had an awesome Christmas/Hanukkah/Festivus/Kwanza season and you are looking forward to the new year like we are.
The reason: OSG Sports is moving. Our new site is: OSGSports.sportsblog.com
After 5-years with the Yardbarker Network and on Blogger, we've found a new home. And it's a home we are really excited about.
The SportsBlog Network....
SportsBlog will give us access to photos and video that we've not ever had access to. And it will give us the ability to draw on a big network of resources to give you the best of the world of Sports.
Which is what we love to do.
So make sure you bookmark us: OSGSports.sportsblog.com
The transition will be gradual. We will continue posting content here for the next month or so and also posting it at the new site.
Hopefully by February, everyone will know how to find us and we'll be SportsBlog only.
Thank you all for your support over the years, you have no idea how much it means to us that you come and read our content. Words cannot thank you all enough, just know that we enjoy doing it as much as you enjoy reading it. And our goal is to continue to bring you the best, the funniest and sometimes the irreverent parts of the sports world with insight by a team of professionals who know much, much more than the average blogger.
Thanks again and Happy New Year!
The OSG Sports Team
Brother Phil
Brother Jon
Brother Wilkie
Brother J-Dub
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
So Much For The Abbottsford Heat
((HT: Sportsnet))
It was a relationship that wasn't working...
The city of Abbottsford, British Columbia was in a deal with the Calgary Flames to have their American Hockey League team be in the arena as the primary tenant. There was a ten-year deal that had been signed and, without the attendance figures matching what the city thought they would be and what the Flames wanted- the deal is over five years early.
The Heat are in the AHL playoffs, and when they're eliminated the moving sign is up...
"The economics did not turn out the way any of us intended, despite the tremendous efforts of many men and women who made it their mission to convert the allegiances of local hockey fans, at least at the American Hockey League level, to the Heat.
"Notwithstanding economics, our experiences in the Fraser Valley have been good," King said in a press release.
The team had moved from the Quad Cities and, with all the looks of it, they'll be headed to either Glens Falls or Utica, New York. They were the only team in the AHL that played in the western time zone.
The mayor at the time, George Peary, guaranteed the Heat owners almost C$6-million a year to play in the city's new 7,000-seat arena. So, taxpayers have been paying a little over C$7-million in subsidies to the team to make up for team losses.
So, for the record... here's the last regular season game in Abbottsford Heat history...
((HT: The Heat their own selves))
It was a relationship that wasn't working...
The city of Abbottsford, British Columbia was in a deal with the Calgary Flames to have their American Hockey League team be in the arena as the primary tenant. There was a ten-year deal that had been signed and, without the attendance figures matching what the city thought they would be and what the Flames wanted- the deal is over five years early.
The Heat are in the AHL playoffs, and when they're eliminated the moving sign is up...
"The economics did not turn out the way any of us intended, despite the tremendous efforts of many men and women who made it their mission to convert the allegiances of local hockey fans, at least at the American Hockey League level, to the Heat.
"Notwithstanding economics, our experiences in the Fraser Valley have been good," King said in a press release.
The team had moved from the Quad Cities and, with all the looks of it, they'll be headed to either Glens Falls or Utica, New York. They were the only team in the AHL that played in the western time zone.
The mayor at the time, George Peary, guaranteed the Heat owners almost C$6-million a year to play in the city's new 7,000-seat arena. So, taxpayers have been paying a little over C$7-million in subsidies to the team to make up for team losses.
So, for the record... here's the last regular season game in Abbottsford Heat history...
((HT: The Heat their own selves))
Monday, November 11, 2013
Bomb Dropped: Braves Leaving Atlanta After 2016
For the suburbs...
The Braves' lease at Turner Field expires after the 2016 season, so the Braves are leaving for the northwest part of the city limits and will anchor a 60-acre mixed-use development...
As John Schuerholz reminded anyone willing to listen, there are reasons- all financial…
((HT: WSB-TV))
The team is set to meet with Governor Nathan Deal to discuss their plans... and there is no set time to talk to Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed about their plans...
Especially, since he seems to be talking to the Falcons and only the Falcons about their plans these days...
In Schuerholz's statement regarding access to the ballpark will be greatly improved with the new location of the ballpark. A majority of Braves fans who buy tickets to a game reside in the northern suburbs.
The team now has a website: homeofthebraves.com which explains "Some" of the details...
"And, Good Morning to you, too..."
More when we know more…
We know more--
The new stadium, projected to cost $670-plus million with $200 million coming from the Braves, the rest it appears will come from the citizens of Cobb County.
The location of the stadium, a somewhat hilly swath of land bordering an office park and an interstate highway. But the location also offers the team the ability to build a mixed used development next door, which many believe to be the true motivation for all of this.
Braves executive Derek Schiller says the new facility, slated to open at the beginning of the 2017 season, would seat 41 or 42,000 fans.
In a Monday morning press conference, Schiller and team President John Schuerholz also added that in order to do what they termed "Necessary" work to Turner Field, it would cost the team nearly $150 million in infrastructure work, work on a stadium they lease, not own.
And for those who say--"But they won't be in Atlanta anymore", well, actually they are. The location sits in the 30339 area code, which technically harbors an Atlanta mailing address.
WXIA-TV gives us more TV details:
The Braves' lease at Turner Field expires after the 2016 season, so the Braves are leaving for the northwest part of the city limits and will anchor a 60-acre mixed-use development...
As John Schuerholz reminded anyone willing to listen, there are reasons- all financial…
((HT: WSB-TV))
The team is set to meet with Governor Nathan Deal to discuss their plans... and there is no set time to talk to Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed about their plans...
Especially, since he seems to be talking to the Falcons and only the Falcons about their plans these days...
In Schuerholz's statement regarding access to the ballpark will be greatly improved with the new location of the ballpark. A majority of Braves fans who buy tickets to a game reside in the northern suburbs.
The team now has a website: homeofthebraves.com which explains "Some" of the details...
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| Map of who buys tickets to Atlanta Braves games |
"And, Good Morning to you, too..."
More when we know more…
We know more--
The new stadium, projected to cost $670-plus million with $200 million coming from the Braves, the rest it appears will come from the citizens of Cobb County.
The location of the stadium, a somewhat hilly swath of land bordering an office park and an interstate highway. But the location also offers the team the ability to build a mixed used development next door, which many believe to be the true motivation for all of this.
Braves executive Derek Schiller says the new facility, slated to open at the beginning of the 2017 season, would seat 41 or 42,000 fans.
In a Monday morning press conference, Schiller and team President John Schuerholz also added that in order to do what they termed "Necessary" work to Turner Field, it would cost the team nearly $150 million in infrastructure work, work on a stadium they lease, not own.
And for those who say--"But they won't be in Atlanta anymore", well, actually they are. The location sits in the 30339 area code, which technically harbors an Atlanta mailing address.
WXIA-TV gives us more TV details:
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