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What The Hell Is Icing?
There’s fighting, line changes, French Canadians and beer. How is it that I haven’t followed hockey before? Probably because I can’t speak a like of Russian and I don’t have the faintest idea what icing is. Because the NBA is dead to me this year, I’ve decided to follow the remaining NHL season. The problem…
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Utah Jazz v. NBA Lockout
It looked like he pushed him. With seconds ticking off the clock, Michael Jordan crossed over Bryon Russell and drained a 20-footer to take the lead from the Utah Jazz in Game 6 of the 1998 Finals. I was at my mother’s house in Las Vegas screaming at the television and I wasn’t alone. Everyone…
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Post-Turkey Drink-a-thon
Tip of the hat to everybody who showed up to the Pre-Turkey Drink-a-thon at Keys On Main. It was a good night. I am sure all of the holiday shots I poured made for some rough mornings but it was all done for a good cause. We raised a couple of ducats and a bunch…
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Zee Germans Are Coming
It must be real nice to be European. Specifically, it must be real nice to be German. It must be nice to come to our country and utilize our National Park system, berate bartenders and tip nothing. It must be real nice to think that the sun never sets on the German Empire and that…
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Notes From Behind The Bar: Douche Bags, Zombies and Regrets
If he was the lead in a Saturday Night Live sketch, Loren Michaels would say tone it down. He was over six feet tall with broad shoulders. He was sporting a frosted-tipped buzz cut, tattoos covering his bulging arms and a cross the size Jesus of Nazareth carried up Golgotha. His snap-buttoned shorts-sleeved shirt was…
Ben Raskin 