Last Update - February 25, 2010 at 6:18 AM EST
To catch up with the first half of this week, visit the items linked to in the 'Reading And Viewing List' below, for February 22 through February 24, 2010.
February 24, 2010
Ray Davies Rerecording Kinks Songs With Bruce Springsteen,
Bon Jovi and More
By Steve Baltin at Spinner
While Kinks frontman Ray Davies joins millions of British Invasion fans in waiting on his brother and guitarist Dave Davies to decide if he wants to reunite the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, the singer-songwriter is continuing to find new ways to re-examine his legendary band's catalog...
Chimera leaves practice early
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider
Here's a quick update from today's afternoon practice session at KCI:
*Matt Bradley practiced fully and afterward pronounced himself healed up and ready to go, despite getting his "bell rung" for the second time in two months. He also said Cam Janssen apologized to him after the game in St. Louis for the hit...
Parise lifts U.S. past Switzerland and into hockey semifinals
By Tracee Hamilton at The Washington Post
...The Americans took a 2-0 quarterfinal victory over Switzerland on two third-period goals -- one an empty-netter -- by Zach Parise. They will play Finland on Friday in the semifinals...
AEROSMITH Announcing Plans This Week, Says Drummer
Posted at BLABBERMOUTH.NET
As reported last week, the feud between singer Steven Tyler and the other members of AEROSMITH seems to have cooled down, with the band's participation in several European summer festivals announced last week. Drummer Joey Kramer confirmed to The Pulse of Radio that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are back on solid ground: "Well, nothing's been officially announced yet," he said. "We did definitely have a meeting, and things in AERO-land are very copacetic at the moment, and we are gonna announce this week what our plans are gonna be."...
State health programme to run in tandem with Rally Mexico
Posted at WRC.com
Rural communities along the route of the forthcoming Rally Mexico are set to benefit from a rally themed health initiative known as the Rally de la Salud or 'Health Rally'.
A result of collaboration between rally organisers, the Department of Health of the State of Guanajuato and other local health authorities, the programme aims to improve the overall health of the communities where the rally is held by providing mobile medical units where people can receive dental care, cervical screening, medical checkups and eye tests...
February 23, 2010
Ovechkin: We must be united like fingers in the fist
Pavel Lysenkov interview and more - posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin
..."Why are you standing here? Ovechkin just got in!" a joyful exclamation of a passerby pulled me out of whatever I was doing and I slid down the stairs from the second floor of the "Russia House". "The master! The master has arrived!," or something like this, that was the public reaction of the crowd.
Yes, Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin granted the "Russian House" a visit.
Those hour and a half of his evening were lined in a tight schedule, in the course of which the most valuable NHL player and Jagr's destroyer was supposed to give a dozen interviews to various TV companies in the world...
Video: Boudreau, Leonsis on Washington Post Live
Posted by Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider
Washington Post Live's Ivan Carter talks to the Caps' head coach about practice, the Stanley Cup and who will win Olympic gold.
Ivan also sat down with Capitals owner Ted Leonsis. Here's a clip:
Who Makes Whom Good in Washington?
Posted by tuvanhillbilly at Japers' Rink
Tip of the hat to the Rink's Sverige insider Ice Warrior for finding and translating this great article from the Swedish Expressen website. In this interview, Nicklas Backstrom's former coach Leif Boork reveals that he knew all along that Nicky was destined for great things, and perhaps is the power behind the throne in Washington?...
2010 Olympics Hockey - It's "Showtime"....
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan
So for both the men's and women's hockey teams and brackets it's really showtime now.
On the Woman's side we are down to the two medal games - Canad vs USA for the Gold and Finland vs. Sweden for the Bronze. These will be two really good games between two evenly matched sets of opponents so they should be a blast to watch. I'm calling them as follows:...
Wal-Mart Buys VUDU
By Ted Leonsis at Ted's Take
VUDU is a digital movie streaming and downloading service. Consumers more and more want to watch films on their computers or on their HD televisions sets in their own living rooms. TV’s and PC’s are merging and blurring. When Wal-Mart enters the market it has certainly gone main stream...
Superman Breaks The Bank As 'Action Comics' #1 Sells
For $1 Million
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page
It's a bird — it's a plane — it's Superman flying off with a $1 million price tag attached to his red-and-blue spandex!
According to The Guardian, a 1938 edition of "Action Comics" #1 was sold yesterday for the massive price of $1 million, officially becoming the most expensive comic book purchase of all time. Previous copies of "Action Comics" #1 have sold in the ballpark of $300,000 to $450,000...
Roger Daltrey Wants To Form Blues Supergroup With Jimmy Page
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock
Roger Daltrey wants to start a super-group with Jimmy Page.
The Who singer is keen to form a new band with the Led Zeppelin guitarist and go back to the blues roots he established before he started writing songs with bandmate Pete Townshend...
Loeb says no to Le Mans
Posted at WRC.com
Sebastien Loeb has turned down the chance to drive a Peugeot 908 for the factory team at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours because of the amount of time he would have to dedicate to the project.
Due to start on 12 June, this year's Le Mans is the first since 2006 not to clash with a round of the WRC, prompting speculation that sportscar racing fan Loeb would join Peugeot's squad, run by Citroen Racing boss Olivier Quesnel...
Grohl And Hawkins: Foo Fighters’ Future
By mdome at Classic Rock
Lots to come on The Foo Fighters’ drummer and his own project, Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders, but for now this is what he has to say about the future of the Foos:
“It’s gonna be a very busy year for both myself and Dave [Grohl]. I have my band – and he’s busy with Them Crooked Vultures. But we will find time to sit down and start planning the next album from The Foo Fighters. The aim is to get a really solid basis for it.”...
Alex Ovechkin breaks the silence
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin
Ovi's interview at Sochi house...
February 22, 2010
Russian media complains too
By tj at Alex Ovetjkin
There's a big discussion over at Japer's Rink about another journalist getting angry at Ovechkin not responding to the media:...
Personally I have a feeling the team Russia's coaching staff or the majority of players dictated to others not to talk to the media. I can remind you about the first day of team Russia training:
On the way to the locker room reserve goalkeeper Vasily Koshechkin even muttered through his mask about the media, "Everybody's wating for one guy!" It took Ovechkin about an hour to make his way to the locker room while he was talking to the media...
Bruce Willis Says M. Night Shyamalan 'Still Thinking' About 'Unbreakable 2'
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page
Confession time, folks: There are a few of us around Splash Page HQ who are big fans of M. Night Shyamalan's dark superhero tale "Unbreakable" — so we can't help bringing up the possibility of a sequel every time we talk to the filmmaker or one of the film's cast. Back in June 2009, Shyamalan told us that he still had plans for a sequel, so when we caught up with actor Bruce Willis during this weekend's "Cop Out" junket, we had to get his take on whether we'll ever see "Unbreakable 2."...
'Heroes' Creator Discusses Series' Decline, Says Network Forbids Killing Certain Characters
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page
Despite a widely embraced first season, NBC's "Heroes" has steadily declined both in ratings and critical approval to the point that it now faces cancellation. What exactly happened to cause such a fall? To answer that question, there's no one better to ask than Tim Kring, the show's creator...
A Miracle Acknowledged by Today’s American Hockey Stars
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog
Up in Hershey this past weekend our blogger colleague Eric McErlain of Off Wing Opinion joined us in a patriotic questioning of the Hershey Bears’ John Carlson. Carlson of course etched his name in American hockey lore last month, sudden-death silencing Canadians in Saskatoon and delivering the American Under-20 team gold. With the arrival of the 30th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice we wanted to know if that seminal moment in American sports history had any relevance for today’s generation of American hockey stars...
Rally Sweden nightmare still a mystery, says Solberg
Posted at WRC.com
Former World Rally Champion Petter Solberg is still trying to discover why his 2010 title campaign got of to such a poor start on the opening round in Sweden.
Equipped with the latest customer spec C4 World Rally Car from Citroen, great things had been expected of Solberg who won Rally Sweden in 2005. But the Norwegian's chances of repeating that success got off to a terrible start when he spun and lost his front bumper on the rally opening Super Special...
Dio Release Box Set
By mdome at Classic Rock
Dio are now offering fans the chance to buy the Tournado box set, which was originally to be made available for the band’s cancelled European tour last year. Limited to just 1500 copies, each will feature:...
*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: North Americans can buy it, but according to RonnieJamesDio.com ...
Please note on the Tournado Box Set offer... 2/21/2010 2:00:52 PM
We test drove the Tournado Box Set, and in doing so, realized that the DVD is formatted in PAL format, and as such, will not play on US DVD players.
We apologize to the US and Japanese fans for this oversight, but these box sets were made for the European tour which was cancelled, and we did not realize that they would [not] play in the US until we actually tried to play it.
Taylor Hawkins Gets His Coat
By mdome at Classic Rock
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins is to release a new album on April 20.It’s the second album by Taylor Hawkins & Coattail Riders, titled Red Light Fever. And there’s a stellar list of guests on it. These include the Queen pair of Brian May (guitar) and Roger Taylor (drums), Cars guitarist Elliot Easton, plus a certain Dave Grohl...
It’s heli-cam week on wrc.com
Posted at WRC.com
Some of the most amazing television footage of Rally Sweden came from above, courtesy of the 'Abu Dhabi Eye in the Sky' helicopter camera.
All this week we're going to feature the very best clips from the Abu Dhabi Eye on wrc.com...
Abbey Road Taken Off The Market
By mdome at Classic Rock
EMI Records have taken Abbey Road Studios off the market. As Classic Rock reported last week, the label had plans to sell off the famous studio in an effort to raise funds. However this decision has now been reversed...
Week One In The Booksposted
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator
With Team Sweden defeating Team Finland last night/early this morning (depending on your time zone), the preliminary round of men’s ice hockey at the Vancouver Olympics came to a close. And what a way to end it – the “hit heard ‘round Vancouver”… the upset… and the technical marvel that was Team Sweden in the Sweden-Finland contest – made this every bit the “Spectacular Sunday” of ice hockey that hockey fans were hoping for...
Maybe . . . Just Maybe . . . NBC Wishes It Had Run Hockey
Last Night
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog
...it was bizarre to see NBC (Nothing But Curling) run a 30-minute, spectacularly well produced feature on it, hosted by Al Michaels, less than two hours before Team USA faced off against Canada in the most highly anticipated international hockey game in years, only to jettison the broadcast of the game to its hinterland cable partner, MSNBC. Just bizarre.
It was also bizarre to see NBC News treat last night’s game as a mega-event a mere 30 minutes before puck-drop. The game and its fevered anticipation led the very top of the 7:00 NBC Evening News. And on the home page for NBC’s Olympics coverage yesterday afternoon, this headline: “It’s hockey night in Vancouver.” Just bizarre...
Dangle's Angle: 2010 Olympic Men's Hockey - USA 5, Canada 3
Posted by Dangle at Nike Training YouTube Channel
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