Believe: Game 1, Detroit 2-1 Anaheim
Having been denied the opportunity to view Game 1 in the convenience of my apartment (BTW South is not my home), I was thrilled upon reading about Detroit's victory late on Friday. Woot! Each team in the NHL has changed much in the two years since the lockout ended, but with a little luck Mike Babcock will, above and beyond his adroit coaching abilities, have some special insight into the no-longer-mighty Ducks' Achilles' heel(s). The NHL has contracts with both VS. and NBC; NBC broadcasts daytime weekend games only. There is a game today (Sunday, the weekend) and it is in Detroit, in the sacred Eastern Time Zone. Why oh why couldn't today's game be in the afternoon and on NBC? A 3:30pm game in Detroit would be on at 12:30pm in Anaheim. That's a fine time to watch hockey! But, because it is at 7:30pm EDT (4:30pm PDT), the game is on Versus and I'm left high and dry. Isn't living in Texas penance enough for my many mistakes? Does cruel fate really have to keep piling on like this?

Let's go Red Wings! Victory!

The Cult
Whatever happened to the good old days when small cults/new "religions" were persecuted? Now they're the ones doing the persecuting! The Church of Crazy. Religious tolerance is sacrosanct, but was it really meant as a shield for charlatans and snake oil salesmen?