Remembering, three years later: weekend notes

Sept. 7 remains a great day in lots of ways for me: important family day, and it’s the anniversary of the blog (entering its 10th season, somehow). But now it’s also the anniversary of the Lokomotiv plane crash. Still devastating to think about checking the Yaroslavl roster page over at EliteProspects that night three years ago and seeing a cross next to every name.

But we go on. Notes from the weekend around a computer crash:

Awesome how quickly Rick DiPietro took to sports radio (I know, that personality on personality-driven radio? Stunner). Neil Best of Newsday talked to him and Alan Hahn about it. Meanwhile, Fortune Magazine reports that another potential Islanders buyer thought he had a deal.

The Crunch and Tampa re-up for a couple of more years.

Roy MacGregor on a question that’s bugged me, too: How do you balance what we know about concussions with our games? Speaking of which, good luck to former Masuk and UConn quarterback Casey Cochran, forced to give up the game because of concussions.

Was invited by Joel Cookson to the CIACcast podcast to chat about the youth sports specialization piece that ran last weekend. By the way, I totally stole that “socio-, economico-, politico-” line from Dave Guard. (op cit, I think, without going back for the “diminishing number of requests” or possibly “the key is maybe ‘E’ this time” references.)

And RIP, Joan Rivers, Marvin Barnes and Ken Shepard.

Michael Fornabaio