Alick Wilson's Friends' blogs

Ass-end into the End Zone?

March 2, 2012 by Ron Andruff   Comments (0)

Ass-end into the End Zone?
There has been a lot of talk these days about the Patriot coaching choice to try to give Tom Brady another chance to score a touchdown to steal the game from the Giants, following Bradshaw’s bum-first TD… It seems that players on the Patriots had a hard time swallowing the concept of letting Bradshaw run – unchallenged – into their end zone in the Super Bowl. I can relate! It is extremely hard for long-trained athletes to override his/her... Read full post

Hockey fraternity

March 2, 2012 by Ron Andruff   Comments (1)

This afternoon as I was entering some data into my lifedotsport page, I got a call from Jim Wilkinson, someone that I had played hockey against when we were 16 years old! He told me that he was recently asked if he knew anyone from the Montreal Canadiens and he immediately thought of me. A few clicks of the mouse and search on the Internet yielded him my office number and soon we were laughing about our hockey past - over 40 years ago! The Splatsin First Nations Tribe that he works with is... Read full post

Concussions in sport...

March 2, 2012 by Ron Andruff   Comments (0)

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There has been a lot of discussion around hockey players and concussions over this last season. Currently, arguably the best player in the NHL, Sidney Crosby, is out with one and several players died this past summer as a result of repeated concussions... The NFL and college football is perhaps worse than hockey. Here is an article a friend just sent me noting that Tony Dorset is joining 300 other NFL players in a class action suit against the... Read full post