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Shanahan calls it quits, retires..

Mikey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:24:56 GMT

Shanahan announces his retirement

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Brendan Shanahan officially announced his retirement today, ending his 21-year career in the NHL.

The eight-time all star, who almost returned with the Devils but parted ways with the team before the start of the season, ends his career 11th on the NHL's all time goals scored list.

"I would like to thank my family and all of the friends who have helped me achieve and maintain my childhood dream of playing in the National Hockey League", Shanahan said in a news release. "I am enormously grateful to all of my coaches and teammates I've had the privilege of learning from and playing along side of, throughout my career. While I always dreamed of playing in the NHL, I can't honestly say that I would have ever imagined that I'd be this fortunate and blessed. I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has helped me fulfill this dream."

The eight-time All-Star scored at least 40 goals in six seasons, and won three Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings. In 2002, Shanahan then became only the third player in NHL history to win an Olympic gold medal and Stanley Cup championship in the same year.

The native of Mimico, Ontario was originally The New Jersey's first round selection, second overall, in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. He amassed 656 goals, 698 assists for 1,354 points in 1,524 NHL matches with New Jersey, St. Louis, Hartford, Detroit, and New York.

Now I know love for hockey is few and far between, but someone here has gotta care

lets please get some sort of hocket talk going..

l HAVE A BONER!

Bearsy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:03:34 GMT

CAUSE THERE'S NO MORE DICK IN THE PICTURE!!!!!

I hope we can get Mike Shanahan... that would be bombbbbbbbbbbbbbb.

anyone catch Marino drop the S-bomb during the half-time show?

herbinator45 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:37:10 GMT

you can tell he meant to say "Finish it off.." and it came out as "Finish shit off.." but hilzarious nonetheless.

FIFA Football World Cup 2010

�tulic — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:58:44 GMT

New Zealand has tonight qualified for the WC next year in South Africa, for the second time ever and 27 years after the first time. Congrats to all the Kiwis on the board, well done bro's! ;)

Bosnia is playing Portugal later today in a first leg (of two) qualifier in Lisbon, a historic chance and I'm already gettin' warmed up with J�germei�ter, 7 hours before kick-off.

The USA has also already qualified, as have Australia, England, Germany, Serbia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Honduras, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and of course South Africa as the host nation.

8 more countries are yet to be given a ticket to South Africa, 4 from Europe which will be decided in 2 leg clashes between Bosnia vs Portugal, Ireland vs France, Slovenia vs Russia and Greece vs Ukraine, the other 4 are coming from the African continent.

Being it the biggest sporting event on the planet (far bigger then the Olympics), it deserves a thread in Yahookas sports forum and if the mods don't sticky it, I'll be bumping it as the time comes near. I did it 3 years ago, I'll do it next year again. ;)

anyone see sammy sosa lately?

herbinator45 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:48:51 GMT

like, whoa.

haye v valuev

Lloydy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:35:00 GMT

fucking get in!!!!!! exactly what the heavyweight division needs! been dominated by big boring east europeans for too long

MLS Western Conf. Semifinals

Bearsy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:51:05 GMT

Anyone else watching this? I've had it on for about 10 minutes and I can already see that both of these teams are a fucking joke.

'09-'10 nba

verklingen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:29:34 GMT

so i saw the spurs season opener last night and while the hornets are nothing spectacular (sitting chris paul gave the spurs a 20-0 run) i think they proved we put a solid crew with a lot of potential together in the off season. once pop gets his rotations down i can't see any club standing a chance. the spurs have finally got the energy to match the deliberateness that shut teams down all its own so well in the past.

the biggest flaw i've seen in the spurs over the years has been missing and giving up too many offensive boards. hopefully that will change with rookie dejuan blair's uncanny ability to get his hands on the ball. look out lakers (cuz there's no one else to worry about in the west, ha)

any thoughts on what should prove to be an exciting season?