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February 22, 2010Flickr: GoalProVokounWhile the National Hockey League takes a break for the Winter Olympics, fans are keeping themselves busy with trade talk, and one of the hottest pieces of gossip involves a cornerstone of the Florida Panthers franchise: goaltender Tomas Vokoun.During these Olympics, Vokoun's ... More >>
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February 4, 2010 There are high school students who are older than the Florida Panthers franchise, but it seems team owners couldn't wait any longer to start working on a hall of fame. That's a virtual tour above. It's hard to tell exactly what's in the trophy cases -- was that a Pavel Bure jersey? This idea might ... More >>
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November 19, 2009Last night your forgotten Florida Panthers did something they've been doing a lot lately: They went on the road and beat the hell out of someone. In this case, the Buffalo Sabres, 6-2. It was the team's fourth victory in the last five road games. Suddenly, a team that started the season by winning j ... More >>
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October 13, 2009Flickr: Peter EllisTraditionally, the Flyers' "team bonding events" involve pummeling men with different jerseys.The Philadelphia Flyers just arrived in town to play our Panthers -- on Friday night. That means the team has four days and three nights to kill before they suit up in the BankAtlantic ... More >>
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October 2, 2009Looks like the Panthers like playing in front of big crowds. In Helsinki, they won their opening game of the season against the Chicago Blackhawks, a team that's a fashionable pick to win the Stanley Cup.David Booth overcame the Juice jinx, scoring the tying goal with less than three minutes left ... More >>
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July 24, 2009Pretty sparse and mellow for a bank run... Oh! It's just a Panthers game at the BankAtlantic Center. Fort Lauderdale-based BankAtlantic is, like most big banks, getting crushed by home loans that aren't paying -- the dreaded "toxic assets." But unlike the biggest banks in the nation, BankAtlant ... More >>
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July 17, 2009 Although I like cranky British Chef Gordon Ramsay, I'm not really a huge fan of his Fox show Kitchen Nightmares. It's far too formulaic, for one - every episode shares the same story arc, with only the set pieces changing - and it's 99% about drama and only 1% about food. The show on which the it w ... More >>
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June 29, 2009Flickr User: Burns!Will the last Panther fan in South Florida please turn off the lights in the BankAtlantic? Late Friday, star defenseman Jay Bouwmeester was traded to the Calgary Flames for... well... nothing.As a hockey fan who wants to see the team thrive in South Florida, I tried to give manage ... More >>
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Artist's Rendering of Sunrise ProjectYou've probably never heard of the largest development planned in Broward County, but you've heard the name before: Oz.
The plan is to build something called the "City of Oz" on the BankAtlantic Center's parking lot in Sunr ... More >>
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May 5, 2009Flickr User: gojaysgo9293Jack KempAn investment fund chaired by longtime Republican Congressman and former Vice Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp emerged last week as a potential buyer of the Florida Panthers and their handsome revenue-sharing lease at the BankAtlantic Center. Then this weekend, Kemp ... More >>
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February 11, 2009sportsnet.caZednikLast night was the one-year anniversary of the night in Buffalo when Panthers winger Richard Zednik almost died after Olli Jokinen's skate slashed his carotid artery and sent five pints of blood onto the ice. A few days in the hospital and a blood transfusion later, Zednik was eyin ... More >>
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February 4, 2009The Miami Herald broke a story Sunday on Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter's alleged vote that favored the firm that runs BankAtlantic Center, Arena Operating Co., at the same time her husband was a paid lobbyist for the company.
In the story, Ritter admits that she supported the move ... More >>
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February 2, 2009After the Miami Herald over the weekend broke a story on yet another Stacy Ritter vote that benefitted the lobbying business of her husband, Russ Klenet, I think it's time we had a one-stop shopping spot for all the alleged misdeeds of the Ritter-Klenets.
Because of its length, the post jumps. ... More >>
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January 26, 2009Last night the National Hockey League staged its All-Star Game in Montreal, and by tomorrow everyone will have forgotten that East beat West -- or was it the other way around? All-Star games are remembered by individual performances, not
final scores. A big winner: Florida Panthers defenseman
Jay Bo ... More >>
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August 28, 2003The Panthers return, and others learn to skate too
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September 12, 2002Proposed payment of millions to a wealthy clan amounts to nothing more than stealing from taxpayers for the Bush boys' political gain
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November 29, 2001With four professional teams in South Florida, sports radio should be big business. It isn't.
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April 2, 1998Money from Florida's best-selling license plate was supposed to help protect the panther. Instead it's going for swamp buggies and butterfly gardens.
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