LITTLE ROCK — What’s in a name?
A mistake
The Chicago Blackhawks officially have their names on the Stanley Cup as the 2009-2010 champions.
There is just one problem: a typo.
The team’s list of players on the Cup included Kris “Vertseeg” after the Cup’s engraver switched the “s” and “t” in Kris Versteeg’s last name.
“I may never be one of the biggest names in the game, but now it’ll go down in history as one of the misspellings on the Stanley Cup, so I’ll take it,” Versteeg told the Toronto Star.
“It’s just a perfect example of my life, just something crazy and quirky that’s always happening to me.”
In fact, the former Blackhawk, who was traded to Toronto in the off-season, told the paper that his brother predicted the mistake would happen.
“We were all sitting as a family around the Stanley Cup in the living room looking at all the misspelled names. My brother was like, ‘I guarantee they spell our name wrong,’ ” he said.
The NHL has since corrected the mistake and sent a picture of the change to Versteeg.
“I think they just kind of punched [the correct letters] over it. You can tell,” he told the Toronto Star.
No Skins game
Donovan McNabb returns to Philadelphia this weekend as the Washington Redskins’ quarterback, but FoxSports.com columnist Jason Whitlock said Sunday’s game “won’t be a fair fight” for McNabb.
“McNabb is headed home for war unarmed, flanked by overmatched troops and with no ground support,” Whitlock wrote. “We can agree now the Washington Redskins are a horrendous mess, as bad as any team in the league. Losing by two touchdowns to the St.
Louis Rams removes all the false shine from Washington’s lucky season-opening victory over the Cowboys, doesn’t it?
“Offensively, McNabb hastwo tools, receiver Santana Moss and tight end Chris Cooley, and nothing else. Clinton Portis is old, weird, washed up and running behind one of the league’s worst lines. It’s a bad recipe.
“This won’t be a fair fight. It reminds me of Larry Holmes vs.
Muhammad Ali. Holmes took no satisfaction in whipping ‘TheGreatest,’ but he had to do it.
“Now it’s time for the greatest Philly QB to get what he doesn’t deserve.” A positive spin
Georgia Bulldogs freshman linebacker Demetre Baker, 19, was jailed last weekend in Athens, Ga., on DUI and underage alcohol possession charges.
From Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: “This makes him the 10th football player from the university arrested this year. On a brighter note, Georgia announced they officially are now running the NCAA’s best NFL preparedness program.”Saddle up
“Let ‘Er Buck” was unveiled this month as the official, limited-edition cologne of the Pendleton (Oregon) Round-Up, in commemoration of its 100th rodeo. It’s available in selected stores for $69.
“Don’t worry, they say it’s not meant to smell like a rodeo,” assured Wayne Garcia of KPTV in Portland. “It was designed to represent what a cowboy might put on before getting dressed up for a night on the town.”Quote of the day “We’re 4-0. What more do you want?” LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson on being booed by Tigers fans
Sports, Pages 20 on 09/30/2010