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MONTEREY PARK, CA — Whether you played the game at any level or are just a spectator, if you truck the kids to hockey practice very early in the morning or just lie on the living room couch and watch games on television, just about everyone touched by the game has a hockey dream or two. In Living The Hockey Dream, author Brian Kennedy, Ph.D., a ... Full story

Dany Heatley, Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, and Dan Boyle have a lot in common. They all play for the San Jose Sharks, all want to play for Team Canada in the 2010 Olympics, and they all registered at least a point on Friday night in a 6-3 victory against the Philadelphia Flyers. Thornton had four assists, including the 600th of his NHL career, Heatley had a hat trick, and Marleau ... Full story

Click here to get sent to NBAPrimetime.com to read the entire article! The million dollar question (or should I say billion dollar question) that has constantly been debated about religiously, “What jersey will LeBron James/Dwyane Wade be in for the ‘10-’11 season?” A question that, regardless of anyone’s input, will not have a definite answer until the minute the star picks up the pen and signs the ... Full story

By Louis “King of Roncesvalles” Pisano To say Harold Ballard wasn’t liked by everyone might be an understatement. When I skimmed over the players, even after the influx of European talent that began flooding the NHL in his later years, he stood stead fast with his beliefs of drafting mostly Canadian players and almost down-right refused to draft Russians. Over the years the percentage of Canadian players in ... Full story

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist ... Full story

It looks like the eBay-Skype spectacle has finally come to a close.  Despite all of the arguments (legal and otherwise) that cropped up at one point or another, representatives of both companies announced last night that the sale of Skype to an investor group is complete. Josh Silverman, the president of Skype, adopted a rather enthusiastic approach when breaking the ... Full story

Adknowledge, a Kansas City-based provider of behavioral online advertising solutions, has acquired the primary assets of SocialMedia Networks, a San Francisco-based provider of a social media ad platform. No financial terms were disclosed. Adknowledge raised $48 million in funding in 2006 from Technology Crossover Ventures. SocialMedia Networks had raised VC funding from Charles River Ventures, IDG Ventures SF, Marc Andreessen and Jeff Clavier. PRESS RELEASE Adknowledge, the ... Full story

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s Cosmos Capital raised its takeover offer late on Tuesday for advertiser Cossette Inc (KOS.TO), matching a rival offer by a U.S. private equity group and saying it could go even higher. The offer valued Cossette at C$131.5 million ($125.1 million) and is the third attempt by Cosmos to take over Canada’s largest homegrown advertising agency. It is also its most aggressive, and ... Full story