We’re now in December and the holiday season has just begun. For sports fans this spells a busy part of the year. We’ve got the NFL playoff races in full swing, the bowl games in college football and, on Christmas Day, the NBA’s biggest regular-season games.
To conclude this month of holidays, there will be the fourth-annual NHL Winter Classic on New Year’s Day, 2011, the biggest event on that day.
But wait a minute.
Aren’t the BCS games in college football taking place on this day? That’s right, the Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl are to be played on this day, as they have been for several years. So are several non-BCS bowls (Outback, Capital One and Gator).
Sounds like the Winter Classic is the highlight of New Year’s Day no more.
But it’s something the NHL has had to cope with since the first Winter Classic back in 2008: competition from bowl games.
While many hockey fans are ranting about the Classic featuring Sidney Crosby and the Penguins versus Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals, that’s the least of my worries. The handwriting was on the wall for such a matchup ...
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