Two notes about the new issue of ESPN The Magazine.
- The Atlanta Thrashers do not have the second-worst attendance in the NHL due to “woes at the top” (read: their ownership battle); they have the second-worst attendance in the NHL due to the fact that people in Atlanta don’t give a shit about hockey. They barely give a crap about basketball, and the Braves couldn’t draw sellouts to playoff games when the team owned the NL East for a decade-plus. The only thing that would boost attendance to Thrashers games is if they signed Michael Vick.
- The coverline, “Exclusive: Michelle Wie sets everyone straight,” may be the first time the word “straight” was used in an article about the LPGA.
Thanks. I’ll be here all week.