Results tagged “Sarah Palin” from The Sports Desk

As sort of predicted here, Sarah Palin heard boos in Philadelphia tonight when she dropped the ceremonial first puck before the Flyers-Rangers game.

This is from the Associated Press:

Have you ever seen a politician cheered at a sports event? Aren't politicians almost always jeered when the throw out a first ball, flip a coin at a football game, or just appear on the video screen? Why would a supporter invite a candidate to stand in front of a bunch of fans who just want to get on with the action, and why would the candidate accept?

This comes up because the Philadelphia Flyers owner, who's a supporter of the McCain-Palin presidential ticket, has invited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to drop the ceremonial first puck before the team's home opener Saturday.

Here's a skeptical story from politico.com. But what do you think of the self-proclaimed "hockey mom" getting out there on the ice? If you were in Philadelphia on Saturday, would you cheer or boo her?

If you watched the whole Dodgers-Cubs game tonight, you missed a pretty good Biden-Palin debate. If you watched the whole debate, you missed pretty much the whole ballgame, since the Dodgers took a 5-0 lead during the 57-minute overlap. I did a little of both, clicking back and forth between TBS and MSNBC, and then wrote about what I saw in a column scheduled to appear in Friday's Daily News "A" section.

To sum it up, while the candidates were talking about change, Game 2 of the Dodgers-Cubs series was more of the same.

What did you watch and what did you think?

(To read the column, click here.)

On Aug. 29, the day Gov. Sarah Palin was named to the GOP ticket, the Dodgers were 4 1/2 games behind Arizona and had lost eight in a row. So Palin turned one race around.