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1. odessa steps magazine wrote:

   It seems odd to remove the Maple Leaf, given how many “fine Canadian boys” (TM Don Cherry) were likely playing in this game.

   10 April, 2009 at 5:46 am | Permalink
2. Birdie wrote:

   you’d hardly know you were at the Phone Booth last night. They covered everything up that they didn’t take down. Verizon ad next to the out of town scoreboards? Covered up with black cloth. The ads on the Zambonis (I’m sorry, Olympia Ice Resurfacers….)? Covered my some sort of white plastic. You’d never know that this is the home of the Capitals–anything regarding the Caps or the other teams that play there was gone. On the one hand, I get why they do it, but on the other, well, that sort of takes away the charm of holding the event in DC, doesn’t it? (we couldn’t even get Caps scores updates–I was texting my mother throughout the games!)
   Wes did the announcing, and as usual, did a fine fine fine job!

   10 April, 2009 at 11:29 am | Permalink
3. Jason wrote:

   The NCAA has become near unreasonably protective of their “copyrights” and sees anything that infringes against them (advertising of any sort or signs of any regular occupants of an arena) to be “infringing” against them. This became a sore point with the men’s basketball tournament where they’ve even standardized the floors.
   It takes a lot away from the uniqueness of the host city and as much as I hate to demean a man who is probably dying, NCAA president Myles Brand could have had some common sense at least.

   10 April, 2009 at 3:11 pm | Permalink
4. Grooven wrote:

   The giant red repositories of shovelled ice still have the Caps logos.

   10 April, 2009 at 5:40 pm | Permalink
5. odessa steps magazine wrote:

   Of course, there’s still plenty of logo creep if you’re an NCAA sponsor.
   I’ve been told that when you sit on press row, whatever you are drinking has to be poured in a cup with a nice big coke label on it.

   11 April, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink
6. On Frozen Blog wrote:

   A Fond Photographic Farewell to the Frozen Four

   As detailed in my wee-hours Friday morning post, my wife and I were in Section 423 for the Frozen Four — and most of the section was filled with Boston University students. We had an absolute blast Thursday night… so you can imagine, given the unbel…

   14 April, 2009 at 1:20 am | Permalink

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