"Top Dog is Dead"

As of April 15th Top Dog will be no longer. The nightclub/sports bar will now go after a different crowd according the Courier-Post. The owner will make it another cookie cutter family grill and dinning place. The upstairs club will now be only for banquets.

"To, stay in this business you have to change with the time" said the bar owner.

I didn't realize that going out trying to meet people and getting drunk was out of style. But, I guess I am not in the biz. The place will have a more girly name and be known as "Taylor's Grill". Apperently, there is one in Willamstown already. I recall the owner wanting to open up ap place. I guess I just never noticed it opened since I am not in the target customer age range.

I did enjoy the bands there, and I am sure a lot of people will miss that. But, I honestly only have gone there like 3 times a year the last two years if that. But, still its sad since I went there for my 21st birthday that it will be converted into a lame dime a dozen family place.

HAlf shirts will be replaced by blue hair and early bird specials.

I have to be honest though the few times I ate there I didn't really care for the food, so I hope that if this guy wants to have banquets that he fires all the chefs and hires new ones. Last time I was there was when I had business in the area. The happy hour buffet was pretty decent. Well it was free so.

They say the dinners will cost $10-20 and the banquets can fit over 200 people. Which is I guess where they will make their money. I don't know who would want to have a banquet at Top Dog though. I wonder how much the smoking ban killed this place money wise. Bars and clubs in NJ dropped like flies when it was passed.


Maybe Sharkey's will become the elite bar of south jersey.

Times are changing.

"28 Frozen Days Later"

Tired of the cold you are not alone?Pretty cold stuff. Toronto had the coldest month in almost 20 years. Here are some other cold hard facts. So, Chill out and sit back and read.

The average temperature in February 2007 was 32.9 F. This was -1.8 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 34th coolest February in 113 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit per decade. 1.56 inches of precipitation fell in February. This was -0.46 inches less than the 1901-2000 average, the 16th driest such month on record. The precipitation trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.00 inches per decade.

I bet its Bush and Haliburton doing this to drive up oil prices. I just can't prove it yet.

"Tucker's World Jinx"

Well if you recall my "No March of the Penguins" post you have would think the penguins were going to stay. Not so, almost hours after I posted that it became well unofficial that they were staying and now things are leaning towards moving again, maybe Kansas City again. Stupid, jinx.

"The Thin Yellow Line"

Today's broadcast of the Flyers/ Penguins game on NBC was a joke. They never had a penalty clock up the entire game. So, when players were in the sin bin, I never knew how long they still had to go. I could never tell how much longer a two man advantage was going to be either. All they did was put a yellow bar up under the name of the team that had the power play. Sometimes, that didn't even get that right by putting it under the wrong team. I know the Igloo is an old building and is why the game was not in HD today, but the fact that they couldn't put a clock up for penalties was a pathetic. As far as I know, they never bothered to even tell the viewers why their broadcast lacked a feature that was created in the early 90's. It was a total disgrace, and I imagine the papers might mention it tomorrow since lots of people are bitching, but there was simply no excuse. One of the worst things I have ever seen in all my years of watching hockey from a broadcast standpoint.

"My Scrubs Post"

So, Scrubs seems to be at a cross roads. Zack Braff is not sure if he wants to come back for season 7, and its at the point that the creators say they will not do a 7th season withouth him. NBC has told Scrubs to not film a final epsiode. Which makes me worried, because NBC at the saem time has not said they will be back for a season 7. Their are rumors that ABC might pick up Scrubs next year, the reason is that ABC is owned by Disney, who also owns touchtone which makes Scrubs. This is why Scrubs is not shown in HD, because touchtone doens't want to spend the money on it. Season 6, has not been that bad, but it is really starting to show signs of rot. Yeah the musical episode was a hoot, and the Iraq epsiode was pretty intresting, but story arch wise they are starting to tread water, and the one they are doing this season will have to end soon. Tonight, however what they did there was no excuse for. They did a clip show, which is basically highlights of the entire series, funny, romantic and sad linked by about 5 mins of new footage. In the era of tv shows on DVDs, there should be some kind of law against shows like this. I laughed when JD pretty much told the viewers tonights epsiode was going to be lame (The Simpsons do the same inside joke each clip show). Someone is supposed to die this season on SCrubs, but I am starting to think the show did tonight. I hope it bounces back next week, and as sad it is to say, I think its time to retire the show. I would hate for it to be on occassionally like King of Queens was this year, or have the show burned off in the summer with new shows like Drew Carey was a few years ago. NBC has a history jerking Scrubs around, so maybe the creators and cast should just play it safe and give fans a good send off this May. The season isnt awful, but I don't think they have enough jokes or ideas to fill a 7th season. Might be time to pull the plug.

"Life Sabre"

During the crazy day that is the NHL trade dead line that saw Ryan Smyth become and Ilsander, it was the worst team in the NHL that surprised a lot of people.





The Flyers dealt a 2nd round draft pick for Martin Biron who was the Sabres #1 goalie for quite sometime. He lost his job last season to Ryan Miller. Not, so much that Biron is bad, but Miller is awesome.





This is a fairly big gamble for the Philadelphia Flyers simply because Biron can walk as of July 1st. However, the front office for the orange and black seems to be confident he will be happy to come back and build something here next season.





They are counting on him being happy being the #1 goalie again, and hope he likes the area enough to want to unpack his bags and stay for awhile. I can imagine they will be pitching stuff to him the minute he meets up with the team.





Basically, I guess its bold move, since the wanted to sign him anyway and gave up nothing but money for him come July. But, again I think they are rolling the dice in order to keep him here. I would not at all be surprised if they sign him in the next few weeks to a longer term deal.





We picked up tons of young talent, now its time to get some proven players. I like Biron, and honestly from what I understand he is likely the best goalie that would be out there come July, and I am confident he will stay a Flyer.





The Flyers need to make a run for one or two quick veteran forwards. Many of these young guys aren't really ready to carry the load and would be better off as Phantoms.

"Deadline"

Kyle Calder, Alexi Zhitnik, Nolan Baumgartner and Peter Forsberg might not be the only ones leaving Philly. The trade deadline is this Tuesday afternoon. Others expected to be delt include Geoff Sanderson, Robert Esche and maybe Hatcher.

The Flyers are just getting a bunch of unproven youngerster and draft picks for their talent. Calder might have been one of the worst trades in the history of the Flyers, maybe in the NHL. He was awful.

Most the players that the Flyers have gotten in trades will not have any impact really for 2 or 3 years if at all. The thing with the "prospects" trades in hockey is that they pan out maybe 40 perecent of the time. The draft picks are good to have, but the Flyers really need to start drafting better.

All, eyes will be on the firesale in Philly tomorrow. I can only hope they plan on getting some quality free agents next summer. God, knows they will have plenty of cap room.

"You're Playing Beer Bong!"

So, last night (assuming your reading this Friday) on the way home from work Rick and myself stopped off Sharkeys for some grub and a few drinks. Turns out they are actually going to do beer bong every Thursday night now. Thats awesome. It kicks off at 8pm, and this was the first week. They just decided to do it, so I think no one really knew about it. I didn't till I walked in that night. We didn't stick around for it, but I think I might check it out when The Office and SCrubs go into reruns which should be soon. Anyone else interested in meeting up for a game on random Thursday at the tank?

"Beers and Queers"

So, after the events of "Better Late Than Never" I got my 2nd wind and join Price among others for a night at Sharkeys for a belated birthday bash for him.

While I was there I was invited by Price to a charity event at a bar in Philly. The event was to be held at a bar called "sisters" which was a lesbian bar, and they were raising money having an auction for strippers. Now, it wasn't explained to me what you got to do with the strippers, but it seemed like a whacky time. Price also promised me that straight girls went there.

Price's friend Stephanie was running the event, and the money was to go to a softball team (the lesbians not the strippers) she was also nice enough to hook us up with a ride with her friend. Now apparently her friend also went to highschool with us, which resulted in an awkward situation when introduced myself to her the night at sharkeys a week prior. Anyway, it worked out great since Price and I had no idea where this place was (I still don't) and Price was happy since I picked him up and he could get hammered and concentrate on bidding on strippers. I on the other hand just thought it was a funny way to spend my night, and figured it would make for a good blog.

The night started off oddly enough. The girl who I don't recall (who will call her "the stranger" from this point on) price, myself and some random dude were off to philly! But, first we made a stop at a random hotel on the black horse pike. I have no idea why were there. It was never explained. The stranger and the dude left Price and me sitting in the running car for about ten minutes. The left with some sort of care package.

I figured at this point there was a good chance we were going to get shot in the back of the head or something. But after about 10 mins they came back with the package and we went across the black horse pike to a really seedy hotel. This time they assured us it was the right one. Than some dude came out and got whatever he wanted. He apparently had a room at both places.

Anyway, off to Sisters we went. However, since the girls the brought us there were running the event, we were there early. Before the event, so Price, the dude and myself sat there awkwardly surrounded by a culture we clearly were not a part of.

Okay, now I was told it was a lesbian bar, and what I hoped for was girls in cotton short shorts and tank tops trying to tickle each other drinking Apple Martinis. That never happened. In fact there were tons of gay dudes there too. I guess if you are a lesbian you really would love this place, there were butch chicks, hot chicks, soccer moms, freaky chicks, fat chicks and well most of them could likely kick the crap out of me. But, before the event yup..we were pretty much just hanging out at a gay bar.

After a few drinks we began to not look like deer in the headlights sitting at a table with flowers on it. We talked to some people. One girl there (lesbian) told us that the straight girls supposedly carry their purses around there. So, people could tell who was gay and who was straight. I have no idea if that is true or not. But Price, the dude and I learned the girl sitting next to us was apparently straight. She was maybe a 5 or 6 on the scale of 1-10. But given she was straight that night she was like a 9. The girl worked in philly, and said she went there after work often so she wasn't hit on like at normal bars. After hearing that, I figured that was a bad sign for any of us. Than she started talking about her boyfriend whom she loved. At that point I lost interest and the dude seemed like he wanted to still get her number or something. So, I left for a bit. Than when I returned she was gone, and he told me she left for a bar where you place pac-man. I was like damnit, that bar sounds awesome. Just people playing pac-man.

Finally the event started, and like the fact it wasn't just a lesbian bar, the night 2nd promise was already broken. The girls that were bidded on were mostly butch, busted and I would rather pay them to keep their clothes on than have them remove them. At one point Price learned which of the 12 girls up for bid were straight. It was only 3 of them. Now I am not sure if Price was kidding, or just drunk but he actually bidded on the first straight girl. I guess all the gay women knew she was straight too, because no one but Price bid on her. In fact I am pretty sure Price bid himself higher for about 20 bucks for no reason at all.

What did Prices 40 bucks (I think that was the bid) get him? A pair of panties and about 5 minutes of conversation. Since the event was over, the stranger and the dude who were our ride were ready to go. At this point, I figured to myself it was funny enough, it was almost midnight, I could still get a couple drinks in at Sharkeys. But Price came down to the steps (the even and club were upstairs) and told me there were tons of straight girls there and I should stay and have fun! He swayed me (that and the 4 or 5 beers at that point) to close the place out. Upstairs we went. Stephaine would take us home.

I scanned the floor. ..chicks dancing with chicks, and dudes dancing with dudes.

"Eh, I guess they left..." Price.

So, there we were. Price introduced me some random lesbian girl he met up there. See Price had come up with this great theory that we befriend the gay friends and win them over, and they would hook us up with their straight friends because they would like us a lot. I told Price that it sure seemed like a lot of work. He never really sold me on the idea. But, hey I was stuck there so I might as well mingled. The bar was just like any other really bad club music and we had a horrible time hearing anything.

At one point Price vanished (no idea where he went) and I was still upstairs talking about the lesbian. It turns out that its all the same really. She talked about dating getting harder as you hit your late 20s and about her really long relationship she once had what didn't work. I exchanged similar stories. It was nice and all but I figured I should try to find my friend. I found him down stairs talking to some random people. Than he went upstairs again.

I figured I would order one last beer and just chill the bar and wait for the others to be ready to leave. Now, I could be crazy at this point in the story. But the bottom part of the bar was pretty empty. I just sat there writing on a pad of paper which I guess is designed to give out your numbers at such places. I was just scribbling mostly. I am pretty sure the dude at the end of the bar was checking me out. Now, I am not a homophobe or anything, but I wanted to keep my record of not having to tell a dude I wasn't gay in tact. It was close to last call. Usually I see at straight bars guys trying to hustle a girl at the last minute to get number, laid or pretty much anything. I might have been the almost 2am bottom of the barrel for this guy. I didn't stick around I darted back upstairs.

The dancing was winding down, and most people had coupled off at this point. But in the end, its all the same. Some people were looking for their soul mate, some for a quick lay, some people are looking to cheat on a loved one and some poor souls were standing in the shadows outside the dance floor. Likely wondering when their same sex partner of their dreams would sweep them off their feet. Than there was myself clearly the only heterosexual left in the bar for a good two hours aside from price, pounding my last $4.75 miller lite. I thought to myself two things.

1. This was amusing, but never again
2. This is going on Tucker's World.

"High Hopes"

Spring has sprung in South Jersey and so has hope for the sports world. The ice has melted t he mercury is rising and as is the hopes for the Phillies this season. While the Flyers and sixers are so bad they can't draw even half a stadium anymore, people went nuts earlier this week to buy Phillies tickets. They don't even start till April!

Jimmy Rollins has declared that the 2007 Philadelphia Phillies are the team to beat. There is a huge buzz going on right now around the team. Why not with all the starters they will have on the mound, and Ryan Howard, Chase Utley back and likely better this season.

I am not saying that the William Penn curse will end this year, but I don't know if it has been this up in the air in a long time. The players are all young still and in their prime, and not yet bored with the game.

The season at the very least will likely be one we are talking about for many years from now.

"Death By Numbers"

There is a 2nd teaser for the Sopranos released that was kind of lame, but this is the third one for the final episodes. Again this one shows no new footage, but its pretty amusing anyway. I must warn you that if you have not been caught up with the entire series the concept of this teaser is to recap all the deaths by episodes numbers. Also, there is brief nudity related with one of the whackings, so watching it at work might be a bad idea.

I was suprised that they didn't include Mikey from Season 1, he was Uncle Junior's right hand man and had pretty famous whacking. Not to mention the fact that Paulie still is haunted by him.

Anyway, check this out.

"Don't Let the Door Hit Your Ankle on the Way Out"

The Peter Forsberg saga has come to and end tonight. Peter skated with his now former teamates before the Flyers/Leafs game tonight. But, by the drop of the puck Forsberg was MIA. Rumor started right away that he was traded and heading out of town.

By the first intermission it was confirmed that only the NHL needed to sign the paper work and Peter would be on the next flight out of here. The Flyers captain has been traded to the Nashville Predators

Apperently the Flyers agreed to trade Peter Forsberg to the Nashville Predators for Scottie Upshall, Ryan Parent and two draft picks. The first pick is a 1st round pick for this year. The 2nd rumored to be a 3rd round pick that the Flyers will only get if Peter stays with Nashville in the off season.

That is right the saga and drama might be over for now, but Peter could sign back with Philly during the summer. But, he could also retire and leave the game behind. Forsberg will be on a really good team now and have a chance to bring another team the cup. It would be Nashville's first ever cup.

An emotional week for the players and fans coming on the rout of the Red Wings for Keith Primeau night, and having their one time savor of the team basically abandon his team. As talented as he was, he was a poor captain. Obessed with his skate problems, he would talk about nothing else but his ankle or his skate. He rarely seemed to offer advice or chew anyone out for their play. WHen the team got down he would just drop his head on the bench and look down at the floor, or perhaps his skates. Guess thats why Sakic was always the captain. I am not sure Peter ever felt comfortable with his role.

Rumors for the new CAptain or Mike Knuble and Sami Kapanen both who signed on for a few more years with the club.

I hope these prospects pan out for the Flyers, and I guess you can't argue that they had to get something for Forsberg. But at this point, I would not want to see him return. He left his team in trumoil and I don't see why anyone would want to accept him back as the captain.From what I hear some players have quietly said if he goes, he shouldn't bother coming back. Of course others, such as Gags would likely want him back. I wonder what he said when he left the ice for warm ups.

"Have fun sucking guys, I am going to go play in the playoffs and try to get another cup!"

The Flyers will really have a ton of free money under the cap now if they decide not to bring Peter back. I know I have to pick a 2nd team now that the FLyers wont be in the playoffs. It will likely be the Penguins, and I can assure you I will be rooting for Nashsville to go out in 4 games the first round.

"Better Late Than Never"

So a few weeks ago I was lucky to get a wingbowl ticket at the last second. Yeah, I know its been almost two weeks, but I promised I would blog about it.

The night started around 2:30 am when I woke up to make it over to my friends place in Pitman. I arrived there around 3:30, and we made it to Philly at 4am.

Now I guess my mind wasn't all there at 3am when I left my house, but I didn't bother to take my gloves. It was about 24 degrees and snowing out. So, yeah that made my hands freeze, and it was hard to drink my beer in the parking lot. We stood in the parking lot for about 2 hours or so pre-gaming.

My friend's friend only have punching bag gloves for me. Despite the fact that they had the fingers cut out, it was better than nothing. Although, I clearly appeared to be looking for trouble all morning because they are punching gloves after all.

Our seats were behind the action, but we had to wait till about 7am to start drinking again, because of some stupid Philly law about not selling beer before 7am. Anyway, we were all pretty much feeling good.

Girls were flashing like crazy, but its illegal to show it on the big screen. So, you had to see them in the crowd or hope to god that a hot girl in your section was drunk enough and hated their father enough to show her bare chest to strangers.

Sadly though the girl in our section never showed us everything and was a bit of a skank. It was The best view I got were middle aged over weight women. So, yeah I guess our seats werent that great after all.

The thing that you must learn if you go to WingBowl is the the security guards will break up crowds and make the girl that is putting on the show sit down. So, just stay in your seat gentlemen. If you make a crowd, they make the girl stop and make you all sit down. Of course there wasn't much regard for rules or laws at Wing Bowl. From smoking in public places to, throwing objects onto the stage, and I would imagine under age drinking. Who cares, its Philly, its wing bowl.

The winner was one of the pros again this year, which prompted El Wingador to come out of retirement for next year. I just hope its not like when Jordan or Mario came back and were just a shell of their former self. I really hope El Wingador plays the way we remembered him when he left the sport of fat people eating wings.

The actual event was over in what seemed like a flash. It was hard to hear the people talk because the speakers in the WATCH OVER YOU center suck big time.

The after party was at Finnageans Wake in Philly. Yeah pretty much drinking all morning long. They had a buffet for like 6 bucks, and since they felt really sorry for my drunk friendthey let him eat for free.

Now he kept saying he wanted to go to strip club. I was pretty indifferent, but since my friend hooked my up with the ticket, I told him anywhere he wanted to go was fine with me. The other dude had a girlfriend and no real interest in going to a strip club and wasting his money. Eventually we talked down to one. However, my poor friend was flagged in the parking lot. I thought to myself I have never seen anyone ever flagged in a parking lot in my life. Not to mention the fact that I would only have been working for 3 hours normally.

So back to the bar we went. It got a lot crazier in there, contestants were t here and even former Eagle Hugh Douglas who was part of the Wing Bowl broadcast team. HUgh was giving free beer and t-shirts out. But at that point I was pretty much done. It was pretty much all dudes in there and I already at like two meals and was getting rid of my buzz.

So, my friend thought he caught his 2nd wind and fired us up to got to another strip club, this time he was going to "act sober" and everything was going to be "Cool". About 20 mins later he was sleeping in the car out could. At this point me and other dude kept trying to wake him up, and than we just started talking smack to see if he would wake up. Nothing. We pulled into the parking lot and considered waking him up. But he was out cold.


By 2pm I was napping with blurry memories of guys with wing sauce on their face, women flashing, and wondering how much longer I could have gone being outside without fingers falling off.


I was thankful to go again and every red blooded south jersey male should experience Wing Bowl once in their life. I plan on going for that hat trick myself.

"The Trilla in Phila"

If there is such a thing as playing a big win in the worst season in a team's history last night was just that for the Philadelphia Flyers.

Charged by the former Captain Keith Primeau who was honored last night in front of a sellout crowd the Flyers played their best game of the season. They held their own the entire game and exploded for 5 goals in the third period.

It was a loud sellout crowd and seemed like the days of old, which was bitter sweet when you realize how far down they are in the standings. It will be likely next season before we get to experience something like that again.

For the first time all season the players were smiling on the bench. Despite the good feeling of the night, the reality of the situation was clear with over ten scouts at the FLyers game all trying to check out Peter Forsberg. Many teams that will actually be in the playoffs were there to see if he still has it, and are many are interested in renting him for a cup run.

"Tucker's World Soda Can Drive"

So Pepsi is promoting the Flyers with 10 cans honoring 10 Flyer greats. I would like to collect them all if possible. So, if you are drinking a soda can and you see a dude that looks like a Flyer on it. Please drink it and save it for me. I don't even drink some of the sodas that are listed on here that will have Flyers on it. Here is the list of who is on what. What will you get out of it? Well nothing at all, just the satifaction of holding on to and empty soda can untill the next time you see me, feel free to put a comment on here when you get a can for me. You know what? Because of the likelyhood of not getting all these cans by myself. Whoever brings in the most cans gets a free dinner at Starview diner on Tucker's World. Rob, if the winner is your mortal enemy I will let you know who he or she is.

"Orange and Black Saturday"

They needed over time, but Simon Gagne lifted the Flyers to their first win on home ice since Black Friday at the Watch Over You Center last night. The Flyers knocked off the equally pathetic Saint Louis Blues when they had 4 on 3 peco power play. It was Micheal Leightons's first start and action at all as a Flyers. Leighton cliamed off waivers a month ago is likely to slide into the #2 spot if the Flyers are able to find any takers for Robert Esche at the trade deadline. This plan hit a snag with Esche having hip problems right now. Leighton had been set down to the phantoms to get his game ready. He played alright I guess. Most the goals weren't really his fault, but at the same time he wasn't anything to write home about. At any rate I hope he still gets a start this week I would like to see him in action again in hopes that we found some sort of waiver steal. The win puts the Flyers 11 points out of 29th place (out of 30) and 26 points out of a playoff berth. This is as of Sunday morning.

"Trim Spa Baby!"

I am sure all my readers have been wondering over and over again why I havent posted about the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Well, I was staying at my parents for a few days and their stupid computer doesnt work.

Anyway, Ann Nicole died earlier this week much to the joy of americans everywhere that had her in their death pool. I don't think I ever heard so many jokes cracked about someone dying when news got out around my office that she died.

Anna Nicole was truely watching a 10 year trainwreck. She started off pretty normal I guess as a Guess Jeans model. From there she went to pose for playboy and at the time was considered the hot girl. She even looked as if she was going to have some what of an acting career in a 1994 starring in movies like Naked Gun 33 1/3 and The Hudsucker Proxy. However, that didn't last when she married that old dude. From that point on she was pretty much known as that money grabbing whore that married and old dude for his money.

At this point tabolids fell in love with her. She was really the first poster girl for the 24 cable news networks and the sleazy shamless cable network shows E! that pretty much started around the time she became household name. Daily updates on what she was doing and how it effected America as if she was a really important public figure would even take up time on such "news" channels as CNN and FOX NEWS.

Later came her E! reality show, where if you ever watched it would certainly think she belonged in some sort of nuthouse or rehab rather than on tv. She was drugged up and made an ass out of herself everyweek not making any sense. She also proved what a horrible mother she was by forcing her son who had no desire to be on the show appear. I saw one show where he just begged her to stop having cameras following her around.

As for her "career" her craziness and weight gain pretty much killed it. She did straight to video flicks and guest shots on tv shows but noting more than that. Sadly her son died last fall almost exactly the way she did under a cloud of mystery.

Might sounded like a mean they died post, but really its just more about the way humanity will always be interested in the suffering of others. Certainly the media wouldn't keep us up to date on Anna if we weren't rewarding them with buying their magazines, hitting up their webpage and tv ratings would they?

"Frozen"

The current temp, out right now is 11. Thats right 11! Might not seem to cold for you midwest readers, but Its pretty damn cold for South Jersey!

Tomorrow might the coldest rush hour in well I don't know how long. Doesn't look like we get above freezing for a few days, and not by much when we finally do. Could there also be some snow next week?

"Goodbye Echelon, Hello Town Center"

The extreme makeover for the Echelon Mall begins this week. The empty J C Penny's and Sears will be torn down in the coming weeks. This will kick off the transition from the Echelon Mall to the Voorhees Town Center. The Echelon name will eventually be dropped all together from the scaled down mall.

Many of the empty stores have buisnesses just waiting to move in when the place is over hauled, and there is a new entrance made on the Macy's end. The project hopes to have the scaled down mall completed by the holiday season of this year.

In addition to the overhaul, a grocery store will be added, along with a road way to drive up to upscale shops like the failed Mainstreet concept miles away on the other side of town. There will also be high end town homes build in some of the parking areas that rarely get used now at what was the Echelon Mall.

The Voorhees Town Center also hopes to attract a bar/ dinning place and already has the liquor licence in place. The entire project should be done by late spring or early summer of 2008.

"No March of the Penguins"

What appears to be an endless NHL storyline will finally end on Friday. The city of Pittsburgh is set to announce (at least ESPN.com thinks so) tomorrow that they are going to build a new rink for the Penguins. So, after various rumors of moving the team to dumb ass places like Kansas City, it appears the Penguins will remain in Pittsburgh after all. The team was been in trouble since the late 90s and got to the point that if the city didn't help build them a new arena they would just peace out. Good news, because I love them staying where the belong, the team has a lot of history in the city. Crosby and company will stay put, it is great news for Pittsburgh and for the NHL in general.