Alyssa Milano’s cheating on baseball! For reasons we cannot explain, she showed up at NHL All-Star weekend in Atlanta. (Tim Riggins was there, too! Who knew he had an NHL blog?) The only connection we can think of is that she dated Wayne McBean of the Islanders in the 80s and is tired of baseball players. She sat in the stands (photo after the jump) and watch the East beat the West, 8-7.

All of this is immaterial, because the real news is that starting Wednesday, we’re going to have a passionate hockey fan writing a daily NHL recap, not unlike beloved Ballin’ or even-cooler Yardwork! (As of now, it lacks an original title, so if you’ve got any bright ideas, have at it.) Here’s the extent of all we can tell you about hockey right now: the NHL must do whatever it can to get Pittsburgh and Washington into the postseason, because Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin are two of the best marketing draws in the league, and without them, it’s just another reason to not care about the sport. It’d be like LeBron and Kobe missing the NBA playoffs.
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