Sports News Briefs: All-Stars, and Good News for Vick's Dogs
NHL All-Star MVP, Eric Staal by Andy Mead/ WireImage.com
Sunday's NHL All-Star Game - a wild 8-7 win for the Eastern Conference - was seen by just 796,717 viewers on Versus. But before you laugh, keep in mind that this represents an increase of almost 16 percent from last year (672,948). In other hockey news, NBC has picked the Anaheim Ducks/Detroit Red Wings showdown for its
Game of the Week on Sunday, Feb. 10 (3:30 pm/ET). The game is a rematch of last year's Western Conference Finals (won by the Ducks, who went on to win the Stanley Cup)....
Speaking of all-star games, the reserves for the NBA's version will be announced Thursday during
NBA Tip-Off (Jan. 31, 7 pm/ET, TNT). The NBA All-Star game airs Sunday, Feb. 17 (8:30 pm/ET, TNT)....
The National Geographic Channel will keep tabs on those poor pups that were part of
Michael Vick's dogfighting enterprise. Per the network,
Dogtown will follow "the attempted rehabilitation of 22 dogs that belonged to Michael Vick and are now residing at Dogtown, the Best Friends animal sanctuary in Utah. The series will focus on four of the toughest cases as the experts at Dogtown try to resocialize these seriously aggressive pit bulls." The suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback is currently serving a 23-month sentence in a federal prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation in Virgina. Vick also admitted to helping kill at least six dogs.
