Sports Dispatch

NHL 2K9 Goes Gold (NHL 2K9)

2K Sports today announced that the highly anticipated hockey title, NHL 2K9, has gone gold and is now ready for production for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii home video game system from Nintendo, PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems. Dedicated fans will enjoy this on-the-ice experience like never before as NHL 2K9 brings the fun back to hockey video games on September 9 in North America.

Avalanche C Sakic to play in 2008-09 (AP)
Patience paid off for the Colorado Avalanche, who signed Joe Sakic to a one-year, $6 million contract Wednesday after he decided to play a 20th season in the NHL rather than call it a career. “Ultimately it came down to the fact that I still enjoy playing and competing,” the 39-year-old captain said in a statement released by the team.

Acute injuries in soccer, ice hockey, volleyball, basketball, judo, and karate: analysis of national registry data
Acute injuries in soccer, ice hockey, volleyball, basketball, judo, and karate: analysis of national registry data. Urho M Kujala, chief physician,a Simo Taimela, research assistant,a Ilkka Antti-Poika, consultant orthopaedic surgeon,a Sakari Orava, consultant orthopaedic surgeon,a Risto Tuominen, senior researcher,b Pertti Myllynen, senior lecturer in orthopaedics and traumatology c a Unit for