Honestly, I am a bit lost as to why Houston has not been looked at earlier by the NHL. Even the Atlanta Flames supposedly had interest there. The WHA’s Houston Aeros were one of the few WHA ...

The Friedkin Group already owns two prominent soccer franchises in AS Roma in Serie A and Everton in the Premier League.

He retired after playing only four games that season, but came back for one more year after the NHL accepted four WHA teams in 1979. Beset by injuries, he scored just six goals in 27 games for ...

With a strong financial foundation and proven sports management experience, Friedkin could be the ideal candidate to facilitate Nashville's expansion efforts. This indicates that Houston could not ...

That didn’t mean another league challenging the NHL’s supremacy didn’t have Black talent. From 1972 to 1975, Alton White played for three WHA franchises. He became the first Black player not ...

Almost four decades later, in 2009-10, White got a mainstream card when In The Game included him in its 1972 The Year In Hockey set, which spotlighted the best NHL, WHA and Soviet players from ...

WHA sought a lot of talent from Sweden. A Toronto-based lawyer, William McMurty, wrote about it. An excerpt from his article, “In talking to numerous players in the NHL and WHA, they feel that ...