Lightning center and No. 1 overall draft pick Steven Stamkos is making the transition this season from junior star to NHL regular. Throughout the season, the 18-year-old from Markham, Ontario, will share his experiences with Tribune writer Erik Erlendsson and provide a weekly diary to offer Tribune readers an insight to a new way of life along his rookie journey. ...more

November 9, 2008

I first started drinking coffee when I was in college, not because I needed the caffeine, but because I was the young tagalong in a group of rich, motorcycle-riding, super-cool, geeky Asians. Please. Disengage your visual cortex and do not try to picture that in your mind. Just take my word for it that they were all that AND got honors marks. ...more

July 8, 2008