Welcome, readers of The Athletic, to the first of many every-so-often mailbags I intend to write in the coming months and years and millennia. You all submitted scores of questions, and I'll get to as ...

ST. LOUIS — By first grade, most kids can recite alphabet from memory. But 6-year-old St. Louisan Sam DeMerit can do all those kids one better. He has memorized the distinct sound to every single NHL ...

In the 1970s, Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz loved the sound of the horn on his yacht and decided to install one in Chicago Stadium, where the Blackhawks played. The horn soon became expected ...

*This archive was originally published by Ryan Shuvera and was most recently updated in March 2025 In the 1970s, Chicago ...