Hockey League Cancels Season

By Madeleine Brand

Published February 16, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman cancels the 2004-2005 season after team owners and players are unable to negotiate an agreement to end the lockout. NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks to Michael Rosenberg, a sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).