Crosby is the new garbage man - Crosby's recent goal-scoring exploits deserve recognition not only for their frequency, but for their style. First he delivers seasons tickets, now he's picking up the trash. How far he has fallen...
The Olympic law may piss some people off - The B.C. government introduced a controversial law Thursday that will allow police to take homeless people to shelters in extreme weather, but won't give officers the power to force them to stay. No word yet if they will still allow heroin addicts to freely use drugs as the world descends on Vancouver.
Where did A-Rod go? - Yankees' Rodriguez stuck in slump, seeking first World Series hit. I think Kate Hudson might secretly be a Phillies fan.
Oilers hang on to beat Wings - What looked like a lopsided win quickly turned into a nail-biter for the Edmonton Oilers. I think Pat Quinn aged like 8 years last night. Its like the Oilers stopped skating past their own blueline.
Ovechkin is making Washington hockey-crazy - In town known for politics and pigskin, Ovechkin and the Caps cause hockey fever. A team like theirs will do that. Its insane how many skill players they have. Oh and that number 8 guy. He's ok too.
Have you heard of this Crosby kid? - Superstitious
Sidney Crosby didn't want to jinx his shot at a hat trick after his
first two goals. Perhaps for the same reason, he isn't willing to
acknowledge he's morphing into a top pure goal-scorer. If Crosby continue scoring like this, the Ovechkin vs. Crosby arguments will be pretty much over as Ovechkin's only assists are off rebounds.
Did you know the Yankees have the Boogeyman on staff? - There's no one in baseball who can make the opposition's blood run colder than Mariano Rivera. For such a scary man, I had a hard time finding a picture of him where he's not smiling.
NHL monitoring H1N1's progression - The National Hockey
League is watching the progression of H1N1 cases among its players but
at this point sees no need for special measures to help prevent spread
of the illness. I am not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure the entire Edmonton Oilers team has the swine flu.
Agassi admits drug use - Andre Agassi's
upcoming autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth
in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drug test - a
result that was thrown out after he said he "unwittingly" took the
substance. Damn Ags. When did tennis get so hardcore?
H1N1 hits the NHL -The Colorado Avalanche confirm that backup goalie Peter Budaj has swine flu. The way professional athletes live their lives (always around each other, in dressing rooms, hotels, etc...) I can imagine everyone on the Avs is currently waiting in line for their shot.
The Raptors are International - An off-season
overhaul added to the Toronto Raptors' international flavour, but the
club was just keeping with a growing NBA trend. Does this mean we'll have to sit through 5 National Anthems before every game?
The big bats will come out to play - Rodriguez, Howard bring star power, big bats to Phillies-Yankees World Series. This World Series is going to be a slug-fest. A SLUG-FEST I TELL YA!
Price ok with back-up role... for now - Carey Price clearly
doesn't enjoy watching games from the bench, but with his Montreal
Canadiens riding a four-game winning streak he sees no reason for head
coach Jacques Martin to call on his services just yet. The Habs are looking good thanks to their off-season shopping spree, now if only they could get consistent goal tending out of Price, they'd be looking much better.
If you're like most sports fans, when a new season of NBA basketball arrives -- as it does tonight with Boston vs Cleveland, Lakers vs Clippers, Houston vs Portland and Washington vs Dallas -- there's only one thing you want to do: DANCE! Right? Right? Guys?
Either way, I dare you to watch this lil' ditty by a puppet frog and not get PSYCHED for intense athletic competition. Jazz hands!
Charles Barkley wants to be a GM in the NBA - Charles Barkley thinks he can do better than some of the general managers he criticizes on TV. I smell another reality TV series...
The Winter Games are smaller, less lucrative cousin of Summer Games: experts - The 2010 Olympics will consume Vancouver and Whistler for 17 days next
February, but for all the spectacle here in Canada, the Games of ice
and snow are still the younger, smaller - and less lucrative - cousin
of the Summer Olympics. Didn't realize people paid that much money to advertise during intense water polo matches.
Leafs get first win of the season - Hagman's hat trick leads Maple Leafs to 6-3 win over slumping Ducks. Finally. Share your thoughts about the Leaf's first win here.
World Series preview - A position-by-position look at the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees going into the World Series, starting Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. While they seem to match-up pretty well on paper, the way A-Rod is seeing the ball will be a huge focal point of both teams.
Is the Coyotes saga FINALLY over? - Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes has agreed to sell the bankrupt franchise to the NHL. Let's all start the Winnipeg vs. Quebec vs. Hamilton vs. Phoenix arguments now!
So the Leafs, Brian Burke and Jonas Gustavsson finally got their first win of the 2009/10 NHL hockey season. How long now until they get win number 2?
They defeated a scrappy, dirty, terrible, desperate, Anaheim Mighty Ducks team 6 to 3 in a game filled by more face washes and chirping than a high-school slumber party.
Nice to see the offense turn it up, Stajan with some nice passes, Hagman netting himself his 2nd career hat trick and the team playing pretty well overall (with a few breakdowns here and there). Oh also, 'The Monster' played rather well, a few huge saves and I'm not sure I can fault him on any of the goals he let in.
Now that they got that monkey off their back, I assume we can start talking about the Stanley Cup now right?
So what do you guys think of the win tonight and the season so far? Is Boston getting a good pick in the draft? Will the Leafs make the postseason? Will Doug Gilmour make a comeback soon? (Keep it clean-ish).
Yankees return to World Series - The New York Yankees are back in the World Series, thanks in large part to some of the key guys who got them there last time. World Series to start on Wednesday. With the amount of money spent on this team, they HAVE to make it to the World Series just to break even.
Luongo gets Canucks shutout record - Roberto Luongo
became the Vancouver Canucks' franchise leader in shutouts Sunday
night, but he was more interested in talking about his team's record
than his own. This weekend was the Luongo show.
Canadian golfer secures PGA tour card - Chris Baryla is the newest Canadian on the PGA Tour. The golfer from Vernon, B.C., finished up a strong comeback year on
Sunday, placing seventh in the Nationwide Tour Championship to finish
19th on the money list and earn his PGA Tour membership in 2010. Good for Chris, I know our Golf Columnist Robert Thompson was really pulling for him!
NHL October surprises - NHL hockey in October isn't the best display of the sport you'll ever see. It's an extension of the exhibition season, really. I agree - hockey in October feels like it is stuck in slow motion.
TFC flops out of the playoffs - Toronto's utterly humiliating 5-0 road loss to New York on Saturday
night put paid to its foolish and completely misguided post-season
aspirations. Best part of this whole thing is that the TFC fans haven't noticed yet - they're still sleeping off the hangover.
Well, it looks like a team of uniformed multimillionaires from New York will be meeting another team of multimillionaires from Philadelphia to compete for baseball's top prize. Excitement, abound. Sure, Philly reserves most of its Big Apple hate for their league rival Mets but, rest assured, there's plenty of sixth borough inferiority complex to go around, which, along with actual baseball skills, should make the 2009 World Series as heated a contest as any.
The last time these two teams met to fight over the big trophy was in 1950. Back then, it was the Yankees who were defending champs, everyone was white and the Phillies had a guy who might be of some interest to Mad Men fans. But why read words about this match-up when you can watch grainy black-and-white footage! History!
The man who brought the Olympics to Vancouver died - Jack Poole, a legendary Vancouver businessman, died Friday following a
lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. Poole was chairman of the
Vancouver Olympic organizing committee's board of directors and also
headed up the city's bid for the Games. It is too bad he didn't get to witness the games he worked so hard to get.
Who are these guys? - Adrian Aucoin scored at 1:57 of overtime to give the Coyotes a 3-2 comeback
victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night for their best
start in eight years. I just wanted to tell you that the Coyotes are 2nd in their conference, while the Wings are TENTH.
Michael Jordan's kid is a nice guy - A fight over the shoes Michael Jordan's son will wear at the University of Central Florida could cost the school financially. So by this logic, can we expect Jordan's kid to use the same bookies as his dad?
Golf is back in the Olympics, but for how long? - Golf's most compelling event for viewers is surely the Ryder Cup,
where spectators are lured in by the emotion of cheering for – or
against – the Americans. Olympic golf will follow the game's singular
roots of one man, one club and one ball, but two-man teams, like the
current World Cup, might have been more dramatic. Robert nails it on the head here. Should have been more of a team event, there are enough stroke play events as it is.
Winless Leafs looking forward to hitting the road - It was smiles all around as players exchanged barbs and
finished packing up their equipment for the start of a five-game road
trip on Thursday. I don't know what to say anymore. Perhaps they should try and trade Kessel back to the Bruins and get their probable first round pick overall back.
Like, I don't know what's going on in Montreal, y'know? First, Sergei's on the team and some people even, like, think he's better than his brother. But whatever. Anyways, then Bob Gainey totally sends him down to the minors in HAMILTON. Which, no offense, is no Montreal. But Sergei decides not to go and is all, "I don't deserve this" and Gainey's all, "Yes you do." After a few days and some media mumbojumbo, Sergei changes his mind and is all, "OK, I'll go" and Gainey's all, "Yeah, OK." Then Sergei had six points in five games for the Hamilton Bolldogs, but they were HAMILTON points so he wasn't really all about them. Anyways, Sergei then decided to ditch Hamilton yesterday. Then there's all this talk about him going back to Russia to play in that wacky KHL or whatever. I don't know about you but think I might prefer even Hamilton to Minsk. Anyways, it looks like Bob Gainey totally stepped in and asked to see Sergei, so they met. Awkwaaard. Anyways, they met last night. THEN, it comes out that this whole draaaaaaaaammmaaaa! came from a fight that Sergei had with Scott Gomez (that guy from Alaska who was with the New Jersey Devils forever and then went to the Rangers for a minute) in preseason. It looks like they got in some sort of fight at a party -- probably over something like who drank all the imports or who could jump the highest or who won a specific thumb-wrestling tournament -- I don't know. Anyways, it sounded serious. NOW it looks like Bob Gainey convinced Sensitive Sergei to go back to the Hammer. So that's what happened. Crazy, eh? LOLWTFOMFGZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
September 2009
