Jason Spezza has go-ahead goal as Ottawa Senators defeat Flames 3-2 - After a franchise
best 11-game winning streak was snapped by the Toronto Maple Leafs on
Saturday night, the Ottawa Senators started a new one on Tuesday. Nice to see they took a break from their franchise best winning streak to give Leafs fans some hope.
Cypress courses lush with snow, but muddy on the fringes - A quick glance at
the courses on Cypress Mountain reveals the white lushness of a
primed-and-ready Olympic freestyle and snowboard run. I'm sure Olympic organizers are breathing quite the sigh of relief.
Edmonton awarded a North American Soccer League franchise for 2011 - FC Edmonton will begin play in the 2011 season. The NASL will kick off
with nine teams in 2010, including the Montreal Impact and Vancouver
Whitecaps. Nice to see soccer gathering so much steam in Canada.
Alfredsson, Spezza scored 2 each, Sens top Sabres for 10th straight win - Daniel Alfredsson scored twice in the final minute - including an
empty-netter - and the Senators extended a franchise-best winning
streak to 10 with a 4-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday
night. I'd call this past 10 games by the Sens a rather remarkable bounce-back. Here's hoping the keep up the stellar play.
Leafs D Komisarek out for season, will miss out on Vancouver Olympics - Toronto Maple Leafs
defenceman Mike Komisarek will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery,
ending his plans to represent the United States at the Vancouver
Olympics. Team USA looses two big D-men in the same week - that's gotta hurt. Oh yeah - and it is good news for the Leafs - they'll have to kill less penalties.
Bosh, Bargnani score 20 each, lead Raptors to 108-99 win over Nets - Jarrett Jack woke up on Wednesday feeling so ill he thought he would not be able to play against the New Jersey Nets that night. It would be pretty embarrassing to lose to the 4-win-Nets now wouldn't it - but with the Raptors, you never really know...
Mickelson won't use wedge, accepts apology from McCarron -Phil Mickelson won't
be using the Ping Eye2 wedge that led a fellow player to accuse him of
"cheating," even though he hopes others will use the controversial club
to keep attention on what he calls a ridiculous rule.Phil said that he made his point and hopes other continue to make theirs (about the loophole and ridiculous rule-making process in place at the PGA / USGA).
You know, I always thought the 6'10 circus freak of a man in my rec soccer league was dirty, always swinging those giant moose legs around the field willy-nilly. Turns out, science says I may just be imagining things.
Science Daily reports, "Researchers at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University have
researched all recorded fouls in three major football competitions over
seven years. They discovered an ambiguous foul is more likely to be
attributed to the taller of two players."
So go ahead, shin-kick that tall, stork beast trying to cover you inside the penalty area. Chances are he'll get called for it.
Rare goal from Lukowich leads Canucks to fifth straight win, 3-2 over Sabres - It took 12 seasons, but Brad Lukowich is finally living his NHL dream.This Canuck team is looking more and more like the Canadian team to beat nowadays. Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto are all looking pretty bland. The Habs and Sens have at least turned it up recently.
Rod Brind'Amour scores game winner as Hurricanes beat Senators 4-1 - After Rod Brind'Amour scored the winning goal in the Hurricanes' 4-1
victory over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday, Carolina's players didn't
shy away from calling their two consecutive victories a winning streak. The Sens' play seems to have been sliding recently. Doesn't help when you have some of your best players on the sidelines.
Drew Doughty piling up the points since being name to Team Canada - The excitement of being selected to Team Canada doesn't appear to have worn off for Drew Doughty. Most guys would relax a little and let their foot up a bit upon finding out they made Team Canada. Not Doughty, this kid competes every night. More people need to watch the LA Kings, they are a great team to watch.
Geoff Ogilvy rallies to start the year with another victory in Hawaii - Whether he's
running away from the field or chasing from behind, Geoff Ogilvy has
found the secret to winning the season-opening SBS Championship at
Kapalua. Ogilvy won this tourney last year. It was Glover's tourney after the first few rounds, but an atrocious 4th round took him out of contention quickly.
Angola announces 2 arrests in attack on Togo football team - Authorities have
arrested two separatists in Angola's restive Cabinda region following a
shooting attack on the Togolese national football team that killed
three people, a prosecutor announced Monday. I hope they catch all those involved, this is a scary reality and should not be taken lightly given the upcoming world cup.
NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol says network will lose money on Vancouver Winter Olympics - American broadcaster NBC Universal says it expects to lose money televising the Winter Olympics from Vancouver next month.If NBC is going to lose money, I don't want to think about how much CTV is going to lose. By the of the games Lloyd Robertson will probably come read you the news in person for $20.
Tom Hicks Jr. (pictured above), son of Liverpool FC co-owner Tom Hicks, has resigned his position on the club's board after a rather embarrassing email incident.
According to a Deadspin story yesterday, the Liverpool Echo ran an op-ed that decried the encroachment of club debt on football matters. A Liverpool supporter forwarded the piece to a variety of club officials, one being Hicks Jr. Now, usually in these matters, club officials respond in one of two ways: a) Total silence. Or, b) A form letter response, likely written by some lackey in public relations.
Hicks Jr., however, chose a little-used third option and replied: "Blow me f*#k face. Go to hell. I'm sick of you."
Barecelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi has won FIFA's World Player of the Year award, which will bookend nicely with that Ballon d'Or he won as European Footballer of the Year last month.
What's great about Messi, aside form his mind-numbing soccer skills (remember THIS?) and overcoming childhood health problems, is the complete lack of drama or ego surrounding him as one of the world's best. While pundits the world over decry the downfall of world soccer into a hellhole of gargantuan player contracts and sky-rocketing transfer fees (all valid complaints), it's a strong statement that the world's best player seems like such an affable guy.
So, congrats to Mr. Messi ...
Oh, say, what are the odds someone breaks out a "Super Smurf" reference when Messi pulls on that Argentina blue in South Africa this summer?
The big group draw for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa went down this afternoon with the usual FIFA festivities (Charlize Theron!). The big news? Well, there's not really a Group of Death... unless you consider Group G, a collection of Brazil, Portugal, North Korea and Ivory Coast death-worthy. Personally, I'd say it lands somewhere between Group of Heinous Injury and Group of Mildly Irritating Rash more than actual Death. But that's just me.
Other interesting tidbits? England opens the tourney against USA!USA!USA!, which should be a ratings bonanza for ESPN and supply more than a few independence/colony puns for headline writers. Those two share Group C with Algeria and Slovenia.
Group A features host nation just-happy-to-be-here South Africa, Mexico, France and Uruguay. Group B has Greece, South Korea, Nigeria and Diego Maradona's Argentina. Germany heads up Group D, facing Australia, Ghana and Serbia. In Group E, the Netherlands should be considered the favorite alongside Denmark, Japan and Cameroon. Defending champs Italy head up Group F, with Slovakia, New Zealand and Paraguay. Euro champs Spain are in Group H with Honduras, Chile and Switzerland.
Kessel, Blake each score twice to push Maple Leafs past Blue Jackets 6-3 - Eight games ago, the Toronto Maple Leafs were sagging and the Columbus Blue Jackets were flying. Now the roles are reversed. Ok, I'll say it: Kessel is a goal machine. The naysayers now look a little silly for doubting his skill.
David Beckham reveals he has defied asthma problems for several years - Renowned for his fitness, David Beckham has revealed that has been troubled with asthma for several years. They make it sound like he's a hero for overcoming this. Pretty sure with the amount of money he gets paid to not play soccer, he can afford a robot to carry him around the pitch.
Did Tiger pay mistress to keep queit? - A potentially
explosive news conference with an alleged mistress was cancelled
Thursday as more details trickled out about the car accident that
started all the trouble for Tiger Woods. Why is anyone surprised? I'm not in the 'personal failings' business, but I'm pretty certain she wasn't 'transgressing' Tiger in hopes that he'd leave his wife and join her in NY. She was clearly hoping one day this would blow-up and she'd get a hand-out.
Tennis legend and World No. 1 Roger Federer took time out of his busy schedule getting ready for the ATP World Finals in London to give his... uh, much-anticipated opinion on the France-Ireland handball debacle. Surprisingly, given his checkered past with tennis judging technology, Federer thinks it's high time the Beautiful Game stepped into the 21st Century.
“I think it needs it more than tennis,” the stone-faced Swiss told Reuters. “You can't stop play
and analyze everything but you can do a few things so things like this
don't happen and then Thierry Henry would not be in the position he is
in.”
Obviously this was an attempt by a world champion and high-profile athlete to help deflect criticism of a friend -- Federer and Henry are, obviously, two-thirds of the Super Trio (with Tiger Woods) that is dedicated to fighting unruly facial hair and world injustice. Sure, tennis and soccer are completely unrelated. And yeah, Federer's homeland of Switzerland isn't exactly a futbol powerhouse, but dammit, the man is a winner! Of course his opinion matters, he appears in private jet commercials! He's the best a man can get (or something)!
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