Category: Sports
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Cinderella, a.k.a. Wicked Stepmom
Donald, everything you touch turns to yuck. The last couple of weeks the reflecting pool, your great American state fair, the housing initiative that you refuse to sign and now Iran again. But there was one nice story that was going. That was the whole World Cup thing and the US team doing their Cinderella…
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End Of An Era
It was announced, yesterday, that CBC will no longer be carrying hockey night in Canada, Saturday night broadcasts, effective immediately. For anybody growing up in Canada and in the northern US border states this was a Saturday night staple. CBC started carrying Saturday night broadcasts on radio back in 1936. Their first televised broadcast was…
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Madison Square Miracle
Flipping through channels last night. My Tigers were losing. On CNN, they had a panel discussion about Trump loving inflation. The NBA finals, San Antonio was ahead by 29. The Toronto Tempo in the WNBA made a great comeback to win their game. Watch that for a while as it went into overtime. Turned back…
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Nursing A Trade
I could’ve done a political chirp today, but it’s too depressing and too repetitive. The Iran war continues. Trump is being Trump. Ukraine and Russia still at war. On and on and on. So bear with me. The Oilers are trying to trade Darnell Nurse. He has just completed his fourth year of an eight…
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You Never Know
It was reported, the other day, that Claude Lemieux had passed away at the age of 60. Lemieux over 1200 games and had nearly 800 points. He was a better than average player and a player that fans loved to hate if he was not on your team. He won four Stanley cups, one with…
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Playoffs Time
Back in 2001, Jim Mora, then coach of the Indianapolis Colts, after the Colts had lost a brutal game, was asked about his team‘s playoff chances. He responded with a memorable quote that you need to see. “Playoffs? Don’t talk about—playoffs?! You kidding me? Playoffs?! I just hope we can win a game! Another game!” They did not make the playoffs…
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The Dance
It is that time of year again. The big dance, to the sweet 16, to the elite eight, which is today and tomorrow and then the final four. It is a time where many Americans and some Canadians do their brackets, or past tense, did their brackets, with most of those brackets collapsing. Last year…
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The Game
All across our nation, Canadians are going to do a very Canadian game, and get in front of a TV and watch the Canada versus US gold medal hockey game. Depending where you live, in Canada, the game will start anywhere between 510 in the morning, such as in BC, to 940 in the morning…
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Escape
With all the stuff going around in the world, sometimes it is just nice to escape it all and follow the Olympics. No matter what country you are from you can drape your hopes around the flag of your country. So many different sports to choose from such as hockey and figure skating, on the…
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No Crying In Curling
I was watching an Olympics curling game between Sweden and Canada and a hockey fight almost broke out. Tom Hanks, in the movie ‘ a league of their own’ came out with the following famous line. “there is no crying in baseball“ In the ninth end of this game, there was a flurry of accusations…