Category: Sports
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Gong Shows
This is Chuck Barris. Back in the 1970’s, he was the host of a show called ‘The Gong Show’ It was an amateur talent contest show. The least said about it, the better. Yesterday was Monday and just being a Monday is a gong show, in itself. The start of a work week, the weekend…
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One Day To Gloat
By https://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/static/wildcat/assets/img/logos/teams/DET.svg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22643467 Tomorrow back to political chirps. Today long-suffering Lions fans are celebrating the fact that the Lions are 5-1 after another road victory, this time over Tampa Bay. The Lions are now tied with Philadelphia and San Francisco, for the best record in the Conference. What makes it more amazing is…
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Up There
By https://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/static/wildcat/assets/img/logos/teams/DET.svg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22643467 I was going to use the title “On Top”, but that would be pushing it. I have had relatively poor luck following sports teams. For example, while I currently live in Edmonton and have been an Edmonton Oilers fan for 25 years now, I lived in Ontario before then. I…
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Swift Effect
Attribution to iHeartRadioCA The Kansas Chiefs played a late afternoon game, on Sunday, against the Chicago Bears. The game was a farce. Kansas City killed Chicago 41-10. But that was not the main story. The main story was that Taylor Swift was at the game. She was watching her possibly new beau, Kansas City superstar…
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Not This Way
Attribution to All-Pro Reels I am not a fan of Aaron Rodgers. He is arrogant. He asked for a trade from Green Bay because he felt he was too good for the team. He was upset with some of the Green Bay front office moves, which he felt did not benefit the team or himself.…
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Feels Like Christmas
Sourced from Pride of Detroit website Attrribution to Junfu Han/USE Today Network This is a me chirp. Some days do feel like Christmas. More troubles for Donald Trump yesterday. Regarding the Mar-a-Lago documents case, it came out yesterday that there are tapes of Trump talking to his lawyers about hiding the documents and telling the…
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PAC 12 Now 2
Attribution to Pac-12 Style Guide When I was a kid, I grew up on the Canadian side, just across the bordr from Big Ten country. Saturday afternoons were filled with listening the Michigan Wolverine games. The highlight games being games against the Spartans and the Buckeyes, as well as the Irish. Moved west, not so…
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Just One Game
Attribution to Dave Hogg Sometimes, you just got to laugh. I am an unabashed Detroit Lions fan. I have been for more years than I care to say. Anyone who is a Detroit Lions fan understands the pain of having been a fan of the Lions. The last time they won a playoff game was…
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Stop The Insanity
Many years back, a New Years Day tradition was the Rose Bowl, where the champions of the PAC10, would play the champions of the BIG10. In NCAA basketball you had traditional BIG EAST battles like Syracuse vs. Georgetown. Of course, back to football you had the traditional Thanksgiving weekend BIG8 battle between powerhouses Nebraska and…
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Will Be Missed
Attribution to wikimedia.org Last week I was in British Columbia, visiting my daughter. woke up one morning and started perusing the internet. Saw a news report that Bell Media in a budget saving move was shutting down a number of radio stations. went down the list and saw that one of the stations was CFRN,…