Yes, I'm well aware Larry King is "losing it". But he's still a legend and if you're some stuck-up, stand-for-nothing, self-promoting, right-wing tramp - you still don't treat Larry King like he's a rookie hosting a Cable Access show.

 

 

Good stuff on the public tantrum front by Brent Sapergia, one of the great hockey minds in Southern Professional Hockey League history.  (The SPHL?  Are they the league that has its games on VERSUS?  I can never remember.  I just I've never been at a hotel where that channel has been on.

 

Sapergia decided to quite after only three games of coaching, which is too bad -- because I think his angriest moments were ahead of him.

 

But this makes the Lousiana Ice Gators my favourite team in the SPHL, and I'm certainly tired of the refs screwing them in that league.  I don't care if they can all skate faster than Don Van Massenhoeven if they're pulling Danny Davis-esque shenanigans night in and night out to stick it to my Gators.

 

I can only imagine how busy sports radio has been in Lafayette, Louisiana deciding if the team ...

An amazing night last night at the HHOF. I didn't get home until the whole thing was almost over, but was so pleased to double back, while the Steelers were punishing the Broncos, and catch the speeches which mattered to me. None was going to matter more to me than Steve Yzerman's. What a lucky guy I am to grow up watching Steve Yzerman play for the Detroit Red Wings his whole career. I've been also fortunate to get to know Steve a little bit from being in Detroit for as long as I was...and I've never seen an athlete mean more to a city. Never. No one is mixed on him. He accomplished so much, and yes - winning factors in. If you think Doug Gilmour and Wendel Clark are popular in Toronto, and I have a world of respect for both of them. If you ask me, Gilmour's ...

Fantastic stuff from the DVD release of Bruno. They kept this well under wraps that Pete Rose was used for this at one point, while it ended up being Paula Abdul sitting on the immigrants' backs for an interview.

 

Love how Rose actually feels empathy for the dude he's sitting on, and then instead of calling the demeaning scenario off, demands "get another guy".

 

Couldn't happen to a more quality individual in the world of sports.  Except Rick Pitino.  Or Nick Saban.  Or A-Rod.  Or Pat Kane.  Kane might be a moron but he'd have probably recognized Bruno at some point.

 

 

Yes...it's being thrown from pillar to post as the new controversy and really, the only people probably thrilled that this is being discussed are all those thoughtful Calgary Flames and their loved ones for snagging the last H1N1 vaccines last Friday before the entire province shut down the process hours later on Saturday.

 

As a media colleague of mine put it -- if 80 of them got the vaccine, that means 80 people who needed it didn't on Saturday.  The math can't be argued with.

 

If you put money on Patrick Kane exhibiting much much much much much better judgement about what to do in the public eye since the violent cab driver incident in downtown Buffalo, you'd have lost that money based on Kane's Halloween costume, along with teammate Adam Burish.

 

Both players went old-school Chicago Bulls (what, no love for the Kirk Hinrichs or Steve ...

One win. More than zero. Less than two. I feel like when I say "one win" with regard to the Maple Leafs, I'm saying it like Louis Winthorp III in Trading Places when Billy Ray Valentine tells him just how much currency changed hands between the nefarious and geriatric (and really how can old people NOT be both) Duke Brothers.

 

Suddenly, many are writing and crowing about "moral victories" and "three game point-streaks".  It won't mean anything without wins, and not just any wins. REGULATION wins.  This team can't afford to let points go for naught in their own division and their own conference.  I will raise my hand as one that instead of seeing the team as a playoff squad, saw them finishing 11th in the Eastern Conference, but failing that, if everything broke their way -- there was certainly an opportunity to make the playoffs.

 

The ...

I far preferred the Red Sox 2004 model of Johnny Damon.  Long hippie-ish hair, gigantic fuzzy beard and making life miserable for the likes of Javier Vasquez and Jon Lieber.  Can you believe those two started ALCS games in 2004?  Seriously...it's remarkable to think of how much the Yankees have upgraded their pitching since those non-World Series years.  No disrespect to the late Cory Lidle, or an aging Kevin Brown, or a thinking-of-picking-up-a-seemingly-disfigured-prostitute Denny Neagle -- but the Yankees finally got it right when it came to free-agent pitchers in snatching up CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett.  This is as legitimate a World Series win, when it happens, as the Yankees have had in a long, long time.  I still can't for the life of me figure out how they didn't win in 2001 vs. the Diamondbacks, with all the raw and penetrable emotion of 9/11 (even I was cheering ...

The Bakersfield Condors will wear this tonight.  Is it wrong to want just a little more damage to the arena than just a power failure?

 

 

Clearly, a lot of NHLers wouldn't play for this kid.  Egomaniacal, short-of-breath, and somewhat scripted.  But it is a really remarkable sight.

 

Given my oldest guy turns four just before the puck drops in Vancouver 2010, and that he's a Michigan native, I might see if he can do this speech justice.

 

I am more confident, he'll just be able to scream "AGAIN!!" during suicide drills.

 

 

What a wild weekend of sports, and it still has some suspense with me at 930pm on a Sunday night, as I watch Chelsea/Liverpool on PVR from The Score earlier this morning.  I was having a fun visit up in Orillia avec family at everyone's favourite Maple Leafs Assistant GM of all-time.  But Gerry MacNamara wasn't around, so I went to Bill Watters' cottage instead.  Um, nice digs.  If you want specifics (square footage, number of TVs, alarm code), email might be the best way to go.

 

But let me get the pre-emptive strikes out early regarding last night's Maple Leafs/Capitals contest, and Vesa Toskala.  It was a dreadful first goal to let in, even though it WAS Alexander Ovechkin after Beauchemin made a bad pinch at the Caps' blueline, and Luke Schenn, who through two games (and I'm sure it won't last) was turned inside out (again).  Schenn, ...