We started off the NHL season by introducing the Loonie League, the bracket of the seven Canadian teams in the league. We’re going to rate them throughout the season relative to each other. Here, at the end of the first month, let’s revisit our first analysis and see who’s up and who’s down.
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You can imagine the scenario: he shows up on an invitation from some friend who works at the gym, thinking he’d get to chat with The Notorious One. Word gets to McGregor, ‘Dis ‘er guy was de Mountain on Game e’ Trones.’ To which McGregor lifts an eyebrow, ‘Is dat roight? Big fella, you wan to go a round er what?’
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...the end of the AA era in the Blue Jays executive suite came well before the machinations of this season. In fact, it was a 50/50 proposition that the Montreal native would stay in Toronto from the time his mentor, president Paul Beeston, announced he was finally retiring as president of the club.
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Then something even stranger happened: Tight ends became playmakers in the NFL. At first, it was deemed a curiosity rather than an evolution. But in the decade since, this change became as permanent as the United States presence in Afghanistan.
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Since re-loading at the midseason trade deadline, the Blue Jays became a massive roller brush, going over top of the opposition with their crushing offence, painting everyone blue. It got them to the playoffs for the first time since Joe Buck’s act on FOX seemed fresh.
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In the end it will likely depend on what they do today and tomorrow. Lose and you become a warm adjunct to the 1992/ 93 World Series winners— always the younger brother who could only win one playoff round when Vegas called you the best team in the game.
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When I proposed to Bruce that I chronicle the Lions and Bears game as we watched it together, there was only enthusiasm. ‘Sure, great idea.’ That was Wednesday. By Friday, he has scheduled a round of golf first thing Sunday morning.
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It’s not every baseball game where the mayor of a city disses the officials online during said contest. But this is Toronto, where mayors are in the habit of playing the fool for an American audiences, and John Tory was not going to let down the visitors at such a public moment.
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The media are on his side. Other fighters are, as well. Hell, even Cher. There is a feeling with the Diaz situation like there has never been before. A feeling of unison.
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Reynolds apparently thinks Canadians are inert objects who’ve never seen objects in flight. Harold lives on Baseball Mars.
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Players smoked cigars and engaged in some chanting about a Bush Party. There were Go Pros on heads and ski goggles to keep the brut from stinging eyes.
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They came off of diving headers, long-range shots, cut-backs into the box, cut-backs out of the box, end-to-end counter attacks, chips, crosses, volleys, and penalties.
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Daniel Cormier defends his interim light heavyweight title against Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson. Both men fight in the shadow of the one inevitability that will remain as the arena lights dim on this fight: neither man has bested Jon ‘Bones’ Jones.
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If you wouldn’t mind the NHL delaying a couple of week, you’re probably a Josh Donaldson fan. If you want the puck brigade to start yesterday, you probably believe baseball is for losers.
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Already, smatterings of grumbling can be heard on a variety of issues with this selection. Let's summarize them by starting with the traditional one: The fact he's not Quebecois and doesn't speak French (big surprise!)
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To ask, ‘Who’s the best?’ before Anderson Silva posturized Vitor Belfort had only one answer: it was Fedor Emelianenko. To ask, ‘Who’s the best?’ before Fedor, though? Royce Gracie? Ken Shamrock? Bas Rutten? Sakuraba?
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Sports leagues live by their stars. As the MOP debate shows, the CFL is star challenged at the moment. Getting Toronto right after all these years might come with a high cost.
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You can see it if you squint a bit. It’s actually impossible not to, really. If you’ve watched even five minutes of the NFL Draft you can imagine Roger Goodell. Imagine him in a black suit, black tie, black shades. There it is. A striking resemblance, isn’t it? Roger Goodell could be Agent Smith.
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In the face of the same old tropes about "stay the course" and "trust in the future”, Anthopoulos had to part with some of his farm assets or risk watching another season go down the tubes...
Read MoreRemember Super Bowl in February? The fun we had with the Seattle Seahawks and their inexplicable decision to pass from New England’s one-yard? Wasn’t it a riot to rip Pete Carroll for the slant pattern that ended up in the hands of the Patriots’ Malcolm Butler? The smug sense of superiority at seeing the mighty Seahawks’ strategy implode when Marshawn Lynch could have crawled into the end zone?
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