I Don't Like Mondays — December 21, 2015
This week: The Lour Marsh award goes to Carey Price but Canada proves to have an embarrassment of riches and the NFL referee toothpaste is out of the tube
Read MoreRunning At The Front
Front run-ning
/ˌfrəntˈrəniNG/
adjective
1. ahead in a race or other competition.
a. (of an athlete or horse) running best when in front of the field.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — December 14, 2015
This week IDLM takes stock of the Loonie League, Steven Stamkos trolling the poor Maple Leafs fans, and Donald Trump feels the wrath of the Scots.
Read MoreNotorious Vice: Mythmaking and the Cult of McGregor
This is the MMA world we must now live in. One dominated by a singular figured who bears a King King tattoo on his chest and a tiger on his belly button. One dominated in the public sphere by McGregor's most devoted, Notoriorites.
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Notorious
In a couple of days, the fighter currently wearing the crown as the biggest star in the UFC (for 72 hours at least) will step into the cage to face arguably its greatest fighter. He needs no introduction, but here it is: ‘The Notorious’ Conor McGregor.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — December 7, 2015
Today: Bruce examines the new state of Gary Bettman's NHL business model, the NFL's parity machine is in full whirl and how analytics have evolved not just on the field — but in the boardroom.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — November 30, 2015
This week: what are the Blue Jays to do about David Price? AND Canadian Football is bruised and bloodied...but not beaten.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — November 23, 2015
After just two seasons back in the league, Ottawa hits paydirt. Fortuitous for the CFL, too, having a good-news story for the Grey Cup game this week.
Read MoreCrosby Still's No Longer Young
Anyone with eyes and ears is well aware of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia's megastar, Pittsburgh Penguins captain, MVP, All-Star, Cup Champion, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (including 2010's "Golden Goal"): Sidney Crosby. Have you also heard of his sudden slip over the last 2 seasons?
Read MoreHolly Holm Teaches Ronda Rousey The Art of War
We’re dumb. That’s the message you should take from Holly Holm’s upset over Ronda Rousey on Saturday. As fans, as analysts, as journalists — we’re all dumb. Sun Tzu was smart. He wrote a book some 2500 years ago that to this day is still quoted for its depth of wisdom as it relates to combat.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — November 16, 2015
Putin probably believes he can outlast the bad headlines of a news cycle with a a few concessions to WADA and the IAAF plus a little whipping up of Russian paranoia about the world picking on them once again.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays (On Thursday) — November 12, 2015
There ain’t no party like an NHL GM party. Like the politicians at the Republican debate on Tuesday, NHL general managers have a lot of interesting ideas. The overarching issue that the GMs will discuss is how to get more shooter biscuits in the goalie basket.
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Rowdy
Very seldom does an athlete ascend beyond their sport, transcending it. When it does, the story of who they are within the public sphere begins to crystallize. These public constructs then take on a life of their own. As the sports iris narrows on 'Rowdy' Ronda Rousey’s title defence this weekend, let us explore the five public constructs of Rousey.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — November 9, 2015
It is 97 years since Armistice Day in 1918 and 70 years since VE and VJ Day. Today, we honor the men and women who abandoned their creature comforts to make a commitment that our current society can scarcely wrap its mind around.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — November 2, 2015
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.
Read MoreClimbing The McMountain
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?’
Read MoreAway Goes AA: The Blue Jays General Manager Post Goes Vacant
...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.
Read MoreThey're Big, They're Fast, They're Dirty: The Age of Tight End
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.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — October 26, 2015
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.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — October 19, 2015
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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