Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
A few days ago I got to bitching about the NHL’s dumb playoff format and offered up one serious and one almost as dumb way to fix it. Without meaning to, I’ve just stumbled upon an article that takes part of my dumb idea (just put everybody in the damn playoffs since that’s what you …
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It’s just about NHL playoff time, which means I’m annoyed. Not because my favourite team is missing out again (go Leafs go!), but because the format is needlessly complicated. Seriously, have a gander at this shit. As has been the case since 1979-80, 16 teams will qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The format now …
If I were smart I’d have asked Gill what the cheer was in her third item, because I laughed at the Boat Load and wouldn’t mind it being even funnier somehow. With the arrival of baseball season and hockey winding down we need to talk. Some team names have been placed beneath the microscope because …
I’m not really a soccer guy, but I am a big fan of silliness, which means I enjoyed this. Former Arsenal forward Sanchez Watt received the most bizarre red card of the season after a referee mistook the player saying his own name for dissent. Watt, playing for Hemel Hempstead in their National League South …
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Nelly Furtado, Fergie…I’m beginning to wonder if maybe the NBA should stop having folks sing national anthems at its All-Star games. Yes, I defended Nelly Furtado at the time and I stand by that decision even though her shaky start was quite a bit more jarring than I remember, But I’m not defending this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XBWZI6f-38 …
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Update: On the Jeff Blair show earlier this week, they spent two hours with Jerry, talking about his career and retirement. There are guests, there are phone calls, there are memories, there are emotions. You can listen to it here. Original Post: I heard my first bit of Blue Jays baseball on the radio sometime …
Today in sports stuff that probably wouldn’t fly anymore: Baseball on a skating rink. This silent footage (sorry, blind kids) is taken from 1924, but there is a much more detailed account of a game played in 1861, a time long before video or safety now that you mention it had been invented. On February …
Well, so much for my theory about Vladimir Putin trying to act like the sensible one where the Russian Olympic ban is concerned. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused U.S. agencies of manipulating evidence from the main whistleblower on doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Putin said Thursday that former Moscow anti-doping laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov — who is under witness protection after …
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In a move that surprised me if no one else, the International Olympic Committee stood up and actually made a reasonably good but difficult sporting decision yesterday, banning Russia from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics. The ruling came after an investigation into allegations of a sophisticated doping scheme backed by the country’s government and …
The Grey Cup is fantastic. It’s a big, fun, important Canadian event that many of us will stop what we’re doing to watch. But that’s not always the best idea. Sometimes you really should finish off whatever you’re up to before you settle in to enjoy the game. Like let’s say you’re in the midst …
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