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Every year, one of my uncles organizes a family playoff pool. We each throw in a couple bucks and then try to predict the series winners from beginning to Cup winner before the first round starts. It’s a fun little challenge, and the $40ish you get if you win is a decent excuse to buy …
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When you’ve got some time, have a read of this article by former boxing manager Charles Farrell. It’s called Why I Fixed Fights, and as you’d guess from a title like that, it deals in some pretty nice detail with the whys and hows of match rigging. Boxing managers have an obligation to minimize the …
Not sure where this ranks on the best pranks ever list, but it’s pretty damn good. Jeff Francoeur’s El Paso Chihuahuas teammates managed to convince him for weeks that one of the team’s pitchers, Jorge Reyes, was deaf. They managed to get everyone to go along with it to such a degree that they even …
How did they get in my brain? Blue Jays Dreams of 2014
If you like baseball, history or both, you’ll probably enjoy this long but worth it piece from Mental Floss. Remembering the First Opening Day at Four Iconic Ballparks It looks at the beginnings of Fenway Park, Ebbets Field (the most famous home of the Brooklyn Dodgers), Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field) and the old Yankee …
So…here we are. The Blue Jays play their first real game of the year today. As years go, this is going to be…a year. I of course have my mandatory opening day optimism, but I seriously can’t get a handle on what my expectations should be. On one hand this team looks an awful lot …
There’s been a lot of negative reaction to the announcement this week that George Stroumboulopoulos will be the new host of Hockey Night in Canada starting next season when Rogers takes over the rights to all things NHL in Canada. That deal never should have been allowed by the way, since the marriage of Rogers …
So here’s a stupid question. Does the return of baseball deserve its own holiday? Are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods? Of course opening day should be a holiday! I’d also suggest we make holidays out of the start of NHL and CFL seasons while we’re at it. It’s not like me …
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Other than that bit with the sports, the Olympics are pretty much the absolute worst. Here’s just one more reason why.
I haven’t watched a second of NBC’s Olympic coverage, because who does that if he doesn’t have to? Seriously, it’s pretty well always useless and horrible, not even worth the energy it would take to press the remote buttons to get there. But since I am nothing if not a fair man, I will readily …
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