Thirty per cent of 18-25 year olds currently believe the moon landing was faked. Interesting. Here’s the real story. Neil Armstrong was a member of the same fraternity as yours truly. He was a boozy, unemployed actor in 1968, crashing on friend’s couches and, occasionally, park benches. Intelligent and charismatic, the underachiever caught the attention [...]
Don’t know if you saw this. In ESPN columnist Bill Simmons recent Mailbag feature a reader requests a team from each major league that fans would be forced to watch, in perpetuity, in “hell”. From the NHL? Simmons opts for the Toronto Maple Leafs…a reader also asks Simmons - if Michael Jackson had burst from [...]
Rumours surrounding Boston Bruin winger Phil Kessel refuse to die. Kessel’s current contract demands (he is a restricted free agent) would push the club over the salary cap, so GM Peter Chiarelli continues to explore the option of moving the sniper. At some point the Tomas Kaberle to Boston rumours are going to reignite; Kaberle’s [...]
The NHL season kicks off with a Habs - Bud’s game at the ACC Oct 1st. I sat through a dismal performance between these teams last April, highlighted by the Leafs floating through a dreary, passionless fog. What a difference oh, six months, can make. The Canadiens look stripped for parts while the Leafs are [...]
It’s fantastic to read S I’s Michael Farber’s conclusion that the big winner of the recent free agent signing period appears to be the Toronto Maple Leafs. For well over a decade the Leafs had disappeared from any list which recorded quality or intelligence. Farber curtails his praise, however, with the admonition that the team [...]
The word on the street I alluded to yesterday was absolutely correct; immediately after the news of Arturo Gatti’s tragic demise wise guys were fingering his somewhat eccentric wife…it truly was a tremendous renewal of the Prince of Wales Sunday at the Fort. Gallant, abandoned by Pat Husbands, his regular rider, and forlorn without the [...]
The boxing world convulsed for the second time in ten days with the news of the passing of the incomparable Arturo Gatti. We come to shower the warrior with praise and affection. Gatti shook the walls, bloodied the ceiling and drank all the wine during the course of a ferocious career. A listing of belts [...]
There is, even in the midst of the dog days of summer, some interesting moves on the Week 1 NFL lines. The Cincinnati Bengal’s opened as one point picks against the visiting Denver Broncos. I saw an opportunity with that line, with Carson Palmer healthy and the insufferable Kyle Orton taking over in Denver, a [...]
It just looks wrong every time I encounter this fact; the Dallas Cowboys have not won a playoff game since 1996…S I writer Peter King has been wildly influential in media evaluations of Tony Romo. King jumped on the bandwagon early and proclaimed Romo the next dominant Dallas QB. This summer has seen a stream [...]
The impeccable British website, Globeform, run by Geir Stabell, has dropped a bombshell on the thoroughbred handicapping world. In a passionate yet rational diatribe, Stabell argues the recent Nicky Henderson case in Britain has revealed a game both rife with drugs and unable to police itself. Henderson was found to have injected a nondescript animal [...]
