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ICE…congratulations to the Canadian Women’s Hockey club for a gold medal performance against the Americans last night. The athletes celebrated in stylish fashion, picking up cigars, champagne and a gold Canadian flag and then zooming back onto the ice to whoop it up. God luv em! Faux outrage from disgruntled Americans and pompous Olympic officials is to be pitied and ignored. It was a wonderful moment; beating their arch rivals at home deserved the all-encompassing party vibe prompted by the return to the ice surface. Waiting fans squealed with delight…the International Olympic Committee should be scandalized by the impertinent remarks of President Jacques Rogge. The gas-bag chose the day of the women’s hockey final to question the future of the sport as an Olympic event. I’m furious at his timing. As the athletes are focusing on the biggest moment of their career this greasy mandarin slurs off a kill shot? What can possibly be the reason for tainting the occasion with this malfeasance? It can’t be justified and looks simply like a naked ploy for attention. The merit of the argument is not the point. The question is the appropriateness of raising the subject in an informal manner literally hours before the players hit the ice…not-so-sweet moment for me; the realization that two players I’ve yapped at, Dany Heatley and Jonathan Toews, are currently leading the Canadian squad in points. Props to them but, having said that, they still make me queasy when on the ice in the third period…Jack Johnson and Ryan Kesler, members of the American Olympic team, have both stated they “hate” Canadian players. William Houston reports that Johnson chartered a flight to Vancouver to attend the opening ceremonies but did not invite team-mate Drew Doughty…the Anaheim Ducks, with Getzlaf, Perry, Neidermayer and Hiller, are going to give the San Jose Sharks a tussle anytime they meet in a playoff series…

GRID IRON…Baltimore and Chicago have emerged as suitors for 36 year old Terrell Owens. Both offensively challenged teams believe, apparently, that signing a player years past his prime would assist their squads. The Ravens and Bears are desperate for some offensive pop and may not have thought through the challenge of a disgruntled Primma Donna bashing the psyche of their fragile young QB’s…the price for Arizona Cardinal WR Anquan Boldin is, according to the Miami Herald, a second round pick. Someone’s going to bite…the New Orleans Saints are buckling in their resolve to release Reggie Bush after his high profile playoff performance rendered the media darling virtually untouchable. A running back that racked up an anaemic 725 yards will be rewarded with an 8 million dollar stipend in 2010. Lucky bugger…

PUG LIFE…Steve Molitor is the only Canadian fighter I can think of who has made ignorant and rude comments his trademark. He has been essentially gifted with the IBF title, a merit for which he is richly undeserving, but he cannot summon an ounce of graciousness. The ignorant prick will get his comeuppance, again, if he deigns to fight a boxer with the universally lauded capacity to fight back…David Tua, due to fight in New Zealand March 31^st, announced at a press conference yesterday, “I want to be destructive”. To emphasize his point Tua demolished six milkshakes, a 4 lb bag of Twinkies and a chocolate coated sewer rat. Tua reports he currently weighs, “probably under 380, I’m sure”, and has asked that an elevator be installed ringside to lift his bloated ass up onto the fighting surface…

PONIES…the immensely popular Presious Passion, second in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, returns Sunday at Gulfstream in the Mac Diarmida Stakes. The seven year old has a unique approach to racing - he tears off to enormous leads, lets the pack catch him and then battles like mad through the lane. He’s a real character and one of the stars of contemporary American racing…Frank Stronach has announced the plastic track at Santa Anita will be replaced following the end of the current meet (April 18^th).  Stronach is investigating a number of different solutions but does promise the days of plastic at the hallowed track are over…

MEDIA…my man Ginner turned me on to the “What Would Tyler Durden Do” website and I highly recommend it to free-thinkers and iconoclasts. The site currently has photos of Hillary Duff  ”thanking” Mike Comrie for receipt of her million dollar engagement ring that are scandalous and wild. The site seizes, with dirty yellow fingernails, the underbelly of celebrity culture, and bites till the pus and filth ooze. Ministrations undermining and satirizing the pontifications and pretentiousness of the Hollywood aristocracy are, above all else, completely hilarious…I also don’t go a day without reading The Onion…