SIMMONS…alright, let me get geeky with ESPN’s Bill Simmons…Best. Mailbag. Ever…it’s currently up on Grantland and rates multiple reads; the Demi Moore comment was superb, but it was followed by what may be the greatest Mailbag input of all time, the Rick Fox inscribed photo story…(oh, man, I can’t stop looking at the Fox photo)…and [...]
LANCE ARMSTRONG…the U S Attorney’s Office did the dishonourable thing by announcing, late on the Friday preceding the Superbowl, that they are ending their two year investigation into doping allegations made against Lance Armstrong.
What a punk ass way to slither away.
If there isn’t evidence against Lance, and you need to withdraw your case, fine, but [...]
The passing of trainer Angelo Dundee constitutes a moment of great sadness for fight fans.
I wasn’t entirely happy with the media coverage of Dundee’s death. The man was responsible, on five occasions, for reshaping the history of the sport;
1) June 18th, 1963, Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, travels to London, England to fight veteran Henry [...]
GRID IRON…by all accounts Stanford’s Andrew Luck is ready to play in the NFL immediately. The future Indianapolis Colt hardly needs a multi-millionaire mentor, and that’s why Peyton Manning has a much better chance of being a Dolphin or a Cardinal than a Colt in 2012…
…the Superbowl has never gone into overtime…
…the 55 point over/under [...]
THE ICE…if you want to know who jinxed the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight, uh, that’d be me…with a few minutes to go, and the Buds coasting on a two goal lead, I responded to a friend who is vacationing in the Dominican who asked how the game went tonight. Leafs won, I replied…d’oh! (Pittsburgh [...]
BOWIE…the current Rolling Stone magazine features a long, luxurious piece on the pop god. I noticed a couple of intriguing points, namely 1) the 2004 incident is no longer referred to as a minor heart attack, it is now correctly identified as a massive heart attack and 2) the 2007 cancellation of his world tour [...]
PRINCE, THE ACC…Look mate, a frantic Ginner yelled, I need to know what the fuck I’m doing here. I don’t get it, he’s so incredibly small, and he won’t look at us. And the music is bloody awful…
I put my hand on Ginner’s shoulder, in a firm, manly fashion and said, to a rising wave [...]
This may be peevish, or churlish (no, I don’t know what churlish means, but Bono always uses it to shut people up) but I was a tad pissed at Lance Armstrong last week. The seven time winner of the Tour de France, and cancer survivor, was in Toronto to promote a new line of Livestrong [...]
The last moments of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s attempt to traverse the 103 mile distance between Cuba and Key West were heartbreaking. This is clearly a woman possessed of immense determination and fortitude, and her heart was set on completing the epic journey. As her right shoulder gave out, as her asthma assaulted her breathing, [...]
Leigh Montville’s new biography of Evel Knievel received a good review on the S I site and that was enough to send me to the library for a copy.
Montville is a talented writer and he’s clearly having the time of his life chronicling the adventures of the American daredevil. The ghost of Evel is toothless, [...]
