I don’t get it. I want to, but I can’t. Somehow, getting CLOSE to victory in this day and age is worse than getting nowhere near it.  When did this happen?  Why doesn’t it happen when we judge great musicians, actors, or artists?  Sean Penn was a 3-time nominated actor for the Oscar (Dead Man [...]

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Look, we all have opinions on the Super Bowl halftime show.  Who should play it, who shouldn’t, who’s hot, who’s not. It’s also a total no-win situation for an artist also (ooh, umm, except for the usual seven-figure paycheck for ripping off 3-4 songs and then being back at a hotel suite before the halfway [...]

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It’s a very tough call to judge whether the rivalry is real or not, or a media creation when it comes to the Senators and Maple Leafs. Really — what’s been memorable post-lockout between the Sens and Leafs?  I’ll go off the top of my head: 1. Colton Orr usually fights Matt Carkner – that [...]

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If you ever doubted that a larger-than-advertised core of baseball fans still exist in Toronto, look no further than the fallout and emotional reaction to the news at 11.11pm eastern Monday night that Yu Darvish is almost certainly going to end up a Texas Ranger as opposed to a Toronto Blue Jay. The much-hyped (and [...]

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New Washington Capitals coach Dale Hunter is a lot of things.  Still hate the Pierre Turgeon hit, and hate even more the ludicrous explanation he gave that Hunter thought the play was still going on.  Saying that, I covered Dale in the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals when he was a Washington Capital and he couldn’t [...]

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Cannot believe some people think it’s humourous what transpired in Vancouver at a Grey Cup luncheon Friday honouring some of the game’s and the league’s former greats. In fact, two former greats, Joe Kapp (the only man to ever appear in a Rose Bowl, Grey Cup, and Super Bowl) and Angelo “King Kong” Mosca, the [...]

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We all make our own beds in life, really we do. There’s never 100% right decisions, or 100% wrong decisions, just varying degrees of both, with alternating degrees of difficulty. That’s business, that’s personal, that’s when you’re 7 years old and when you’re 77. Rick Nash made a big “life” decision two summers ago. Soon [...]

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We had a lot of feedback on our topic on “Brady And Lang” this morning regarding Mats Sundin. You remember Mats, right? Tall? Athletic? Prematurely balding about age 27? Gold medal? Awesome during 1996 World Cup of Hockey? About a point-per-game player in regular season AND playoffs? Sure-fire HHOFer? Yeah, umm, that dude. Apparently some [...]

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Not quite the fan of Halloween I used to be. As an adult, who is really? The fact remains that although eating a mini-Coffee Crisp never tastes bad, Halloween as an adult (and especially a parent) gets to be more about furnishing a real good time for your kids, making sure you don’t run out [...]

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Never a big Hank Williams Jr. fan. Never even a small Hank Williams Jr. fan. Truth be told, I’m not a country music fan…can appreciate the great artistry of legends like Johnny Cash (I adored “Walk The Line” as a film), Merle Haggard, Rosanne Cash, Kenny Rogers, etc., but it just does nothing for me. [...]

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