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THE REPORTS

7:15 NHL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the Coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Hockey League Report. Brought to you by MAACO Collision and Auto Painting at 983 Wall Street.

As the injuries continue to mount for the Minnesota Wild, GM Chuck Fletcher says he might be forced to make an early-season trade to bolster his roster.

Our insiders say that Fletcher has been talking to a number of his NHL colleagues, talking trade possibilities during the last couple of days. The only good news with all these injuries is that our old pal, defenseman Shane Hnidy from Neepawa, has been getting plenty of ice time.

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

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Kevin Harvick is committed to drive for Richard Childress Racing through the remainder of this season and next, but when his contract expires at the end of 2010, he says he’s gone.

Comments made on a pre-race radio program prior to last Sunday’s race in California indicated that Harvick is ready to QUOTE: “turn the page” and begin a relationship with a new team beginning in 2011.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

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Comebacks are amazing. Especially when you can see them coming. Bombers coach Mike Kelly made that clear this week when he talked about his 6-8 Blue Bombers, a team that has won three straight and should make it four straight against B.C. on Sunday.

While the local media talks about this “sudden turnaround,” Kelly has always made it clear to anyone paying attention that the Bombers would be a threat before the season came to an end.

5:15 PM NFL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Football League Report. Brought to you by 3M Automotive and Rondex. At 177 Isabel, Rondex is celebrating 37 years of auto body supply service.

It’s Week 6 in the National Football League and this season that means about five potentially great football games.

If you have Sunday Ticket, lock on to Baltimore at Minnesota – there will be about 5,000 Winnipeggers in Minnie for this one – the Giants at the New Orleans Saints, Chicago at Atlanta, Arizona at Seattle and Monday night’s 5-0 Denver at 2-2 San Diego. Oh, it’s going to be a great week.

THE REPORTS

7:15 NHL REPORT

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The Los Angeles Kings might be a one-line hockey team, but look out for that one line. The trio of Ryan Smyth, Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams had a nine-point night last Thursday and just about won Monday’s game on the road all by themselves.

The L.A. Kings are off to a great start and even with just one great line – and four solid young defencemen — the Kings are now among NHL’s royalty.

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

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This week the NASCAR Sprint Cup boys are in Charlotte for the NASCAR Banking 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

It’s a night race, but that shouldn’t make much difference to Jimmie Johnson, the three-time defending champion and the current Sprint Cup leader. He wins at night and during the day and has won at Lowe’s five times. The big race goes Saturday at 7 on ABC.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

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How good were the Winnipeg Blue Bombers last week? Good enough to have two players named as CFL players of the week.

Yesterday, the CFL named Jovon Johnson the special teams player of the week for is 184 total yards in that 38-28 whipping of Hamilton while Adarius Bowman, who caught 10 passes for 213 yards and two TDs was named offensive player of the week. That’s the kind of thing that happens when a team plays well.

5:15 PM NFL REPORT

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New York Giants QB Eli Manning says he did not aggravate his injured right heel during that 44-6 shellacking of the sad-sack Oakland Raiders on Sunday and hopes to practice every day this week.

The 5-0 Giants, will play Drew Brees and the 4-0 Saints in New Orleans this weekend in a battle of the unbeatens. It will be Manning’s first NFL game in his hometown. And along with Baltimore at Minnesota, it will be one of the best games of Week 6.

THE REPORTS

7:15 NHL REPORT

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As TSN has asked, we should not engage in premature evaluation. But then again, have you ever seen the Toronto Maple Leafs so bad.

When Darcy Tucker comes back and cleans your clock in a 4-1 Colorado win, like he did on Tuesday night, you know you have stress. The Leafs are 0-5-1 this season. Sadly, there is no sign they will get better.

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

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This week the NASCAR Sprint Cup boys are in Charlotte for the NASCAR Banking 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
This is a place where Sprint Cup points leader Jimmie Johnson has won five time, but not once since 2005.

With Mark Martin right on his tail lights and with both Juan Montoya and Tony Stewart sniffing at his exhaust, Johnson had better break his losing streak this week.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

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On Monday, Michael Bishop threw three touchdown passes as the Bombers won their third straight game, improved to 6-8 and pulled into a second-place tie with the Ticats in the Eastern Division.

The Bombers have four games remaining, three of them in Winnipeg and with a victory this week against B.C. at Canad Inns Stadium, they might just eliminate the crossover playoff format. Wonder where the “Fire Mike Kelly” folks went?

5:15 PM NFL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Football League Report. Brought to you by 3M Automotive and Rondex. At 177 Isabel, Rondex is celebrating 37 years of auto body supply service.

Pretty hard to find any fault with the Minnesota Vikings’ 38-10 shellacking of the St. Louis Rams other than to say, the Rams aren’t very good.

Now, having said that, the Rams still play in the National Football League and Favre beat them as a 40-year-old. Favre is now 5-0 for the first time in his career. Not bad for a guy who’s retired twice.

Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009

92 CITI FM IS AN OFFICIAL STATION OF THE VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC RADIO NETWORK.

TUESDAY MORNING

THE DAILY SPONSORED REPORTS

7:15 NHL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the Coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Hockey League Report. Brought to you by MAACO Collision and Auto Painting at 983 Wall Street.

Monday night I had a chance to watch the No. 2 pick in this spring’s NHL draft, Tampa defenseman Victor Hedman. Let me tell you, this guy is the real deal.

He’s huge at 6-foot-6, 220 pounds, and he has a very long reach. He tends to do everything right in his own end and moves the puck well. He played 25 minutes and had an assist in a 3-2 victory ver Florida and along with the likes of Marty St. Louis, Vincent Lecavalier, Alex Tanguay and Steven Stamkos, this Lightning team will definitely compete in the Eastern Division.

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM NASCAR REPORT. Brought to you by 3M Automotive and Rondex. At 177 Isabel, Rondex is celebrating 37 years of auto body supply service.

Jimmie Johnson’s No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet looked and WAS unbeatable on Sunday as Johnson took the Pepsi 500 at his home course, the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Cal.
Johnson now leads No. 2 Mark Martin by 12 points after the first four races of the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup. It looks like championship No. 4 is just six races away.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

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Wonder what all those misguided fans and the thin-skinned Winnipeg media think of Mike Kelly today? Didn’t that Bomber ream look terrific yesterday in their 38-28 road shellacking of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats? Just as we called it, by the way.

I will reiterate, Mike Kelly is the best coach the Bomber organization has seen since Mike Riley. And there IS a Grey Cup in his future.

5:15 PM NFL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Football League Report. Brought to you by 3M Automotive and Rondex. At 177 Isabel, Rondex is celebrating 37 years of auto body supply service.

After a tremendous Sunday for Brett Favre – and all of his teammates – for Peyton Manning, Kyle Orton, Donovan McNabb, Matt Hasselbeck and all the Cincinnati Bengals, we have to turn our attention to the Buffalo Bills. Sorry, but we must.

The Vegas odds are now 2-1 that Bills head coach Dick Jauron will be the first coach fired in the NFL this season. After the Bills lost 6-3 to Cleveland on Sunday, that’s a pretty good bet.

Friday, Oct. 9, 2009

92 CITI FM IS AN OFFICIAL STATION OF THE VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC RADIO NETWORK.

The 5-8 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who also have Barrin Simpson and the injured Terrence Edwards back at practice, are also back in the playoff hunt and they’ll get back into action on Thanksgiving Monday in Hamilton against the 6-7 Tiger-Cats. Game time on TSN is 3:30.

Meanwhile, Week 15 opens with B.C. at Edmonton tonight on Friday Night Football at 8 p.m. on TSN.

It’s Week 5 in the NFL. This week, the big games include 3-1 Cincinnati at 3-1 Baltimore, Brett Favre and the 4-0 Vikings at 0-4 St. Louis, 2-1 Atlanta at 3-1 San Francisco and 3-1 New England at 4-0 Denver. Yesterday, the Philadelphia Eagles announced that Donovan McNabb would return for this week’s game with Tampa. Joe and I will have our picks coming up at 8:30.

Major League Baseball’s Divisional Series continued yesterday… here are the scores from Game 2 in the National League

Colorado 5 Philadelphia 4
The Rockies even the series at 1-1

Los Angeles 3 St. Louis 2
The Dodgers take a 2-0 series and former Goldeyes lefty George Sherrill pitched well in relief for the second straight game and this time earned the victory.

And in Game 1 in the American League:

Los Angeles 5 Boston 0
A three-run homer by Torii Hunter was the difference ads the Angels take a 1-0 series lead.

Tonight, Minnesota plays in New York at 5 p.m. while Boston will face the Angels on the West Coast at 8:30

There were 12 games in the National Hockey League last night… and it was a great night for most of the Manitobans in the NHL…

Calgary 4 Edmonton 3 (SO)
Nigel Dawes scored his first goal of the year and also scored one in the shootout.

New Jersey 4 Tampa 3 (SO)
Winnipeg’s Travis Zajac had a goal and an assist. His goal game at 19:59 of the third to tie it. Zach Parise scored the shootout winner.

Ottawa 3 NY Islanders 2 (OT)
Mike Fisher scored the winner 32 seconds into overtime.

Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia 4
Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist. Portage’s Arron Asham played 11 minutes for the Flyers.

Buffalo 2 Phoenix 1
The Coyotes are now 2-1 this season and play their home opener tomorrow night in front of a sellout crowd that will be paying only $25 for the best seats in the house. Oh, yeah, it will be a “Whiteout.”

Anaheim 6 Boston 1
Teemu Selanne scored two goals 82 seconds apart in the second period as Randy Carlyle’s Ducks blew the Bruins away in Boston.

NY Rangers 4 Washington 3
The Rangers shut down Alexander Ovechkin for the first time this year while Marian Gaborik scored twice for the Rangers.

Detroit 3 Chicago 2
Jonathan Toews played 26 minutes and was held without a point.

Nashville 3 Colorado 2
Nashville’s Patric Hornqvist had two goals and an assist. Jordin Tootoo and Colin Wilson were scratched with injuries last night, but Neepawa’s Triston Grant got a chance to play.

Atlanta 4 St. Louis 2
Ilya Kovalchuk had his second straight two goal game. Former Jet Keith Tkachuk had a goal and an assist for St. Louis.

Los Angeles 6 Minnesota 3
Nine points for the line of Ryan Smyth, Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams.

San Jose 6 Columbus 3
Dany Heatley had three goals and an assist to lead his new team in their home opener.

The Manitoba Moose play again tonight and tomorrow night against the Chicago Wolves: 7:30 both nights at the MTS Centre. Yesterday, the Moose welcomed Russian rightwinger Sergei Shirokov, who was sent down by the Vancouver Canucks.

Finally, after the first round of the President’s Cup in San Francisco — the foursomes — the United States Team leads the International Team 3½ to 2 1/2. Highlights: Mike Weir and Tim Clarke lost 3-and-2 to Anthony Kim and Phil Mickelson. Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker defeated Geoff Ogilvy and Yo Ishikawa 6-and-4.

7:15 NHL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the Coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Hockey League Report. Brought to you by MAACO Collision and Auto Painting at 983 Wall Street.

With three of their biggest stars in the final years of their respective contracts, the Chicago Blackhawks might be forced to make a trade to free up some salary cap space.

Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith can become restricted free agents next summer, however the Blackhawks intend to keep all three. If a deal is done, it won’t be done until next year’s draft and yes, defenseman Cam Barker from Winnipeg is the most likely player to be moved.

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM NASCAR REPORT. Brought to you by 3M Automotive and Rondex. At 177 Isabel, Rondex is celebrating 37 years of auto body supply service.

Good news for NASCAR fans. In the face of falling ratings for the first three Chase for the Sprint Cup events, fans and NASCAR’s TV networks have agreed that races should have cnsistent start times.

Next year’s season opener at Daytona will start at 12 Noon (its earliest start since 2003), one of 20 races to begin at that time. West Coast races will start at 2 p.m. CT, and night races at 7:30 p.m., except the 5:45 p.m. green flag for the Coca-Cola 600, which is held Memorial Day weekend. Consistency. It‘s a good start.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS REPORT. Brought to you by Western Paint and Wallcovering. 521 Hargrave Street and 1510 St. Mary’s Road.

This could be the weekend that sends the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on their way to a legitimate Grey Cup run. If the Bombers can go into Hamilton on Monday afternoon and knock off the Tiger Cats, Mike Kelly’s football team is suddenly back in the hunt for second in the East.

The big game starts Monday at 3:30. It’s on TSN.

Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009

92 CITI FM IS AN OFFICIAL STATION OF THE VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC RADIO NETWORK.

The Minister of Defence is back with the Bombers and he could play this weekend as the 5-8 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who also have the innured Terrence Edwards back at practice, are also back in the playoff hunt and they’ll get back into action on Thanksgiving Monday in Hamilton against the 6-7 Tiger-Cats. Game time on TSN is 3:30.

Meanwhile, Week 15 opens with B.C. at Edmonton tomorrow night on Friday Night Football at 8 p.m. on TSN.

The opening round of the Major League Baseball playoffs began yesterday.. here are the scores from Game 1 in the National League

Philadelphia 5 Colorado 1
Lefty Cliff Lee pitched a complete game for the defending World Series champion Phillies.

Los Angeles 5 St. Louis 3
Matt Kemp led the Dodgers with a two-run homer.

And in Game 1 in the American League:

NY Yankees 7 Minnesota 2
Derek Jeter and Hideki Matsui homered while C.C. Sabathia struck out eight and got the win.

Today, Colorado meets Philadelphia at 1:30, St. Louis plays Los Angeles at 5 o’clock and Boston opens up in Anaheim against the Los Angeles Angels at 8:30.

There were only two games in the National Hockey League last night… but a dozen tonight… last night

Vancouver 7 Montreal 1
First win of the season for Canucks as Henrik Sedin had two goals and two assists and Daniel Sedin had three assists.

Phoenix 3 Pittsburgh 0
There’s a shocker. Ilya Bryzgalov made 24 saves to get the shutout.

The Manitoba Moose play again tomorrow and Saturday night against the Chicago Wolves: 7:30 both nights at the MTS Centre.

In golf, the President’s Cup begins today in San Francisco.

Finally, It’s Week 5 in the NFL. This week, the big games include 3=1 Cincinnati at 3-1 Baltimore, Brett Favre and the 4-0 Vikings at 0-4 St. Louis, 2-1 Atlanta at 3-1 San Francisco and 3-1 New England at 4-0 Denver. Yesterday, the Philadelphia Eagles announced that Donovan McNabb would return for this week’s game with Tampa.

7:15 NHL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the Coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Hockey League Report. Brought to you by MAACO Collision and Auto Painting at 983 Wall Street.

There have been Winnipeggers who say they prefer the idea of someone buying the Atlanta Thrashers and moving that team to Winnipeg as opposed to the Phoenix Coyotes just being given to Winnipeg. Atlanta has a better team, they say.

Really? The Coyotes won their season opener 6-3 and then looked invincible beating Pittsburgh 3-0 on Wednesday night. Atlanta might have Ilya Kovalchuk, but Phoenix might have the better team.

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM NASCAR REPORT. Brought to you by 3M Automotive and Rondex. At 177 Isabel, Rondex is celebrating 37 years of auto body supply service.

This week, for Race 4 of the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, the boys are in Fontana, Cal., for the Pepsi 500 at Auto Club Speedway.

With seven races left in the Chase, Mark Martin leads Jimmie Johnson by 18 points, Juan Montoya by 51 and Tony Stewart by 67. Johnson is the defending champ, but Matt Kenseth won here in February. This should be a great race. Sunday at 1:30 on ABC.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

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One gets the distinct sense that there are many in this community who don’t want the Bombers to be successful as long as Mike Kelly is head coach. It’s an odd dichotomy, but after 19 years of failure, fans are now looking for a coach they like, not a coach who can win.

By not treating the media as the gods they like to think they are, Kelly has found that he’s hated so deeply by so many fans, that even winning won’t save him from their wrath. Very odd indeed.

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009

Scott Taylor’s CITI Sports Reports

92 CITI FM IS AN OFFICIAL STATION OF THE VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC RADIO NETWORK.

The Minnesota Twins will face the New York Yankees in the ALDS. Yesterday, the Twins came back from a 3-0 deficit and beat the Detroit Tigers 6-5 in 12 innings in a spectacular ball game to claim the American League Central Division title. So here’s how the playoffs set up. Today, Colorado will face the defending World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies at 1:30, then at 5, it’s Minnesota in New York and then at 8:30 its St. Louis against the Los Angeles Dodgers at 8:30. Both games are on Rogers SportsNet.

The entire sportscast is posted at www.92citifm.ca.

There were seven games in the National Hockey League last night…

Ottawa 2 Toronto 1
Shean Donovan and Daniel Alfredsson scored 37 seconds apart in the second period and that was the difference.

Calgary 4 Montreal 3
Eric Nystrom scored twice for Calgary.

Edmonton 5 Dallas 4 (SO)
Former Jet Nikolai Khabibulin came up big in the shootout and earned his 300th career win. Winkler’s Dustin Penner scored a goal and was the game’s first star.

Philadelphia 6 Washington 5 (OT)
Daniel Briere scored the overtime winner. Mike Richards had a hat-traick and Matt Carle had four assists. Alexander Ovechkin had two goals and an assist – he has nine points in three games.

Carolina 2 Tampa Bay 1 (SO)
Tuomo Ruuttu scored the shootout winner.

Minnesota 4 Anaheim 3 (OT)
Big week in the Twin Cities. First the Vikings win the Monday Nighter, then the Twins win a 120-inning playoff gme, and then the Wild win their home opener with Andrew Brunette’s power play goal in overtime. Neepawa’s Shane Hnidy had a good game last night.

Los Angeles 6 San Jose 4
First star Anze Kopitar had a goal and two assists.

The Manitoba Moose play again this coming Friday and Saturday night against the Chicago Wolves: 7:30 both nights at the MTS Centre.

The 5-8 Winnipeg Blue Bombers are now back in the playoff hunt and they’ll get back into action on Thanksgiving Monday in Hamilton against the 6-7 Tiger-Cats. Game time on TSN is 3:30.

Finally, the ratings are in for Monday Night Football’s Packers-Vikings matchup. The game drew a 15.3 rating had had 21.8 million viewers, the largest audience for any program in the history of cable television.

7:15 NHL REPORT

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Tuesday night, Jonas Gustavsson, the kid known as “the Monster” made his first NHL start and played well as he kept the Toronto Maple Leafs in a 2-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators.

The so-called experts have all gone ga-ga over Gustavsson, but I’ll accept the opinion of one of Winnipeg’s best European pros, Farjestad sniper, Lee Goren. Goren called Gustavsson, his former teammate, one of the best goalies I’ve ever seen. This guy’s going to be a good one.

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

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The word got out on Tuesday and now it’s another black mark on NASCAR. During last Sunday’s Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway, it was reported that officials told Brad Keselowski to not race so aggressively with the Chase drivers early in the race.

NASCAR has issued plenty of “rough-driving” warnings, but to tell a top-five car not to race hard because he was surrounded by drivers in the playoffs, is an appalling turn of events. That sounds like a fix.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

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Yesterday on the Tom & Joe Show, Blue Bombers head coach Mike Kelly said he was proud that his quarterback, Michael Bishop, had decided to take ownership of the football team.

Bishop isn’t stupid. It was either step up or find yourself out of work. To his credit, Bishop stepped up and with a big game in Hamilton next Monday, Michael Bishop’s team is back in the playoff hunt.

Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

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What a spectacular Monday Night Football game. Especially for Brett Favre. Playing just days before his 40th birthday, Favre went 24-for-31 for 271 yards, three touchdowns and a 135.3 passer rating as he led the Minnesota Vikings o a 30-23 victory over his former team, the Green Bay Packers. Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers was 26-of-37 for 384 yards and two TDs, but two turnovers and the play of defensive end Jared Allen, who had seven tackles and 4 ½ sacks, played a huge role in the outcome. The Vikings are 4-0. If you ever wanted a great Tom and Joe World Sports Tour, that was it.

The 5-8 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, coming off Friday night’s 27-17 win over Edmonton are nw back in the playoff hunt and will get back into action a week from tonight, Thanksgiving Monday in Hamilton against the 6-7 Tiger-Cats. Game time on TSN is 3:30. Tom & Joe will have Mike Kelly right here later this morning.

There will be at least one more baseball game at the Metrodome. And that game will be played today as the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins meet up in a one-game playoff for the American League Central Division title. The winner will face the New York Yankees in the opening round of the AL playoffs. The rest of the ALDS and NLDS have been determined: In the AL, it’s Boston at the L.A. Angels and in the National League, it will be Colorado at Philadelphia and St. Louis at the Dodgers. The NL playoffs begin Wednesday. Yesterday, Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Aaron Hill was named the American League’s Comeback Player of the Year.

There were two games in the National Hockey League last night…

NY Rangers 3 New Jersey 2
Rookie Matt Gilroy’s first NHL proved to the winner. Winnipeg’s Travis Zajac scored his first goal of the year for the Devils.

Columbus 5 Vancouver 3
The Canucks fall to 0-3 this season as goalie and team captain Roberto Luongo was pulled from the game early in the second period. Rick Nash had three assists as the Blue Jackets improved to 3-0 for the first time in franchise history.

Seven games tonight. Joe and I will have our Sport Select picks coming up at 8:30.

And the Manitoba Moose play again this coming Friday and Saturday night against the Chicago Wolves: 7:30 both nights at the MTS Centre.

7:15 NHL REPORT

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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman won’t commit to having NHL players in the Olympics after 2010 because he doesn’t like the TV schedule, he says.

What he means is, he doesn’t want to commit NHL players to the 2014 Olympics because those Games are in Sochi, in Russia. Bettman would have no problem with Austria or Italy or Japan, but not Russia. This, above all else, is the Americanization of Canada’s national sport. Real Canadian players should just go anyway.

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

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Here’s what never ceases to amaze me about Tony Stewart. When Stewart won last Sunday’s Chase for the Sprint Cup race at Kansas Motor Speedway he was asked what the victory meant. His response: “It means I’ll be late for a late model dirt track race I was going to run tonight in Southern Ohio.”

Oh, really? The winner of a Sprint Cup race in Kansas was going to get in his private plane and fly to a dirt track in Podunkville, Ohio, to run a late model race. Now there’s a dude who loves racing.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

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We found out last weekend that the Winnipeg Blue Bom,bers have a pretty good football team. Not a great one, but a good one.

In fact, everyone can stop equating it with the Reinebold years right now. The Bombers are now 5-8, they’ve won two straight, they will win again this week in Hamilton and next week at home against B.C. and they will make the playoffs. Heck, Jeff Reinebold never did win five games in a season let alone make the playoffs.

Monday, Oct. 5, 2009

92 CITI FM IS AN OFFICIAL STATION OF THE VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC RADIO NETWORK.

The Major League Baseball season is not over quite yet. Tomorrow at 4 at the Metrodome, it will be the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins in a one-game playoff – The Tiebreaker — for the American League Central Division title. The winner will face the New York Yankees in the opening round of the AL playoffs. The rest of the ALDS and NLDS have been determined: In the AL, it’s Boston at the L.A. Angels and in the National League, it will be Colorado at Philadelphia and St. Louis at the Dodgers. The NL playoffs begin Wednesday.

OK Sport Select players… here we go… your NFL scores, first the outright winners on Pro-Line…

Chicago 48 Detroit 24
Our own Izzy Idonije had a tackle and a forced fumble. Great game.

Indianapolis 34 Seattle 17
Peyton Manning, 31 for 41 for 353 yards and two TDs.

Houston 29 Oakland 6

New York Giants 27 Kansas City 16
Eli Manning 20-for-34 for 292 yards and three TDs.

New England 27 Baltimore 21
Tom Brady, 21-for-32 for 258 yards and a touchdown pass to Randy Moss. Both teams are 3-1.

Jacksonville 37 Tennessee 17
David Garrard was 27-for-37 for 323 yards and three TDs. The Titans, 13-3 last year, are now 0-4.

Miami 38 Buffalo 10
Former Argo Ricky Williams rushed for 85 yards and a touchdown.

New Orleans 24 NY Jets 10
Darren Sharper picked off two Mark Sanchez passes and ran the first one back 99 yards for a touchdown as the Saints move to 4-0.

Denver 17 Dallas 10
What got into Kyle Orton? 20-for-29, 243 yards and two touchdowns.

San Francisco 35 St. Louis 0
St. Louis can’t even score anymore, The Rams have lost 14 straight.

Now the games on your Pro-Line tickets that are considered ties:

Washington 16 Tampa Bay 13
Tampa falls to 0-4

Cincinnati 23 Cleveland 20 (OT)
Shane Graham kicked a 31-yard field goal with seven seconds left in overtime. Chad Ochocinco had two TDs as the Bengals improved to 3-1 and Cleveland fell to 0-4.

And last night, in the Sunday Nighter, Pittsburgh beat San Diego 38-28. Tonight it’s the big one. The Tom & Joe World Tour, Green Bay at Minnesota, 7:30 on TSN.

The 5-8 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, coming off Friday night’s 27-17 win over Edmonton are nw back in the playoff hunt and will get back into action a week from tonight, Thanksgiving Monday in Hamilton against the 6-7 Tiger-Cats. Game time on TSN is 3:30.

No games in the NHL last night. Two tonight, the Rangers at New Jersey and Columbus at Vancouver. Joe and I will have our Sport Select picks coming up at 8:30.

The Manitoba Moose split its opening weekend series with the Houston Aeros, winning 4-3 on Friday and losing 4-2 on Saturday. The Moose play again this coming Friday and Saturday night against the Chicago Wolves: 7:30 both nights at the MTS Centre.

And in auto racing, Tony Stewart fought off Jeff Gordon to win the Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Motor Speedway yesterday, the third race in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup.

7:15 NHL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the Coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Hockey League Report. Brought to you by MAACO Collision and Auto Painting at 983 Wall Street.

I have to admit, I’m a big Sidney Crosby fan. I love Jarome Iginla and Evgeni Malkin and Vinny Lecavalier. But there is no better player, anywhere than Alexander Ovechkin.

In two games this season, Ovechkin has three goals and three assists and Washington is 2-0. If he keeps this up – and there is no reason to believe he won’t – he’ll finish with 123 goals and 246 points. Wayne who?

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM NASCAR REPORT. Brought to you by 3M Automotive and Rondex. At 177 Isabel, Rondex is celebrating 37 years of auto body supply service.

Tony Stewart fought off Jeff Gordon to win the Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Motor Speedway yesterday, the third race in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Nine of the Top 10 finishers were among the 12 Chasers, that’s the most ever. It was Stewart’s fourth win of the year and he’s now fourth in the Chase, 67 points behind No. 1 Mark Martin and 49 behind No. 2 Jimmie Johnson.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS REPORT. Brought to you by Western Paint and Wallcovering. 521 Hargrave Street and 1510 St. Mary’s Road.

I see in the Free Press that there is an ongoing lament over the fact that only 22,083 went to the Stadium last week and only 21,965 went this week. Well, the Free Press and the Sun can blame themselves.

They told enough people for as long as they could that the coach was an idiot and the team was horrible and fans were wasting their money by going to the games. Well, congratulations, since you’ve become the house organ of the Blue Bombers, your readers have believed you and they’ve decided to stay home. Well done.

Friday, Oct. 2, 2009

Scott Taylor’s CITI Sports Reports

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It’s football night in Winnipeg and it’s another big game for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The 4-8 Bombers meet the 6-6 Edmonton Eskimos tonight at Canad Inns Stadium. Game time is 6:30. Yesterday head coach Mike Kelly said eery game, for the rest of this season, is a playoff game. So you can check out a playoff game tonight. There are plenty of good seats available.

In the other games this week, Saskatchewan is in B.C. right after the Bombers, tonight at 9:30, Tomorrow, Montreal should eviscerate Toronto and Hamilton has to go into Calgary.

It’s Week 4 in the National Football League. The most intriguing matchups include Baltimore at New England, the unbeaten Jets at the unbeaten Saints, San Diego at Pittsburgh on Sunday night and, of course, Green Bay at Minnesota in the Monday Nighter. Joe and I will have our NFL picks coming up at 8:30.

Hockey’s back and last night there were four games on the NHL’s opening night schedule … and what a dandy in Toronto…

Montreal 4 Toronto 3 (OT)
Josh Gorges scored the OT winner for Montreal while Carey Price made 43 saves to earn the win. Matt Stajan scored twice for Toronto. Winnipeg’s Colton Orr got into it early with Georges Laraque and boy did that fight looked staged.

Calgary 5 Vancouver 3
Mikka Kiprusoff made 39 saves to lead the Flames to a home win. Winnipeg’s Nigel Dawes had an assist for Calgary while former Moose Alex Burrows and Kevin Bieksa scored for Vancouver.

Colorado 5 San Jose 2
The Avs retired Joe Sakic’s number and then went out and upset San Jose. Binscarth’s Cody McLeod had the eventual game winner.

Washington 4 Boston 1
Alexander Ovechkin had two goals and an assist.

The Manitoba Moose are all set to start the 2009-2010 season — tonight. The Moose, with Mike Keane, Marty Murray, Nolan Baumgartner and newcomer Marco Rosa begin a brand new season tonight and tomorrow night at home against Houston. 7:30 both nights at the MTS Centre.

The entire sportscast is posted at www.92citifm.ca.

In the Majors, there is only one race remaining. That’s in the American League Central. Minnesota beat Detroit 8-3 yesterday so the Tigers lead the Twins by two games with three games left to play. Yesterday, Colorado wrapped up the NL Wild Card, so in next week’s playoffs it will (probably) be Colorado at Philadelphia and St. Louis at the Dodgers.

And finally, yesterday, Winnipeg businessman David Asper was given a one-year extension in his efforts to build a new stadium for the Bombers. He also unveiled plans for The Elms, the high-end 650,000 square foot shopping and destination centre that will, theoretically, make enough money to keep the Bombers financially strong in perpetuity.

7:15 NHL REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the Coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM National Hockey League Report. Brought to you by MAACO Collision and Auto Painting at 983 Wall Street.

The Manitoba Maple Leafs looked pretty good on opening night. Winnipeg’s Colton Orr had a fight with George Laraque — nice and early — Ste Anne’s Garnet Exelby was solid on defence and Steinbach’s Ian White played 21 minutes.

The Leafs ended up losing 4-3 in overtime to a Montreal team that people expect to be a threat this season. After 42 years without a Cup, there might actually be hope for these Manitoba Maple Leafs

8:15 NASCAR REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM NASCAR REPORT. Brought to you by 3M Automotive and Rondex. At 177 Isabel, Rondex is celebrating 37 years of auto body supply service.

If Danica Patrick knows she’s doing after this season, she’s not saying. Patrick has refused to confirm widespread reports that she’s agreed to a three-year extension of her IndyCar contract with Andretti Green Racing.

Patrick is considered the biggest draw in the IRL, and her interest in moving to NASCAR has been speculated on numerous times in recent years. She has a close relationship with Tony Stewart , and he has said Patrick will eventually make the jump he did — from IndyCar to stock cars.

4:50 PM BLUE BOMBERS REPORT

Hi everybody, it’s the coach Scott Taylor and it’s time now for the 92-CITI-FM WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS REPORT. Brought to you by Harv-Al. Custom jerseys for your team, made right here in Winnipeg.

Tonight is a huge night for Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach, Mike Kelly. As long as he keeps winning, he gets a reprieve from having a wild, angry mob at his front door.

Win tonight, the Bombers are back in the hunt. Lose and at 4-9, a whole lot of people will be closer to searching for new jobs.