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Don Cherry Is Really the McKenzie Brothers’ Grandpa in a Nation of Ninnies
March 6th, 2012
If one didn't know any better, you'd swear Coach's Corner was a spoof, a product of the imaginative, fertile, genius minds of the comedic gang in the old SCTV show.
They would call it something like: Grandpa McKenzie Goes Senile.
Instead of the original McKenzie Brothers, Bob and Doug, and their props ...
Maple Leafs: Can Bully Boy Burke and Crusty the Carlyle Get the Job Done?
March 5th, 2012
From a distance, it is easy for many of us who live in the colonies to giggle at the shenanigans in the Republic of Toronto, mostly because the burg on the shores of Lake Ontario is big and boisterous and belligerent, even while its centrepiece sports franchise is not big ...
Claude Noel: Have the Winnipeg Jets Already Tuned out Their Head Coach?
October 21st, 2011
If you see Claude Noel today, you might want to give him a hug.
Hugs, after all, can be good. Even for a no-nonsense taskmaster in the macho, testosterone-fuelled, frat-boy world of the National Hockey League.
And I'm thinking that Noel, the rookie head coach of 17 Wing Winnipeg, could use some ...
Winnipeg Jets Should Start Mason and Move Big Buff to the Front Lines
October 14th, 2011
Memo to Kyle Wellwood: Just because you play with a team from the Keystone Province doesn't mean you have to play like you're one of the Keystone Kops. What's that you say? You've never heard of the Keystone Kops? They were policemen. Fictional policemen during the silent film era of ...
Big Buff? Is It Dustin Byfuglien of the Jets or Ryan Kesler of the Canucks?
October 8th, 2011
Random thoughts and cheap shots from the cheap seats on the eve of 17 Wing Winnipeg's debut Sunday at the MTS Centre...
* So, I see where Ryan Kesler of the Vancouver Canucks has posed au naturelle in ESPN The Magazine's 2011 Body Issue. That's right, he's buck naked. And here I ...
Winnipeg Jets: It’s Time for the Scheifele Shuffle, Guys
October 1st, 2011
G'day to you, Kevin Cheveldayoff and Claude Noel.
Well, now, isn't that Mark Scheifele kid some kind of cheeky? I mean, you probably thought you had his future all mapped out when you claimed him with your first pick at the National Hockey League garage sale in June.
The Scheifele script likely ...
Winnipeg Jets: Will Their Black Players Be Targeted Next?
September 23rd, 2011
This isn't funny. Racism and bigotry are never funny. Not even when Archie Bunker was the reigning bigot on TV's most popular show, All In The Family, in the 1970s. Racism and bigotry are ugly. Racism and bigotry don't belong in classrooms, in church, in pubs, in libraries, in the ...
Dustin Byfuglien and the Winnipeg Jets Are Really Big News
September 3rd, 2011
G'day to you, Dustin Byfuglien. Nice of you to rub some of the squeaky-clean off 17-Wing Winnipeg, otherwise known as the Jets. I mean, until you spent a few hours the other night in the Hennepen County hoosegow, River City's newly minted, aw-shucks hockey club had more squeaky-clean than a ...
Sidney Crosby Should Boycott the NHL All-Star Game
January 20th, 2011
I've had eight concussions. I think. It actually might be nine. Or 10. Either I've lost count, or I can't remember.
That's one of the things concussions do to you. They play with your mind. Not in a nice way.
I suffered my first concussion at the age of 13, when I ...
LeBron James Is Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber If He Thinks We’re Dumb
December 28th, 2010
So, I'm listening to LeBron James take his size-15 Nike out of his mouth—yet again—and I'm thinking his English teachers at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron must feel so special and proud today.
After all, it isn't often that your most famous alumnus stands up to tell the world ...