Happy Easter!

First off, I hope the Easter Bunny visited your home last night and that you are having a great Easter weekend. As a parent, you should come to expect this, but why is it when my six year old has school, I just can't get her up at 8 o'clock, but when she is off school, she is up at 730 or earlier as has been the case the past two days. SLEEP IN!!!!! I guess for the kids, Easter morning is like Christmas morning because she knows when she wakes up that there is something for her. With all the chocolate she will consume today, I'm sure her energy levels will be off the chart. Here's hoping she crashes early tonight and doesn't get up until late tomorrow.
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Did you watch the Andrew Bogut video? (see post underneath this one) If you haven't and you don't want to see an extremely gross injury occur than don't. If that's your thing, go at it hoss! The injury to me resembles the one that University of Manitoba running back Matt Henry sustained at the 2007 Vanier Cup. I was watching that game at Rogers Centre and when it happened and they showed it on the Jumbotron, the entire crowd just went "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO". When a guy can almost kick himself in the back of his head with his broken leg, that says something. You can find it on Youtube if you so choose.
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The baseball season opens today. It means for teams like Kansas City and Pittsburgh, they are in the race for at least one more day. The season opens with the Red Sox entertaining the Yankees. Chances are one of these two teams will play in the last game of the year as well. Until baseball gets a salary cap, the Yankees and Red Sox will continue to be the two dominant teams in the sport. Those two teams exemplify everything that is wrong with pro sports today, but the rules are there and both take advantage of it.
If you are a Jays fan, do you have any optimism going into this year? You know I'm a Cubs fan, but I am a closet Toronto fan. I really think the Jays are a team that could lose 100 games this year. They don't have Roy Halladay, they still have Vernon Wells and they are a much weaker team this year than they were last. Aaron Hill and Adam Lind will provide a bulk of the offence, but names like Edwin Encarnacion, John Buck and Jose Bautista don't scare me offensively and that young pitching staff is going to get beat up. The state of the Jays is the poll question for this week, so feel free to answer. As for the Cubs, who knows? They have the talent to get the job done in the NL Central, but they can never ever put it together.
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The Wheat Kings beat the Blades in Game 2 of their WHL 2nd round series last night. It sounds like the referees did their best to help Brandon out.
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After Damien Cox slammed Steve Simmons in the Toronto Star this week over the Tomas Kaberle-Ron Wilson story or non-story, I was sorta hoping TSN's "The Reporters" would have some hostility to it this morning seeing both are panellists. Didn't happen! By the way, that show is the best show TSN produces. My faves are "Around the Horn" and "PTI", but those are ESPN shows. I would much rather see "The Reporters" every day than "Off the Record" and that has nothing to do with Landsberg either.
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I want WCCO-TV in Minneapolis brought back to my cable package. In fact, I would rather have the Minneapolis NBC, FOX, ABC and CBS affiliates on my package than Boston.
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Global's Derek Meyers is reporting Jason Bast of the Warriors is off to Victoria to play with the Salmon Kings of the ECHL. I hope Bast can find himself a pro contract somewhere. He deserves one.
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Graham DeLaet will play in the 3rd last pairing of the day at the Shell Houston Open. He is three strokes off the pace and was the only player yesterday to have a bogey-free round. Sadly for Graham, his round consisted of 17 pars and a birdie. Its hard to move up the leaderboard when you're doing that. Better pars than bogeys though. If he plays well today, he should finish in the top 10 and get a huge pay-day. If he wins, he is off to the Masters next week. Has a Saskatchewan born player ever played at Augusta?
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The Leader-Post had a story yesterday on a CFL fantasy football game that is being developed by some Reginans. YES!!! That is outstanding. I wonder if guys like Meyers, Jones, Hodges and Vanstone want to get into a league against one another this year.
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Is there going to be a Monday morning goalie this week? I know you're checking into this blog from Vegas RP! Put $10 on the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl for me. I'll pay you back when I see you.
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Who had Butler playing in the national championship game? Who knew where Butler was before the tournament began?
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Another wrestler has passed on at a young age. Chris Kanyon was found dead in his New York City apartment Saturday morning after overdosing on pills at the age of 40. It seems as if its one guy after another every couple of months doesn't it. At least, none of them has done harm to anyone else like Chris Benoit did though. Speaking of which, its time for the WWE to acknowledge Benoit and quit shoving his accomplishments under the carpet and trying to pretend as if he didn't exist. Yes, what he did was heinous, but the time has come to acknowledge his in-ring accomplishments again.
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Have a great Easter Sunday!