Time for the weekly assortment of items running through my brain in no particular order
--With Major League Baseball on its all-star break and games not resuming until Friday, why doesn't the CFL take the bull by the horns and play a game so they can have the spotlight all to themselves. There are no professional games happening on Thursday so why not change that and play a game. Its not like the league has never played Thursday games before.
--I am 100 percent convinced Darian Durant will be under center when the Riders take the field against Hamilton on Sunday. If Darian played on a broken foot with nothing to play for at the end of the 2011 season, he will play in Week 4 of the 2013 season in an attempt to keep his team undefeated. He is a warrior and you can't tell him to sit down. Seeing him in pads on Thursday (and talking to him on Wednesday) was all I needed to know.
--The ESPY awards are a little cheezy, but one can't deny that the US sports network pulls out all the stops at the ceremony. Some of the segments they have are unbelievable and you can put the Robin Roberts segment and her winning the Arthur Ashe Courage award as one of those segments. The former ESPN employee has overcome cancer and her story and her speech Wednesday night was very moving. However, it wasn't as moving as the late Jim Valvano's speech at the first ever ESPY awards. If you have never seen that speech, here's your chance. It is incredibly powerful.....
--I don't care if Graham DeLaet shoots another 76 at the British Open today. The fact that he has taken his career to another level by playing in a major is a tremendous feat not only for his career, but for golf in this country and this province. How many young people are taking up the sport because they see what he is doing. The same could be said for snowboarder Mark McMorris too. We should be extremely proud of these Saskatchewan athletes for doing what they are doing on the world stage. What's important is both haven't forgotten home either.
--The CRTC is talking about payphone rates this week in Ottawa. We still have payphones? In this day and age where it seems everyone has a cellphone, does anyone use a payphone anymore? The CRTC should do better things with their time like say Canadians can enjoy ESPN and the soon to be Fox Sports 1 in the comforts of their own living room.
--So let me get this straight, if I buy one pair of Zoomies, I get a 2nd pair for free. This means I could get Rod Pedersen and Phil Andrews their Xmas present in one shot. YES!!!!
--Whoever thought up of the scenario to have Mariano Rivera trot out on to Citi Field Tuesday night at the all-star game and have him as the only player on the field was pure genius. He truly had the stage all to himself while fans and players saluted him for his years on the field. Watching Rivera pitch live is something I won't see and that's too bad because there aren't many better than him.
--The stars of High Impact Wrestling (and Rex Roberts) are back at it tonight at the Hungarian Club. The bell rings at 8...I am guessing the red carpet ceremony will begin somewhere around 6. Word is Access may be getting ready to once again televise the Regina events. Is this a chance to unleash my inner Ed Whalen?
--It wouldn't bother me one bit if the NHL just shut things down for two weeks so we didn't have to talk about any player movement or signings or nothing.
--That being said, the Regina Pats need to make some kind of announcement whether it be trade or something. They've been too quiet.
--Someone needs to explain to me why TSN keeps trotting out Cabbie Richards for segments. This guy simply isn't entertaining or funny or anything. All he is a channel-changer as far as I'm concerned. I know I'm not the only one that feels that way. I would love to see Terry Tate office linebacker just crush this guy sometime.
--The outstanding Global combo of Heather Anderson and Rustie Dean asked Thursday on the Global Morning News who would last longer in a Big Brother house? There should be a Regina media Big Brother. Just think about that for a second......in the end though, we all know that Wayne Mantyka would win if he was in. There's no doubt in my mind.
--If swearing is so immature, why is it called "adult language".
That's all I got. Have a great weekend! GO RIDERS!
9 comments:
I couldn't agree with you more about the Pats. By this time most years they have usually made two or three trades. Finishing where they did tells that they have work to do. They were supposed to be upgrading their defence with experience and size. The Forsberg thing is still unsettled. They were looking for more offence and perhaps a 20 yr old upgrade. Getting a guy in the CHL draft who hasn't played one game of major junior likely wont cut it. Saskatoon moved 5 quality 20 yr old and we didn't get in play on any. I hope they don't think that what they have will yield any better results than they had last season.
" Time Is very precious "
Thanx for " This And That " Mr Mitchell Blair,
ElA
Good point on CFL. A Thursday night game would have been watched by many last night with no baseball competition.
The Jimmy V speech is unbelievable.
GO GRAHAM AND GO RIDERS!!!
JN
Durant will backup but see the field if Willy can't get it done. That's my bet!
peter dalla riva
Good point on the Pats and anon 1 makes some good comments as well. Lang appears to be sitting on his hands. That's a mistake! Create some buzz. Getting Forsberg would do that.
Rob
Hopson should be cutting a deal with DeLaet. He'd look good wearing a Riders cap.
Veeseven
The Pats?? Are they even relevant anymore. Parker has screwed that team so far in the ground that they will never recover. The Pats.....PFFFFTT!
HIW was a great event last night.
Provide me a couple old school glass coke bottles and some rubber bands and I'll craft you a pair of Zoomies for Petersen as a Xmas present, he could surely put them to good use for his overly enthusiastic loud shouting Roughriders play by play calls. On the other hand, scrap that Idea, just buy the advertised 2 for 1 Zoomies, as the old school glass coke bottles would be worth more as a collecter Item and not worth the time and effort to appease RP.
Old School Inovator.
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