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7/12 Searing Hot Sundry: Is the NCAA Dumber than a 4th Grader?
My tires melted on the way home from work yesterday near MoPac & 38th St. It looked something like this. So I decided to get my ass here as soon as possible. Hotel Fairmont, Banff, Alberta. The only problem is it's in Canada, which has Canadians. STAT GEEKS, UNITE! Party of one, the name is...
On this date in TNA history: Pierre Carl Oulette debuts as 'X'
On November 5, 2003, former "Quebecer" Pierre Carl Oulette, made his Total Nonstop Action (TNA) debut as "X," a masked nobody that inexplicably won the X-Division Battle Royal by defeating Low Ki, Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt, Shark Boy, Johnny Storm, Chad Collyer and Christopher Daniels. He would be...
I'm Saving Hockey: A BTN June 5th Recap
So much speculation, so much hope...a bevy of Winnipeg fans are trying so damn hard to make this team the Jets again. An NBC poll, probably dominated by a bunch of northern expats, returned nearly 60% of over 3,000 votes preferring the old moniker; Winnipeg/Manitoba management, fully aware of the...
Today In Brewer History: Canadian Cleveland
It's become something of a running joke around here that the Brewer organization is full of Canadians. And, like any good running joke, there's an element of truth to it: The Brewers do seem to be one of the leaders when it comes to drafting and signing players from north of the border. It hasn't...
TEB Final Results: Pairs
Quite a little upset in the pairs event at TEB with Russian pair Maria Mukhortova and Maxim Trankov getting it winning. It appears this may have been as much because of a complete Savchenko and Szolkowy meltdown as because the Russian pair was able to get it together, finally; I haven't watched...
TEB Results: Original Dance
Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are comfortably one dance away from winning the first Grand Prix of the season at Trophee Eric Bompard Cachemire. They won the original dance this afternoon. French couple Nathlanie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat are in second with only a 1.1 lead over third...
Battle of the Blades Casting has Begun
Faceoff.com has named some of the hockey players who will participate in the upcoming "Battle of the Blades," a real life "Cutting Edge" that will match up male hockey players with former female figure skaters and have them compete in a pairs showdown. Some of the players are: Tie Domi, Glenn...
Davis and White Score Four Continents Upset
American National Ice Dance Champs Meryl Davis and Charlie White have won the Four Continents Championship, ahead of their training mates Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (who were favored to win). The competition may have come down to a slight bobble Virtue made during a spin. The Americans...
Pang and Tong on a roll, Defend Four Continents Title
Chinese pair Pang and Tong won the Four Continents pairs title yesterday. That makes two international competitions in a row for them after they claimed the Grand Prix Final in December. Pang and Tong won the title last year as well. Canadians Dube and Davison were more than ten points behind in...
Virtue and Moir Win Compulsories at Canadians
Ice Dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, making their comeback after sitting out the beginning of the season for Virtue's surgery recovery, placed first in the ice dancing compulsories at the Canadian championships. They received a 39.33 for their Viennese Waltz. Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier...
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