323 entries on this blog contain the word Sundin. He's been the best player on our team since the 1994/1995 season. Even casual hockey fans know Mats Sundin plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs. At least he did—he now plays for the Vancouver Canucks. On June 28, 1994,
Mark Felt was 95. He was the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president.
On the bright side, we were down 5-1 before storming back to within one. We even chased Tim Thomas after two periods with the Bruins leading 6-5. Until we blew it in the third, this game was practically reminiscent of the greatest Leafs game I ever saw live. In that
Thanks to the peeps at Disney, I got to take my son tonight to a media preview of the new Adam Sandler movie, Bedtime Stories. It was better than Bolt and pretty perfect for my six-year old, but I'm not supposed to review it until it's released on Christmas Day.
One of the little games I play with Google involves search results for toronto blog. I'm in the top three, but I have my hands full with a couple of multiple authored professional blogs. One of those blogs is Torontoist, owned by Gothamist. Gothamist has decided to close Torontoist on
Environment Canada is calling it Snow-Mageddon. Tomorrow morning Toronto will get 15cm and they're calling for another snow storm on Sunday. Isn't "Snowmageddon" a little dramatic? 15cm tomorrow and a bunch more on Sunday makes for crappy driving conditions, but we've been through so much worse. Last winter, for example.
Joe Krol was 89. He won six Grey Cups, five with the Toronto Argonauts, as a Canadian Football League quarterback, running back, and placekicker/punter from 1942-1953 and 1955.
Tomorrow Mats Sundin will likely announce which team he's playing for this season. I have something to say about that, but I'm saving it until after it's all official. Coincidentally, it was four years ago today that I wrote down my conflicted feelings about Vince Carter. I'm not comparing Mats
The folks at XM Radio were kind enough to give me an XMP3, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, so the least I can do is tell you about this Christmas promotion they're running. For starters, the XMp3 portable satellite radio is now on sale for $199.
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake This
Here's a good article from the New Yorker on why newspapers are hurting. Here's a paragraph that makes a nice follow-up to my recent Everything's Amazing, Nobody's Happy entry. The peculiar fact about the current crisis is that even as big papers have become less profitable they’ve arguably become
It seems we've finally found a team we can beat in a shootout. And Blake is officially back in the good books with a pretty little spin-o-rama to win this one. But enough about Blake, let's talk about Jeremy Williams. This guy scored again last night, and potted another in
It's looking like this is the week Mats makes his decision. I'm hearing Thursday. Not surprisingly, I have something to say on the subject, but I need to find time to put these passionate thoughts to HTML. This is just a head's up that my open message to Sundin is
I've always loved radio. Although I have ten stations preset in my car stereo, there are only a few I actually visit. This is an update to something I wrote over five years ago. Also, if you're interested, here's my Toronto morning show history, written before I had ever exchanged
I've received a few emails from people wondering why torontomike.com is offline. It's not. My buddy Fred was late renewing his torontomike.com domain name, so they suspended it for a bit. He's ironing that out with the registrar. Meanwhile, this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that
Twenty years ago, most of my music was on cassette tapes. When I wanted to take my music with me, I'd actually put the tape in a dual cassette deck boombox, cue it up, place a cued up blank cassette in the other deck and simultaneously press play and record.
Not to make light of the shoe attack on Dubya yesterday, but you can't watch this... Without following it up with this... Austin Powers: That really hurt! I'm gonna have a lump there, you idiot! Who throws a shoe? Honestly! You fight like a woman!
I was listening to the Strombo show tonight and I caught a few seconds of "Thunder Kiss '65" by White Zombie. That's all it took. I was back at 410 Sherbourne Street in the big room moshing as if nobody was watching. For a period in the early-to-mid-90s, Monday nights
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Control: 7 out of 10. I watched the Joy Division documentary a couple of weeks ago, and this was a great follow-up. It's an Ian Curtis biopic and it's an ideal feel-good flick for this holiday season. I kid, I kid. This black and white Anton Corbijn film will make
I'm submitting a song for SLS20 consideration. I'm submitting "Kids" by MGMT. This is not the official video, it's some fan made vid, but it's good enough to be the official video. Although the guy and girl aren't actually MGMT... but the devil is in the details. Have you heard
Need a little inspiration? Take a couple of minutes to take this in. Now excuse me, I have to go out and kick some ass.
I recently wrote about these tough times we're experiencing in Toronto professional sports. It seems to get worse every day. Now that A. J. Burnett has flown the coop for big bucks with the Yankees, I don't know how the Jays will crack the top three in our division for
Jeremy Williams scored another goal as we took out the Sabres in Buffalo. We all know Williams has scored a goal in his first game after being called up, each of the past four seasons, but is that an NHL record? It depends how you look at it. In terms
I sometimes wonder what the poor Winnipeg Jets might have done had they not shared a division with the mighty Edmonton Oilers of the 1980s. The Jets were always an exciting team, and very likable. In 1996, Jets fans were dealt the worst blow imaginable when they saw their team
