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I've lost touch with many of the players on the tennis circuit. I used to know most of the names, but now I only know a few. Until today, I had never heard of Russian Mikhail Youzhny. Youzhny, facing Spain's Nicolas Almagro at the Miami Masters, lost a point and
When Alex Rios hit an RBI single in the first inning tonight against the Yankees, his hitting streak against the Yankees was extended to 22 games. That's the longest such streak since 1956, surpassing 21 game streaks by Nomar Garciaparra, Paul Molitor and Harold Baines. It's a useless piece of
I shared an experience I had with my Prima television back on January 14, 2007 @ 13:26. I felt better just writing that entry, and a regular reader of this blog even gave me a TV he had collecting dust after I shared my pain. Little did I know at
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. Sonic Youth - Superstar Sonic Youth's cover of the
After dodgeball, I watched the Jays game but turned to the Leaf game after the final out. That was just in time to watch Alexander Steen score the go-ahead marker with eight minutes to play in a game that meant nothing to us but everything to Buffalo. The Sabres came
CBC-TV's long-running comedy show, "The Royal Canadian Air Farce," is ending its 15-year run. Just last summer I confessed I have never found "Royal Canadian Air Farce" funny. It's got ten more episodes to air, and I'll bet they won't be funny either.
After several weeks on the shelf, I made my return to dodgeball just in time for the semi-finals. We were facing the team that beat us in game one, a bunch of bearded dodgeball playing misfits who had a great regular season. The competition was fierce. I played my best
I'm watching the Jays opener against the Yankees. It's the last opening day in Yankee Stadium history. I remember skipping school to attend the last opening day in Exhibition Stadium history. There were 46,028 of us on hand that April 14th, 1989 afternoon. Jimmy Key pitched a two-hit complete
Don't get me wrong, I love baseball. I'm psyched about a new season of Blue Jays baseball and hopeful we can return to the playoffs for the first time in fifteen years. It's a fantastic game, but there's a problem with parity. Take our AL East division as a good
I got the call. The dodgeball team I played with earlier in the year before quitting on the advice of my doctor needs me. They're short a guy for their semi-final playoff game tonight. This is not an April Fool's Day joke. I'll be on the floor tonight with the
Today is the perfect day to share my favourite song from the first band I saw live in concert, Chalk Circle. April Fool
I was a member of the Lego Club. They sent me a membership card and everything. I loved Lego and would build castles, Star Wars spacecraft and cities galore. Lego is still everywhere. My son plays Star Wars Lego on our Nintendo Wii. It's the story of Star Wars in
I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal today. Reporter Matt Phillips was collecting info for a story he's doing on cassette tapes and how mix tapes compare to today's MP3 playlist. He came across this picture of my old tapes and asked me if I would talk to him
Stop the presses. There's late-breaking news from Toronto's City Hall. Rob Ford took offence to something he thought Globe & Mail reporter John Barber said. Apparently, and it's hard to tell from this video, not that it justifies another embarrassing Ford outburst, John Barber called Rob Ford a "fat f*
My slo-pitch team Raging Storm just got word that one of our players can't commit this season because of a 12-8 shift he can't shake. That means we need to fill a roster spot asap. We play in the RSPA, which means diamonds in Mississauga or Etobicoke, and we play
As Marge Simpson would say, now I've seen everything! And before you call bullshit, this is the real deal. Aristotle once said that elephants were "The beast which passeth all others in wit and mind".
It was chilly today, and the kids and I were looking for a fun little project to tackle together. I thought I'd take my emarketing skillz and apply them at home. And so, the Family Podcast was born. Originally it was going to be a true podcast, with an RSS
I promise I'll be brief, but something has been eating at me all day and I need to get it off my chest. Why did Vesa Toskala start his 30th game in a row last night? Think about it, the Leafs are playing for honour now, having been mathematically eliminated
YouTube user WNED17 recently uploaded some fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips have brought back a tonne of memories for me, so I'm going to feature them one by one over the next few weeks. Admittedly, I don't spend much time watching A-Channel. To be honest, I don't think I've watched
Chris "Punch" Andrews was 43. He was a disc jockey heard locally on Newstalk 1010 CFRB, 97.3 EZRock, and 99.9 MIX FM where his show aired on Saturday nights.
Dith Pran was 65. He was the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields."
Here are a few shots of Toronto during Earth Hour last night. Just before 9pm, the meter at the Toronto Hydro control centre hit a low of 2,738 megawatts - 5 per cent below the demand an hour earlier and about 8.7 per cent less than a typical
It's been a while since games at this point in the season meant butkis. I guess anytime you get to knock Montreal down a peg it's a good thing. Remember earlier in the season when it looked like Ottawa might set a record for most wins? They got off to
You can pretty much guess who amongst your friends will embrace Earth Hour and who will poo-poo the whole thing. There are certain people who like to crap on anything of this nature. Sure, it's a marketing ploy and there are probably better solutions to our energy crisis, but I
