Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following submission earlier today. Mike Boon is evil. I would say he is pure evil, but I know his mother and she is a quite a lovely person. I have only spent a handful of
It's playoff time in the NFL, and once again my Bills will be watching the games on TV. With the Bills out of the playoffs, who will I root for. I find it extremely difficult to enjoy a sporting event without a rooting interest. This has always been the case.
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following submission earlier today. I'm sick to death of the overuse of the word "up" as in: wash up, fix up, cook up. I'm also about to ban the word "guys" as in the person
Ivan Calderon was 41. He played 10 seasons in the major leagues with the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos, finishing his big league career in 1993 with a .272 batting average, 104 homers and 444 RBIs.
I was just catching up on my ChartAttack news when I stumbled across an item dated November 17th that somehow eluded me. The Watchmen have broken up following their final gig at The Horseshoe in Toronto last night. I was always a big fan of The Watchmen and constantly wondered
Sir Alan Bates was 69. He starred in films such as "Zorba the Greek", "Far From The Madding Crowd" and "Women in Love".
With 2003 coming to a close, I'm making another minor change to this site. Yesterday I announced that my "Quote of the Week" will be posted here every Sunday and the "Homer's Quote of the Week" will be posted here every Saturday. I'm also making a change to the way
Listening to the Nirvana bootleg classic "Roma" really brings it home. The sound quality is spectacular and the setlist astounding. The show took place in Rome on February 22nd, 1994, the location where weeks later Kurt would attempt suicide. Less than two months later he'd be dead. Listen to "Serve
I can't remember the last time I wrote up a Leafs Recap and didn't amend the point total. Actually, it was November 21st following a 3-2 loss to the Oilers. Seventeen games and almost six weeks ago. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. I must say I
The Bills defeated the Patriots 31-0 in week one, and today the Patriots returned the favour. It was a fitting end to another disappointing campaign for Buffalo as they finish 6-10 and miss the playoffs for the third straight year. I don't want to talk about it any further.
"It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day."
I'm making a few minor changes to a couple of weekly features of this site. In the past, I've posted "Mike's Quote of the Week" every Saturday morning. You'll see this morning's quote right below this entry. Starting next weekend, I'm going to be posting "Mike's Quote of the Week"
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante
The Leafs gave this one away before taking it back. When Joe Nieuwendyk scored in the second period to put the Leafs up 5-2, I figured the Rangers were as good as dead. A couple of bad Wade Belak penalties after a defensive lapse by Mr. Belak led to a
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As promised, some footage from today's festivities is now available in Videos. One of James' favourite gifts today was a Little People farm he received from Grandma. Three of the four videos posted are of James opening and playing with this present. The other is James hamming it up for
I'm spinning Pearl Jam's Lost Dogs right now (thanks Mom!), bringing to a close a very good day. Actually, it wasn't a good day. It was a great day. James was spoiled rotten and video evidence will be available here just as soon as I get around to it. I
From my family to yours, Merry Christmas! "It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, 'God Bless Us, Every One!
I just watched It's A Wonderful Life for the first time. Believe it or not, I never saw this Christmas classic once during my previous 29 years. On the 30th Christmas Eve of my life, I finally sat down and watched the entire movie. I'm glad I did. It was
Norad Tracks Santa - With help from Norad, we can track Santa's whereabouts this Christmas Eve as he embarks on his annual journey delivering presents to good little boys and girls. What I want to know is how he's going to put gifts under our tree when we have no
My friend Scott just gave me the best Christmas present in the world. He reminded me to check out the Sports Illustrated NHL Power Rankings for this week. Lo and behold, my Leafs are number one! SI had us at #20 earlier in the season, but now we're at the
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following submission earlier today. "I was too mean to Mark and now he doesn't visit my site anymore" was posted by the proprietor of this super duper website, Mike Boon. I presume that this information
The Leafs are playing spectacular hockey right now. Gary Roberts looked more like Wayne Gretzky with a couple of nifty goals for the blue and white who stretched their streak to 15 games registering at least a point. We're back in first overall in the NHL standings and looking like
