In case you missed this Ales Hemsky goal to tie things up between the Oilers and Stars the other night, take a look at this. It's unbelievable.  Somehow Patrik Stefan missed an empty netter and remarkably the Oil got the puck up ice where Hemsky made a wicked move with

My cousin played two seasons for the Belleville Bulls in the mid 90s.  In 1994-95 he started 39 games in net for the Bulls which meant I was following that team closely.  The big story that season was a fifteen year old Newfoundlander named Daniel Cleary. It was Cleary's first

The first mention of Sidney Crosby on this site was October 6, 2003.  I opened with "Sidney Crosby. Are you familiar with that name? You will be." I wrote that entry after reading a quote from The Great One himself.  Wayne Gretzky said Crosby was the best player he'd seen

Cindy Klassen beat out some great competition for this years Lou Marsh award.  Klassen won over such formidable opponents as Steve Nash, Justin Morneau and Joe Thornton. I knew it.  Five Olympic medals was not going to be denied. Here are recent winners of the award. 2006: Cindy Klassen2005: Steve

Many feel Mark McGwire will be punished by Hall of Fame voters for his alleged use of steroids.  That may be the case, but even without the question of whether he was clean, I don't think he deserves to get in.  I don't think he's Hall of Fame worthy. Yes,

Justin Morneau is the second Canadian to be named a major league MVP.  The New Westminster, B.C. native has been named the 2006 American League MVP. It was well deserved. He slugged 34 home runs and added 130 RBI while recording a .321 batting average, leading the Twins to

It wasn't long ago we said goodbye to Pistol Pete.  Pete Sampras retired from professional tennis with 64 singles titles, including a record 14 majors.  I thought he was the best and doubted we'd see anyone as good, ever. Check out these stats on Roger Federer from the BBC.  The

The National Hockey League has signed a deal with YouTube to market highlight clips.  You may recall I recently linked to the NHL on Google Video page, a multi-year deal to provide NHL video content to Google Video.  With YouTube now in the Google family, this seemed like a natural

The recent controversy surrounding Kenny Rogers and this recent email about Dennis Eckersley cheating in the 1989 ALCS got me thinking about Joe Niekro.  He played 22 season in the Major Leagues, but I only remember him for one incident in 1987.  On August 3, 1987, he was ejected for

In this country, we're very proud of Mike Weir.  The man won the 2003 Masters and he hails from Bright's Grove, Ontario.  He's Canadian and we don't want you to forget it! Those who play EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 will hear Weir announced as being from Draper,

Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.  It's a fairly obscure term, but I've used it twice before when writing about Lenny Wilkens' horrible performance in New York and Justin Gatlin getting caught using steroids.  Now, I'm using it again. Bob Clarke is out as General Manager of

Brendan Shanahan is off to a great start with the Rangers.  He's got 7 goals and 2 assists in his first seven games in New York.  In Shanahan takes Manhattan, a Damien Cox piece in today's Toronto Star, Shanny offers up this delicious quote. Hey, growing up I got used

As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Miguel Tejada were among the players that a former major league pitcher accused of using performance-enhancing drugs.  It's just an allegation, but it's yet another one regarding the Rocket.  I believe Rocket Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds to

There are a few sports stories floating about that have everybody chatty by their water coolers.  These stories have a lot of meat on them and are being addressed all over the place, but I surprisingly have little to say about any of 'em. These big three stories are... Tie

Every time Tiger Woods wins another major there's talk of him being the greatest athlete of all time.  Not the greatest golfer of all time, but the greatest athlete. He won the PGA Championship with ease on the weekend and he almost won me my golf pool.  I finished tied

From NFLCANADA.COM, here's the complete list of 23 Canadians trying to crack NFL rosters this fall.  Only two hail from Toronto, but three others are only a stone's throw away. O. J. AtogweJesse PalmerJon RyanDan FederkeilShaun SuishamMitch BergerNate BurlesonJ.P. DarcheIsrael IdonijeNick KaczurAlain KashamaJesse LumsdenMike LabinjoKerry CarterL.P. LadouceurRob

All Canadians of a certain age remember that sky high feeling in 1988 followed shortly by that disappointing plummet.  I wrote about it last June.  Ben Johnson went to Seoul  and beat Carl Lewis, won the Gold medal in the 100m and set a new world record time of 9.

The world basketball championships take place next month in Japan.  USA Today decided to compare the American team with the Dream Team from 1992.  If we're to believe USA Today, USA basketball is in great shape, because the roster is just about as good as the team that was untouchable

It's been 28 years since this happened.  Yesterday, with 15 games on the schedule, not one save was recorded. There were ten blow out wins, a couple of ninth inning rallies, six blown saves and a couple of extra inning games, including our 7-6 win over the Mariners in 14

When the World Cup kicked off on June 9th, I learned about a neat little extension for Firefox called FootieFox.  Most games were taking place while I worked and this little guy put the current score in my status bar and played a "Scores!" soundbite whenever a goal was scored.

The 106th US Open teed off at Winged Foot in New York yesterday.  As I do with every major, I purchased a trio of golfers in an attempt to win our little golf pool. As usual, I consulted my brothers before making my selection.  They're much bigger golf fans than