In this 173rd episode, Mike chats with Marc Weisblott about his years on the bleeding edge of online journalism, his Toronto email newsletter Twelve Thirty Six and a wide assortment of Toronto-centric tidbits. This episode is exactly 1:26:35. You can listen to this episode in a variety of
Drake finally has his first Billboard Hot 100 number one as a lead artist. One Dance by Drake and featuring WizKid and Kyla currently tops the chart. Here's the complete list of 45 Canadian songs to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It's Love-Love-Love by Guy LombardoCry by Johnnie Ray
Baseball fans likely know by now that Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon went deep the other day. He's the oldest player in the history of Major League Baseball to hit his first career home run. He was exactly 42 years and 349 days old. That's older than me! Here's a nice
I fell in love with baseball during the summer of '83 when I caught Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth calling Blue Jay games while spending a couple of weeks at my uncle's cottage. I was hooked. Around this time, I was playing tee-ball. In my tee-ball league, the catcher was
Prior to game 3 in the Raptors ~ Heat series, Dwyane Wade was caught shooting during the singing of O Canada. Here's the video evidence. I get the feeling I'm supposed to get all riled up about this, yet I feel nothing. Was it disrespectful? Probably. Should Wade apologize and promise
In this 172nd episode, Mike chats with boom 973 DJ KJ about his years on 680 CFTR as Kris James, how he ended up on boom and everything in between. This episode is exactly 1:10:41. You can listen to this episode in a variety of ways: Subscribe in
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
On this date last year, I rode my bike to High Park and snapped some great photos of the annual Sakura cherry blossoms in full bloom. Here's a taste of what I witnessed. Just yesterday, I rode to High Park to see if there were any signs of this year's
Every week I'll listen to an episode of The Doc Project via the CBC Radio app. Today I noticed that eight episodes of a series entitled The Wire were available. Initially, I thought it might be about my favourite television series of all-time, but quickly learned it was an audio
Seven years ago, I shared a classic McCain's Punch ad featuring Toronto Blue Jay second baseman Roberto Alomar. Retrontario was sharing the ad and it brought back a ton of memories. That wasn't the original 1993 "Catch the Taste!" ad, however, which almost topped Retrontario's most wanted list. The hunt
In this 171st episode, Mike chats with Elvis about this and that as Prince brings Elvis to tears. This episode is exactly 1:25:51. You can listen to this episode in a variety of ways: Subscribe in iTunesListen via Google Play MusicListen via StitcherFollow on tuneinSubscribe directly to the
Heading into last night's game seven at the ACC, I was asked for my prediction. With apologies to Forrest Gump, I ended up comparing the Raptors to a box of chocolates. I could see us winning big, but I could also see us losing big. The Raptors could win by
The Leafs had a 20% chance of winning tonight's 2016 NHL Draft Lottery and the balls bounced in our favour for once. We've won the lottery and will draft first overall on June 24. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty happy. It's nice to know all that losing
Let's go back to the Rudy Gay trade. It was late 2013, and the Raptors traded Rudy Gay to the Sacramento Kings in a 7-player deal. The Kings sending John Salmons, Greivis Vasquez, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes to Toronto in exchange for Gay, Aaron Gray and Quincy Acy. That's
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
In this 170th episode, Mike chats with Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons about his years at the Sun, his relationships with Damien Cox, David Shoalts and James Mirtle, his thoughts on analytics in hockey, his Phil Kessel story about hot dogs, how he got Howard Berger fired and what it
In this 169th episode, Mike chats with PJ Fresh Phil about his decade on YTV working with the Grogs and Snit and what he's been up to since. This episode is exactly 1:28:27. You can listen to this episode in a variety of ways: Subscribe in iTunesListen via
Yesterday, I witnessed Edwin Encarnacion's 200th home run as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. It was the lone bright spot in a dreadful game. All the fun and excitement was happening down the street where my Raps played a ridiculous fourth quarter to escape with a big win
The Star has an article today about the worst streets for locking up your bike. Not surprisingly, downtown is where most of the thefts occur. Toronto is the bike theft capital of the world with more than 18,000 bikes reported stolen between Jan. 1, 2010 and June 30, 2015.
With great interest I read this CBC article about the fact many Canadians diagnosed with asthma don't in fact have it. This was my experience with my firstborn. Weeks before his second birthday, my oldest ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. I spent five nights sleeping on that cot
I hated the midges during my first spring living by the lake. At the time I didn't even know they had a name. I just knew there were swarms of annoying bugs everywhere and I even biked wearing a balaclava to avoid ingesting dozens of them at a time. Yes,
At last, podcasts have come to Google Play Music. I've been waiting for this for a very long time. This entry isn't for you iPhone users who subscribe to podcasts in iTunes. This is for those of us who prefer Android. We can now easily subscribe and play podcast episodes
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
On Tuesday night, my oldest won his house league's hockey championship. I enjoyed every second of it from the lonely end of the rink. This morning, a package arrive for my youngest and it included this little doll. I thought I'd snap a pic.
