GIVE THAT FAN A NEW TRUCK

• Have you all seen this? Fox Sports ended up having to give a new truck to a Carolina Panthers fan after a practical joke that went "terribly, terribly wrong" during a pre-season telecast. Basically, the announcers said to keep people tuned in to a boring game, they would give a car to one lucky fan.
  
  

  With 1:56 remaining, the telecast went to a shot of sideline reporter Tony
  Siragusa standing in front of the 6-foot-4 340-pound Greg Good, who was sitting in a front-row end zone seat wearing an electric blue wig and black-and-blue cape.
  
  "The car is coming in right now," Siragusa said. "Here it comes. Beautiful. It's white. It's a Porsche."
  
  He then handed a toy car to Good.

  Hey, that's nothing on the practical joke Fox Sports has been playing on millions of viewers since 1994. Is it cruel to point out Tony Siragusa was probably happy to stand next to a 340-pound guy in a cape?
• If it's any consolation to heartbroken Ottawa Lynx fans, Allentown, Pa., has a really poor track record with minor-league baseball, that includes a stadium that was left half-finished and had to be demolished.
• Not a bad first half for my Queen's Golden Gaels: 14-10 lead over Guelph. Reason for concern: Danny Brannagan's 248 first-half passing yards should have equalled more than 14 points, but he did throw an interception deep in Gryphons territory. (Here's the CIS Week 2 picks.)
• If you're interested in following the Canadian Open -- especially with Brantford, Ontario's David Hearn in contention -- my Sun colleague Chris Stevenson is blogging it.
• Sacha Baron Cohen premiered Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan last night at the Toronto International Film Festival. The projector broke after 15 minutes.

That's all for now. Send your thoughts of neatesager@yahoo.ca.