WHERE'D THE YEAR GO... JUNE

In our continuing quest to secure a lower rung on the inferno, Out of Left Field looks back at the wild 'n' nutty month of June.

Buffalo Sabres fans, you small-town kooks of the hockey world... we feel your pain.

Remember when Tommy Lasorda went on that profanity-laced rant about Dave Kingman 30 years ago? OK, so it wasn't 30 years ago, but it's still funny. (Our first link at Deadspin!)

Br-rrrr-i-an Wil-li-ams bolts from CBC Sports. Surely this is an anomaly. It's not like they're going to lose the Grey Cup or anything. (Hey, wait a second.)

In Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final, Dwayne Roloson was kind of like Warren Zevon.

Manitoba had no place for Onterrio Smith, the ex-Viking who was cut by the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

It's a safe bet you didn't read this in anyone else's CFL season preview: "Alouettes fans and the general populace they walk among are not a bunch of oil-drunk Albertans, but they make up for it with Gallic insouciance, the cheapest beer prices in the dominion, $10 lap dances, 3 a.m. last calls, cheaper university tuition, purloined Ontario tax dollars coming out the wazoo and actual culture to speak of.

Montreal has inspired novels by Mordecai Richler, plus songs and novels by Leonard Cohen. Compare that to Toronto, which as a muse, has inspired (crickets chirping) .... one bad Trooper song and the TV series Street Legal." Right. So how are the Als looking?

We adopted Sweden, the Tre Kroner, for the FIFA World Cup. It did not go well, but at least now I've moved up to soccer dilettante.

We Are Marshall couldn't have come at a better time for the university, what with this sexual harassment suit.

Leaping to the defence of trophy wives, just to show that Nick Kypreos is a dunderhead. (Other Canuck TV types: Your uppance will come.)

Keith Hernandez is still trying to impress Elaine Benes, 14 years after his Seinfeld guest shot. Isn't his pathos every guy's pathos?

Some loser Live-blogged Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final because he didn't have any friends to watch the game with.

My sister Trina's friend Laura Hurd, an all-American women's hockey player, left us way too soon.

Rumours ran wild after Chris Pronger asked out of Edmonton without feeling like he owed Oilers fans a proper explanation.

So, Sager, it's been 10 years since you graduated high school... and what have you done?

Back with more later. Send your thoughts to neatesager@yahoo.ca.