WHO ARE WE KIDDING? IT IS SLOW

Accolades and assorted notes:

• It has made it to Deadspin already, but media junkies might want to check out the blog of Houston Chronicle football writer John McClain for a take on what the NFL is trying to pull with respect to video content. Since might equals right, the NFL is forbidding media websites from running more than 45 seconds per day of interviews with players, coaches and what-not -- and there's no archiving allowed.

"But there's a loophole. We can interview them for as long as we want off the premises. I can see it now: Defensive coordinator Richard Smith leaves his Reliant Stadium office at 1 a.m. on Wednesday night, and as soon as his car leaves the lot and hits Kirby, I have Anna-Megan standing in the street to stop him. Smith slams on his breaks! Then, Adam Ariganello shoves his video camera in Smith's window, and I start shouting questions, and Richard gets so freaked out, he runs over all of us. But we'll get more than 45 seconds of sound. We may have to bleep out most of it, but, by golly, we'll get it."

Bet on other leagues trying to do this. All along, they'll be missing the point -- media websites want to post video and people put things on YouTube to serve people who are supporting the product and might be more likely to do so. It's not really stealing, but tell that to these greedheads.

Oh, and how many pro athletes are going to do interviews off team premises when they can just do it inside the practice facility and go home? Way to put up another wall between the players and the fans, NFL.

• I remember being at a game at Frank Clair Stadium in '02 when Michael Bishop, then a CFL rookie with Toronto, led the Argos to a come-from-behind win (don't be impressed, it was against the first-year Renegades) and thinking, man, he could thrive in the league. He's 31 now, still not old enough to play quarterback for a Pinball Clemons-coached team, but he's going to start anyways. It's always good when a team sticks to their six-year plan to groom a CFL quarterback.
• Mina Arbuckle, an Ottawa Fury midfielder from Richmond, Ont., has signed on to play NCAA D-1 women's soccer at Florida Atlantic, so good for her and everyone who coached her coming up through the ranks. Thumbs-up for medical types too -- Arbuckle, 18, is only a year removed from having surgery to repair two torn knee ligaments. She's the fourth Fury grad to sign on to play at Florida Atlantic, which is Boca Raton -- where the winter is considerably nicer than in Ottawa.
• More contemporaries having major life moments: Congrats all around to fellow King's J-school alumnus Trevor Stewart of the Sudbury Star and his bride, Cindy, who had their wedding June 23 near Peggy's Cove. The same day, another one-time King's classmate, Vanessa Roman (nee Owen) and her spouse Jason delivered their firstborn, a daughter named Charlotte "Charleigh" Matisse Roman.