A strip club is opening in Seattle just 400 feet away from Safeco Field, the Mariners' stadium. The cab drivers in Seattle must be ticked -- now a trip to the rippers is walking distance for the ballplayers.
Former Nashville Predators owner Boots Del Biaggio, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman's buddy, was slapped with federal charges in the U.S. on the same day Sean Avery was on the carpet in New York City for "conduct detrimental to hockey." That's irony on a base level.
If Del Biaggio ends up in (How about, as Kurtenblog noted, what about Avery being the front-page story on NHL.com, using a to drive traffic? Hypocritical, much?)
"Unlike before the internet when the only publication professional sports clubs controlled was the game program (unless they owned a newspaper writer or two), teams today have a powerful and wide-reaching outlet — their website — that they can dress up as an objective journalism operation, which can be subsequently employed to boost revenue.The San Francisco Giants gave Edgar Renteria a two-year contract for $18.5 million yesterday. They had to waive their age requirement for a starting middle infielder — Renteria only turned thirty-three last summer.
"In a somewhat related story, it's interesting that despite the NHL deeming Sean Avery's infamous remarks on Tuesday in Calgary "detrimental to the league and the game of hockey," the league's website - which the NHL is relying on to create buckets of cash in the near future — seems to be taking full advantage of the publicity that the incident has created."
More great headlines that cannot be written: "Another J.P. to boo at Rogers Centre."
From Demetri Martin: "I think statues are wonderful. They show what great people would look like if pigeons shit all over them."
Former Saskatchewan Roughriders QB Steve Sarkisian might be the new coach of the Washington Huskies. Washington was 0-11 this season, so wouldn't a former Ottawa Rough Riders QB be better equipped to take over that team?
This has nothing to do with sports, but it might be the all-time greatest Kids In The Hall sketch:
This post is worth nothing, but this is worth noting:
- Former Dallas Cowboy quarterback Quincy Carter's new team is, wait for it, the Rio Grande Valley Dorados.
- Minor League Ball has a look at the Blue Jays farm system, good reading for everyone who thinks J.P. Ricciardi should just be out signing some free agents, any free agents.
- Kurtenblog has a how-to for the Teddy Bear Toss event that many junior hockey teams hold. Alas, the Ottawa 67's already had theirs, while Kingston Frontenacs fans should be throwing lumps of coal.
This actually happened ... a group of us, which included a couple people who had never been to a hockey game, had Halifax Mooseheads tickets. We showed up about five minutes into the first period, not knowing the Teddy Bear Toss was on, and entered the concourse at the Metro Centre right at the moment the Mooseheads scored. As the teddy bears rained down, we had to assure one person that this was not a regular thing. - This one's for faithful commenter, OttawaFan: An update on what CFL legend Hal Patterson, now 77,as been up to lately.
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Hey I was just a kid when I watched Patterson at Lansdowne. $2 in the end zone if a kid could not afford a $5 grandstand seat (or not bold enough to climb over a fence).
So he is into farming these days.I wonder if he would be interested in a booth at the new farmer's market at Lansdowne Live? "Prince Hal's Produce" ought to be a winner. He could also watch his old Als/Ti-Cats play the Ottawa Rough Rider Revivals (triple R on the helmets.)
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"wouldn't a former Ottawa Rough Riders QB be better equipped to take over that team?"
Not to go all serious on ya, but the Green Riders, historically, have had FAR less success than the boys in black. It's not even close.
We're just stuck in a 30-year-losing-streak-2-team-folding slump, is all.
The NHL banned irony a while ago.
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