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LeBron James’ Legacy

Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski defines Lebron James’ legacy in his column about Chris Paul. What’s best for Paul’s family is best for everyone’s family in the NBA. It needs James to restrict the polluting onto others of his own warped value system. James plays for the Miami Heat, but somehow he wants control of transactions [...]

The (bad) Decision

Adrian Wojnarowski dishes out how the Cleveland Cavaliers lost their childish superstar to the Miami Heat When the NBA powerbroker and adviser to James, William Wesley – famously known as Worldwide Wes – heard the news, he was duly impressed. After all these months, all this careful planning, Riley had cleared the cap space to [...]

NBA Free Agency

Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, writes an open letter to fans on his website about LeBron James.  First of all, he seems a little angrier than I would have expected.  I wonder if LeBron’s camp lead him to believe that he was going to stay in Cleveland.  Secondly, he used Comic Sans [...]

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Sean Shaw shares a broader perspective of the South Caswell Neighborhood Plan.  He also has a great blow by blow post on the Lake Placid/River Landing debate. Not sure how I feel about this… Saskatoon has a mandatory lead pipe upgrade.  That’s… umm awesome.  I get unsafe drinking water for the foreseeable future and if/when [...]

The hypocrisy of the 96 team NCAA basketball tournament

As Yahoo! Sports says Rather than lengthening the tournament a week and risk hurting TV ratings by having the Final Four go head-to-head against the Masters, the NCAA instead intends to cram an extra round of basketball into the usual three-week time span. Under that plan, 64 teams would play the round of 96 on [...]

Michael Jordan: Owner

So Michael Jordan is about to take over the Charlotte Bobcats.  I am not the only one that thinks he will be horrible at it.  This is from Yahoo! Sports. You’re going to have to get it together, though, Mike. You’re going to have to grow up, first and foremost. Nothing starts until your childhood [...]

Tecmo Super Bowl Is Making a Comeback

I could take my entire three weeks of vacation and all of my flex days and just play this game.  Details here.  Quite an improvement over the original graphics for the NES. Not only is Tecmo Super Bowl coming back but take a look at this.  NBA Jam is being remade. Boom-Shaka-Laka indeed.

Christmas Gift Guide for the Sports Fan

Readers of this blog know that I am a big sports fan.  As a sports fan I know how hard we can be to shop for and along that line I have some suggestions on what to get for your favorite sports fan.  Just a tip.  If you don’t know what his or her favorite [...]

Isiah vs. Magic

Despite growing up a Piston’s fan, I stopped being an Isiah Thomas fan around the time he failed in a power play to take over the Toronto Raptors.  By the time he ruined the CBA, I wondered if he was all there.  I lost whatever respect I had for him during his time with the [...]

The Cold Hard Truth

Mark and Oliver’s babysitter is just down from Mayfair School.  I generally drive home, park the car and walk the three blocks down to pick them up.  While at home, I grab a basketball and then Mark and I play one on one at the school on the way home.  Today while playing, Mark started [...]

Celebrating Hedo Turkoglu wants to be in Toronto

From the Globe and Mail’s Jeff Blair Start with the fact that Hedo Turkoglu wants to be in Toronto and that his wife Banu loves the city, and Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo’s latest signing is a strong move. Go from there and factor in that Turkoglu actually wants the ball late in a game and [...]

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Peggy’s Cove lighthouse needs some repairs and no one wants to foot the bill The Conservative government is now off probation according to Paul Wells.  Of course this is all part of Stephen Harper’s plan to survive the recession No wonder Harper doesn’t like it when his caucus speaks out loud Abortion: The Left has [...]

The best young basketball player in the country

From the New York Times [Allonzo] Trier has his own line of clothing emblazoned with his signature and personal motto: “When the lights come on, it’s time to perform.” His basketball socks, which also come gratis, are marked with either his nickname, Zo, or his area code, 206. He’s expecting a shipment of Under Armour [...]

Last Night on Twitter

I missed Barack Obama’s speech last night.  I ended up watching the Raptors embarass the nation of Canada in the first quarter and then redeem themselves later on and win.  Of course a decent high school team could beat the Minnesota Timberwolves this season. I opened up Twitterific and was reading the responses to Obama’s [...]

Bosh

As I unwind tonight, I am watching the Raptors play the New Jersey Nets.  I am just going to come out and say this after watching many Toronto Raptors this season.  I think Chris Bosh is over rated. Yes he is athletic and gets to the free throw line a lot but Raptor fans somehow [...]