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The sports world is always in search of the next “big” game. It’s a television thing. With so many sports networks now fighting for viewers eyes, they are willing to spend some serious dollars trying to get fans addicted to their brand of “must see TV.” Sports networks have created many of the games that you now watch semi-religiously. An ESPN marketing guy invented the X-Games. Wrestling became gianormous not because of the steroids, but because of clever television promotion….

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At the Gay Games in Amsterdam in 1998 a major brouhaha broke out over a requirement that athletes who define themselves as ‘transgendered’, or belonging to the sex different from the one to which they were born should provide proof of what the rules called “completed gender transition.” One can only dream of what that proof may be, but I’m hoping it was a simple drug test rather than say, a panel of judges having a look see to make the…

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Every week, on average, two athletes are arrested on charges they beat up their wives or girlfriends. That staggering number -provided by the associated press – has nothing to do with the colour of their skin or the sport they play. It’s a matter of shocking frequency, which generates the perception that athletes are hot-headed maniacs who are more prone than other “normal’ men to hit their wives or girlfriends. That perception is, unfortunately, wrong. Over the weekend I asked a QOD regarding leagues…

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Compelling TV it wasn’t… …but thanks for tuning in. Sunday’s final round at the U.S. Open was valiantly being billed by the commentating crew as the battle between golf’s new superstars: Tiger Woods attempt to fend off the charges of Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson. Johnny Miller was optimistically chirping all day long on NBC’s and TSN’s air, “You never know” and “Stranger things have happened”. Well – for those who have paid any attention whatsoever, we all did know and stranger things have not happened:…

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I’ll be the first to admit that what I know about coaching junior age, kiddee type hockey players wouldn’t fill up one of their cups, but this decision by the CHA to allow little kids to start whacking each other seems to be born from someone suffering from post-concussion syndrome. And I base that only on what the CHA has said in the past. The CHA’s mandate is the advancement of the game of hockey in Canada. But at first…

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  There is one thing that you can always count on and that is the Vice-President of the NHL and the chief judge and executioner of league justice, Brian Burke is always consistent in his inconsistency. On Thursday night during the opener of the Western Conference Semi-final Dallas’ Grant Marshall drove the butt end of his stick into Kelly Buckburger’s eyehole, which quickly blew up like Bim the Michelin Man. Marshall got a 5 minute major and a game misconduct…

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The District of Columbia Council is trying to urge team owner Dan Snyder to abandon his NFL football team’s name because they consider it as racist and “morally unacceptable.”  Have you ever wondered where the term “Redskin” came from in the first place? I always assumed it was the colour of native American’s skin. I guess that would make me a “pinkskin”. However, that semi-racist assumption on my part turns out not to be so. The redskin part that is. I…

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The following is a transcript of an online chat from January 10th, 1998 with one of our brighter users asking to be unbanned and to be made an op…… Guest294> Can you unbann me and make me an op George> No Guest294> Ok but can you tell me how you got the op George> I host the tsn internet site – I work for tsn George> I’m the CouchMaster Guest294> Is it possible I can get an op maybe some…

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