THERE ARE DAYS IN THIS BUSINESS THAT YOU NEVER FORGET. 21 YEARS AGO I
WORKED THE CTV NATIONAL TELECAST OF THE CANADIAN AMATEUR BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS FROM TORONTO. ON THAT NIGHT THREE VERY PROMISING YOUNGSTERS BROKE THROUGH TO WIN NATIONAL TITLES; WILLI DEWIT FROM ALBERTA..SEAN O'SULLIVAN FROM TORONTO..AND FROM KITCHENER A HEAVYWEIGHT NAMED LENNOX LEWIS. DEWIT AND O'SULLIVAN HAD SOME SUCCESS AS PROS....LEWIS WENT ON TO BECOME THE DOMINANT BOXER OF HIS GENERATION AND THEN RETIRED WITH ONLY 2 LOSSES IN 44 BOUTS. HIS LAST VICTORY CAME IN 2004 AGAINST VITALI KLITSCHKO.
LAST WEEK KLITSCHKO ANNOUNCED HE IS COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT. TODAY LEWIS ANNOUNCED HE'S ALSO COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT AT AGE 41 SO HE CAN FIGHT KLITSCHKO AGAIN.
CONSIDERING THE STATE OF THE THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION RIGHT NOW....IT COULD BE THE FIGHT OF THE YEAR.
BUT CONSIDER THESE DEVELOPMENTS...TOMMY MORRISON WAS BACK IN THE RING THIS WEEK. MORRISON IS BEST KNOWN FOR BEING JOHN WAYNE'S NEPHEW BEFORE HE WAS DIAGNOSED HIV POSITIVE AND WAS FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM BOXING AN THE EVE OF A FIGHT WITH MIKE TYSON. WELL, IN WEST VIRGINIA IF YOU CAN CLIMB THROUGH THE RING ROPES WITHOUT FALLING DOWN, YOU CAN FIGHT.
MORRISON FOUGHT ON A CARD WITH JOE MESI OF BUFFALO NEW YORK. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER MESI...HE FOUGHT STEPHANE TESSIER IN MONTREAL IN 2006 DESPITE A BRAIN ANEURISM. THEY BOTH LIVED ..AND THEY BOTH WON THEIR FIGHTS.
AND THEN THERE'S ROCKY BALBOA. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS..SYLVESTER STALONE STOPPED BY AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS CARRYING PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES. READ:
STEROIDS. WHERE HAVE YOU GONE JOE FRAZIER. THE HECK WITH IT...AT THIS
POINT I'LL TAKE GEORGE CHUVALO.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
February 17 2007
DICK POUND TELLS US HE'S GOING TO STEP ASIDE AS HEAD OF THE WORLD ANTI DOPING AGENCY AT THE END OF THE YEAR. THAT MAY BE THE SOUND OF THOUSANDS CHEERING YOU HEAR; ESPECIALLY IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE POUND HAS BECOME A PARIAH. HOWEVER AS WE'VE LEARNED THE U.S. OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AND THE U.S.
TRACK AND FIELD FEDERATION HAVE ACTED AS STEROID FACILITATORS, MAKING THEIR RECORD AS DIRTY AS THAT OF THE SOVIETS AND EAST GERMANS. POUND HAS BEEN A ZEOLOT. YOU MAKE ENEMIES WHEN YOU TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY DON'T WANT TO HEAR OR YOU CATCH THEM CHEATING.
FOR INSTANCE, POUND RAISED THE HACKLES OF THE NHL WHEN HE TOLD GARY BETTMAN THAT THEIR DRUG POLICY "LOOKED LIKE THEY FOUND AN EARLY COPY OF THE NOW-DISGRACED BASEBALL POLICY ON THE FLOOR SOMEWHERE." BETTMAN ROSE UP AND SAID "POUND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT." I THINK IT'S VERY SAFE TO SAY DICK POUND KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE MAKING OF ATHLETES INTO MUTANTS THAN GARY BETTMAN DOES.
MUCH OF THE TIME POUND SHOT-FROM-THE-HIP WITHOUT BENEFIT OF DEFENSE. BUT FOR WHATEVER CRITICISMS----- CONSIDER WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WADA WAS FORMED 8 YEARS AGO. WITHIN 4 YEARS THE WADA CODE HAD BEEN ADOPTED BY ALL OLYMPIC SPORTS. YESTERDAY IN ATHENS "UNESCO" ADOPED THE WADA CODE UNANIMOUSLY SOMETHING POUND CALLED A "MIRACLE".. "MIRACLE" MAY BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.
IN ONLY EIGHT YEARS THE WORLD ANTI DOPING AGENCY HAS GONE FROM AN IDEA TO A MAJOR FORCE IN SPORTS ON THE PLANET. POUND ALWAYS SAID..."IF YOU WANT TO CONFRONT SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO BE CONFRONTATIONAL". AND NEVER EVER APOLOGIZE. HE ALSO SAID YESTERDAY, IN DECEMBER "MY SENTENCE WILL BE SERVED". AMEN TO THAT.
TRACK AND FIELD FEDERATION HAVE ACTED AS STEROID FACILITATORS, MAKING THEIR RECORD AS DIRTY AS THAT OF THE SOVIETS AND EAST GERMANS. POUND HAS BEEN A ZEOLOT. YOU MAKE ENEMIES WHEN YOU TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY DON'T WANT TO HEAR OR YOU CATCH THEM CHEATING.
FOR INSTANCE, POUND RAISED THE HACKLES OF THE NHL WHEN HE TOLD GARY BETTMAN THAT THEIR DRUG POLICY "LOOKED LIKE THEY FOUND AN EARLY COPY OF THE NOW-DISGRACED BASEBALL POLICY ON THE FLOOR SOMEWHERE." BETTMAN ROSE UP AND SAID "POUND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT." I THINK IT'S VERY SAFE TO SAY DICK POUND KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE MAKING OF ATHLETES INTO MUTANTS THAN GARY BETTMAN DOES.
MUCH OF THE TIME POUND SHOT-FROM-THE-HIP WITHOUT BENEFIT OF DEFENSE. BUT FOR WHATEVER CRITICISMS----- CONSIDER WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WADA WAS FORMED 8 YEARS AGO. WITHIN 4 YEARS THE WADA CODE HAD BEEN ADOPTED BY ALL OLYMPIC SPORTS. YESTERDAY IN ATHENS "UNESCO" ADOPED THE WADA CODE UNANIMOUSLY SOMETHING POUND CALLED A "MIRACLE".. "MIRACLE" MAY BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.
IN ONLY EIGHT YEARS THE WORLD ANTI DOPING AGENCY HAS GONE FROM AN IDEA TO A MAJOR FORCE IN SPORTS ON THE PLANET. POUND ALWAYS SAID..."IF YOU WANT TO CONFRONT SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO BE CONFRONTATIONAL". AND NEVER EVER APOLOGIZE. HE ALSO SAID YESTERDAY, IN DECEMBER "MY SENTENCE WILL BE SERVED". AMEN TO THAT.
January 27 2007
WHEN THE NHL HIRED GARY BETTMAN AWAY FROM THE NBA THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GETTING A BRILLIANT MARKETING MIND. PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE BECOME SUSPICIOUS WHEN HE IMMEDIATELY CHANGED HIS TITLE FROM NHL PRESIDENT TO COMMISSIONER..
SINCE THEN HAVE BEEN FEW NOTEABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. SOME WOULD SAY "THE NEW NHL" IS BETTMAN'S DOING...BUT MOST OF THE WORK WAS DONE BY BRENDAN SHANAHAN AND THE PLAYERS. THAT SALARY CAP FIGHT COST FANS AN ENTIRE YEAR OF HOCKEY.
HE WAS HIRED TO SELL THE NHL TO AN INDIFFERENT U.S. POPULATION. ALL HE HAS MANAGED TO DO IS NEGOTIATE HIS NUMBER ONE MARKETING TOOL TELEVISION.......
STRAIGHT BACKWARDS FROM ESPN AND ABC....TO THE INVISIBLE "OUTDOOR LIFE NETWORK"..NOW CALLED "VERSUS". WHERE NHL GAMES WERE BEING SEEN 3 TO 4 TIMES A WEEK ON ESPN...NOW YOU HAVE TO BE A DETECTIVE TO EVEN FIND "VERSUS" ON YOUR CABLE SYSTEM. AND THE NHL STANDS TO MAKE NOTHING OUT OF THEIR COST SHARING NBC CONTRACT.
THE LATEST MARKETING PLOY IS THE STYLE-CHANGE OF UNIFORMS A FACSIMILE OF WHICH YOU SAW ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S ALL-STAR GAME. I DON'T KNOW A SOUL, EITHER FAN OR PLAYER WHO HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE OLD UNIFORM. APPARENTLY THE LEAGUE HAS SOLD WHATEVER REMAINING PIECE OF IT'S SOUL TO REEBOK WHO HAVE DESIGNED THE SO-CALLED "UNFORM SYSTEM". CALL ME CYNICAL....BUT DOENS'T THIS SMELL LIKE ANOTHER CASH-GRAB ONE THAT MAKES THE LARCENOUS "THIRD JERSEY" LOOK PETTY.
LOOK AROUND YOU AT THE BELL CENTRE NEXT TIME YOU'RE THERE. 21 THOUSAND FANS...PROBABLY 12,000 WEARING THE 130-DOLLAR CANADIENS JERSEY. WHAT BETTMAN AND GANG ARE ABOUT TO DO IS CREATE A PLANNED OBSELESCANCE..OUT GOES THE OLD OUT-OF-STYLE 130 DOLLAR JERSEY.
AND HERE'STHE REALLY GOOD NEWS....IF YOU WANT TO REPLACE IT; THE NEW "LIGHTER-FASTER-DRIER" SWEATER WILL COST 425 DOLLARS CANADIAN. AND IF YOU WANT IT WITH A NAME ON IT...550 DOLLARS.
MAKES ME LONG FOR THE DAYS OF JOHN ZIEGLER AND GIL STEIN.
SINCE THEN HAVE BEEN FEW NOTEABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. SOME WOULD SAY "THE NEW NHL" IS BETTMAN'S DOING...BUT MOST OF THE WORK WAS DONE BY BRENDAN SHANAHAN AND THE PLAYERS. THAT SALARY CAP FIGHT COST FANS AN ENTIRE YEAR OF HOCKEY.
HE WAS HIRED TO SELL THE NHL TO AN INDIFFERENT U.S. POPULATION. ALL HE HAS MANAGED TO DO IS NEGOTIATE HIS NUMBER ONE MARKETING TOOL TELEVISION.......
STRAIGHT BACKWARDS FROM ESPN AND ABC....TO THE INVISIBLE "OUTDOOR LIFE NETWORK"..NOW CALLED "VERSUS". WHERE NHL GAMES WERE BEING SEEN 3 TO 4 TIMES A WEEK ON ESPN...NOW YOU HAVE TO BE A DETECTIVE TO EVEN FIND "VERSUS" ON YOUR CABLE SYSTEM. AND THE NHL STANDS TO MAKE NOTHING OUT OF THEIR COST SHARING NBC CONTRACT.
THE LATEST MARKETING PLOY IS THE STYLE-CHANGE OF UNIFORMS A FACSIMILE OF WHICH YOU SAW ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S ALL-STAR GAME. I DON'T KNOW A SOUL, EITHER FAN OR PLAYER WHO HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE OLD UNIFORM. APPARENTLY THE LEAGUE HAS SOLD WHATEVER REMAINING PIECE OF IT'S SOUL TO REEBOK WHO HAVE DESIGNED THE SO-CALLED "UNFORM SYSTEM". CALL ME CYNICAL....BUT DOENS'T THIS SMELL LIKE ANOTHER CASH-GRAB ONE THAT MAKES THE LARCENOUS "THIRD JERSEY" LOOK PETTY.
LOOK AROUND YOU AT THE BELL CENTRE NEXT TIME YOU'RE THERE. 21 THOUSAND FANS...PROBABLY 12,000 WEARING THE 130-DOLLAR CANADIENS JERSEY. WHAT BETTMAN AND GANG ARE ABOUT TO DO IS CREATE A PLANNED OBSELESCANCE..OUT GOES THE OLD OUT-OF-STYLE 130 DOLLAR JERSEY.
AND HERE'STHE REALLY GOOD NEWS....IF YOU WANT TO REPLACE IT; THE NEW "LIGHTER-FASTER-DRIER" SWEATER WILL COST 425 DOLLARS CANADIAN. AND IF YOU WANT IT WITH A NAME ON IT...550 DOLLARS.
MAKES ME LONG FOR THE DAYS OF JOHN ZIEGLER AND GIL STEIN.
January 20 2007
MUHAMMED ALI CELEBRATED HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK. FOR THOSE OF US THAT FIT INTO THAT "CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC"..WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY CN BE TERMED "PREACHING TO THE CHOIR".
SO LET ME SPEAK TO A YOUNGER GENERATION FOR WHOM MUHAMMED ALI IS MERELY A DISTANT LEGEND. ALI WAS A BRILLIANT ORATOR; A SELF PROMOTER; ABSOLUTELY SURE OF HIS CONVICTIONS WHICH INCLUDED A CONVERSION TO THE MUSLIM RELIGION, A NAME CHANGE AND HIS REFUSAL TO BE DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY TO FIGHT IN VIETNAM FOR WHICH HE PAID DEARLY. HE LOST MILLIONS AFTER COMMISSIONS ILLEGALLY CANCELLED HIS BOXING LICENCE. . MUHAMMED WAS VILLIFIED BY BOTH THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT IN WHITE AMERICA... IN MOST OF THE REST OF THE WORLD HE WAS A HERO..
ALI WAS CHAMPION OF THE WORLD AT A TIME WHEN THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION WAS RICH WITH TALENT INCLUDING JOE FRAZIER AND GEORGE FOREMAN. TODAY THERE ARE THE LOUDMOUTHS LIKE TERRELL OWENS; COMPLETELY DEVOID OF SOCIAL CONSCIENCE AND WEDDED ONLY TO THEIR PAYCHECKS AND SELF INTEREST.
JUST ONE EXAMPLE...
AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN DEMOCRAT IN THE CHICAGO AREA ONCE ASKED MICHAEL JORDAN IF HE WOULD ENDORSE HIS CANDIDACY. JORDAN'S REPLY IN REFUSING WAS "BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WEAR MY SHOES"..IN THE DAY, YOU EITHER LOVED MUHAMMED ALI OR YOU HATED HIM. HISTORY HAS DECIDED HE WAS IN FACT HERO WHO TOOK ON A GOVERNMENT THAT WAS PROSECUTING AN IMMORAL WAR AND WON..
AT A SEVERE PERSONAL COST. BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY....
SO LET ME SPEAK TO A YOUNGER GENERATION FOR WHOM MUHAMMED ALI IS MERELY A DISTANT LEGEND. ALI WAS A BRILLIANT ORATOR; A SELF PROMOTER; ABSOLUTELY SURE OF HIS CONVICTIONS WHICH INCLUDED A CONVERSION TO THE MUSLIM RELIGION, A NAME CHANGE AND HIS REFUSAL TO BE DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY TO FIGHT IN VIETNAM FOR WHICH HE PAID DEARLY. HE LOST MILLIONS AFTER COMMISSIONS ILLEGALLY CANCELLED HIS BOXING LICENCE. . MUHAMMED WAS VILLIFIED BY BOTH THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT IN WHITE AMERICA... IN MOST OF THE REST OF THE WORLD HE WAS A HERO..
ALI WAS CHAMPION OF THE WORLD AT A TIME WHEN THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION WAS RICH WITH TALENT INCLUDING JOE FRAZIER AND GEORGE FOREMAN. TODAY THERE ARE THE LOUDMOUTHS LIKE TERRELL OWENS; COMPLETELY DEVOID OF SOCIAL CONSCIENCE AND WEDDED ONLY TO THEIR PAYCHECKS AND SELF INTEREST.
JUST ONE EXAMPLE...
AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN DEMOCRAT IN THE CHICAGO AREA ONCE ASKED MICHAEL JORDAN IF HE WOULD ENDORSE HIS CANDIDACY. JORDAN'S REPLY IN REFUSING WAS "BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WEAR MY SHOES"..IN THE DAY, YOU EITHER LOVED MUHAMMED ALI OR YOU HATED HIM. HISTORY HAS DECIDED HE WAS IN FACT HERO WHO TOOK ON A GOVERNMENT THAT WAS PROSECUTING AN IMMORAL WAR AND WON..
AT A SEVERE PERSONAL COST. BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY....
December 16 2006
THIS IS THE TIME OF THE YEAR AS WE WE LIKE TO LOOK FONDLY ON THE PASSING YEAR. I KNOW, WE HAD TIGER..AND FEDERER AND JEROME BETTIS AT THE SUPER BOWL AND THAT OVECHKIN GOAL AND THE ENDY CHAVEZ CATCH.
BUT THIS WAS THE YEAR THAT FLOYD LANDIS WAS STRIPPED OF HIS TOUR DE FRANCE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR STEROIDS. JUSTIN GATLIN LOST HIS 100 METRE WORLD RECORD FOR STEROIDS.
THE ONLY THING THE ONCE HIGHLY REGARDED CINCINNATI BENGALS MANAGED TO DO WAS FIND 8 MEMBERS OF THEIR TEAM IN JAIL.. THE GLORIOUS CAREER OF ZINEDINE ZIDANE ENDS IN DISGRACE AFTER A HEAD-BUTT LATE IN THE WORLD CUP FINAL. MONTREAL POLICE ROUGHING UP TWO MEMBERS OF THE ALOUETTES IN A CLEAR CASE OF RACIAL PROFILING. THE CBC IN IT'S OWN STATE OF BLESSED TORONTO ISOLATION ---FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THE IMPORT OF THE BERNARD GEOFFRION SWEATER RETIREMENT.
MONTREAL'S MEDIA HOUNDING SAKU KOIVU FOR HIS LACK OF FRENCH EVEN AS HE WAS TRYING TO RECOVER FROM AN EYE INJURY THAT THREATENED HIS HOCKEY LIFE.
THE ABSOLUTE FINANCIAL INSANITY THAT PREVAILS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INCLUDING THE BLUEJAYS WHO JUST COMMITED 150 MILLION DOLLARS.
RINGLEADER GOT 6 MONTHS. THERE WAS DUKE UNIVERSITY LACROSSE. BODE MILLER PARTYING HIS WAY THROUGH THE OLYMPICS. O.J. SIMPSON'S BOOK "IF I DID IT?"--BEING SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED AS A FOX TV PRIME TIME SPECIAL. SO ON BOXING DAY I'M GOING TO LINE UP AT MY FAVOURITE DEPARTMENT STORE'S RETURN-DESK AND ASK FOR A TOTAL REFUND ON 2006. AND HOPE THAT SOMEHOW THE GOOD WILL OVERRIDE THE BAD IN 2007. ANYONE CARE TO BET THINGS WILL IMPROVE?
BUT THIS WAS THE YEAR THAT FLOYD LANDIS WAS STRIPPED OF HIS TOUR DE FRANCE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR STEROIDS. JUSTIN GATLIN LOST HIS 100 METRE WORLD RECORD FOR STEROIDS.
THE ONLY THING THE ONCE HIGHLY REGARDED CINCINNATI BENGALS MANAGED TO DO WAS FIND 8 MEMBERS OF THEIR TEAM IN JAIL.. THE GLORIOUS CAREER OF ZINEDINE ZIDANE ENDS IN DISGRACE AFTER A HEAD-BUTT LATE IN THE WORLD CUP FINAL. MONTREAL POLICE ROUGHING UP TWO MEMBERS OF THE ALOUETTES IN A CLEAR CASE OF RACIAL PROFILING. THE CBC IN IT'S OWN STATE OF BLESSED TORONTO ISOLATION ---FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THE IMPORT OF THE BERNARD GEOFFRION SWEATER RETIREMENT.
MONTREAL'S MEDIA HOUNDING SAKU KOIVU FOR HIS LACK OF FRENCH EVEN AS HE WAS TRYING TO RECOVER FROM AN EYE INJURY THAT THREATENED HIS HOCKEY LIFE.
THE ABSOLUTE FINANCIAL INSANITY THAT PREVAILS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INCLUDING THE BLUEJAYS WHO JUST COMMITED 150 MILLION DOLLARS.
RINGLEADER GOT 6 MONTHS. THERE WAS DUKE UNIVERSITY LACROSSE. BODE MILLER PARTYING HIS WAY THROUGH THE OLYMPICS. O.J. SIMPSON'S BOOK "IF I DID IT?"--BEING SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED AS A FOX TV PRIME TIME SPECIAL. SO ON BOXING DAY I'M GOING TO LINE UP AT MY FAVOURITE DEPARTMENT STORE'S RETURN-DESK AND ASK FOR A TOTAL REFUND ON 2006. AND HOPE THAT SOMEHOW THE GOOD WILL OVERRIDE THE BAD IN 2007. ANYONE CARE TO BET THINGS WILL IMPROVE?
December 8 2006
December 8 2006
IN DECEMBER THE FINAL GROUP BIDDING FOR A CFL FRANCHISE IN OTTAWA PULLED OUT WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THE COST OF AN EXPANSION TEAM WOULD BE 5 MILLION DOLLARS. THAT'S 5 MILLION DOLLARS IN A CITY THAT HAS ALREADY FAILED TWICE.
THE GROUP THAT JESSE PALMER'S FATHER PUT TOGETHER APPARENTLY WAS READY TO GO TO 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS BUT NO FURTHER. WHY THEY WOULD GO TO 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS IS BEYOND ME....BUT THEN AGAIN IT'S NOT MY MONEY. IF THE CFL IS SERIOUS ABOUT EXPANDING I THINK THEY SHOULD ABANDON THE "GREED FACTOR" A TEAM BELONGS IN OTTAWA. THE LEAGUE SHOULD HAVE A TEAM IN HALIFAX AND PERHAPS QUEBEC CITY. BUT WHERE DO THESE CITIES COME UP WITH 3 TO 5 MILLION DOLLARS IN START-UP MONEY?
RATHER THAN HAMMER THE INVESTORS WITH A HEAVY ENTRANCE FEE...IF EXPANSION IS SOMETHING THAT THE LEAGUE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERS...TRY A REVENUE SHARING DEAL THROUGH THE FIRST 5 YEARS OF THEIR EXISTANCE. IN OTTAWA, HALIFAX AND QUEBEC CITY...STARTING OUT 5 MILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT IS A THE FAST TRACK TO BANKRUPTCY. GIVE THEM A CHANCE IF FOR ONLY ONE REASON. I'M SICK AND TIRED OF SEEING THE WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS IN THIS CITY
IN DECEMBER THE FINAL GROUP BIDDING FOR A CFL FRANCHISE IN OTTAWA PULLED OUT WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THE COST OF AN EXPANSION TEAM WOULD BE 5 MILLION DOLLARS. THAT'S 5 MILLION DOLLARS IN A CITY THAT HAS ALREADY FAILED TWICE.
THE GROUP THAT JESSE PALMER'S FATHER PUT TOGETHER APPARENTLY WAS READY TO GO TO 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS BUT NO FURTHER. WHY THEY WOULD GO TO 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS IS BEYOND ME....BUT THEN AGAIN IT'S NOT MY MONEY. IF THE CFL IS SERIOUS ABOUT EXPANDING I THINK THEY SHOULD ABANDON THE "GREED FACTOR" A TEAM BELONGS IN OTTAWA. THE LEAGUE SHOULD HAVE A TEAM IN HALIFAX AND PERHAPS QUEBEC CITY. BUT WHERE DO THESE CITIES COME UP WITH 3 TO 5 MILLION DOLLARS IN START-UP MONEY?
RATHER THAN HAMMER THE INVESTORS WITH A HEAVY ENTRANCE FEE...IF EXPANSION IS SOMETHING THAT THE LEAGUE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERS...TRY A REVENUE SHARING DEAL THROUGH THE FIRST 5 YEARS OF THEIR EXISTANCE. IN OTTAWA, HALIFAX AND QUEBEC CITY...STARTING OUT 5 MILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT IS A THE FAST TRACK TO BANKRUPTCY. GIVE THEM A CHANCE IF FOR ONLY ONE REASON. I'M SICK AND TIRED OF SEEING THE WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS IN THIS CITY
December 1 2006
DECEMBER 1 2006
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HAS ANNOUNCED IT'S ELIGIBILITY LIST FOR THE HALL OF FAME. FOR THOSE WHO RUN THE MAJOR LEAGUES IT'S A MATTER OF THE CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST. THE VOTERS WILL BE ASKED FOR THE FIRST TIME TO DECIDE WHETHER STEROID USERS SHOULD BE ADMITTED TO THE HALL.
FIRST WE HAVE MARK MCGWIRE..WHO EMBARASSED HIMSELF IN THOSE CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS WHEN ASKED ABOUT STEROIDS...BUT WHO ALSO HIT 583 HOMERS...INCLUDING 49 IN HIS ROOKIE YEAR.
ALSO ON THE BALLOT FOR THE FIRST TIME...ADMITTED STEROID USER AND BEST SELLING AUTHOR ON THE SUBJECT JOSE CANSECO...ALONG WITH ANOTHER CONFESSED ABUSER KEN CAMINITI.
ALL THREE OF THESE PLAYERS PLAYED THE GAME WHILE THOSE WHO RAN BASEBALL WERE INTERESTED ONLY IN HOW MANY TICKETS THE HOME RUN BATTLE BETWEEN MCGWIRE AND SAMMY SOSA WOULD SELL..AND AT LEAST TACITLY ENCOURAGED STEROID USE. SOME 575 MEMBERS OF THE BASEBALL WRITERS OF AMERICA ARE NOW GOING TO HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER STEROID USE SHOULD BE FACTORED INTO THEIR VOTING EQUATION.
AND WHILE MCGWIRE, CANSECO AND CAMINITI "IS" ON THE BALLOT.........A RATHER WELL KNOWN NON-STEROID USER REMAINS OFF THE BALLOT. AND PETE ROSE WAITS ANOTHER YEAR.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HAS ANNOUNCED IT'S ELIGIBILITY LIST FOR THE HALL OF FAME. FOR THOSE WHO RUN THE MAJOR LEAGUES IT'S A MATTER OF THE CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST. THE VOTERS WILL BE ASKED FOR THE FIRST TIME TO DECIDE WHETHER STEROID USERS SHOULD BE ADMITTED TO THE HALL.
FIRST WE HAVE MARK MCGWIRE..WHO EMBARASSED HIMSELF IN THOSE CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS WHEN ASKED ABOUT STEROIDS...BUT WHO ALSO HIT 583 HOMERS...INCLUDING 49 IN HIS ROOKIE YEAR.
ALSO ON THE BALLOT FOR THE FIRST TIME...ADMITTED STEROID USER AND BEST SELLING AUTHOR ON THE SUBJECT JOSE CANSECO...ALONG WITH ANOTHER CONFESSED ABUSER KEN CAMINITI.
ALL THREE OF THESE PLAYERS PLAYED THE GAME WHILE THOSE WHO RAN BASEBALL WERE INTERESTED ONLY IN HOW MANY TICKETS THE HOME RUN BATTLE BETWEEN MCGWIRE AND SAMMY SOSA WOULD SELL..AND AT LEAST TACITLY ENCOURAGED STEROID USE. SOME 575 MEMBERS OF THE BASEBALL WRITERS OF AMERICA ARE NOW GOING TO HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER STEROID USE SHOULD BE FACTORED INTO THEIR VOTING EQUATION.
AND WHILE MCGWIRE, CANSECO AND CAMINITI "IS" ON THE BALLOT.........A RATHER WELL KNOWN NON-STEROID USER REMAINS OFF THE BALLOT. AND PETE ROSE WAITS ANOTHER YEAR.
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