Canucks Dismantle Ducks

What a fabulous return to Vancouver that was for Todd Bertuzzi.  Not only did he score five goals in a 9-0 Anaheim victory over the Vancouver Canucks, he was also named first star and given a key to the city by Mayor Sam Sullivan.
Then Bert woke up this morning and reality hit.

His return to the [...]

R.I.P. Sean Taylor 1983-2007

This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write.
Sean Taylor was one of the players I hoped one day I could be like when I was in high school.
Now he’s gone.
It was a home invasion, a burglary, a robbery, whatever you want to call it, that didn’t end well.
When I first heard that Sean had been [...]

Bert’s Back In Town!

Finally the hockey game we have all been waiting for.
 Todd Bertuzzi’s return to the place that made him a superstar, as well as the place that helped bring down that stardom.
Bertuzzi, finally healthy and playing, comes into town in maybe the most anticipated return to Vancouver by a professional hockey player since Pavel Bure, [...]

On the Topic of Toronto

So while we are still on the subject of Canada’s most criticized hockey organization, another laugher out of Leaf nation comes up in the news.
Yesterday, my fellow TSC writer Cam Tucker wrote about the failures of this franchise so far this season. Today, the president of the team, Richard Peddie, came out and said that hiring GM [...]

Are The Leafs Mathematically Eliminated From Playoff Contention Yet?

Like sand through the hour glass, so are the days of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Okay, maybe that didn’t make a whole lot of sense from one perspective, but if you read more into the lead than just the words, you’ll understand what it means.  If you don’t, I’ll help you out. 
The Toronto Maple Leafs are [...]

Football Finale

So did you watch the Grey Cup game? Ya, neither did I.
Congratulations to the Saskatchewan Roughriders for winning their first title in however-many years, but honestly, we don’t care. The battle of the Prairies sounds about as boring as Bob Cole’s voice.
I watched the highlights of this match, and maybe it was an entertaining showing [...]

Best of the Best: Part VII – Feel Good Stories

I was just reading a few sports articles, as I continued to procrastinate from school work, when I came across a story on Cleveland Cavaliers’ star LeBron James. 
Apparently, James and the Lebron James Family Foundation treated 800 locals, most of whom are homeless, to a thanksgiving dinner at Quicken Loans Arena, and then to a movie this [...]

Shutdown Man in Van

On Sunday, The Province Jason Botchford wrote an article on Ryan Kesler, the new shutdown forward for the Canucks. 
Kesler has been tried everywhere on the forward’s depth chart. With the Sedins on the powerplay, with Naslund as a playmaker, and with the bottom line as a grinder. 
But it’s his latest role as shut-down centre which is [...]

Dud For Life: Part III – The Trial of Bertuzzi v. Moore

So the incident we-all-know-so-well happened on March of 2004. Yes, that’s three and a half years ago, yet us hockey fans still have to suffer through the never-ending trial news that tends to pop up every few weeks.
Honestly, we get it. 
Todd Bertuzzi did something wrong and Steve Moore hasn’t stopped crying. But the real crime [...]

Finally, One More Week Left.

I tried to give the CFL a chance this year.
It failed.
Yes, the rules can produce an astoundingly exciting game, but when a team isn’t playing particularly well the results can be disastrous. The end game sequence especially.
The game’s final three minutes can draw comparisons to a basketball game. There’s simply no conceivable way to run down the [...]

Common Theme in Sports This Week?

There seems to be a recurring theme in the sporting world this week.
Trash talking.  Seems to be what all the members of the sports media want to talk about and all that the athletes and fans want to do to their opponents or rivals.
The latest case of talkin’ smack happened in Toronto, where Argos linebacker [...]

Sunday To Be Vancouver’s Best or Worst Day Ever

Sunday will be the best or worst day of 2007 in Vancouver.
The Lions are taking on those peskie Saskatchewan Roughriders and the rest of the wheat farmer bunch that make up ‘Rider Nation’ to move onto the 2007 Grey Cup. The Canucks are taking on the Minnesota Wild shortly after the Lions game in [...]

Best Damn Bloopers

We sports fans love to laugh at other’s misfortunes, so here you go.
The top 50 greatest sports bloopers in a nutshell courtesy of The Best Damn Sports Show Period.
Enjoy.  
 

West Division Championship Preview: Lions and Roughriders

Once again, it’s going to be the Roughriders from Saskatchewan doing battle against the B.C. Lions for the right to represent the CFL’s West Division in the Grey Cup.
Getting sick of the rivalry already? Ha ha, of course not!
Being a west coast team, the Lions don’t really have a geographical rivalry so we had [...]

TSC Top 25

Oregon
LSU
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Missouri
Ohio State
Kansas
Georgia
USC
Arizona State
Texas
Boston College
Virginia Tech
Florida
Clemson
Kentucky
Tennessee
Cincinnati
Hawaii
Boise State
Auburn
Illinois
BYU
Virginia
Connecticut

26th vote for the now bowl eligible Mississippi State Bulldogs. Atta boy sly.