May 25, 2013

Rant Mode On: Wrestling Gets The Montreal Screwjob

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So here’s a great idea. Let’s take a sport that predates the existence of the modern Olympic Games themselves and remove it from the Olympic program. That won’t piss off too many people, right? In case you missed today’s shocking news, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted in a secret ballot today to remove wrestling [...]

Euro 2012 Group Play Recap

So the first round of the Euro 2012 Tournament has finished, and there were lots of shocks, surprises and highlights that need to be discussed. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, I went 17-7 in predicting the games individually…which is pretty damn good. First of all let’s quickly review how I did on my [...]

An Air Of Immortality

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  Can someone explain to me the qualifications for immortality? Earlier this week on a drive to work, I was flipping through some of the lesser sports stations on XM Radio and came across a show called “Down The Stretch,” a horse racing show. Normally, I would have skipped by this show in record time, [...]

Euro 2012 Preview

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 As we enter the weekend and the start of Euro 2012, our own Cory Forgeron breaks down group play   Group A: Poland: Key Players: Wojciech Szczesny (GK), Robert Lewandowski (ST) Expectations: The co-hosts here are in a group that’s really open for the taking. Russia is still probably the favourites, but Poland will have [...]

Pennsylvania girl aces ‘cymotrichous’ to win Spelling Bee

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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — It went on and on and on. Five spellers who seemingly had memorized the entire dictionary simply could not be stumped with any word tossed their way. It was getting late, way past bedtime and well beyond the time slot allotted by ESPN for its telecast. Finally, after 21 consecutive [...]