Safety cars and changing conditions made for an interesting fourth round of the 2010 F1 World Championship. It was a familiar face that took the checkered flag. In a race that was comparable to the Australian GP, it was Jenson Button that took advantage of strategy and luck to pick up his second win of the season. However, this race wasn’t without its share of controversy. Continue reading
Month: April 2010
Hockey (Last) Night In Canada: Last Minute Rally
It was another tense night of hockey during the fourth night of the Stanley Cup playoffs. All three games featured a come from behind victory. With most of the series evened up, it appears the matchups are a lot tighter than initially expected. Continue reading
Sunday Link-Off: Excuse The Delay
Yeah, I missed this week’s WLO because I was unbelievably busy. Hopefully that won’t happen again but to make up for it, here’s Arianny Celeste.
When the Stanley Cup Playoffs end for the Penguins (one way or another), it’s the end of the road for the Mellon Arena. But never fear, Pens fans. Their new place ain’t too shabby and doesn’t have obstructed views like so many new stadiums. (Mondesi’s House)
Phil Mickelson’s got this whole big win thing wrong. It’s supposed to be “I’m going to Disney World!” not “I’m going to Krispy Kreme!” (Devil Ball Golf)
If you were to ask David Stern, the biggest problem facing the NBA may be gambling. (He’s looking at you Tim Donaghy.) Turns out that the competitive gaming world of Starcraft in South Korea is also in rough shape thanks to underworld dealings. (Kotaku)
After the jump, more hockey links, DJ Steve Porter greatness, and an expert debate. Continue reading
Entertainment Link-Off: Superheroes Galore!
Kicking off this edition of the Entertainment Link-Off is Scarlett Johansson. She’ll be appearing in the upcoming Iron Man sequel, which is a film I intend on seeing on opening day.
After the jump, a bunch of superhero related links and a random Youtube music recommendation from me! Continue reading
Hockey (Last) Night In Canada: Revenge Is Sweet
It was a busy night of hockey in the NHL Playoffs. Continuing a theme from the first two nights, a big underdog picked up a Game One win. A few series were tied up. The empty net goal also made a few appearances. There was also a high-scoring overtime game between the Avalanche and the Sharks to cap off the third night of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Continue reading
Hockey (Last) Night In Canada: One Goal Makes All the Difference
It was another night of close games in the NHL Playoffs. Continuing a theme from the first night, a big underdog picked up a Game One win. The games also made for a total of seven (of seven) games that ended within one goal. There were even a pair of overtime games for the first time this post-season on what was an exciting second night of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Continue reading
Hockey (Last) Night In Canada: Let The Games Begin
The first night of the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs had a recurring theme. If you weren’t the favourite in the series, you had a very good night. In what will go down as a prime example of parity in the new NHL, all four of the consensus underdogs in each series picked up the Game One win. Continue reading
2010 NHL Playoffs: First Round Preview
It’s Canada’s favourite time of year once again. The real chase for the Cup gets underway tonight as sixteen teams set off in pursuit of Lord Stanley’s chalice. Today, I break down the eight opening round best-of-seven series and attempt to match wits with sports media pundits and psychic animals alike as I attempt to pick the series winners. Continue reading
Lowdown Radio: April 13, 2010
We enter our second group of 50 episodes starting tonight. Tonight’s episode is all about keeping you active. The show starts with some exam tips for people that couldn’t care less about how their exams go. Next, Jackie drags Steve to the Campus Rec Centre for a day of working out to get in shape for summer. Naturally, this doesn’t go as planned. After that is the news which includes a story about a man who thinks he’s a vampire and one about a woman who was arrested for having loud sex. Norway takes over Jackie’s single of the week and It Came From YouTube features Bob Costas. After the break is the 2010 Major League Baseball preview. The guys predict the Jays’ fortunes for the year, who will make the playoffs and who will take home the big awards.
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On the Extra, the guys give a special welcome to the folks on LionsDenU.com and explains what The Lowdown and The Lowdown Extra are. There are more exam tips and stories to go with those tips. The news has two more stories. Justin Bieber picks up his first Worst of Music award and the guys discuss how badly reaching puberty will be for his career. After the break is all sorts of baseball talk. There’s more banter about everything including a lengthy discussion about Bud Selig’s proposed floating realignment. In all, there is 67 minutes more of Lowdown Extra action this week. There’s over three times the amount of action in this edition of the Extra than they let us have on radio. And, unlike the radio version of the show, the Extra comes to you uncut and uncensored.
Not News of the Week
If it’s not worth talking about, then it must be the 41st edition of the Not News of the Week.
You can find strip clubs everywhere and all sorts of people in them but they do things differently in South Carolina. One strip club in South Carolina was found by police to be operating out of a trailer with patrons as young as 12-years-old sitting around a pole. Police received a tip to head to a trailer park when a disgruntled customer called in a complaint when he didn’t get what he wanted. He had bought a $25 “VIP” lap dance but apparently wasn’t satisfied with the service. The woman who owned the trailer and ran the one-woman strip club was charged with eight counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for her trouble. However, I don’t think the kids really see the problem with all this. Continue reading
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