For the second straight year, the drivers of the IndyCar Series descended on Edmonton’s City Centre Airport to run one of the best tracks on the ICS calendar. The 1.96 mile airport circuit is among the favourite circuits for drivers and fans alike. So let’s take a look at how the events unfolded on track and what the drivers and teams thought of the race on Twitter. Continue reading
Author: Steve Murray
Football Night In Canada: Week 4 Wrapup
The fourth week of the 2009 CFL season brings us past the one-fifth mark of the 19 week regular season. This week was all about the dichotomy between the contenders and the pretenders. The surprisingly successful Hamilton Tiger-Cats would test how good they were against the undefeated Alouettes. Elsewhere, floundering teams would meet in Winnipeg as the Argos came to town. Calgary battled B.C. in a West Division Final rematch from last season while Edmonton and Saskatchewan trying to snap their (short) losing skids. Continue reading
Saturday Link-Off: All About The Money
Change in programming today. I’m here and Jackie will be back tomorrow. Anyway, Bruno may have been an absolute box office bomb but Isla Fisher is the only reason that SBC still wins.
We all know the Monopoly rule: Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Well a man won the Canadian lottery and was able to collect $4.4 million. Then he went directly to jail without passing go. (CBC)
NFL and Seattle Seahawks WR (and charter member of the All-Name Team) T.J. Houshmadzadeh is pissed at EA Sports. He’s boycotting Madden 10 because they only gave him a 91 overall rating. (Kotaku)
Jay Mariotti is what highly educated people would call an asshole. He decided to use the Erin Andrews incident as a reason to run-down the blogosphere. Ironic since he’s a blogger for Fanhouse. Anyway, I’ll leave this in the hands of the much more eloquent Andrew Bucholtz. (Sporting Madness)
Or you could read this line-by-line breakdown of Mariotti’s stupidity by the one and only Weed Against Speed. (Sportress of Blogitude)
After the jump, the Jim Leyland topless video, proper home theatres, and the LeBron dunk tape. Continue reading
Vaughn Martin Signs With San Diego
Former UWO Mustang defensive lineman Vaughn Martin has signed a contract with the San Diego Chargers. While nothing has been confirmed officially, the contract is believed to be a four-year deal with the first two year guaranteed. Martin is expected to get a $500,000 signing bonus in keeping with the standard for fourth round draft picks. Money hasn’t been confirmed either but is expected to be in the range of $2.2M to $2.5M. However, we can confirm Martin’s rating in Madden 10. He has an overall rating of 54.
The Humanoids: Don’t Hate The Player… Or Do Hate The Player
You know what the hardest part of blogging is? It’s coming up with a good title. It has to explain the post to anyone browsing on a search engine but it also has to make a potential reader click on the link to it. That is if your blog posts are actually listed. That would be the other thing that’s hard about blog writing. I’m used to writing and performing on live radio. I figure that means that a lot of my passive attacks and pseudo-sarcastic remarks don’t work as well in print as they do with my amateur radio voice. That doesn’t mean that I won’t try. This week I try to the tune of over 2300 words. Not Bill Simmons long but it’s a good start for someone that Jay Mariotti would characterize as having no life and living in my parents’ basement. Still, writing 2300 words on the blog is easier than writing that much for a university term paper.
Anyway, it’s been a tough week in the world of sports for a lot of folk. Usually we’re gliding our way into the dog days of summer and are just praying for the start of football or hockey or meaningful baseball games. Instead, we have all sorts of stories popping up. It’s a blogger’s dream… And ESPN’s nightmare. Among other folks. Continue reading
The NHL Clearance Price Is Right
Inspired by this quiz about merchandise from the NBA, I decided to put an NHL spin on that Price is Right quiz. Most of the questions are about discounted merch for players that left during this off-season and the NHL is trying to clear the inventory. But you never know what might turn up. Not even all items are discounted. There are 20 different pieces of swag to try your skills on. Continue reading
Wednesday Link-Off: Strange But True
Katherine Heigl has a new movie coming out this weekend. She hopes that it does well because she’s managed to piss off Grey’s Anatomy writers. I can sleep soundly at night knowing both Grey’s and The Ugly Truth will flop.
The King is back to haunt our dreams. Burger King is sponsoring a Spanish soccer team and expect the King to make regular in-game appearances. (Deadspin)
I knew that you could drive a car without legs but I didn’t think it was possible to ride a motorcycle without arms. (Ananova)
Normally I wouldn’t complain about criminals getting locked up for a long time but this might be excessive. A man steals five CDs from Wal-Mart and gets life in prison. He still got off lighter than if he were to try to start a union in Wal-Mart. (Houston Chronicle)
After the jump, learn about golf broadcasts, dumb athlete excuses, and Rick Astley meets Nirvana in the world’s greatest mashup. Continue reading
July 21st Episode of The Lowdown
You can listen to tonight’s special Listeners’ Choice edition of the Best of The Lowdown. On tonight’s episode, the guys find out what not to say in a bar, Steve goes to UWO’s Clubs Week twice, he also tries to release a rap album, and he ends by gets lost repeatedly on campus.
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Click here to download the 26 MB high-quality version.
Shaquille O’Neal To Guest Host WWE Raw
When I live-blogged Raw is Trump a few weeks back, I mentioned that The Donald was going to have a celebrity guest host in charge of Monday Night Raw every week. Just because Trump is gone doesn’t mean that the WWE have given up on celebrity hosts. Now, NBA and Twitter superstar Shaquille O’Neal will be the guest host on WWE Monday Night Raw next week. Continue reading
Not News of the Week
It’s all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s the weird, wacky and wonderful Not News of the Week. All of this week’s stories have to do with money. After all, cash is king.
Two former advertising executives have written a book that puts a monetary value to things that make you happy but don’t actually cost you any money. It seems generally pointless but there are some interesting things in there. For example, the words “I love you” are worth £163,424. While that is considerably more than what I paid for my last mail order bride, the good news is that you aren’t likely to see anyone run away for that cash. Also, I’m sure you’ll help yourself if you say that your girlfriend’s love is worth more than that. I guess this week is the not news and love advice of the week. Continue reading
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