Head shots and hockey… and what should be considered a legal play

Everybody was all horny in the NHL last week when a player… a supposed star play was blind sided by Matt Cooke. I have been calling head shots dirty hits for years. Now, I am going to show you a video of a clean hockey hit that if it had happened two weeks earlier, would not have been called because no one was making a stink about it.

In this video, you will see a pansy named Milan Lucic perform a drop pass. He then admires his pass and Andei Kostitsyn lowers the shoulder on him. Kostitsyn makes a shoulder on shoulder hit and was made within a half a second from Lucic releasing the puck. The refs gave him a interference penalty.

Now, from two weeks earlier, we see Matt Cooke absoulutley cream Andre Savard from the Bruins from the blind side. No penalty, no suspension.

Anyhow, the dumb CBC guys were calling Kostitsyn’s hit a dirty hit. Reason #1 of why I don’t watch hockey on the English speaking CBC. They rarely get the players names on the Habs correct. Same gets applied to the Sens as well. Unless it’s the last place Leafs, they don’t care about any other Canadian team. The Bruins are playing and the commentators sound like a home team announcers for the Bruins. Fucking jokers lead by Don Cherry! I watch all the Hab games in French even if I don’t speak a word of French.

Golf and rugby rumoured for 2016 Olympics

The prospect of Tiger Woods competing for an Olympic gold medal could come closer to reality on Thursday.

Golf, along with rugby sevens, look to be the favourites among the sports being considered for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Games by the International Olympic Committee.

The IOC executive board will select two sports from a proposed list of seven, which also includes baseball, softball, squash, karate and roller sports. The 15-member board will submit two sports for ratification in a vote of the full 106-member IOC assembly in Copenhagen in October.

via CTV Olympics – Golf and rugby rumoured favourites for 2016.

I like the idea of Rugby in the Olympics, especially when considering that most of the international rugby players around the world could be categorized as amateur due to them not playing in professional leagues. I don’t like the idea of letting Tiger Woods and other pros in the Olympics the same way I disagree with NHL and NBA players being there. Soccer has some pro players playing but I think they have to be under 23… so really a few years away from their peak anyhow.

The IOC executive board will select two sports from a proposed list of seven, which also includes baseball, softball, squash, karate and roller sports. The 15-member board will submit two sports for ratification in a vote of the full 106-member IOC assembly in Copenhagen in October.

Baseball is looking to be reinstated. But I highly doubt some of the big name players will be able to get past the drug tests.

I have wanted karate to be there for some time, but from what I heard, it is difficult in the past to have the sporting event due to the numerous styles in the martial art. But apparently, the World Karate Federation has come up with some common rules that are applied to all styles so maybe even Russian and French judges won’t fuck it up.

NFL reinstates Michael Vick

This is a shocker **sarcasm** This guy runs into legal trouble for illegal dog fighting and the NFL and sponsors want nothing to do with this low life. He is now free and the NFL reinstates him. He is a free agent. I bet there is a shitload of teams that will go after this guy. I can already here the news conference… “he has paid his debt to society… blah… blah… blah…”

I can see the frenzy of teams now… but I wonder what sponsors will be willing to attach their name to him? Kimble n’ Bits… too soon?

NFL reinstates Michael Vick on conditional basis.

Drunk Referee in a soccer match

Maybe someone spiked his water bottle with vodka and he just didn’t give a shit.

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Referee Sergei Shmolik was helped off the field with back pain while officiating a Belarus league match, but later was shown to be drunk.

In TV footage shown Wednesday on Russian television, Shmolik staggered as he was helped off the field at the end of Saturday’s match.

The Belarusian sports Web site Presball reported that the crowd in Vitebsk stadium, where the local team was hosting Naftan, was amused with the referee’s strange behavior through the second half.

Shmolik was hardly moving by the end of the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw, officiating from the central circle by the end of the game.

Presball said Shmolik got help after the match but later was taken to the hospital for a test, which showed high levels of alcohol in his system.

The Belarus football federation said Shmolik’s case will be subject to a disciplinary committee.

I have decided to coach a kids soccer team

So, I have finally lost my mind. I have decided to take up coaching. I made a promise to myself 8 years ago that when my son turned 8, I would coach his soccer team. Well, here we are. I haven’t coached in 13 years. My last coaching stint was an assistant coach for the Saint John High soccer team and that was as a goalkeeper coach. I am looking forward to this though as it will have me spending more time with Alexander and I will have to remember not to be hard on him. I remember watching coach/son relationships and they were usually pretty ugly.

I can remember when I was 16 and we lost a game 1-0 and the coach turned around to his son and said, “It’s your fault.”

The son replied, “how could that be my fault? I wasn’t even on the field when they scored.”

The coaches response was classic, “Well, if you were playing better, then I would not had to take you off and they would not have scored.”

Alexander and Dad 2004 Alexander 2007

Couch potato champ

In the category of easiest competition, comes ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato Competition. I don’t know if I would win, but I am sure I could give the champ a run for their money.

Champ won after 29 hours of TV sports – CNN.com
A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or natures call.

Stan Friedman won the ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato Competition, which began Tuesday morning at the ESPN Zone restaurant in Times Square. The event ended Wednesday afternoon after more than 29 grueling hours of continuous sports viewing — mainly college football bowl games and endless highlights loops.

The four participants, sitting in recliners in front of a dozen 42-inch high-definition plasma televisions and a couple of 14-foot HD projection TVs, could order unlimited food and drinks, but they werent allowed to go to sleep or leave their recliners except for restroom breaks once every eight hours.

Friedman, a research librarian whose favorite sport is baseball, was declared the victor when runner-up Nate Lopez ran to the bathroom before the allotted break time.

He won a $5,000 prize package including a huge TV, a cozy recliner and a trophy with a potato on it.

“I have a 350-square-foot apartment, so I dont know what Ill do with the TV,” he said Thursday. “But Ill make room for the recliner.”