Cornwall ON – Carey Price has signed up for two more years with Montreal. It’s an interesting deal. The pressure will be on Pierre Gauthier who may be voted worst GM in the NHL before the season starts having traded away play off hero Jaroslav Halak without receiving a known quantity back, and [...]
Cornwall ON – This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the Terry Fox Run – an epic run by a remarkable young man that Canadians are likely never to forget. Hundreds of cities across Ontario will participate in the Terry Fox Run this year, including Cornwall. The Terry Fox Run will be held on Sunday, September 19th at [...]
Cornwall ON – Polo is one of the most fun sports to watch live. It’s fast. It’s dangerous, and it’s always a place to be seen! Now The Peanut Polo Cup is taking place Sunday August 29th at the Augusta Polo Club to raise money for Dog Rescues! Now that’s a mix. Tickets are only [...]
Cornwall ON – It was a beautiful summer’s eve to watch 12 Local Legends enter the Cornwall Sports Hall of Fame for 2010 at the Civic Complex. It was a jammed house as legends like Dale Howerchuck were on hand to watch the festivities. Excerpts from the evening. Entering the Hall were Mike Branchaud who’s featured [...]
Cornwall ON – This year’s Cornwall Black Sox are edging closer to forcing André Pommier to making another set of Championship rings after they became the Ontario Senior Little League Champs again defeating Windsor! Coach Marc St. Denis must be doing something right as repeats are not an easy thing to do; especially at this [...]
Cornwall ON – I’m not sure who’s scarier in a fight, Stephen Harper or the Z man, Zdeno Chara. Now former Montreal Canadiens enforcer Georges Laraque will be covering Elizabeth May and the Green party as the environmentally friendly Laraque became Deputy Leader of the Federal Green Party of Canada. LINK “After working for [...]
Cornwall ON – Happy Birthday to billionaire author JK Rowling. You’ve come a long way baby! It’s funny to cruise through Wikipedia and find out who was born on your birthday. Others born on July 31 include, Wesley Snipes, TV Superman Dean Cain, Dallas Maverick Owner and Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, current and former hockey [...]
Cornwall ON – Hockey nuts listened to the press conference yesterday announcing Ilya Kovalchuk signing with the NHL, but now Commissioner Gary Bettman has rejected the contract stating that it circumvented the rules. A few teams have been playing with contract lengths to get cap hits down and it looks like this case was [...]
Cornwall ON – The US may be in a Depression but Ilya Kovalchuk is counting his Benjamins as the 27 year old resigned with New Jersey in what may be one of the most lucrative contracts in NHL history. LINK “He signed here for a reason — to try to win a championship. This organization [...]
Cornwall ON – According to Statistics Canada, about half a million Canadians actively participate in cycling as a sport. I have now become one of them. Many more cycle to work. Cycling is now the fourth most popular non-team sport in the country. Of those who actively participate (you have to sweat to qualify) in [...]
Cornwall ON – As the game looked as if it was drifting towards a penalty shoot-out the extra-time thankfully delivered a winner. Had you missed the first 90 minutes of a drab final you would have enjoyed the thrilling soccer played in those extra 30. If you had sat through the whole disappointing game you [...]
Cornwall ON – Dontcha love texting? I know Twitter is in vogue, but it’s so….public. My sources have told me that there is a lot of buzz to Carey Price being shipped to Dean Lombardi with a certain Russian. A LA goalie would be coming to the Great White North in the deal, [...]
Cornwall ON – Basketball in Miami looks to be doing something unprecedented. Star free agent Lebron James is leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers to sign up with the Heat who have put together a dream team after trading for Toronto Raptor Chris Bosh and signing Dwayne Wade. All three are going to be playing for [...]
World Cup – Four Games to Relish Cornwall ON – No matter whether you are a World Cup novice and joining the party near its conclusion or a soccer-junky slowly weaning yourself from weeks of the beautiful game, the next four games are there for us all to relish. Holland vs. Uruguay today, Germany vs. [...]
Cornwall ON – One of the men that personafied the role of ENFORCER in the NHL has passed away at the age of 45. Bob Probert is survived by his wife and four children. He suffered from Drug and Alcohol issues during his career, but recently had been supporting Canadian troops and raising money for [...]
Cornwall ON – I was expecting this to be a South American, World Cup, and with half of the last eight coming from there it seemed I was on to a good thing. But now?…. Of my four South American teams only one advanced, whereas all three European teams made it to the last four, [...]
Cornwall ON – Probably, one of the great games of soccer – Brazil verses Holland, 2010. This game had everything – great acting from the assembled cast; excellent officiating from the Japanese referee; moments of magic; moments of drama; an outcome undecided until the final whistle; and soccer the like of which I have rarely [...]
Cornwall ON – So the big fish is still on the loose. Where Ilya Kovalchuk will call home still isn’t decided and Tomas Kaberle is still a Leaf, but an awful lot of players are changing jerseys after yesterday’s opening salvo of free agent signings. The Sens were busy grabbing the big money D [...]
