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. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsuUlSUKm2w Entering theContinue Reading
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 thingContinue Reading
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 ofContinue Reading
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 MarkContinue Reading
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 itContinue Reading
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 toContinue Reading
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 haveContinue Reading
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 throughContinue Reading
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 GreatContinue Reading
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 areContinue Reading
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. HollandContinue Reading
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 CanadianContinue Reading
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 madeContinue Reading
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 likeContinue Reading
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 busyContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – So it’s July 1st. Free Agent mania. There are a lot of interesting goalies out there, but how many studs are available? How many potential studs? Yeah. Some serviceable guys, but no studs. Detroit showed that you could win a Stanley Cup without a STUD.Continue Reading
Cornwall ON – Today is June 29th, and the World Cup Final is on July 11th, that means FIFA has at least ten days to ensure that the Final will not be marred by another horrendous refereeing decision. South Korea and England can both feel aggrieved that horrendous refereeing decisionsContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Hey at least it gives us something to write about. Montreal today traded enigmatic (that’s fancy for waste of time) Sergei Kostitsyn for the rights to about to be Free Agents Dustin Boyd (if you actually wanted to replace Sergei a good fit without the headaches)Continue Reading