Soccer Blu!

The French have a name for someone who is sent home with pay for disgraceful performance and conduct... the working class.

In honour of the French team’s performance the 24 hours of Le Mans will be re-named the Grand Pricks

The French performance has called for a radical overhaul of the influence bureaucracy is having on team morale. And they will... once the Ad Hoc Committee is formed they expect to issue a statement mission in the New Year

This has to be the 1st time a Frenchman has complained after being sent home from his job early. Except for retirement

African Nations are having a difficult time getting through the qualifiers and in an ironic repeat of most 3rd world aid, the celebration in South Africa has eliminated the hosts.

It must be a real ironic twist for Americans to go into Africa and get robbed by officials rather than bribing them to rob Africans

Pat Quinn got a promotion from the Edmonton Oilers from Head Coach to special assistant. This is like the CEO of BP getting a promotion from managing the Gulf oil crisis to cleaning oily pelicans

The Calgary Flames are getting set for the upcoming NHL entry draft or as they are calling it Passover

The San Jose Sharks have parted ways with goaltender Evengi Nabokov saying they wanted to go a different direction... as winners

A 5.0 earthquake rocked Ontario and Quebec this week. The last time the ground had shook this much was when Sidney Crosby scored the Golden Goal for team Canada

The quake rattled windows and tossed valuables off display cases but fortunately no Toronto sports team had any hardware to break

It’s fun watching a rookie from small town Canada standing up at a podium in Vegas to accept an award. I especially liked their speeches and the way they thanked the person most responsible for getting them to where they are... the cooks

There have been a record number of Bear attacks reported in parts of Canada this year. But by far and away the most clawing of Canadians has to go to the cougars and the hockey players at the NHL awards. If they finally decide to put an NHL team in Saskatoon you can bet they will name it the Cougars. One enterprising agent is pitching an adult video called “The Cougars of the Saskatoon Valley”

The NHL promised big name entertainment in Vegas and they delivered with George Stroumboulopoulos

When 6’9” Tyler Meyers won the Calder Cup he brought up foolscap lined paper filled with a list of people to thank. I don’t think he is a polished speaker yet. The only thing shaking more than his paper were the new rookies sitting in the audience.

The band Shinedown played their hit Sound of Madness or as it is known by in the NHLPA... a conference call

I guess it was fitting for the US Military to present a trophy at the NHL awards. The Canadian teams especially have ties as the Leafs are “being all they can be”, the Flames are “an army of one” and the Oilers are sending baby faced recruits into live fire

A Canadian official is under fire by hinting the Chinese may be increasing their influence by giving money to Government programs. This has caused a scandal as the process of bribing officials already has rules similar to getting an NHL franchise and no one asked Gary Bettman for permission

A car in Toronto was stopped by Police and found packed with pick axes, gasoline containers, baseball bats, a crossbow and chainsaws. At first there was a concern over a terrorist plot at the G-20 Conference but later is was revealed to be just an English fan stocking up before the big World Cup game with Germany

A men’s single Wimbledon tennis match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut finally ended when Isner got a winner in the 5th set with a score of 70-68. This is the longest match in tennis history just beating out the Chrissy Evert Jimmy McEnroe match of the ‘80’s