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Bill Plaschke Tries Bill Simmons On For Size
With today's game six preview column, Plaschke has entered the pantheon of writers who write like Bill Simmons....
Canadian Press Is Really, Really In The Tank For Canucks
This ain't a hometown columnist, folks. Although it would be frivolous even in that case. Rather, this is wire copy (from Canada's leading newswire, the Canadian Press), an ostensibly evenhanded piece about the series between Vancouver and Boston, supposedly fit for all journalistic outlets in Canad...
The People Of Vancouver May Not Realize The Canucks Need To Win Another Game
Your morning roundup for June 11, the day we realized, to paraphrase David Foster Wallace, that J.J. Abrams, director of Super 8 must surely have been ignorant of the meaning of "suppurate." Video via @ctvbc....
Stephen A. Smith's The One Starting Rumors About LeBron's Personal Life
If you tuned in to the ambient noise of the ninth circle of hell this morning, you heard Stephen A. Smith on Mike and Mike talking about LeBron James. And why yes, he did throw some shit at the wall. SportsGrid has the audio, as well as this summary:...
Tim Thomas Will Fight Every One Of You Canadian Bastards If He Has To
Your morning roundup for June 9, the day we thanked our lucky stars we weren't hitting coaches....
Your Canucks-Bruins Game Four Open Thread
Game's 8 p.m., Versus, in Boston, with the Canucks holding a 2-1 series lead....
Rejoice: Recently Cancelled Glenn Beck Joins Forces With MLB's Media Arm
Glenn Beck and Fox News recently announced that his show there was ending. Aw, said few. Beck plans on launching his own multiplatform media network after Fox, and word came today that the good folks at MLB Advanced Media would stream the video....
Boston Broadcast Notes Helpfully That Alex Burrows Finished Game 3 With "14 PIM, 0 Bites"
CSN in Boston doesn't own Bruins rights, yet they air a postgame show. Without Jack Edwards, you have to do what you can to rile up the fans....
Boston's Nathan Horton Will Miss Remainder Of Stanley Cup Finals
Horton suffered a "severe concussion" from Aaron Rome's brutal late hit in Game 3 last night, and will be forced to sit for the remainder of the finals. Rome was ejected from the game and will meet with the NHL for a disciplinary hearing today. [SportingNews]...
Your Canucks/Bruins Open Thread, Cute Baby Edition
Will the script flip as the series moves to Boston? Or will Vancouver move closer to winning the Cup for Canada, even though most of Canada seems to hate them? Here's your place to chat, until you can figure out what channel Versus is....
An Edmonton Oiler Picked Up A Hitchhiking Bono In Vancouver
As a young driver, they used to tell me: Always pick up hitchhikers. You never know when one of them will be the guy who scored Spider-Man: the Musical....
Here's Video Of Raffi Torres's Stanley Cup Finals Game One Winning Goal For The Canucks
Tim Thomas and the Boston Bruins held the home team scoreless for two periods, 19 minutes and 41.5 seconds. The Vancouver Canucks held the Bruins scoreless for all three periods....
Your Canucks/Bruins Game One Open Thread
The Vancouver Sun went ahead and ran a feature headlined, "Bleacher Report's 15 bold predictions for the Stanley Cup Finals." So, there are 15 bold reasons why the Vancouver Canucks should go another 41 years without winning the Stanley Cup....
Network Airing Stanley Cup Finals Does Not Know Who Is In Stanley Cup Finals
This is what you get for slashing Dick Ebersol's $600 billion promo budget....
The Canucks Fan Who Drove 1,000 Miles For A Game, Partied With The Owner, Drank With Beautiful Women, Nearly Died, And Got Comped For Game 5
This is the totally true* story of Danny, a 24-year-old Canucks fan who on the spur of the moment decided to drive from Vancouver to San Jose for Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals, and ended up wandering the streets in a hospital gown with no memory of the preceding nine hours....
Horse Herpes Outbreak Forces Rodeo Queens To Ride Stick Ponies
Oh wait, I'm sorry, that's the actual headline that a Utah TV station went with for this story....
Bernard Hopkins Finally Explains His Loathing For Donovan McNabb And How He Can "Look Through A Man's Soul"
You might recall that before he became the oldest boxing champ in history last weekend, Bernard Hopkins had some choice words for Donovan McNabb, who never had much truck with the boxer, aside from neglecting to shake his hand when Hopkins visited the Eagles training center in 2004. Never one to let...
Your Sharks/Canucks Game Five Open Thread
The Vancouver media loves the Sedins again. We'll see how venomous the rancor can get should San Jose win tonight, to make the series 3-2 and send it back Sharkward....
Former Oregon State Pitcher Was Paralyzed After Spinal Injury, But Can Now Stand
In 2006, 20-year-old Oregon State University pitcher Rob Summers suffered a spinal injury which left him unable to use his legs after a still-unsolved hit-and-run case. Five long years later, he's been dubbed "Superman." Once paralyzed, Summers can now stand and has regained "some purposeful moveme...
Canucks Penalty-Box Flasher Sets Lady Hockey Fans Back In Equality Struggle, Says Some Broad Who Blogs (NSFW)
The inevitable counterpoint from somebody offended by Ben Eager getting to scope some breastuses from the penalty box at the Canucks/Sharks game the other night has arrived. Presenting Katie Maximick of Canucks Hockey Blog out:...