Fried chicken? Really Sergio Garcia? Fried chicken? That was the first thing that came out of your mouth? When asked if he would be inviting Tiger Woods over for dinner anytime soon, Garcia’s response was, ‘yeah. And we’re gonna serve fried chicken.’ It doesn’t matter if the question was asked in jest or if he was trying to be funny. Any respectable person living in this century should know better about perpetuating stereotypes.
The fried chicken remark aside, these two have a pretty good feud going on right now. It’s the golf version of the Hadfield and McCoys. It’s still pretty petty compared to some of the greatest sports feuds. Like Ali versus Frazier. Shaq versus Kobe. Ovechkin versus Crosby. Magic versus Isiah. These couples have or had a very public dislike for each other.
The thing that’s funny about the Garcia-Woods spat is that ...
Despite their colossal choke in game seven at least the Maple Leafs ended the drought and actually made the playoffs. Across the hall at the ACC the Raptors have been slowly suffocating. And yesterday they put their chief architect on the management version of the DL, bumping Bryan Colangelo up to the ivory towers where he’ll now be in some sort of paper shuffling corporate advisor type of job. The hunt is on to find a guy who can actually improve this basketball team instead of cobbling together a bunch of Europeans and ineffective second stringers.
Colangelo’s magic in Phoenix was confiscated at the Canadian border. Sure the first two years looked promising but everything went downhill after that. The Raptors have finished under .500 the last four seasons. They began this past year with only 4 wins in 23 games. Coaches have come and gone and ...
The Juice is now the Gravy. He’s now 65. Fat with a receding hairline. A shadow of his former self when he was on top of the world. Legendary Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson continues to rot in jail on a paper thin conviction. He has been in the Lovelock Correctional Institution near Reno since 2008. Yesterday he was back in a Vegas court trying to get a new trial saying his lawyers botched his case the first time around. It’s been 18 years since O.J. got away with murder. The glove didn’t fit because it shrunk after being drenched in blood, plus O.J. had his best acting performance since playing Nordberg in ‘The Naked Gun’.
Let me remind everybody that Simpson was acquitted on those murder charges. The reason he’s in the pokey today is for trying to get all his crappy memorabilia back that he says was stolen. ...
Excitement at Cahill manor these days. The world table tennis championships are going on right now in Paris. Chinese gold medalist Zhang Jike is out to defend his world title. They call the game table tennis, but you and I know it as ping pong. Ping pong is a game invented by little people who can’t play tennis because they can’t chug their stubby little legs around a cavernous tennis court. So instead, they invented a mini version of the game complete with a green coloured surface and a teeny tiny net.
I just can’t get my head around that this basement activity is an actual sport. Can you get a ping pong scholarship at a college down in the States? Maybe somewhere down in Florida. Now there’s no question ping pong is fun to watch, but it’s all about lightning reflexes and who’s better at spinning ...
While the Canadiens were busy losing in overtime to the Senators, one of the most legendary Habs of all time Guy Lafleur was our honoured guest at the 7th annual Sports Celebrity Dinner in support of the Niagara Children’s Center at Club Roma.
During the informal evening I had a chance to interview many local and national sports stars from Dan Daoust, Eddie Chadwick, Dave Raimey, Kristen Moore-Towers and Jessie MacDonald, but when it was time to interview Guy the sold out crowd became dead quiet. Because that’s what a hockey legend commands. He told us the reason why he came out of retirement to play for the Rangers was because he didn’t want to retire in the first place, and that out of the five Stanley Cups he’d won one of his most memorable was stealing the Stanley Cup from Toe Blake’s office and going on a ...