tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22140784084340459952024-03-12T21:16:59.729-07:00mac-ngonsportsthis is a blog... dedicated to talking about anything about any sports. ENJOY!!M_inghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09067541481333260320noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-33346316321789062152009-03-06T16:37:00.000-08:002009-03-06T16:39:41.384-08:00Another Cross League Trade ProposalUsain Bolt for Jarome Iginla<br /><br />The flames get increased speed and double the amount of blackness on their team. While Jamaica recieves a leader with true heart, and can pass him off as jamaican.<br /><br />-marxAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05856182091971768687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-72718522320471581722009-03-04T14:30:00.000-08:002009-03-04T14:36:59.935-08:00Could the season be over for the Calgary Flames?While the Flames did make a major splash today in the trade market, bigger injury news was announced today at Darryl Sutters 1 o'clock news conference. Darryl first started off the conference talking about Jokinen and Leopold and what they can add to the team. Then he got into the injury status of Todd Bertuzzi. This week bertuzzi had surgery on his knee, and he will be out for one month (the longest month of my life). there goes the flames season!<br /><br />One month is pretty good healing time for a miracle healer such as bertuzzi. Other miracles bertuzzi has made this season are scoring 43 points while being dead last in the team plus/minus at -11. there is no doubt that big bert will be missed. whether the flames will be able to win a game without bertuzzi is yet to be seen.<br /><br />-marxAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05856182091971768687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-88703055061279597012009-03-04T13:36:00.001-08:002009-03-04T13:36:48.757-08:00I asked for Satan...and Darryl gave me Jokinen... THANK YOU... You are now my hero Darryl Sutter. Anything you need, I'll get it for you!! <br /><br />GO FLAMES GO!! THE CUP IS COMING HOME!!M_inghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09067541481333260320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-35195850267468556532009-03-04T08:30:00.000-08:002009-03-04T08:34:01.535-08:00Quietest Trade Deadline in years.So it's already 9:31 and one trade has gone down.. and it's not even that big of a trade. I think the recession is the biggest reason but the pick up I was hoping to happen still hasn't happened. Come on Darryl, Satan or Gary Roberts... COME ON DARRYL!!M_inghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09067541481333260320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-62326151461518552972009-03-03T18:56:00.000-08:002009-03-03T18:58:26.197-08:00Marian Hossa taken off a stretcher...See topic above... Except Detroit is still deeper than half the teams in the NHL. GO FLAMES GO!M_inghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09067541481333260320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-92172292345427180242009-03-03T15:06:00.000-08:002009-03-03T15:12:59.095-08:00Trade AlertThe Boston Bruins have traded forward Chuck Kobasew to God, in exchange for the 7 dead cricket players and the 2 missing football players (now presumed dead). This becomes the most amount of players exchanged in a trade involving a hockey player since eric lindros was exchanged for 8 players.<br /><br />-marxAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05856182091971768687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-87189279670539587272009-03-02T16:30:00.000-08:002009-03-02T17:03:53.155-08:001,794 Miles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__0nn9dfd_F5_5Yza9EC2mIgGl40Uubm1NtfDTFGj8hL4Kwx2cmpZ2cM4PfwHTJ9cRDDr0w8Bu6ROWTSSg-5od_6CwrY93vdH50dgDjTFOFbUkMn2ztPKngTLdUFsDAmpXsGJkIvFdDU0/s1600-h/Minnesotatovancouver.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 573px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__0nn9dfd_F5_5Yza9EC2mIgGl40Uubm1NtfDTFGj8hL4Kwx2cmpZ2cM4PfwHTJ9cRDDr0w8Bu6ROWTSSg-5od_6CwrY93vdH50dgDjTFOFbUkMn2ztPKngTLdUFsDAmpXsGJkIvFdDU0/s400/Minnesotatovancouver.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308758280924243874" border="0" /></a><br />If you look closely, that is a googlemap from Minnesota to Vancouver. Or in other words, the distance that Marion Gaborik has to travel to see Pav Demitra.<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Marion Gaborik has played an astounding six games this season. On January 5th, Gaborik underwent left hip surgery to fix his ailing groin problems.<br /><br />"Underwent left hip surgery Jan. 5. The surgery addressed a deficiency in his hip that has caused chronic left groin pain."<br /><br />With all the secrecy in the NHL about injuries, it can be concluded that Gaborik did undergo hip surgery, but the chronic groin pain is a result from the the rough sex he has with former teammate Pavol Demitra.<br /><br />It is apparent that the relationship between the two NHL players is finally being tested. The long distance relationship is taking a toll on them, both emotionally and physically.<br /><br />An insider to the BOWC has said, "They both seem very strained lately. When they were playing together, they were roommates and would spend all their time together outside of the rink. Now they only see each other six times a year."<br /><br />Although both players have admitted that it has been hard living so far apart, another insider stated "Marion and Pavol are doing great. When the Canucks and Wild play, they will make sure to have dinner together before the game and spend the night together. They were together during Christmas and the All-Star Break too. Pavol's family absolutely adores Marion, they think they are fantastic. They are planning on going on a cruise to the Mediterranean this off season"<br /><br />With Gaborik's stock so low, there is a chance that Vancouver may afford him when he becomes a free agent. A close friend of Demitra has told the BOWC that Pavol has been pushing Vancouver GM Mike Gillis to look into acquiring Gaborik this offseason if they are not able to sign the Canucks. Says the friend, "I really hope that they are closer together. If Gaborik moves out East, I think they might have to call it off, and that would be horrible"<br /><br />Until the offseason ...<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyFBj0UFV1ZXVvtTRFzfcQFxBMA68Z5RFOc1_Y_waxChfUqLYmj8FkP5r0ELkgfLQMmqqTCkvGUF1VTBYkH_DdjIcvZSLBUsbgbe7Y7sugpTdm0mpdKYaeM0Fnn-CsJbrJsF57zi0ax8cO/s1600-h/Mrslave.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyFBj0UFV1ZXVvtTRFzfcQFxBMA68Z5RFOc1_Y_waxChfUqLYmj8FkP5r0ELkgfLQMmqqTCkvGUF1VTBYkH_DdjIcvZSLBUsbgbe7Y7sugpTdm0mpdKYaeM0Fnn-CsJbrJsF57zi0ax8cO/s400/Mrslave.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308760909203459698" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-Hal<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05856182091971768687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-53299174578012164052009-03-02T14:36:00.000-08:002009-03-02T14:53:12.014-08:00NHL.com poll shows racist and anti-kobasew biases.<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Which was the most impressive feat accomplished on Sunday?</b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><input name="pollChoiceGroup" type="radio"><br />Brodeur's 100th shutout<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><input name="pollChoiceGroup" type="radio"><br />Iginla's 400th goal<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><input name="pollChoiceGroup" type="radio"><br />Lecavalier's 300th goal<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><input name="pollChoiceGroup" type="radio"><br />Iginla becomes Calgary's all-time scorer<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><input name="pollChoiceGroup" type="radio"><br />Recchi becomes NHL's 14th all-time scorer<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>-source:nhl.com mainpage</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This was the poll employed by NHL.com today. Can you believe that there exists such a racist poll? Instead of combining Iginla’s two accomplishments together into one accomplishment, they have split them apart into two accomplishments. Now when flames fans want to vote for Iginla, they have to decide which Iginla they want to vote for. Should i vote for the iginla that scored 400 goals, or the iginla that surpassed fleury for points in the all time flames leader board? Why not make the fans choose between the white half of iginla and the black half of iginla? This is called vote splitting because it makes the fans of one person have to choose between two options. Other times in history when we have experienced vote splitting, were when the conservatives broke up into two parties (the PC’s and the Canadian Alliance) and the Liberals ended up winning landslide majorities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">These racist polls employed by the NHL are a way of perpetuating black people (or in Iginla’s case halfies) into a state of underrecognition in the hockey community. If you look at the other three candidates, one thing you will notice is that they are all white. currently, martin brodeur is winning the poll.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Racial issues in the national hockey league are a big deal. Many do not know that Carey Price is half aboriginal. During his younger years on ice, many players gave him a hard time for this. I think that because he has dealt with these racial issues he has more confidence and strength to be the youngest superstar goalie in the nhl. its so rare to see a goalie light it up at the age of 20. hopefully we can say that racial tensions are a fire in iginla's belly. next game he can hopefully come out in full force and respond to the racist tactics employed by nhl.com.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="line-height: 115%;">Back to the poll for my conclusion. I have not gone into the fact of how the poll is anti-kobasew. Last week on my other blog (<a href="http://www.canuckleheadcal.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:blue;">Battle of Western Canada</span></a>, which coincidentally will be breaking all the nhl trade deadline deals in haiku format on march 4th) i mentioned that chuck kobasew can recieve a write in vote for any poll that nhl.com employs. however, for this specific poll they have taken out the write-in vote option. this is gary bettman responding to my website. Taking out the write-in option is completely biased against chuck kobasew who receives the majority of his accalades through write-in votes. Even though kobasew didn’t play a game yesterday, i hear he had a really solid practice. That’s who i would have voted for.<br /><br />-marx<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><!--[endif]--></span></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05856182091971768687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-83552406525375051172009-03-02T07:03:00.000-08:002009-03-02T07:15:54.820-08:00Just a post... AFTER A WHILESo... I really should be studying for History instead of writing this post, seeing as my exam is in about 3 hours and I just started studying yesterday morning. HOWEVER, I definitely don't want to pay attention to SOCI nor do I want to study for History at the moment, so I digress. <br /><br />NOW... I just want to rant about how Dominating Shaq has been, dropping 45 on my Crap-tors and 33 on the Lakers. The guy is 37, and he's destroying everything in his path right now!! It makes me wonder what the Training staff at Phoenix is doing down south; we have Grant Hill dunking over everyone and Shaq looking like he's 28 again. How about that? I just hope Phoenix does win a championship before the window closes for them because guys like Steve Nash and Grant Hill are really class acts in this league and deserve to win a championship before they call it a career. <br /><br />Another thing I want to talk about is: HOW BAD ARE THE RAPTORS?? So the JO experiment failed miserably, and obviously Chris Bosh needs help. I don't think Shawn Marion is the answer; he is on the wrong side of 30 and is a cancer in the locker room. With that in mind, I propose the following. Don't resign Marion, and throw the cap space Hedo Turkgolu's way. People are probably asking why I think Hedo Turkgolu: and I think it's more plausible than one may think. First, he's European which means Brian Colangelo will automatically jump up and down at the thought of a European player. Second, he is actually a damn good player contrary to what most think. Hedo Turkgolu is one of the most underrated players in the League right now; he's got size standing at 6-10, and he plays like a guard!! He's a match up nightmare... and he's only hitting his prime right now. If you want to keep Chris Bosh come 2010, give him a chance to win right now and I think Hedo is the best option right now. For those of you who think we should go out and try to trade for a younger player, let's keep in mind that we'll have to give up half our roster just to get the likes of Danny Granger, Kevin Martin, or almost impossible, Brandon Roy. <br /><br />Okay.. 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style="font-size:85%;">It's that time of the year again... another season of fantasy basketball. Now I would spend 100 hours going round by round talking about who should go where... instead I decided I'm just gonna give my take on a few debates that always come up every year.
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<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >#1 Who should be the first overall pick in the draft??</span><span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> Now... this debate always come up every year about who should be drafted first overall in fantasy basketball... everyone has a different opinion on who should be number one but I am just going to be the accountant that I am and go straight by numbers. For those of you in head to head leagues... it's quite obvious that Lebron James will be the first overall pick this year and with good reason. Just look at the numbers he put up last year: 31 pts, 7 reb, 7 assts. Just from those three categories will put you ahead by miles. Back to the present day: Lebron now has a running mate!! With Mo William now in the mix, depending on how Mike Brown plays this line up of Williams Pavlovic Lebron Wallace Illgauskas starting five I suspect Lebron's assist will be down and minutes can potentially be down as well since he doesn't have to handle the ball as much. However... if that is the case and Mo and Lebron end up working together really well... you might get to see Lebron increase his point production to about 33 points a game... which is NICE.
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<br />From New Orleans we have one Chris Paul. I can already see people asking me why I would put Chris Paul as the number 1 overall pick... people would usually pick Lebron or Shawn Marion at this point depending on if you're in a roto league or a head-to-head league. But here's the thing: I dont know any point guard or any player who puts up better numbers than Chris Paul... He provides everything and it never hurts when it's from the point guard position. 20 points, 10 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 steals, 49% from the Field, 85% from the line... what's not to like about the stat line?? With the departure of Jannero Pargo I can only see Chris Paul’s minutes going up.</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Logically speaking more playing time will translate to…. MORE PRODUCTION!! Look for his stat line to be more like his playoff stat line; and here in fantasy community there is nothing but love for fantasy studs like Chris Paul to get more playing time. And don’t worry about his production tapering off by the end of the season, with the West shaping up to be more competitive than ever (it just never gets worse… I LOVE THIS GAME), look for Chris Paul to play right til the end of the season to compete for the highest seeding. Just all these variables combined is making me feel like Chris Paul is going to be a fantasy KING this year. </span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">My Pick: Chris Paul. </span></p> M_inghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09067541481333260320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214078408434045995.post-75249988951517811012008-09-07T21:51:00.000-07:002008-09-07T21:57:54.806-07:00Few bits from the basketball world.According to sources, Golden State guard Monta Ellis allegedly injured his ankle doing something other than basketball. Doctors have claimed that the way he got his high ankle sprain is from an activity other than basketball..... Busted!!<br /><br />I think I can be one to see if you're going to pull a Vladimir Radmanovic and lie about your injury... at least learn from his mistakes and not get busted for it.... especially when you just signed a 66 million dollar deal with your team. Nice going Monta!!<br /><br />Now onto more light-hearted news. Definitely glad to see Patrick Ewing and the Dream finally making it into the Hall of Fame. Both being two of the best centers to play the game (one being the innovator of post play in Hakeem Olaujuwon). Personally I thought Ewing deserved to win a championship... but good thing he didn't or else the Ewing Theory would be proved wrong!!<br /><br />anyhow... just a short post since I have class at 8:00 am tomorrow. Will write a long one soon enough ;)<br /><br />Ming out.M_inghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09067541481333260320noreply@blogger.com0