Random observations from a busy weekend in sports: say what you will about Alex Ovechkin as as NHL playoff bust – he answers the call and gets the job done for Russia at the world hockey championships, which is more than can be said for Canada’s Stanle…

When William Shakespeake wrote that “brevity is the soul of wit,” the Bard had evidently yet to see a John Tortorella news conference. There’s nothing remotely clever about the contempt with which the New York Rangers coach treats the ink-staine…

Ron MacLean is a terrific broadcaster, but sometimes he tries too hard, and last night was one of those times. The Hockey Night in Canada host’s comparison of the players in the Rangers-Capitals series to first response emergency personnel in the 9…

Dear radio programmers and consultants, Please refer to the letter below the next time you tell your announcers that birthday wishes are hoakey and nobody cares. This is the power of radio, and a textbook example of how you build a loyal audience…

Wow!

Just WOW!

This guy just detroyed one of his works in protest of the Harper Government on national TV. Now that, my friends, is a statement.

It’s a measure of the parity in the NHL that the top two seeds in the West and three of the top four in the East are already out before the end of the second playoff round. The 8th seeded Los Angeles Kings in particular are a shining example of how -…

Dear Readers; When I was just a young lad back in the days of JFK and Diefenbaker, politics was a rather polite affair, where the best way to get votes was by telling the electorate how you were going to do better than the competition. Not what they were doing wrong, mind you, but how [...]

I hope Marc Bergevin enjoys the honeymoon, because it’s going to last exactly as long as it takes for him to hire a new head coach, make the third pick in next month’s draft and re-sign restricted free agents Carey Price and P.K. Subban. Those…

Did I mention I like Scotch Whiskey?

IF YOU HAVEN’T PAID OFF YOUR 2006 LEADERSHIP DEBT, DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!

You’re welcome!

I don’t profess to know a great deal about Marc Bergevin, but I do know this: among the candidates the Canadiens interviewed for the vacant general manager’s post, he’s as qualified as anyone, and he can’t be any worse than Pierre Gauthier. It…

I don’t care if the Washington Capitals win the Stanley Cup, eradicate Third World poverty and cure baldness – I hate the way coach Dale Hunter is using Alex Ovechkin. Unfortunately for all, events only served to feed into Hunter’s sense of his…

If the Philadelphia Flyers were looking for any extra motivation on the road to the Stanley Cup, they found it in the award nominations for league MVP and NHL general manager of the year. Claude Giroux’s exclusion as a Hart Trophy finalist is justifia…

Just when you think it’s 2012, it’s still 1942, when social norms held that a black man was better suited to load steamer trunks onto a train than he was to be the hero in a Stanley Cup playoff series.The outburst of racism among Bruins fans on soci…

The most disturbing element in the latest controversy surrounding the Los Angeles Laker formerly known as Ron Artest isn’t the vicious elbow he delivered to the head of Oklahoma City’s James Harden. It’s that serious, professional sports journalists a…

Stand by for the Alain Vigneault rumours to heat up after the Vancouver coach steered the heavily-favored Canucks onto the rocks in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. There’s a media consensus that Vigneault’s goose is cooked in Vancouver, a…

Forty-nine year old Jamie Moyer struck a blow for middle age last night when he became the oldest pitcher in major league history to record a win(or at least the oldest pitcher with a legitimate birth certificate and/or working visa). Moyer’s not e…

Whenever Don Cherry or anyone else old enough to remember Watergate, Beatlemania and the Treaty of Versailles compares the goings-on in the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs to “old time hockey,” they need to be more specific. Fighting has long been par…