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terrance gavan – editor Here’s what we have on this cockamamie story emanating from Parliament Shill and the home of drunken sideways rhetoric formerly known as the home of sober second thought. The red faced and rotund senator, one Mick the Slick Duffy, has issued a statement about a $90,000 repayment for cheating on his [...]
TERRANCE GAVAN… CRAP JOURNALIST JEFF STOUGHTON BROUGHT THE 360 DELIVERY INTO prominence some time ago while curling on a backyard pond in the wilds of southwestern Winnipeg. Yes, just like Bobby Orr, Frank Mahovolich, Jean Beliveau and Howie Morenz, little Jeffie Stoughton grew up playing Canada’s national sport on the pond. When curling was brought indoors, [...]
From Conn Smythe-winning goaltender Jonathan Quick to the top six defensemen to the top 12 forwards, every established NHL player on the Los Angeles Kings’ depth chart saw substantive action in their 2012 Stanley Cup championship run. Leaned-on winger Simon Gagne, one of the few not to play at least half of the postseason, returned [...]
In interviews and readings on BBC3, writers including Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, John Agard, Michael Morpugo and Carol Ann Duffy explain how they fell under the spell of the German masters of the fairytale The stories of the Brothers Grimm have been read at bedsides and seen in cinemas all over the world. Snow White, [...]
Isaac Rauch This morning’s New York Times sports section has an article about Lolo Jones, the virgin hurdler you’re probably somewhat aware of (if not, see here), titled, “For Lolo Jones, Everything Is Image.” The thrust of the article is that the attention the media has lavished on Jones is not commensurate with her achievement, [...]
LONDON — The Canadian Press Published Tuesday, Aug. 07 2012, 7:07 AM EDT [box type="info"] Simon Whitfield has been knocked out of the Olympic triathlon after crashing early in the bike race. The Canadian was in good position following a 1.5-kilometre swim but lost control of his bike after going over a small speed bump coming out of [...]
FORE THE LOVE OF GOLF! Unique perspective from – From the Sydney Chronicle Herald SAN FRANCISCO: Tiger Woods wrested an even-par 70 from an unforgiving Olympic Club course on Friday to seize a share of the US Open second-round lead alongside Jim Furyk and David Toms. LEADERBOARD On a day when the testing conditions saw names [...]
PARDON THE ERUPTION …the opposition has lost many of the procedural tools it once had to protest in this way. It can delay a bill’s passage, not prevent it, and then only for a day or so, after the Speaker’s ruling earlier this week consolidating several amendments into single votes. So the fight now is [...]
PARDON THE ERUPTION BY TERRANCE GAVAN – RANTS PTE Racism is a part of Euro 2012. Actually racism is a part of European soccer. More’s the pity. We can run down the reasons for this. And of course the best place to voice racist content? Midst the anonymity of the crowd. But let’s not get [...]
