Another Hockey Blog????

The Stars Give Brenden Morrow the 'C'

Or did the take it away from Mike Modano?

When I first heard this today I said, "Ok, no big deal. Modano probably wants to help out and he's ok with it."

(Actually my first though was, "damn, now I have to get my jersey changed with a 'c' instead of the 'a')

But then I heard General Manager Doug Armstrong on the radio today, and he basically said that Mike might have his feelings bent out of shape a little bit, but this is the way it is. What? I'm sorry, I love Brenden Morrow...

I mean I really love him.

But if Mike Modano's game suffers in the least bit this season, if any hard feelings develop, if any locker room problems start to seep out onto the ice, I am going to personally hunt down Doug Armstrong and give him a piece of my mind.

Geez this should be a happy day..... I dont know. This makes me uneasy. I know Army and Tipp are concerned about the future...but I'm concerned about wed in Colorado, and the first 5 games of the season on the road.

Just be cool Mike. It's all good. You're still the best player on the team.

T.O.O.O.O.O......

I hate hate hate the Dallas Cowboys.

I hate hate hate hate Terrell Owens.

But I was extremely fascinated by the complete and utter circus that took place yesterday for 6 and a half hours before he came out and clearly looked like a man who was perfectly fine.

All the media did, was take the "facts" from the leaked police report. When I stop and think about it, they didn't even sensationalize it that much....

Reason against T.O. attempting suicide....

1. Why the hell would he?
2. He was catching footballs 17 hours later
3. They let him out of the hospital very fast for someone who swallowed 35 pills.
4. He looked fine, alert, healthy, and in good spirits at the press conference.

Reasons why its plausible he could've tried to....

1. The police report. The police have no reason to lie, right?
2. Numerous health care professionals have stated on every radio show in America that it's completely possible to be given the charcoal and the drugs that soak up the toxins, and then be perfectly fine very soon after.
3. His publicist is obviously lying, and calling the DPD liars.
4. In all the years of football players...or any athletes, taking pain medication, no one else in history of sports has had this kind of bad reaction to various "supplements" and pain killers before?

It's so unclear what really happened. One thing is for sure...ok 2 things... #1. He looks fine. and #2. I hope this totally ruins every single Dallas Cowboys concentration, and they lose to the lowly lowly Titans.

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p.s. The Stars looked PATHETIC last night. That's all you can really say about that.

Dirk joins the Jet, stays long term

Associated Press Posted: 27 minutes ago

DALLAS (AP) - Dirk Nowitzki is staying with the Dallas Mavericks at least through the 2010-11 National Basketball Association season.

A week before opening training camp, the Mavs made sure their superstar forward remains under contract for the next five seasons with a lucrative extension Tuesday.

Nowitzki, 28, already was signed for the upcoming season and had a $16 million-plus option for 2007-08 under the maximum contract he signed in 2001. The new deal guarantees that season, plus three more. He'll turn 33 the summer his new contract expires.

Terms of the deal were not released, but with basic raises the extension is likely worth around $60 million.
"We are glad to keep Dirk in the Mavericks family for many more years," team owner Mark Cuban said. "His contribution to our success on and off the court has been immeasurable."

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Awesomeness. With all the things he said about "not liking the way the franchise is being run," he had some of us wondering. Of course now I wonder if he's just set himself up for the inevitable showdown with Cuban, or if Cuban promised to behave himself a bit....

hmmmm......

Microsoft Word humor....

LOL!!!

Seriously though....the Sooners need to have a group unbunching of their panties.....

Hockey night in Canada....I mean Dallas.

Yes we put on our jerseys. We made that drive down 35. And there was hockey..... and it was good.

Was it crappy hockey? Yeah kind of.

Was it a little quiet in there, on a monday night pre season game? Of course it was.

But it was greatness, anyway.

It was just so nice to be back among the hockey faithful. And the people there last night were uber-faithful. We saw Barnes, Turco, Zubov, Miettinen, and other signing autographs before hand... again. Always very gracious with their time, those Stars are. The countdown to the season has begun.

I have absolutely no idea if they're going to be any good. Some of those kids look reaaally shaky out there with the puck. Power play and penalty kill was putrid tonight against the Avalanche. Last night they were great.

Also, thanks to the sturminator of Bob and Dan of 1310 The Ticket fame, for linking to my blog this morning on his.

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Lowest scoring MNF game ever???? Good thing I was at the hockey game. However, go JAGS!!!! Suck it Steelers.

That is all.

We lost a friend this morning

Goodbye Mr. Toby.....











The best thing I can say about Toby is that he was a wonderful friend. He did nothing but give to us. Hamsters may not be able to convey the loyalty of a dog, but I know that he knew us, and that he understood the relationship to some extent.

He was a dare-devil of sorts. As much of a dare devil as a hamster could be. He was quite fond of "launching himself" off of whatever he could, into depths unknown. He was also quite the escape artist, and once got stuck in a couch for about 30 min. I still don't know how he did it.

My favorite Toby memory would have to be the infamous stapler incident. I asked Cheryl, "Where is that little stapler?" and she said "Oh it's next to Toby's cage." At which point we looked over in time to see Toby with his "rear end" abnormally and comically high in the air, and then he proceeded to urinate through the bars, and all over said stapler.

The comedic timing was genius.

He was a sucker for the rustling of a food bag, an apple, and especially peanuts and carrots, for which he would fight to the death. He would often try to cause us bodily harm in his quest for carrots. He once tried to dive head first into a glass of wine. lol.

He would stay up late with me while I did my homework and watch me, intently hoping it was time to play again. And when you jingled your keys, he would stand on his hind legs and ball his little fists and show you his teeth. It was cute and funny to the point of absurdity, of course he thought he was a great big grizzly bear.

He was as crabby and grumpy as he was funny. Which made him more funny.

He was my friend Toby. Some people say hamsters are stupid. That's fine. But I can't think of anything better that takes zero time to take care of, and puts a smile on your face every single day of the year, without exception.

He cost about 7$. Best 7$ we ever spent.

Toby died peacefully in his sleep, of old age.

Goodbye Toby












R.I.P Toby. 2004-2006

Sports Sport Sports......

What a wonderful sports weekend we just had.

First, my "exclusive" interview with Brendan Morrow (#10) of the Dallas Stars.














The Dallas Stars were at the Galleria in Dallas signing autographs, and I had the chance to ask Brendan Morrow about his future in Dallas:

BM: Hey man how're you?

Me: Good, what's up dude?

BM: (looks at Mike Modano and screaming girls 3 feet away from us)

"Not much"

(smiles)

BM: -signs jersey-

Me: You gonna be back in Dallas next year?

BM: Man, I hope so.

Me: Alright, thanks man

That's right people. You heard it here first. "I hope so." Thats outstanding journalism!!!!

All kidding aside, what a terribly nice guy. Also, Mike Modano is a rock star. Cheryl and I had the opportunity to meet Brendan Morrow, Marty Turco, Stu Barnes, Steve Ott, Antii Miettinen, Mike Smith, Dan Ellis, Jeff Halpern, and Ralph and Razor. Walked by Zubie and Lehtinen, but their lines were crazy long and we had to get to Morrow and Turco.

Ralph kind of big timed us. Razor at least made eye contact and let me thank him. Even though there was no one in their line!!! All of the Dallas Stars are classy individuals who were all very good sports, and the turnout was very good too.

Also, Cheryl won free pre-season tickets while we were there. 5 days, and the jersey goes on and the AAC is back open for business!!!

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Moving along....

Suck it Bevo OSU 24, Texas 7

As much as I've despised OSU over the years, I must admit I was elated on Saturday night watching that sorry excuse for a "good" defense try to stop those boys from marching down the field. UT gets way too much pub around here for me. I bet most of you people didn't even go to UT....

And come on, I wouldn't trust a guy named "Colt" to wash my car.

Also, greetings from UNT boys! How does it feel to only get 7 points like the Mean Green did in week 1. Suck it Bevo!!

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I could comment on the NFL....

Let's just say, that the Cowboys scared me when it looked like they were going to be good. And then let me say "Ha, Ha" and "Who would've though that Bledsoe would be a bigger story than T.O. Owens?"

Other than that.... the Chiefs game was terrible. The Eagles game was so so. The Redskin game was alright. The Manning bowl was pretty entertaining. The Chargers game was awful.

The Packers, the Bucs, and the Raiders all get shutout????? The Panthers might as well have been shutout, and the Detroit/Seattle game ends 9-6??? They might as well have been playing baseball. Between those 6 teams, that's....21 points!! AWFUL

The quality of football was not very good this week. Lot's of turnovers, and offenses trying to get used to the speed of the game. Look for improvement in week 2.

Something's not quite right.....

Here is an interesting breakdown I found on http://www.starsboard.com/forum/:

And before you get bored, here is the point: There are guys who go out there every night and take a beating, and give up EVERYTHING including sacrificing their bodies on this team, who get paid less than some....no, LOTS of Basketball, Football, and especially Baseball players, who sit on a bench all day. Don't get me wrong, they're making like sweet executive money, but still.....

Does that seem right to you??????

A breakdown by position.:

GoaliesTurco - $5.7 million
Smith/Ellis (same cap price) - $495,500
Total (2 goalies): $6.1955 million
Avg. per goalie: $3,097,750

Defensemen: Zubov - $4 million
Boucher - $2.5 million
Niinimaa - $2.47 million
Sydor - $2.128 million
Modry - $1.824 million
Klemm - $950,000
Daley - $787,500
Robidas - $550,000
Total (8 defensemen): $15,179,500
Avg. per d: $1,897,437.50

Modano - $3.45 million
Lehtinen - $3.04 million
Morrow - $2.05 million
Halpern - $2 million
Lindros - $2.55 million
Barnes - $1.14 million
Stefan - $900,000
Ott - $787,500
Jokinen - $700,000
Hagman - $675,000
Barnaby - $625,000
Miettinen - $450,000
Tjarnqvist - $462,500
Total (13 forwards): $21,076,166.07

Avg. per forward: $1,621,243.55

Quick hits.

Some blog quick hits, on this, the eve of NFL football returning to our lives and thus re-igniting sports talk (not to mention this blog.)









Steve Irwin died. And all I can say is that I sure hope it was biiig sting ray, because I've been in the water with plenty of sting rays and never even considered that one could kill me. RIP dude.

Some stupid British bitch thinks she should bad mouth this guy now that she's dead. (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14694683/)

They have this to say about her:

Greer, an award-winning author, is a frequent critic of
personalities like British soccer star David Beckham and social trends like
reality television.
In 2003 she criticized J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the
Rings” trilogy for attracting “spaced-out hippies, environmentalists,
free-market libertarians, social conservatives, pacifists, new-age
theosophists,
sexists and racists the world
over."

If you have nothing better to do than criticize pretty much everything, maybe you go ahead and find sometihng else to do!!!

In other news..... some rookie in the NL threw a no-hitter. Interesting because it's the first one in 2 years thrown in the majors apparently. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5937398?FSO1&ATT=HMA











Now my favorite story in recent days. Tarell Brown was arrested for being in a car at 3am, with a loaded gun on his lap, marijuana inthe car, and oh yeah, he was sleeping!!!!

From this we can conclude several things:

1. Longhorns suck
2. Athletes named Tarell, or Terrell, or Tyrell, or whatever, are all bad people. Ever seen a hockey player named Terrell? no....
3. College athletes out at 3am is a bad idea, guns and weed, or no.

He said "oh we were not smoking, and the gun wasnt mine." Ok fair enough. But hello moron????? Nothing good happens at 3am with guns and weed. NOTHING. Only bad things can happen. Put yourself in a better situation than that dude.... idiot.

1 day until football.

12 days until the first Dallas Stars pre-season game.

blogging makes a comeback, soon....

For those of you who don't know....

Braff Leaving 'Scrubs' for Big Screen

Zach Braff loves making movies so much, he's going to quit his role in "Scrubs" to concentrate on his film career.

Braff, who plays Dr. John "JD" Dorian in the TV comedy, realized his future lies on the big screen after the success of "Garden State," which he wrote, directed and starred in.

He tells Premiere magazine, "My guess is that this will be my last season (on 'Scrubs').
"Whether or not they continue without me, I don't know.

"I have had this amazing run on the show and I love it and I'm so grateful, but I want to make movies full time."

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What an idiot, first he breaks up with Mandy Moore, then he says he's quiting the best show on TV......grrrrr.....

Hollywood Horse-Crap

The summer movie season has come and gone now. There was intrigue with The DaVinci code and X-men 3 was ok. Pirates was awesome. Superman was good. Talladega Nights is cleaning up at the box office, even though it's about a fake sport.

People went to the movies this summer. It wasn't THAT bad.

But now I look to see what there is, and what do I find?

Accepted?

Barnyard?

You, me, and dupree?

Little Man?

Material Girls?

Step Up? Zoom? John Tucker must die?

What is this crap? Have we becomes such an incredibly frivalous society that we don't want to go see movies with substance? Studios only approve movies to be made that they think people will see. They gather this from data of what people have been seeing. This problem was created by the people.

Don't go see this crap, people. Snakes on a plane??? Come on!

It is truly insulting to me to see this list of movies. Its demeaning, belittling, disparaging, degrading, and deprecating to everyone who is able to use the word deprecating.

The actors are just as much to blame for agreeing to make this dumb crap. Too much stupid gag humor. Where is the witty dialogue? Where are the fresh ideas? Where is the movie in this bunch that is going to capture my imagination? Talking animals? No. Making their own college and showing pretty girls? Hmmm no! There is not one imaginative movie in the bunch.

What a bunch of pathetic crap.

If you want my 8 bucks you're going to have to try harder than that. We're going to see "Little miss Sunshine" this weekend, I hope. At least that seems like something other than cheap eye candy and gag humor.

Things are starting to pick up....

Yes friends, summer is starting wind down, and Sports are starting to heat up. Soon it will be baseball playoff season. lol. I'm kidding....and now, sports....

-A hollywood agent won the WSOP Main Event yesterday....."Jamie Gold"..... weirdness. The grand prize was an absurd $12 million. WOW. According to the AP, he did a lot of bluffing and had pocket queens at a couple of very convenient times. Can't wait to see some of this on ESPN!

-Elsewhere, Dirk poured it on all over Yao Mings face (hey now!) today in a warm up for the FIBA Basketball World Championships. But according to FoxSports, "Dirk ruined Yaos welcome back party." So pretty much they can go to hell.

-Football, football everywhere! Yes the gloriousness (is that a word?) of the NFL season is upon us. And though these preseason games don't mean anything, it pretty much rules, because I missed football. Cheers to the Cowboys dying a horrible T.O. related death!!

-The Rangers, are not totally out of it. But they are going to need some help. Even though the pitching still sucks, the bats decided to come alive the other day. We'll keep a not-so-watchfull eye on this....

-And in 37 days, we will be in our new season seats, watching the Dallas Stars kickoff their preseason, against the Atlanta Thrashers. Don't worry my poor poor Brendan Morrow jersey, you can come out of the closet (so to speak) very soon....

Public Service Anouncement....

I'd like to take 2 quick minutes to report this breaking news.

The Rangers are officialy dead tonight, having lost to the A's.

Thank you Rangers, for getting us up to NFL pre season. You fell short of NHL pre season, but hey, we'll take what we can get.

Thank you,

Genius Comedy.....bad bad sooners....

LOL! Thanks to "The Crippler" for posting this photoshop gold on www.dallas-mavs.com

If you haven't heard, "Zero-U" had their starting quarter back kicked off the team, because apparently he was "working" at a car dealership and got paid a little too much money for hours that he didn't actually work.

BTW, it happens to be a Long Horn in the picture knocking this guy.... I in no way support the Whiney-Orange, and I hope the next time these two teams play, it ends in a scoreless tie, and they both drop out of the top 25..... bunch of toilet licking rednecks from both schools....

Funny stuff though.

Some real (not the rigged BCS crap) football starts this weekend. NFL pre-season will be under way this Sunday night, on NBC. yay!

Mavericks schedule out

(This pic has nothing to do with anything, I just like it....)


Having picked out my season tickets for the Stars, I find myself much wanting in the basketball department. I'd love a 10 game Mavs package too. But alas, I am but a humble entry level "go-for" in the corporate world, and must wait my turn to have enough income to waste on season tickets to more than one team.

Among the highlights of the season...

- 32 ESPN, TNT, and NBA Tv appearances. Holy crap.

- Opener vs San Antonio!!! on Nov 2nd. Kind of wish they had an easier game to start off with....

- Miami comes to town in Feb, Mavs play @ Miami in January.

- 13 back to backs.... scheduled losses....

- A 6 game road trip in the critical last part of the season. gAY.

http://www.nba.com/mavericks/schedule/index.html

Billy West trivia....

"Forgive me for being cocky, but if there's an alien I can't kill, I haven't met it and killed it yet."

Ahh the greatness of Billy West.

Here's some things I didn't know before....

Bill West has voiced the following animated characters:

-Ren

-Stimpy

-Doug (remember that Nickalodean show, "Doug"?)

- The Bee from the Honey Nut Cheerio commercials

- Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in "Space Jam"

- The M&Ms in those commercials.

- The Pointy haired Boss from "Dilbert"

- Many many other spare characters

- And of course, the greatness of Fry, Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Professor Farnsworth, Nixon.... etc

Me Like Hockey....

"ehh....You guys smell that?"

My long awaited thoughts, on Mr. Eric Lindros.

Once upon a time, Lindros was a #1 draft pick. He was big, he was nasty, he could get in around the goal and put them in like crazy. He won the MVP trophy in 1995. I hated him, because he was greatness, and he'd kick your ass pretty hard if you wanted to see him be greatness up close.

Then he had something like 8 concussions. He hurt his wrist. He got old. He's an old spare making almost the veteran minimum. And as such....

Eric Lindros = A Band Aid. A temporary fix.

Eric Lindros = Deodorant, for the horrible stench of letting Jason Arnott just walk out of here without even making him an offer. It still makes me mad.

Here's the good news. Eric has yet to win a Stanley Cup. Neither has Matt Barnaby. Neither has Jeff Halpern.

These 3 players have something else in common. They're incredibly annoying, to play against, that is. The Stars are going to be incredibly annoying to play against with these three roaming the ice, plus don't forgot Otter, Morrow, and Robidas as well. Annoying Annoying. It's going to be great if they can get that chemistry going.

Still, where are the goals going to come from?

Here are the lines the way I would have them....

Jokkinen, Modano, Lehtinen

Morrow, Lindros, Barnes

Hagman, Halpern, Barnaby

Ott, Modry, Miettinen

At D-man, we add Sydor. Rather we re-claim him. Welcome back dude. You are the man. Watch the incredible heart, determination and greatness of Darryl Sydor below...... \/

Will the Stars be ok this year? I don't know. But we just bought our season tickets, so here's hoping....

Game 6, Stanely Cup Finals, 2000

This was greatness. The guy was hurt, he had a broken bone. He wouln't give up on the play.

This is a REAL hockey player right here.

Blog quick hits....

I've been very busy lately. And the Sports world has not been. Those two things = no blogging.















American Landis collapses, says it's now impossible to win; and he had been struggling the whole time. More U.S. dissappointment in international competition. Really great.

So now we suck at Tennis, Soccer, and Cycling so far this summer.

Hey, we have Basketball World Championship in Japan next month. So we could probly suck that up real good too.

Oh and maybe an American won't win the British open this weekend. Awesome.

Good news is, Americans are the best at driving cars around in a circle. Until they invent some sort of international Nascar competition. YUCK. But the rest of the world is too classy to do that stupid bs.

Anyway.....

-Dirk Shaved his head. Why Dirk? Why?

-Steve Nash shaved his head. Sorry no pictures yet. He finally figured out that his whole greasy thing wasn't working.

- The Rangers can't swing their bats worth a damn. Yeah they won their last 2, but so have the A's....

- Pirates 2 review coming. Apparently I have some people to convince as to why it was greatness.

-Dwyane Wade is playing for the U.S. this summer, and come 2008 in China, will be competing for a Gold Medal. This brings about a fundamental problem in Dallas, as I will be emphatically rooting for the U.S, but for Wade to fail. Can both of these things happen?

Unqualified Baseball remarks....

Michael Young. Wasting clutch hitting to win home field advantage in a series he won't play in.... good job though.

The All Star game has come and gone, along with the glorified batting practice that is the "home run derby."

I think the AL won..... (kidding, only kidding...)

Michael Young is extremely underrated. He's on pace to have another 200 hit season.

"Halfway" through the season, the Rangers are .500, so they basically haven't done much at all. They are in a crappy crappy division, which may be their saving grace.

There are 8 teams with better records than the Rangers, and 2 they're tied with. Yet they're in "1st place." Just one of those things I guess....

Can Anaheim suck for long?

Are the Mariners underrated?

Will Bud Selig even let a team from the AL west into the playoffs, while the Yanks or the Red Sox have to sit at home.... yucky.

Now that there is more baseball behind than in front, and the World Cup is over, and the Mavericks roster looks pretty much set now (and I will comment on that later....), I suppose we must try to pay attention to baseball.

Knowing this, the Rangers will probably fall apart now.

Where is this Adam Eaton???