Another Youtube NHL hockey brawl - ain't it all just effin grand?
By Terrance O'Gavan - PTE Managing Editor
The Sean Avery sucker punch and the crap that follows is a disgrace and an embarassment.
So much said ín the space of this two minute video is exasperating and embarassing.
In no other sport in the world is such bullshit behavior rewarded in such frozen terms.
Soccer?
Gone!
Football?
Gone!
Basketball?
Gone!
Baseball?
Gone!
Hockey?
Apparently it's just another day at the rink.
Sucker punches. Fights.
Kunckle-dragging pissant pugilists getting $1.5 million per annum for doing nothing.
Except answering the bell when another pissant knuckledragger like Sean Avery gets outta' hand.
Disgusting.
Uninteresting.
No talent.
Boring.
Humiliating.
And just plain ugly.
This is why hockey is not regarded as a sport.
More likely to be viewed as trailer park trash.
By the rest of the world.
We have removed fighting from all other organized sports.
In Canada we treat our youngsters to the You Tube extravaganzas seen below.
It's batcrap crazy.
I'm sick, tired and flummoxed by a sport that feels the sheer beauty of the game is not enough to draw fans.
So the league refuses to deaL WITH IT.
SPOUTING TIRED OLD DOGGEREL LIKE: We need it.
Players need it.
It stops the cheap shots.
It's fan friendly.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Rambling Rosie D - tortured logic and shivered squawks
Pardon MY ERUPTION!
Hockey Hall of Fame awards engenders spit and drizzle from an unlikely source
By terrance gavan - PTE Managing Editor
Okay I get it.
The TorStar’s Rosie DiManno is a girl stuck in a dude’s world.
A terminally bright and wonderfully talented columnist, she cut her teeth in sports and has moved forward to produce eye-popping correspondence from some of the world’s hot spots.
Her reportage from the gawker backdrop of the Afghanistan elections was gutsy, edgy and raw.
I like Rosie. She’s a formidable talent.
I have always been drawn to her sports writing, simply because she’s a stretched envelope in a twitter-cheep, dumb-downed world.
Cantankerous when she needs to be. Seldom reclusive with her opinions.
No surprise then that she was front and center in the Star’s coverage of the induction of the first women – Angela James and Cammi Granato - to the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday (Nov 8) night.
That Rosie was a bit less than genteel or politically correct in her assessment of the landmark event was de rigueur.
“The first woman to have her name engraved on a Stanley Cup was Marguerite Norris” writes DiManno. “The year was 1954 and her Detroit Red Wings had just won the NHL championship. Ditto the next year.”
Norris was the eldest daughter of deceased owner James Norris and oversaw the Wings until a palace coup removed her.
“If any female deserves recognition by the Hockey Hall of Fame — and I’m not convinced that moment has arrived, despite Monday night’s induction of (James and Granato) as estrogen trailblazers enshrined in the Yonge St. tabernacle — it should probably have been Marguerite in some builder or executive category,” says DiManno.
Hockey Hall of Fame awards engenders spit and drizzle from an unlikely source
By terrance gavan - PTE Managing Editor
Okay I get it.
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| Sorry for the pic Rosie. From her Guelph Mercury days. For a beautiful story by Rosie Click Here: http://news.guelphmercury.com/opinions/article/266364 Dynamite piece! |
A terminally bright and wonderfully talented columnist, she cut her teeth in sports and has moved forward to produce eye-popping correspondence from some of the world’s hot spots.
Her reportage from the gawker backdrop of the Afghanistan elections was gutsy, edgy and raw.
I like Rosie. She’s a formidable talent.
I have always been drawn to her sports writing, simply because she’s a stretched envelope in a twitter-cheep, dumb-downed world.
Cantankerous when she needs to be. Seldom reclusive with her opinions.
No surprise then that she was front and center in the Star’s coverage of the induction of the first women – Angela James and Cammi Granato - to the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday (Nov 8) night.
That Rosie was a bit less than genteel or politically correct in her assessment of the landmark event was de rigueur.
“The first woman to have her name engraved on a Stanley Cup was Marguerite Norris” writes DiManno. “The year was 1954 and her Detroit Red Wings had just won the NHL championship. Ditto the next year.”
Norris was the eldest daughter of deceased owner James Norris and oversaw the Wings until a palace coup removed her.
“If any female deserves recognition by the Hockey Hall of Fame — and I’m not convinced that moment has arrived, despite Monday night’s induction of (James and Granato) as estrogen trailblazers enshrined in the Yonge St. tabernacle — it should probably have been Marguerite in some builder or executive category,” says DiManno.
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