Shaq is the new Green \Monster in Bean Town

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Shaquille O'Neal a Celtic?

Oh baby - read yahoo blog here!

No cheering in the press box?

Not when it comes to my Vikes, my Celtics, my Habs/Senators and my Blue Bombers.

So I awake yesterday to the news that the Big Aristotle has made the move.

Good move from my boy Danny Ainge?

Of course.

Remember Ainge was on a team that saw the Celtics bring in Bill Walton during his own NBA denouement.

It earned Big Bill a Championship Ring.

And while LAL still remain the insider favorites to three-peat - yes even with the collusion packed heat Brigade - this timely acquisition gives the Celtics a chance to weather the fogbound return of big man Kendrick Perkins. Perkins is not supposed to return until three months into the 2010-11 season.

Big Baby Davis will only benefit from the presence of O'Neal. Red Auershack?

Hopefully Shaq will take some time to work with Baby on those finicky big man post-up moves.

Kids say the darndest things

Senator Mike Kirby - mental health
advocate - big thanks and DAP!

They help to return our souls to ground

By Terrance Gavan

This is a little ditty about kids, life and rediscovered joy.

I wrote a song about five years back.

The hook goes: “It’s a long way from hell back to Paradise; and I spent a lotta’ of my days dusk dancin’ on thin ice.”

It dates back to a time back in March, 1998 when I walked into Winnipeg’s Willy Wonka Wonderland – a beautiful, provincially funded chocolate chip factory on Portage Avenue – and began my own long trek from hell to a pretty reasonable vision – or version - of Paradise.

Since graduating from Wonka’s Post Partum Program for Loonies (Magna Cum Laude) in Winnipeg, I have taught skiing and snowboarding in Invermere, BC, managed irrigation on the Mountainside Golf Course in the Fairmont Range, moved from the peaks to the hills, and landed a lovely sinecure with Auriga Design here in Haliburton, Ontario.

Winnipeg, the Rockies, and the Highlands.

To fate and lucky stars. I hit the trifecta on my zig-zagged route to a bumpy epiphany.

My best times have been spent teaching alpine arts to young techno bumpers in the Rockies and here at Sir Sam’s.

Sometimes I got lucky and made some guided choices that I will remember forever. Touchstones, exclamations and whispered moments.

Big Georges Laraque going Green

Look out Steve harper Georges les Green
is headed to a question period near you!

By Terrance Seamus Gavan
Okay Georges we get it.

Change is good. I hear you're a pretty good guy too.

But c'mon Elizabeth May. Isn't this whole Green Party thing going just a little off the rails.

Here's my thought.

We get Georges a seat somehow ... anyhow.

The first session of parliament he wears his hockey gloves to Question Period.

The first mealy mouthed chunk of weak-kneed screed we hear emanating from that huge grating gob of our fearless leader, Sevie Wonderhair Surprise, we set things in motion.

Chris Bosh out of touch

Bye bye Chris Bosh.

Sure Raptor GM Bryan Colangelo created a stir when he placed a proviso on Chris Bosh's final days as a Raptor.
Bosh said he was chagrined at Colangelo's mini rant about his dallied genuflection during the stretch run to the playoffs, which went to the wire with Chicago edging them out of eighth spot in the final game of the season. Said Colangelo:


“Whether he was mentally checked out or just wasn’t quite into it down the stretch, he wasn’t the same guy. I think everybody saw that, but no one wanted to acknowledge it,” he added. “At the same time, I never felt we were quite in the game (in terms of signing Bosh to a new contract). There was too much out there, too much built up for him to take an easy out here, and he decided to do that.”