To ask, ‘Who’s the best?’ before Anderson Silva posturized Vitor Belfort had only one answer: it was Fedor Emelianenko. To ask, ‘Who’s the best?’ before Fedor, though? Royce Gracie? Ken Shamrock? Bas Rutten? Sakuraba?
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Sports leagues live by their stars. As the MOP debate shows, the CFL is star challenged at the moment. Getting Toronto right after all these years might come with a high cost.
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You can see it if you squint a bit. It’s actually impossible not to, really. If you’ve watched even five minutes of the NFL Draft you can imagine Roger Goodell. Imagine him in a black suit, black tie, black shades. There it is. A striking resemblance, isn’t it? Roger Goodell could be Agent Smith.
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In the face of the same old tropes about "stay the course" and "trust in the future”, Anthopoulos had to part with some of his farm assets or risk watching another season go down the tubes...
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Remember Super Bowl in February? The fun we had with the Seattle Seahawks and their inexplicable decision to pass from New England’s one-yard? Wasn’t it a riot to rip Pete Carroll for the slant pattern that ended up in the hands of the Patriots’ Malcolm Butler? The smug sense of superiority at seeing the mighty Seahawks’ strategy implode when Marshawn Lynch could have crawled into the end zone?
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During a long, long car drive across the continent, sports talk radio has convinced me that just about every NHL Western team is getting into the postseason.
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Calgary and Edmonton have built facilities that can host the world’s richest bands and orchestras. Yet, not a peep from the media about lining their pockets at no value to taxpayers.
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