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| Name: | Thomas |
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| Location: | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Gender: | Male |
| Member since: | January 30, 2006 |
| Last visit: | January 09, 2009 |
tommytrump has posted 155 links and 1234 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 76 comments to the Locker Room.
Bargain-basement league: Several NHL clubs are slashing ticket prices and throwing in all kinds of freebies to haul in fans, any fans.
The Panthers are similarly generous, offering a regularly priced $42 ticket for $17. Fans also receive free parking, a combo meal and a $5 gasoline card. Parking is usually $10 at the Panthers' arena, which means that if the other amenities are subtracted from the ticket price, you could make a case that the club is actually paying the fan to attend the game. Happy holidays!
posted by tommytrump to business and law at 07:15 PM on December 19 - 3 comments
Boatmen lose all-time great: Considered by some to be the greatest Toronto Argonaut ever as well as the greatest player of his era. The nickname said it all.
Joe Krol, known as King, was the supreme ruler of the Toronto sports world more than half a century ago when he passed, ran and kicked the Toronto Argonauts to five Grey Cups.
posted by tommytrump to football at 12:42 PM on December 18 - 2 comments
Sammy Baugh, N.F.L. Great, Dies at 94 : In 1994, the N.F.L. named Baugh as one of four quarterbacks on its 75th-anniversary team. Baugh was among 17 inductees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame's inaugural class of 1963.
Baugh was taking the field for his first practice session with the Redskins when his coach, Ray Flaherty, handed him the football.
"They tell me you're quite a passer," Flaherty is said to have remarked.
"I reckon I can throw a little," Baugh replied.
"Show me," Flaherty said. "Hit that receiver in the eye."
To which Baugh supposedly responded, "Which eye?"
posted by tommytrump to football at 09:15 AM on December 18 - 3 comments
Latest Fighting Injury another Warning for NHL: It was a hockey fight that started the way thousands of others have over the years, but it ended with a 21-year-old fighting for his life in a Hamilton hospital. Because of a hockey fight, the parents of Don Sanderson of the Whitby Dunlops are sitting by their son's bed wondering when, or if, their son is ever going to wake up. After one surgery and some 60 hours after his fight with Corey Fulton of the Brantford Blast last Friday night, Sanderson was still in a coma. "It was nothing....just a tussle,"..."Under normal circumstances, the 2 guys would have just skated away."
posted by tommytrump to hockey at 10:30 PM on December 15 - 8 comments
Pulling together: Blackhawks support their G.M.: The story that's been dubbed "Millionaires behaving properly" was written in a small town a few hours north of Toronto. It might have remained nothing more than local lore if not for the efforts of a few persistent e-mailers and fan message boards. In an era when it seems we can't get enough news about athletes, when every bar brawl, strip-club visit and parking-lot scrape merits a headline, the best story of the NHL season somehow managed to fly below the radar for nearly three weeks.
posted by tommytrump to culture at 12:06 PM on December 13 - 12 comments
Fraze, who was your pick for the Pittsburgh/Tennessee game?
posted by tommytrump at 11:21 PM on December 21
For those about to dreidel, we salute you:
posted by tommytrump at 05:58 PM on December 21
That's a hell of a self link there, Paul J. Berry.
posted by tommytrump at 05:41 PM on December 21
A litte more detail in The Globe and Mail.
posted by tommytrump at 07:55 PM on December 18
The oddsmakers don't give Evander much of a chance. Valuev is a 1 to 10 favourite, and Holyfield a 5.5 to 1 underdog.
posted by tommytrump at 08:04 PM on December 17
You've made all of three comments here and two have been homophobic.
Let's not be too quick to judge, dfleming.
His other comment does show a great deal of man-love for Luc Robitaille.
posted by tommytrump at 11:30 AM on December 15
It was pretty humorous.
Where exactly?
posted by tommytrump at 10:49 AM on December 15
4th and long?
4th and a foot?
posted by tommytrump at 11:48 PM on December 11
Aw, now I feel all warm and fuzzy (that could be the flu though).
Do I get a share of the Costanza, I'm just curious.
posted by tommytrump at 09:33 AM on December 05
He is an angel,or is he full of crap. I think it is the latter.
I'm no angel, and I'm not full of crap. Snappy observation though.
posted by tommytrump at 01:17 PM on December 04
If you have to ask, you don't get to choose.
It's a thread, not a choice!
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Band: Rush Song: Free Will http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MYzGMxGq9rM
posted by tommytrump at 08:08 PM on December 03
Raymond van Barneveld comes up with a 9-darter
A good friend of mine played in a dart league for years. A nine dart finish was the Holy Grail. There have been 16 televised Nine Dart Finishes since 1984.
From Wiki, an explanation of Nine Dart Finish:
en.wikipedia.org