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Top 10 Unbreakable Sports Records Whenever the inevitable debate arises among sports fans concerning the record that is the least likely to ever be broken, many people are quick to cite Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak. But there are many others...
posted by BoKnows at 06:59 PM on April 17
Why the Leafs stink It's not bad luck. It's not bad karma. What it takes to build a chronic loser. Richard Peddie is sitting at a small conference table in his office at the Air Canada Centre. Laying face down on the table in front of him is a paperback copy of Barack Obama's political memoir The Audacity of Hope. Perfect for the CEO of a team about to set a new standard for futility, but that's not the point. The point will be revealed later. For now, Peddie would just like you to know that he enjoys reading books.
posted by tommytrump at 12:42 AM on April 09
I agree with the article, but I have a quibble about the way these (bad) trades were presented in the article, though. >October 16, 1989Scott Niedermayer for Tom Kurvers >March 13, 1996Kenny Jonsson and Roberto Luongo for Wendel Clark and Mathieu Schneider That should read "draft choice" because the Leafs never had Luongo or Niedermayer. If the Devils had taken Scott Lachance then this would not have been the worst trade ever? It's a little like saying >"Toronto Maple Leafs traded Craig Berube, Alexander Godynyuk, Gary Leeman, Michel Petit and Jeff Reese to the Calgary Flames for Doug Gilmour, Jamie Macoun, Ric Nattress, Rick Wamsley and Kent Manderville." should really be: "...to the Calgary Flames for Doug Gilmour, Jason Smith, Steve Sullivan, Alyn MacCauley, Jamies Macoun, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Ric Natress, Rick Walmsley, and Kent Manderville." because the Leafs traded Gilmour to Jersey and traded Macoun for draft choice. Whatever a team does with the asset whether it is a player, cash, draft choice, or a bus should not count against the team that gave it away. Other than that and the Fred Modin bit mentioned by grum, fine article.
posted at 09:25 AM on April 09
Farewell to Another Great: Tom Johnson, Stanley Cup winning player and coach has passed on at the age of 79. Kevin Paul DuPont has written this memorial to a man who lived for his sport.
posted by Howard_T at 11:11 AM on November 23
Thanks, thanks, thanks for posting this. Tom Johnson is almost a footnote - who broke Doug Harvey's run of Norris Trophies - but he was a good player. My mum lived in the same apartment building with Tom Johnson during the five-in-a-row in the late fifties. My grandfather (who died before I was born) was the super and talked a lot with Tom Johnson - hockey, Johnson's Ford Thunderbirds, whatever. Tom was a bit of a fast living guy, apparently, with lots of guests and a few car wrecks and a couple of other Canadiens roomies. I think it was right that Guy Lafleur turned down the offer to unretire Jean Beliveau's number 4 and took Tom Johnson's number ten - the two of them were skilled leaders on the ice and lived the good life off.
posted at 07:19 PM on November 23
CBC Radio and TV Archives, Sports Category includes vintage clips such as Wayne Gretzky interviewed after scoring 1,000th career goal (at age 13); NHL doubles in size (1966); Rocket Richard in playoffs (1944); "skurfing" the streets in 1965; wrestling legend Gene Kiniski interviewed in 1978; making wooden lacrosse sticks; Montreal Expos first home opener in 1969; no beer at Blue Jays games; Russ Jackson and Rough Riders beat Roughriders in 1969 Grey Cup; novelist W.O. Mitchell reviews curling; and much more. Worth a browse.
posted by rumple at 03:03 AM on November 23
I like that link. I wish they had more (say, a full period) of that 1944 Montreal Canadiens game.
posted at 04:40 PM on November 23
An All Prairie Grey Cup After holding (and winning) their first home playoff game in 19 years and then beating the B.C. Lions on the road, the Saskatchewan Roughriders are heading to Toronto to play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the 95th Grey Cup. After losing All-Star QB Kevin Glenn to a broken arm in the Eastern Conference Final, Winnipeg seems to be the clear underdog.
posted by jc at 07:18 PM on November 19
Honorary Banjo Bowl!
posted at 09:33 PM on November 19
Lindros announces retirement, donates $5,000,000 to Ontario hospital I truly enjoyed my days of playing, and look forward to the next chapter of my life.
posted by tommytrump at 05:10 PM on November 12
Gartner holds the (unofficial) record for playing the most games for a Stanley Cup winning team without being getting his name on the Cup. (Seventy two games when the Rangers traded him at deadline.)
posted at 07:05 PM on November 12
American Idol: Modano Breaks NHL American Scoring Record Mike Modano needed less than five minutes to break Phil Housley's NHL record for the most points by a U.S.-born player with two goals in the Stars 3-1 win over the San Jose Sharks. Congrats to this Michigan Born Native.
posted by skydivedad at 11:46 AM on November 10
And to quibble, Mike Modano is not the leading scorer of players with U.S. citizenship. Bryan Trottier has 1425 points and Brett Hull 1391. >I just don't know a lot about Modano's history and was just curious about the adversity he has faced, whether hockey-related or otherwise. I don't know either, but he did lose a ton of money on some bad investment advice a few year's ago.
posted at 09:36 AM on November 10
Lindros announces retirement, donates $5,000,000 to Ontario hospital I truly enjoyed my days of playing, and look forward to the next chapter of my life.
posted by tommytrump at 05:10 PM on November 10
>Dino Ciccarelli... is considered by many as the best player no never win a Cup. I'd put most if not all of these guys ahead of him. Marcel Dionne, Darryl Sittler, Bill Gadsby, Brad Park, Marcel Dionne, Gilbert Perreault, Mike Gartner, Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert, Michel Goulet, Peter Statsny.
posted at 09:28 AM on November 10
Kicking the ball to Holland. I explain that few people are even aware that Suriname exists, yet, far away ... where the stars of European soccer shine, Edgar Davids, Patrick Kluivert, Clarence Seedorf, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard are famous names. They have Suriname in their past, but the jerseys they wear, or did wear, are Dutch. ... There are countries twice the size of Suriname without half its number of celebrity names. ... But the tragedy is that none of them can come and play for their country of origin.
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:58 PM on November 02
Thanks for posting this.
posted at 07:54 PM on November 02
Washington Nationals Say Goodbye to RFK Stadium William Gildea, a Washington Post sportswriter for 40 years, returns to the paper today to mark a special occasion -- the first time a Washington baseball team has moved out in happy circumstances. "The incumbent Nationals won't be moving across the country after their last home game today but only a matter of city blocks to a new stadium, scheduled to open next season," he writes. "As a rule, our baseball goodbyes in Washington are not this easy."
posted by rcade at 10:37 AM on September 28
>I still miss Jarry Park, and the Olympic Stadium. Aye.
posted at 08:14 PM on September 28
Canadian artist Ken Danby dies at 67 Danby is best known for his 1972 painting, At the Crease. His famous sports images include The Great Farewell, painted for Wayne Gretzky, when he decided to retire from playing hockey. In the 1980's he prepared a series of watercolours on the Americas Cup, and on Canadian athletes at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo.
posted by tommytrump at 02:04 PM on September 26
>"She said that she had long had a print of it in her home and really enjoyed it. I thanked her, but also explained that, 'It isn't an image of Ken Dryden.' Looking puzzled, she replied, 'Yes it is.' I responded, 'No it isn't.' After a long pause, she loudly exclaimed, 'Yes it is!' I quickly apologized, with the sudden realization that she was right. It's really whomever one wants it to be."
posted at 06:35 PM on September 26
Canadian artist Ken Danby dies at 67 Danby is best known for his 1972 painting, At the Crease. His famous sports images include The Great Farewell, painted for Wayne Gretzky, when he decided to retire from playing hockey. In the 1980's he prepared a series of watercolours on the Americas Cup, and on Canadian athletes at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo.
posted by tommytrump at 02:04 PM on September 26
I feel like I grew up looking at In the crease. It seemed to be everywhere in my childhood. I'm surprised Danby was so young - I thought he was much older.
posted at 08:23 AM on September 26
Coup d'etat in Ottawa In other news, Generalissimo Franco is still dead.
posted by tommytrump at 08:19 PM on June 18
I'm not really surprised. The word seemed to be that he's 73 and was there temporarily.
posted at 09:10 PM on June 18
Sabres 0 - Senators 2
Red Wings 1 - Ducks 1
with apologies to lilnemo
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:47 AM on May 15
>One shot in six power plays. Ottawa had a shorthanded two-on-none. I don't know if I had seen that before.
posted at 06:58 AM on May 15
Panthers' Belfour and Peltonen arrested Once again proving that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
posted by wingnut4life at 04:20 AM on April 10
>Maybe a skinny 41 year old Just a quibble. 5'11", 200 pounds. But I see your point.
posted at 01:23 PM on April 10
>In the Young and Cobb case, the game has changed so much that those kind of numbers just aren't attainable. Yes. That is a huge factor in a lot of these, such as Glenn Hall's mark or Nolan Ryan's. Similar change: no one will play in the NHL finals ten years in a row again, like Bert Olmstead, Bernie Geoffrion, Doug Harvey, and Tom Johnson did in the 1950s. I don't think anyone will beat Larry Robinson's career +730, Bill Mosienko's three goals in 21 seconds, Doug Jarvis' 964 consecutive games, or Bobby Orr's +124 in a season. My favourite (unofficial) record. Most knockouts by an NHL superstar in one game when Maurice Richard had 2 knock outs in MSG.