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| Name: | Mike Nowak |
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| Homepage URL: | http://the-inbetween.com |
| Location: | Toronto |
| Member since: | February 1, 2002 |
| Last visit: | June 26, 2008 |
mkn has posted 37 links and 506 comments to SportsFilter and 5 threads and 173 comments to the Locker Room.
4th place: Sportsfilter OlymPicksIconic ace Darvish pushes Japan’s boundaries
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Legendary Canadian sportscaster Don Wittman dies. A sports broadcasting renaissance man that covered any and every sport around, from NHL hockey on HNIC and international hockey to the Grey Cup to curling, but he will forever be known as the voice of Canadian olympic track gold.
posted on Jan 19, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Ice Hockey gets its own Champions League : the Victoria Cup. Beginning 2008, the IIHF plans on hosting an annual exhibition series between the top three European teams and an NHL franchise. A likely alternative to that quiet but old topic: NHL European expansion
posted on May 8, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Wendel Clark is Barry Melrose's cousin according to Wikipedia's "List of Family Relations in NHL". There's also the List of second generation Major League Baseball players and many other random lists of sportspeople.
posted on Mar 1, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Yzerman to call it quits The HHOF awaits. Also, Pronger to wear one of those new Ducks uniforms.
posted on Jul 3, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Cito Gaston's coming back! The reeling Toronto Blue Jays fired manager John Gibbons on Friday and replaced him with former manager Cito Gaston, the man who led the team to its only two World Series titles. The Jays also fired coaches Marty Pevey, Ernie Whitt and Gary Denbo. Gaston, who has been special assistant to the president and CEO, had a 681-635 record as manager during his earlier stint. Joining his staff will be first base coach Dwayne Murphy, third base coach Nick Leyva and hitting coach Gene Tenace.
posted to Baseball at 4:08 PM CDT
Robert Kubica wins the Canadian Grand Prix. Robert Kubica becomes the first Polish driver to win a Grand Prix, scoring BMW's first ever victory in the process. His teammate Nick Heidfeld made it a BMW 1-2 after Lewis Hamilton ended his and Kimi Raikkonen's race in a bonehead incident in the pitlane. A year ago, Kubica was lucky to leave Montreal with his life. This year he leaves it leading the drivers championship by four points. What a difference a year makes.
posted to Auto Racing at 2:40 PM CDT
It was a good win. Made up for the disappointment at the Euros right after the race.
posted at 5:55 PM CDT on June 8
CBC fumbles negotiations on Hockey Night theme A lowball offer by the CBC to buy the Hockey Night in Canada theme song from its composer prompted the temporary collapse of year-long negotiations and a national furor Thursday over the future of the iconic anthem, the man in charge of its copyright says. For many Canadians, the stirring “dunt-da-DUNT-da-dunt” that has opened each broadcast of Hockey Night since 1968 is pure Canadiana — as deeply woven into the national fabric as Tim Hortons and the great game itself.
posted to Business and Law at 10:08 AM CDT
I say just stick with the classic CBC Sports intro and leave it at that. I'd rather have that than an open contest for people to submit their shit -- knowing HNIC's love affair with super-rural Canada, you're going to get nothing but shitty wannabe rockbands from places like Wawa or Moosomin, Saskatchewan.
posted at 12:18 AM CDT on June 7
Fines will be imposed for clear cases of flopping: The league office has yet to determine exact fine amounts for offending flops and how fines might escalate for repeat offenders, but in-game arena observers and video reviewers will be instructed to report instances of theatrical flopping for potential punishment as part of postgame reports on officiating and other matters.
posted to Basketball at 11:35 AM CDT
There wouldn't be so much flopping around if the refs actually called offensive fouls. Which they rarely do. Especially with marquee players, which is total bullshit. I dunno. I've watched a lot of playoff games this season and a bunch of games down the regular season stretch and the thing that most bugs me about the NBA is the totally inconsistent refereeing.
posted at 1:34 AM CDT on May 31
Russia beats Canada in World Hockey Championships The game was pretty good but the O.T. was 4 on 4. You play 60 minutes 5 on 5 and then settle the game in sudden death OT in a different format. A good or bad idea for international hockey?
posted to Hockey at 12:41 AM CDT
It's like that in the NHL. It's 4 on 4 followed by shoot-out... until you hit the playoffs where the games really matter and it's "play to win". Period.
Of course, historically with the IIHF they never did the full intermission and full OT period anyway... just 10 minutes and a shootout. Whatever. I'd rather the game be settled in a weird 4-3 powerplay than a shootout.
Great game though.
posted at 12:19 AM CDT on May 20
Rushin' to the Olympics: Former Silver Stars guard Becky Hammons becomes a naturalized Russian citizen in order to compete in the 2008 Olympic games.
posted to Olympics at 11:12 AM CDT
It kind of does feel like you betrayed your country.
Nationalism is stupid. What the Olympics should be about is athletes and sports and co-operation and fair play; not this nationalist bullshit and corporate sponsorship and politics (I'm looking at you Beijing).
Yet there are people that think that athletes pursuing their dreams to play in the Olympics, even if it means going to another country, is what's wrong with the Olympics? THIS out of all things? No, to me that's what's right.
posted at 10:17 AM CDT on April 10
Liverpool Co-Owner: Fans Hate Tom Hicks American billionaire George Gillett is kicking himself for buying Liverpool FC with fellow Yank Tom Hicks. Since Hicks scuttled a deal by a Dubai group that wants to buy out Gillett's 50 percent, the owners have gotten an enormous amount of hate mail and calls from angry fans, according to his co-owner. "The thing that angers fans the most is the prospect I might sell even one share of my stock to my partner," Gillett said in a radio interview. "They do not want him to have any controlling interest in this club -- they do not even want him to have any ownership in the club. As a result of that -- and it's been very difficult for my wife with the amount that I travel -- we receive many phone calls in the middle of the night threatening our lives -- death threats."
posted to Soccer at 6:43 PM CDT
Americans have no business sticking their noses in English football. It's a sport they do not understand.
Blah blah blah. Canadians said the same thing about hockey when he purchased the Montreal Canadiens -- yet now they are one of the best teams in the league. You don't have to understand the nuances of the sport to own a team, you just hire people that do.
posted at 11:07 PM CDT on March 29
Critics Go Ape Over LeBron James Magazine Cover A picture of NBA star LeBron James and the model Gisele on the cover of April's Vogue is attracting controversy over their pose. The shot taken by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has been compared by some detractors to King Kong holding Fay Wray. ESPN.Com columnist Jemele Hill called it "memorable for all the wrong reasons." The photo is remarkably similar to "Destroy This Mad Brute," a famous World War I recruitment poster.
posted to Basketball at 10:16 AM CDT
I don't see it and I didn't see it in any of the other photos from the shoot.
What do you think is the meaning of LeBron James looking angry on that cover?
I didn't see the anger as well. I thought it was just intensity. You know, as happens in sport?
Besides, if you see King Kong in this photo why is everyone trumping the fact that it's "racist" but nobody is saying that it's "sexist" in its portrayal of the female model as a helpless victim? Oh right, it's a FASHION MAGAZINE.
posted at 2:24 PM CDT on March 27
Top 10: Sports Superstitions. Sports are a competitive business, and athletes face a tremendous amount of pressure to always be at their best. Sometimes it’s not enough to just practice and train for hours on end, as players also need to have a mental edge, which often manifests in some strange and nonsensical behaviors and beliefs. Maybe performing the following rituals don’t make an athlete play better, but not adhering to them will certainly make them worse, if only in their own mind.
posted to Culture at 9:54 AM CDT
Henrik Lundqvist logged a record six shut outs in a season
Wha? Record? *ahem*
22-George Hainsworth, 1928-29
15-Alex Connell, 1925-26
15-Alex Connell, 1927-28
15-Hal Winkler, 1927-28
15-Tony Esposito, 1969-70
14-George Hainsworth, 1926-27
posted at 4:04 PM CDT on March 5
No Jokinen, Zednick's Throat Slashed During Hockey Game. Florida Panthers' forward Richard Zednik had his throat slashed by teammate Olli Jokinen's skate in Buffalo Sunday night while playing against the Sabres. Zednik is in stable condition following surgery to repair a "deep gash" in his neck, and the Panthers are flying his wife Jessica to Buffalo to be with him.
posted to Hockey at 10:02 AM CDT
Fan photos showing the extent of the blood loss.
(by that way, that's a really lousy pun there!)
posted at 10:52 AM CDT on February 11
In panning across the benches, all the players did look a little green afterward.
They weren't the only ones.
posted at 12:13 PM CDT on February 11
So if you mandate that hockey players should wear neck protection because of two freak incidents in over twenty years, does that mean that javelin judges should wear steel toed boots all the time?
posted at 1:27 PM CDT on February 12
What does $9,999 get you?
Greatness.
posted to Hockey at 10:25 AM CDT
He's from Ontario, and I think it's a sin in Canada to not acknowledge the creative genius that is Wayne Gretzky.
I think it depends on whether you have or have not seen his Saturday Night Live appearance.
posted at 8:12 AM CDT on February 11
Leafs fire G.M. Ferguson Fletch lives! Leafs fire General Manager John Ferguson and have replaced him with Cliff Fletcher on an interim basis.
posted to Hockey at 12:00 PM CDT
Doesn't exactly seem like a congruent business with the NHL. But it does explain a lot about the state of the Leafs today. Ownership-by-committee is rarely a winning proposition.
The Leafs make money hand over fist despite their shitty management and lousy on-ice product. It makes the pensioners a lot of money. The ownership has been the biggest problem with the Leafs over the last forty years.
posted at 4:36 PM CDT on January 22
Lacrosse: Buffalo Bandits forward John Tavares tops all-time NLL record. The 39-year-old surpassed Gait's record with four goals on Saturday in Buffalo's 17-13 win over New York. Tavares now holds the National Lacrosse League's golas record with 597. In the other NLL game this weekend Toronto Rock outlasted the Edmonton Rush 14-9.
posted to Other at 4:31 PM CDT
The amazing thing about Lacrosse players is that they really do it for the love of the sport. Their salaries are poor and often they need "real" jobs on the side to pay their bills. John Tavares, for example, was a math teacher at my high school (as well as coach for its lacrosse team, naturally). I never had him but some of my friends say he was a good teacher. Now, also an NLL record holder.
Oh yeah, his nephew's a pretty good hockey player too.
posted at 4:44 PM CDT on January 20
Cito Gaston with the Jays. Cliff Fletcher with the Leafs. Did I travel back to 1993?