By RJ Currie - a tongue-in-cheek look at sports and the world.
Saturday, 24 May 2014
New York police say a man stole a bakery truck and delivered the $8,000 load of loaves and rolls to random businesses. It’s the city’s biggest waste of dough since Mark Sanchez.
Mallory Edens, 18-year-old daughter of Bucks co-owner Wesley Edens, was their draft lottery rep and has since gained over 26,000 Twitter followers. Milwaukee's average crowd was 13,487. Rep, schmep - I'd make Mallory assistant coach.
Canadiens defenceman PK Subban said Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist was lucky he didn’t give up more goals. That’s like saying a marathoner is lucky not to gain weight.
Friday, 23 May 2014
Rory McIlroy opened with a 68 at Wentworth, his first round of golf since breaking off his engagement to Caroline Wozniacki. It's nice he had a hot hand to go with his cold feet.
Have you seen back9network.com's 2014 Golf Swimsuit Gallery
photo of golfer and model Blair O'Neal holding a driver. She looks
great, no ifs, ands or putts about it.
GOLFER BLAIR O'NEAL: LOOKING GOOD
Despite rumours to the contrary, the CFL offered the players association a nine per cent salary cap increase, not a nine cent increase.
A
London table tennis venue has hosted Britain's first naked ping-pong
tournament. I've read about England's favourite pastimes; one can only
imagine what's getting paddled.
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Another Sports Deke random cheerleader pic. We bring good cheer.
Thieves reportedly broke into President James A Garfield’s tomb and stole 13 commemorative spoons. That ends today’s scoops.
Russian news reports say a $275-million
satellite carrier burned up shortly after launch, the second failure of a
Russian rocket in recent months. The first was Alex Ovechkin.
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
A farmer's idea of pigs diving from platforms into a pond has become a tourist attraction in China. The three most popular dives: 3. The half-pork somersault; 2. The back-bacon flip; 1. Sowchronized diving.
Another Sports Deke random cheerleader pic. We bring good cheer.
TSN1
was showing highlights of hits from the Canadiens-Bruins series. At one
point PK Subban hit Rielly Smith so hard I thought the Bruin might land
on TSN5.
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
A man who claimed he was
God reportedly drove a truck through the front doors of a Maryland TV
station. In case you’re wondering, Flames exec Brian Burke has an alibi.
Colts quarterback Andrew Luck crashed some wedding photos in Indianapolis
at the request of the newlyweds. It’s not often you get pictures of
Luck making a reception.
Monday, 19 May 2014
I’m not saying it’ll be hard for Browns QB Johnny Manziel to “act like a backup” because of his flamboyance, self confidence and ego. It’ll be hard because the starter is Brian Hoyer.
JOHNNY FOOTBALL WILL BE ROCKING CLEVELAND
Another Sports Deke random cheerleader pic. We bring good cheer.
Herb
Lotman, co-founder of the McDonald's LPGA Championship and Chicken
McNugget pioneer, has died. It's expected he'll have at least one
turnover in his grave.
Sunday, 18 May 2014
Russia's president played in a
celebrity hockey game in Sochi. He recorded a Vladimir Putin hat-trick,
with six goals, five assists and three foreign invasions.
Saskatoon police say
70 per cent of local vehicles stolen in 2014 had the keys in them. I
admit I've forgotten the keys many times in my 1990 Volkswagen; still no
luck.
The San Jose Sharks have already
announced forward Marty Havlat and blueliner Dan Boyle won't be back.
Havlat has been cut while Boyle was lanced.