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Colbert to Blair: 'I'm sorry that you're cheaters'

j blair@globeandmail.com It took several takes for Stephen Colbert's film crew to wrap up the Comedy Central star's foray into the slippery world of skeleton and bobsleigh yesterday, so perhaps that explained why the star of The Colbert Report extended ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Colbert,  Jon Stewart

Wilson watch in Toronto

H ere’s the deal with Ron Wilson: forget the record or parsing whether general manager Brian Burke said the Toronto Maple Leafs would make the playoffs or merely contend for a playoff spot. Forget the fact his team has one forward capable of being ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Toronto Maple Leafs,  Hamed Haddadi,  National Basketball Association,  Ron Wilson,  Brian Burke

Solo athletes play as a team

j blair@globeandmail.com Got 15, maybe 20 minutes? That ought to be enough time for the program manager of Canada's skeleton team, Nathan Cicoria, to explain the formula for deciding the pecking order and the composition of Canada's men's and women's ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Henry just did what he had to

H ate the game, but don’t hate the playa. Anybody who thinks that Thierry Henry should not have tried to play the ball with his hand or alert referee Martin Hansson to his obvious handball in Wednesday’s crucial World Cup qualifier is not a realist. ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thierry Henry,  William Gallas,  FIFA

Catching up with another Doc

I 've told people that the two sweetest sights I saw covering the Montreal Expos were Rondell White's swing in BP and Doc Gooden's delivery whenever the Mets played Les Expos. Doc turned 45 (wow!) recently and Wayne Coffey of the New York Daily News has ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BP p.l.c.,  New York Daily News

The Look ahead

E ight touches? Seven carries? That’s all the Hamilton Tiger-Cats asked of DeAndra’ Cobb in a playoff game on a dry surface? “You just go to the line and go with what the coaches call,” said Cobb, the Tiger-Cats running back who had 267 yards rushing in ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Jordan,  Toronto Blue Jays,  National Basketball Association,  Kevin Glenn,  Detroit Tigers

Toews accuses some players of headhunting

j blair@globeandmail.com Jonathan Toews knows BS when he hears it. Back in the Chicago Blackhawks' lineup after missing six games with a concussion, the second-year centre and captain is in a unique position to pass judgment on the NHL's ham-handed ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Toronto Maple Leafs,  Chicago Blackhawks,  Vancouver Canucks,  Patrick Kane,  Vesa Toskala

Kaberle Leafs new ‘point man’

H e doesn’t wear the ‘C,’ but Tomas Kaberle appears to have replaced Mats Sundin as the media’s patron saint of lost causes: the guy who gives you the requisite amount of bitterness and disappointment and steely “we have to step it up” resolve. He has ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tomas Kaberle,  Mats Sundin,  Toronto Maple Leafs,  Chicago Blackhawks,  Phil Kessel

Toskala gets start in Windy City

W hy not? Already concerned about how some of his Toronto Maple Leafs will handle their foray into the United Center, head coach Ron Wilson swallowed hard and announced that Vesa Toskala will start in goal tonight against the Chicago Blackhawks. And – ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Toronto Maple Leafs,  Chicago Blackhawks,  Patrick Kane

Walk softly. . . and avoid the logo

A lot of what passes for tradition in hockey is a load of crap, but some of the nuances can be pretty funny. Best moment of the day: watching Barry Davis of Rogers Sportsnet perform a remarkably athletic leap to avoid stepping on the Blackhawk logo on ...

From JEFF BLAIR, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barry Davis,  Chicago Blackhawks

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