the mad sports man

last blog of march. geez the month just flew by. exhibition and regular season baseball, ncaa tournament, the playoff stretch in hockey, and my blog beginning. can't forget the car racing. nascar is the way to go! it will be interesting to see what april will be like. by the way edmonton won in dallas tonite. the revenge from last week was a royal pain for dallas. hmmm if i remember an entry this time last week about revenge.....

baseball season started this morning - 3 am here - in japan. the tampa bay devil rays beat the new york yankees 8-3. the play again tomorrow morning befor coming home to finish their exhibition sked. i am ready for baseball now. geez i cant believe tomorrow is the end of the month. yikes

i had a rough day. i had to deal with an upset stomach today. my nap earlier helped a bit. i think maybe early to bed tonite. later

just another saturday night! of course hockey night in canada. throw in some laundry in there and its a productive night. found a couple of sites for one of my favorite shows - wkrp in cincinnati. even got the lyrics for the opening theme too. all i need to do is to print the episodes and im in business. i just need paper. hmm - the single life (hee hee hee).

wow. i ended up on darrens blog. its because of him that inspired me to start my own blog. by the sounds of his last email he coming home in august. he mentioned the fringe. he probably wants to see his family more. hmm im thinking holiday to saskatchewan or somewhere. that and baseball. mmmmmmm baseball.

more ncaa tournament. conneticut has already moved on to the elite 8. pittsburgh and oklahoma st. is playing now. 2 games later today and four more tomorrow, 2 saturday and 2 sunday and well have our final four. prairie pickin' is on now as well.im getting my bluegrass kick.yeehaa thursday night fun in more ways than one here. geez if only i had some m&ms. mmmmmmmmmmmm m&ms.

damn! was at the oilers game tonite. great game too bad they lost in o.t. to dallas! hence the damn! came home dissapointed literally. payback is a pain though. a royal pain.

slow sports night. it helped in a way. had a lot of running around to do after work. watching my weekly racing show - inside nextel cup racing with michael waltrip, johnny benson and ken schrader and hosted by allan bestwick. the show reviews the weekend's racing, previews the upcoming race weekend, and has the hot seat feature. the hot seat is where someone in nascar (driver, crew chief or whatever) comes in and gets "grilled" by the "expert" panel of mikey, johnny and kenny. the show is on speed channel every monday at 5 & 9. there's even a speed fan q&a. very good show. more later.

what a crazy 3rd period. the oilers were trailing nashville 2-1 and end up winning 5-4. i've also been watching the ncaa tournament and back to the future part 2. fun night. all is good.

a very busy thursday night already! the ncaa final four tournament is under way. 9 games in the nhl tonight. theres prairie pickin' on at 7pm with rob and doug. loads of fun already. more to come.

i check out TROOPER's website today. talk about updated. left a very good impression on me BIG TIME. the website - at least to me - seemed more organized than it before. not that it wasnt organized in its old format, but i can find things better now. hmmm maybe i should send them an email and tell them how much i like it. i say that as im listening to trooper now. cant go wrong with canada's #1 party band. i got to see them last summer on the first night of klondike days. awesome night that was. more to come soon.

MARCH MADNESS IS COMING! to unconfuse what i just said (those who dont follow sports) march madness is another name for the ncaa final four basketball tournament. it all starts thursday on cbs. im taking duke bluedevils. ive liked duke since my early high school days.every year i hope they win. they won 3 times since i first started high school in 1990-91. geez that long? im old.

ive almost beaten my cold. the last two or three days were rough. ive had to stop to blow my nose every few minutes at work. at least until i had neo citrin last night before bed. today i got rid of most of it. couple more cups of neo citrin may help (and a little prayer). taking the bus home today was a "cough free" trip home. thursday and friday coming home, all i did was cough. i would cough for a bit then silence, then cough some more. that kind of trip. last night i felt pretty wiped to the point, that i had to phone ray (darren knows him) to cancel our get together to watch trooper at reds. lousy cold. im okay now.hopefully better tomorrow. and thats that

HOLY MACKINAW!!! 3 hours of prairie pickin' tonite. a great surprise. prairie pickin' is usually an hour long, between 7 & 8pm on cjsr fm88. tonie is of rarity since minister faust - the host of THE PHANTOM PYRAMID - couldn't be in tonite, so prairie pickin' is 3 hours. doug ritchie and rob baker are the hosts of this show (doug left after the first hour for a previos engagement). all is fun though. rob is still a great host. darren and i sometimes think robs on drugs or something during the show, hes gets that excited.

my room is a marvel to look at - maybe. my room is lined with sports stats and pictures. championship winners and olympic posters and emblems (mini ones thats printable). even banners and licence plates on the ceiling. darren has seen it. more to come.

survivor rocks. especially wheni have my weekly sunday discussions with the greatest "survivor tag team partner." all ravin and i talk about is the previos episode of survivor. were just that damn good. sure enough, we talked survivor today . different opinions, yes. nothing wrong with that. until next week, we await the next episode for our next meeting.all is good.

ITS HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA ON CBC. back to back games tonite with buffalo @ toronto playing now (buffalo up 1-0). at 8pm its montreal at los angeles. h.n.i.c. is a saturday night ritual during hockey season. looking forward to the playoffs. until then, the stretch run. back to some hockey.

the most interesting (and possibly strange) thing i saw while watching global news @ 5:30. claire martin (our weather girl) showed the viewers an interesting "beer cooler" from nova scotia (they had a major snowstorm last month - got 95cm). in the doorway you could see beer cans and beer bottles in the snowdrift. the homeowners had decided totake advantage of the deep snow and "invent" their beer cooler. quite the sight. looking forward to prairie pickin' and survivor tonite. a fun thursday for sure.

today i found myself watching "the red green show." great canadian show. only missing two things - 2L bottle of pop & a bag of m&m's. mmmmmmmmm tasty. the m&m's connection goes back to when the show first started. seemed like when red green was on, there was a bag of m&m's. hmm i could use a bag of m&ms right now.

MARCH 02 2004 Wow! My first post! This will be fun! Inspired by a very good friend, Darren. Here's to Darren. The summer olympics are coming in August. I'm looking forward to them. Got a hockey game between Edmonton and Phoenix on. Edmonton is up 3-1 in the 2nd period. More later. chris