the mad sports man

end of january already? geez, can't believe tomorrow is february already. is seems like yesterday the world was ringing in the new year and now its almost february. and it was such a gorgeous day today too. got up to 8c today and its supposed to get that high tomorrow and 10c wednesday (my day off too ha ha). feels like spring. winter's not over yet.

a "fog"gy day - literally and figuratively talk about being in a fog. it felt like such a blur, i cant remember what happened - except that it was busy. i leave work it was foggy outside too. claire martin used the word "murky." either way i felt like i was in a fog. go figure.

new england vs philadelphia its the patriots vs the eagles in super bowl 39 on feb. 6. new england beat pittsburgh 41-27 while philly beat atlanta 27-10 yesterday. can't wait. all the junk food and pop you can have. it'll be a superbowl xxxix party for sure.

scary sight at rexall place a scary sight at rexall place last night between the edmonton read runners and the manitoba moose. jaret stoll of edmonton trying to take out a manitoba player and as he fell on the ice, the manitoba player inadvertenly stepped on stolly's calf. and boy did stolly realize it right away. his leg was a mess. don't know how bad it really got, but that motivated the rest of the road runners as the snapped a 6 game losing streak by winning 3-1. i think that was manitobas 4th road loss.

nfl playoffs and darren's 30th b-day today is darrens 30th birthday. i guess it was yesterday for him, with him being in china et al. it's all down hill from here, pal. i should know. its philadelphia and atlanta for the nfc championship next week. philly beat minnesota 27-14 today and atlanta beat st.louis yesterday 47-17. in the afc, its pittsburgh and new england for that championship. pittsburgh beat new york (the J-E-T-S, JETS! JETS! JETS! sorry, i had to do that) in overtime 20-17 yesterday. today new england beat indianapolis 20-3. more news on www.nfl.com .

a supposed warm up i guess the weather forecast is saying a warm up by the beginning of the work week. after seeing teperatures of -18 for tomorrow, -15 for sunday, -9 and snow for monday and -4 and a little more snow for tuesday, i say i'll believe it when i see it. until then, we'll see.

brrrr just came in from outside. its -19 out with wind gusts up to 50 km/hour. come tomorrow morning it'll be major windy and major snowing. with the gusts up to 50 km there will definitely be blizzard like conditions and a -45 wind chill. good thing i don't have to work tomorrow. sleep in toasty bed.

nfl playoffs day 2 indianapolis beat denver 49-24 and minnesota beat green bay 31-17 and advanced to the divisonal playoff. in the divional, indianapolis plays new england, n.y.jets play pittsburgh, minnesota plays philadelphia, and st.louis plays atlanta. for mors stats go to www.nfl.com .

nfl playoffs the nfl playoffs have begun. just finished watching the n.y.jets beat san diego 20-17 in overtime. earlier the st.louis rams won in seattle 27-20. more nfl wild card games tomorrow. denver @ indianapolis at 11 am and minnesota @ green bay at 2:30. division finals next weekend.

398 days to torino winter olympics holy cow. cant believe it's just over a year to the beginning of the torino winter olympics. check out www.olympics.org to get more info. the website even has all the logos, mascots and torches that i have on my walls (that reminds me, i haven't posted the mascots. the pics from one of my blogs in september doesn't have the mascots). even www.aldaver.com has all the posters, emblems and mascots of the olympics and world cup of soccer and other soccer events. 6 months to the announcement of the 2012 summer olympics. the five cities: london, madrid, moscow, new york and paris. the announcement to be made july 6.

the slow end of christmas yep, all the christmas stuff is coming down bit by bit at the mall. 3 of the trees are down and gone (good thing they're artificial) plus the giant one in phase 1 which also pased as santaville. at least on the stage in front of the bay that is. plus most of the christmas stuff is gone in my room too. it'll all be down by tomorrow here. who knows at the mall. there is still stiff hanging on the ceiling on both floors. before we all know it, there will be nothing left but just a normal mall in the midst of a cold snap. welcome to the freezer.

the gold is coming home canada has just won the gold medal. they have defeated russia 6-1 and dominated the tournament outscoring the opposition 41-5 in six games, winning all 6 games. this is canada's first tournament gold since 1997. WE'RE #1.

canada for gold and nfl playoffs canada is in the gold medal game. russia and u.s. is currently playing the other semi final. updates on www.tsn.ca and look up the world jr hockey part. the final regular season games are done and the playoff picture is decided. the playoff picture - denver at indianapolis, minnesota at green bay, n.y.jets at san diego and st.louis at seattle. all the results on www.nfl.com . dallas @ n.y.giants is now on.

more world junior hockey canada plays the czech republic tomorrow in semi final game after the czech republic beat finland 3-0 this afternoon in quarter final action. meanwhile the u.s. just beat sweden 8-2 in the other q.f. game and now plays russia tomorrow in the other semi-final game. the winners of the semi-final games play for gold on tuesday, while the losers play for bronze. finland and sweden will play for 5th on monday.

HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. hope its a good one. fireworks were pretty cool. this starts the year long birthday party for alberta as the province turns 100 this year. officialy it turns 100 on september 1. saskatchewan also became a province on sept. 1, 1905 so it turns 100 as well. anyways happy 2005 to all.