the mad sports man

Canada had this game going away as they beat Czech Republic 7-2. They will finish first in group b and will face Slovakia in the quarter finals on Tuesday. Puck drop is I believe 8am Prince Albert time. (3pm Ostrava time).

Canada beat Germany 4-1 this morning and boy they needed that one. They are second behind the US. Canada has 6 pts and U.S has 8. The U.S beat the Czech Republic 4-3 in ot in what I think was the game of the day. Canada plays the Czech Republic tomorrow to finish off the round robin.

In the afc, New England will face Tennessee and Houston will face Buffalo with Baltimore and Kansas City having byes. In the nfc, New Orleans will fave Minnesota and Philadelphia will face Seattle with San Francisco and Green Bay having byes. Wild card games are next weekend.

This was one sided and it got bad early as Russia beat Canada 6-0. Embarrassing loss for Canada. Started with the first goal that went off the goalies shoulder and into the net. Next game is Monday against Germany. Germany surprised Czech Republic 4-3 this morning. Canada's entire group has a win and a loss.

......beginning of the world juniors. Canada opened with a 6-4 win over the U.S. Good game though. They started trailing 2-0. Next game is Saturday against Russia.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Great to spend Christmas eve at dad's and stepmoms place for dinner. Was wonderful. Got to see the nieces and nephews open their presents. Boxing day tomorrow and the world juniors.

Winter solstice begins at 10:19pm tonight. The shortest day of the year in terms of daylight hours. Slowly daylight hours increase. This marks the furthest the earth's northern hemisphere is away from the sun. First full day of winter is tomorrow. How fun

Skylar Park has punched her ticket to the Olympics in Tokyo. She will be competing in Taekwondo 57kg class. Neat.

From their results at the Pan Am games, Ali Tenhove and Mariah Miller claimed a spot for Canada in sailing 49ers class. Neat. Just a little more than 7 months to the games. Wheeeeeeee.

......Bianca Andreescu as she was unanimously chose as Canada's athlete of the year. She is also the first tennis player to win it.

Already a week into December and been sending Christmas cards, checking out decorated houses and looking forward to Christmas dinner. Supposed to snow today an so far nothing. Hmm. It's cooled off though. Can't wait to see what else December brings.

Rosie McClellan finished 4th and Samantha Smith finished 8th at a world Trampolining championship and have secured an Olympic spot in Tokyo. Neat. Canada may get a second spot if they get enough points at the end of the season.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are Grey Cup champions after dominating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from start to finish wit a 33-12 win in the 17th Grey Cup. 5 turnovers in this game. First Grey Cup win since 1990 when they beat Edmonton 50-11. Andrew Harris was named Most Outstanding Canadian and Most Outstanding Player. First time a player has won both. So that is it for another CFL season. #IsItMayYet

It took two matches and unfortunately Canada was on the losing end of both of them as Spain wins this Davis Cup tournament. Quite the run for Canada.

Denis Shapovalov and Vasic Pospisil has put Canada into a Davis Cup tournament final for the first time EVER!!!! Neat. They will be facing either Spain or Great Britain in the final tomorrow.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will be facing the Hamilton Tiger-Cats after going to Regina and beating the Rough Riders 20-13. This could end up a heck of a grey cup game next Sunday.

Kyle Busch who also won today's Ford EcoBoost 500 in Homestead. This is his second title he has won. So there's another Nascar season until Daytona.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are off to the Grey Cup after beating Edmonton 36-16. Not much of a doubt. Coming up has Winnipeg vs Saskatchewan. Kick off shortly.

Tyler Reddick as he won the championship race. Second championship in a row for him. Tomorrow the last race of the season in Homestead. Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex and Kyle Busch are in the final round and are starting in the top 4. Who will reign supreme? Find out tomorrow.

Matt Crafton is this years truck series champion, winning it by two points. Wow. Tomorrow us the Xfinity series championship. This is also the beginning of championship week, ending on the 24th with the Grey Cup.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have knocked out the Grey Cup Champs 35-14. Winnipeg will be going to Saskatchewan to play the Riders. Meanwhile Calgary will still host the Grey Cup - minus the Stamps.

The Eskimos are going to Hamilton to face the Tiger-Cats in the east final after beating Montreal 37-29. The east final is next Sunday.

This one in slalom kayak as Florence Maheu finished 21st in yesterday's slalom world championships. Excellent.

Out west Winnipeg will be visiting Calgary in the western semi final on November 10th with the winner going to Saskatchewan to Plat the Riders on the 17th. Out east Edmonton will be visiting Montreal to visit the Alouettes on the 10th with the winner going to Hamilton to play the Tiger-Cats on the 17th. The road to the Grey Cup is on.

The Washington Nationals are world series champions after beating Houston 6-2 in game 7. First time since 1924 that a Washington team has won a world series. Fun fact: the road team won every game. Crazy. Next baseball we'll see will be in February.

The men's field hockey team wins a thriller two game series beating Ireland in penalty shots and will be going to the 2020 Olympics. The lost yesterday 5-3 and had to win by 2 just to get to penalties. They win today 3-1. They go through the five shots even at 3. Second round of penalties Ireland is stopped and Canada scores. Hopefully the women can join them next weekend. They play two games against Ireland in Ireland. Thanks to Devin Heroux for his updates over the two games.

The unveiling was earlier today. Was nicknamed "the golden Marianne" because: looks like a gold medal, has a flame and the outline of flame looks like a woman's face. Also personified the French Republic after the 1789 revolution. Here is the logo. What do you think?

Dayna Pidhoresky and Trevor Hoebauer have each qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in the marathon. A great day for a marathon today.

Fun fact 1: this is the first decade since the 1910s that the Yankees did not make the world series. Fun fact 2: Washington DC will see its first world series games since the Washington Senators in 1933. That team eventually moved to Minnesota.

Jose Altuve has hit a 2 run homer to put the Astros into the world series, winning game 6 6-4. They will face the Nationals starting Tuesday night at 6pm Prince Albert time.

The Nationals are going to the world series for the first time after sweeping the Cardinals four straight, winning 7-4 tonight in game 4. They await Houston or New York.

Rene Cournoyer will be heading for Tokyo, qualifying his spot in Stuttgart Germany. Great job.

With a 6-1 win, the Houston Astros are in the ALCS knocking out the Tampa Bay Rays in 5 games. Houston will be facing the Yankees starting Saturday in Houston.

A grand slam in the 10th put the Washington Nationals into the NLCS against the Cardinals, beating the Dodgers 7-3. The NLCS starts in St. Louis on Friday.

The St. Louis Cardinals are going to the NLCS after beating the Braves 13-1 in game 5 and winning the series 3-2. They will await the winner of the Washington vs Los Angeles series. Game 5 there starts shortly.

The Yankees made short work of the Twins, sweeping them three straight games. They await the winner of the Astros vs Rays series in the ALCS.

Our artistic gymnastics team is going to the summer Olympics by qualifying for the final in Stuttgart Germany. Congrats ladies.

The Tampa Bay Rays will be facing the Houston Astros after beating Oakland Athletics 5-1 in the A.l. wild card. Minnesota and N.Y. Yankees are the other ALDS series. Hockey season has officially begun. Toronto beat Ottawa 5-3 and Washington beat St. Louis 3-2 in OT. Edmonton vs Vancouver and Vegas vs San Jose is currently playing.

Opening night of the MLB post season had Washington come back from 3-1 down to win 4-3. They will face the Dodgers in the NLDS while Atlanta faces St. Louis.

In 1972 Paul Henderson scored with 34 seconds left in game 8 to give Canada a 6-5 win over the Soviet Union in the summit series. Canada won the series 4-3-1. In 1941 Ted Williams goes 6-8 in a double header against the Philadelphia A's to finish the season with a .406 average. He is still the last player to finish over .406.

Fall is officially here. Began at 1:50 am Prince Albert time. Leaves are already changing color. Had a few cool days here. Had to have seriously rained Thursday night into Friday morning. All the leaves that were on the ground were blocking the drains. Eeep. Daylight hours are getting shorter and shorter.

The mascots are a panda and a lantern. Bing Dwen Dwen panda represents the Olympics and Shuey Rhon Rhon lantern represents the Paralympics. And here they are. What do you think?

Bianca Andreescu is the U.S Open champion after beating Serena Williams 6-3 7-5. Her first career grand slam title and first Canadian to win a major tennis tournament. Williams was gunning for her 24th grand slam title. Congrats to Bianca.

Bianca Andreescu is the first Canadian to reach the U.S Open tennis final. She will be facing Serena Williams. Hopefully a good final. Andreescu is 19 and has a heck of a future.

Boy has it ever arrived. 10c, rainy, cloudy, and the Labour day weekend ends today. Perfect for CFL tradions - Winnipeg vs Saskatchewan yesterday with the Riders winning, Toronto at Hamilton on now and Edmonton at Calgary later. Fun times.

3 more olympic spots claimed over the weekend. Today had the womens 8s take a rowing spot. Yesterday the mens pairs and the womens 4s claim the other two rowing spots. A good weekend for qualification.

Took a day longer but Canada has qualified for the Olympics after beating Brazil 7-0 on the last day of Americas tournament in Surrey B.C. They join Mexico as the two teams qualifying for 2020. Mexico beat Canada yesterday to qualify.

The Canadian women rowed to three spots the last 24 hours. Yesterday Hillary Janssens and Caileigh Filmer qualified a pairs team. Today Andrea Proske and Gabrielle Smith qualified a double skulls team and Carling Zeeman qualified a single skulls boat. That should be around 80 athletes representing Canada in 2020.

Katie Vincent claimed an Olympic spot in the C1 200m event with a 5th place finish at the Canoe Sprint World Championships. That has 80 athletes qualified for the Olympics in 14 sports.

Sean McColl qualified for the Olympics in sport climbing. A brand new sport that combines three disciplines - speed, lead and bouldering. Neat.

Sheesh it felt like fall today. It was windy and cloudy today. Don't think it got higher than 15c today. Leaves are already turning color. It evened rained today. Went from sweating two days ago to almost freezing today. Eeep.

2 golds and 2 bronze to finish the Pan American games. They finish up with 35g, 64s and 53b for 152 total. Ellie Black will be carrying the Canadian flag at the closing ceremonies. That should be fun.

2g, 10s, and 5b for 17 medals today including a Canadian record in the steeplechase and a personal best in the 800m. The overall total has 33g, 64s, and 51b for 148 total. That is Canada's 5th best total at a Pan American games. Just tomorrow left and that's it.

This one in sailing. The men's 49er team qualified for the Olympics earlier. Olympic team is filling up nicely.

18 of them today. 5g, 8s, and 5b today. Swept the podium in there somewhere. Canada now has 31g, 54s, and 46b for 131 total. Yiye. 2 days to go. Gonna get fun.

With Canada beating Brazil in one semi final and the U.S beating Cuba 31-7 in the other, Canada will have a water polo team in Tokyo next year. Awesome for the ladies. They will get either gold ot silver tomorrow.

They all seem to come in 9s. A gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze today bringing the total to 113 medals - 26g, 46s and 41b. 3 days left.

A gold, a silver and 5 bronze today, bringing the total to 25g, 41s and 38b for 104 total. 4 days left in this. Time to finish this.

The equestrian team claimed an Olympic spot in team jumping. Nice. I think the equestrian team has two spots maybe three now. Olympic team is filling out nicely.

A good day 11. 1g, 2s and 6b for 9 medals today. That brings the total to 24g, 40s, and 33b for 97 total. Hopefully more tomorrow. That's it for now.

Day 10 produced 9 more medals - 4g, 2s and 3b. That now brings the total to 23g, 38s, and 27b for 88 total. Quite a ways from the most they had. 6 days left - who knows.

Yesterday was day 9 and Canada had a good day. They picked up 2g, 5s, and 5b for 12 medals. Great. They now have 19g, 36s, and 24b for 79 medals. day 10 today. One week to go. Stay tuned for more.

3 more medals today. I think two of them in diving. 1g and 2s today. That brings the total to 17g, 31s and 19b for 67 total. That's it for day 8.

Happy birthday to me. Canada takes home another ten medals. 4g, 5s and 1b. All the golds and 3 of the silvers came in badminton. I guess we're good in badminton. We now have 16g, 29s and 19b for 64 medals. Pretty good first week of the pan American games.

A gold and two silvers today. One from cycling - that being a silver. That brings the total to 12g, 24s and 18b for 54 medals. Pretty good for 6 days. Day 7 tomorrow. Stay tuned for more.

Another gold and silver this evening. The gold won by the synchro swim team clinched another olympic spot there (duet and team). Sweeeeet. That is now 11g, 22s and 18b for 51 medals. Yippee.

6 more medals won today so far. 2g, 2s and 2b. One of those gold in synchro swimming by Jaquelyn Simoneau and Claudia Holzner. They also qualified a spot in the Olympics in duet. Nice. Plus a bronze last night and Canada has 10g, 21s and 18b for 49 medals.

Ellie Black won bronze in uneven bars. Dorian Llewellyn won a gold in waterskiing overall, a silver in tricks and a bronze in jump. Whitney McClintock took a silver in overall, jump and tricks. And Paige Rini has a bronze in all three. I believe that is now 8g 19s and 15b for 42 medals.

Yesterday one of the golds was claimed by the equestrian dressage team. That gold got an Olympic spot in next year's games.

Ellie Black won gold and Shallon Olsen won bronze here. That is 7g, 18s, and 13b for 38 medals.

First a gold in the women's K2 500 event. The second is also a gold by Dominic Crete in the K1 200m event. And the third is a silver by Andreanne Langlois in the Women's K1 200m event. That is now 6g, 18s and 12b for 36 medals.

Came in the individual all around. I forget who picked up the bronze. That is now 4g, 17s and 12b for 33 medals.

First the power was out here for 6 hours. In that time Canada won 16 medals. Not going to list them all. Today they won 2g, 9s and 5m. That brings the total to. 4G,17s, and 11b for 32 total.

This was in the mens team all around in gymnastics. The team of Zachary Clay, Rene Cornoyer, Justin Karstadt, Corey Paterson, and Sam Zakurnet picked up the bronze. Day 2 finishes with 2g, 8s, and 6b for 16 medals.

First in squash. Men's doubles team took a silver here. In taekwondo a silver in Kyorugi event by Skylar Park on the womens side and a bronze by Hervan Nkogho in Kyorugi on the mens side. That is now 2g, 8s, and 5b for 15 medals. Yes.

2 in rugby 7s. The women won the first of two golds and the men won the silver. In canoe/kayak the women's K4 team won the 2nd gold in the 500 race. The women's doubles won silver in squash and in taekwondo the Poomsae event-two silvers. One in the mixed pairs and one in the mixed team. That is now 2 golds, 6 silvers and 4 bronze for 12 medals. Yiye.

The team of Brooklyn Moore, Shallon Olsen, Isabela Onyshko and Victoria-Kayen Woo won a silver in artistic gymnastics. Woo-hoo. That is now 2 silvers and 4 bronze for 6 medals. Pretty good first day.

A trio in Squash and all bronze. Hollie Naughton picked up one as well as Samantha Cornett in women's singles. Naughton and Andrew Schell picked up a bronze in mixed doubles. That is now a silver and 4 bronze for 5 medals.

First in the canoe. The men picked up a silver in the C2 1000m event. The second in taekwondo. AJ Assadian picked up a bronze in Poomsae. So far so good.

The 2019 Pan American games are officially on. Parade of Nations were awesome. 16 days of action begins tomorrow. Some of the events will serve as olympic qualifiers. Who will shine at these games? Find out starting tomorrow. Here is the logo for these games.

This swimming spot is the women's 4x200m relay. They picked up a bronze in Gwangzhu in qualifying for the Olympics.

Another swimming spot clinched for next years summer games, this time in the 4x100m mixed relay. Awesome for one year to go.

One more year to the Tokyo summer games. One more year to world records, personal bests, many medals handed out and inevitable heartbreak. While we're on medals they have been unveiled. Here they are.

Scott Tupper will be carrying the Canadian flag at the 2019 Pan American games in Lima Peru. The games start Friday.

The 4x100m team of Penny Oleksiak, Taylor Ruck,Kayla Sanchez and Maggie MacNeil not only qualified a spot in the Olympics but set a national record doing so. Sweet. More to come.

50 years ago this morning "the Eagle has landed." Few hours later Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on its surface. "That's one small step for [a] man. One giant leap for mankind."

Vincent Riendeau clinched it in the mens 10m platform. I think that is now 4 spots in diving at the 2020 Olympics. Nice.

First the 10m platform. Meghan Benfeito and Cae McKay qualified a spot in the 2020 Olympics by making the final 8n this event. 2. Pamela Ware and Jennifer Abel qualified a spot at the 2020 Olympics by making the final in the 3m springboard.

Jen Abel and Melissa Citrani-Beaulieu are heading for the Olympics after taking a silver in the 3m synchro event at the FINA world championships. Excellent. Stay tuned for more.

3 pitchers threw no hitters didn't throw a strike out. They are: 1. Earl Hamilton of the St. Louis Browns on August 30 1912. 2. Sam Jones of the Yankees on September 4 1923 3. Ken Holtz man of the Cubs on August 19 1969. Information credit goes to Alex Cheremeteff on twitter.

First in beach volleyball. Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes qualified a women's team for the 2020 games. Second in rugby 7s. The men's team qualified after steamrolling though the RAN tournament. They beat Jamaica in the final and will have a team at the 2020 Olympics. A good day for Canada going to the Olympics.

The U.S are champions after beating the Netherlands 2-0. It is their 4th title. That is it for another world cup. Until 2023.

Sweden beat England 2-1 and will finish 3rd in the tournament. Tomorrow has the U.S vs the Netherlands for the championship. Should be a good one.

Netherlands scores the only goal of the game in extra time beating Sweden 1-0. Netherlands will play the U.S for the championship on Sunday while Sweden will play England for third on Saturday.

Juan Marichel and Warren Spahn pitched two of the impressive performances in MLB. Marichel pitched 16 innings, threw 10 strike outs, walked 4 gave up 4 hits, no runs and threw 227 pitches. Spahn threw 15.1 innings, 2 strikeouts, 10 walks, 9 hits and 1 earned run. Giants beat the Braves 1-0 in 16 innings. Spahn is the last starter to lose game when pitching 15 innings.

The U.S beat England 2-1 and will play either Sweden or Netherlands for the championship. England will play for 3rd place.

Happy 152nd birthday Canada. Enjoy the day. Time to party, camp and do whatever else.

Sweden beat Germany 2-1 and will face the Netherlands in the semis on July 3rd. England vs the U.S is on July 2nd. Sweden also qualified for the summer Olympics. Which also means the defending Olympic gold medalists will not be in Tokyo.

Netherlands beat Italy 2-0 and will be in the semis against either Germany or Sweden. They also qualified for the 2020 summer Olympics.

Today had the U.S beat France 2-1 and will face England in the semis. This also means England is one of three European teams qualify for the summer Olympics. Other two teams will qualify tomorrow. The winners of the Italy vs Netherlands and Germany vs Sweden games will be in the semis and qualify for the Olympics.

England beat Norway 3-0 to put themselves into the semis against either France or the U.S. That game is tomorrow.

Today had Italy beat China 2-0 and Netherlands beat Japan 2-1. Quarter final match ups has: Norway vs England on Thursday, France vs U.S on Friday, Italy vs Netherlands on Saturday and Germany vs Sweden also on Saturday.

Today had the U.S. beat Spain 2-1 and Sweden beat Canada 1-0. Sweden will play Germany in the quarters on Saturday and the U.S will play France on Friday. Tomorrow has Italy vs China and Netherlands vs Japan.

......Milano/Cortina. They will share hosting duties of the XXV games in 2026. Congrats.

Today marks the birth of the Olympics. Formed on this day in 1894, today the Olympics celebrates its 125th birthday. And less than 400 days to the Tokyo games.

Today England beat Cameroon 3-0 and France beat Brazil in Extra time 2-1. England will play Norway on Thursday and France get the Spain vs U.S. That game is tomorrow along with Sweden vs Canada.

First game had Germany beat Nigeria 3-0. Second game went to a shootout out. Norway ended up beating Australia 4-1 in the shootout. Norway will get either England or Cameroon in the quarters and Germany will get either Sweden or Canada in the quarters. Tomorrow has England vs Cameroon and France vs Brazil.

Summer began at 9:54am today marking the longest day of the year in terms of daylight hours. After today we start losing daylight. Enjoy your summer.

The U.S beat Sweden 2-0 and Chile beat Thailand 2-0. U.S finishes fits, Sweden second, Chile third and Thailand last. Cameroon and Nigeria get in along with Brazil and China as the 4 best third place teams. The round of 16 match ups has: Norway vs Australia, Germany vs Nigeria (both games Saturday), England vs Cameroon, France vs Brazil (both on Sunday), Spain vs U.S., Sweden vs Canada (both games Monday) Italy vs China and Netherlands vs Japan (both games Tuesday).

Netherlands beat Canada 2-1 and Cameroon beat New Zealand 2-1.  Netherlands will win the group while Canada will finish second.  Cameroon will finish third with 3 pts and New Zealand will finish with 0. This leaves group f.  Sweden vs U.S and Thailand vs Chile.

Today had England beat Japan 2-0 and Scotland tie Argentina 3-3.  England will win group d with 9 pts.  Japan will finish second with 4.  England and Japan are into the round of 16. Argentina is 3rd with 2 pts and MAY get into the round of 16.  Scotland will finish last with 1 point.  Tomorrow has Netherlands vs Canada and Cameroon in group e and Sweden vs the U.S and Thailand vs Chile in group f.

Today had Australia beat Jamaica 4-1 and Brazil beat Italy 1-0.  Australia, Italy abdominal Brazil all had 6 pts. Jamaica had 0.  Italy will finish first, Australia second and Brazil third.  All will be in the round of 16.  Tomorrow has Japan vs England and Scotland vs Argentina.

Group a had France beat Nigeria 1-0 and Norway beat South Korea 2-1.  France won the group and Norway took second and will advance. Group b had Germany beat South Africa 4-0 while Spain and China played to a scoreless tie.  Germany finished first and Spain finished second.  China will be one of the four best third place teams to move on.  Tomorrow has Jamaica vs Australia and Italy vs Brazil in group c action.

Group f had Sweden beat Thailand 5-1 and the U.S beat Chile 3-0. Sweden an the U.S are into the round of 16. Both have 6 pts each.  Chile and Thailand have 0.  Tomorrow has Nigeria vs France, South Korea vs Norway, South Africa vs Germany and China vs Spain. These games will finish groups a and b.

Canada's women's rugby 7s team today qualified for the Tokyo summer games next year.  WOOOOOOOOO!  Fingers crossed the get an Olympic gold.

Today had Netherlands beat Cameroon 3-1 and Canada beat New Zealand 2-0.  Netherlands and Canada both have 6 pts and will be in the round of 16.  Cameroon and New Zealand have 0.  One of them COULD be in the next round as one of the 4 best third place teams.  Tomorrow has Sweden vs Thailand and the U.S vs Chile.

Italy beat Jamaica 5-0 (no surprise) and sits atop group c with 6 pts.  Brazil and Australia have 3 each and Jamaica with 0.  Group d had Japan beat Scotland 2-1 and England beat Argentina 1-0.  England has 6 pts, Japan has 4, Argentina with 1 and  Scotland with 0.  Tomorrow has Netherlands vs Cameroon and Canada vs New Zealand.

In their first trip to the finals,  the Toronto Raptors are NBA champions beating the two r In a row champs Golden State Warriors in six games.  Congrats.

Opening night of the CFL season had Hamilton beat Saskatchewan 23-17.  Quite a start.  Looking forward to a good season.