the mad sports man

its the end of february. bring on march the last day of the shortest month and a renewed excitement for spring. officialy three weeks from today if i remember right. time for the warm up and the melting of snow. oh yeah march also means baseball. that reminds me the edmonton cracker-cats are no longer. they are staying but they are getting a name change.there is a rename the team contest at www.baseballedmonton.com going. contest closes march 6th and the lucky winner will get to attend the may 21st opener in a luxury suite.

auto club 500 matt kenseth wins AGAIN. first driver to win the first two races of the year since 1997 with jeff gordon doing that. jeff gordon finshed 2nd, kyle busch 3rd, and greg biffle finished 4th. matt kenseth still leads the points. next race in las vegas next week.

hockey day in canada another saturday with all 6 canadian teams in action. this time campbellton new brunswick hosts this one. in the afternoon game, montreal beat ottawa 5-3. right now, toronto leads vancouver 2-1 going into the third period. at 8pm, its the battle of alberta with the flames visit the oilers. update: vancouver 3 toronto 2 (so) update 2: calgary 3 edmonton 2 (so) thats another hockey day in canada till next year

51st running of the daytona 500 matt kenseth has won the rain shortened daytona 500 after taking the lead and keeping it for seven laps. kyle busch had the dominating car leading 88 laps until he and ten other cars (including jimmie johnson. he finished 31st) got caught up in a wreck started by dale earnhard jr touching brian vickers car. so thats daytona. next week is california.

vancouver 2010 torch with today being the one year to go, vancouver 2010 decided to unveil the torch to the public. it will be carried by 12000 people and 45000 km around canada. im excited.

brett farve retires again - hopefully permantly. hes retired again after a rough end of the season. from what i heard in his interview, it sounds like hes sure this time. even with the season in new york, he had a great career.

budweiser shootout kevin harvick won after a crazy end to a great race. this one went into overdrive and out of nowhere harvick moves to second, passes jamie mcmurray to take the lead and afterward a mass wreck ensued behind them. tony stewart avoided it to finish third. daytona 500 a week from tomorrow. great way to start wpeedweeks in daytona.

cracker cats news its official. the oilers bought the team from dan orlich. dont know the cost. i think now there is some optimism for the team now. orlich was not a goood owner. he never had the teams interest in mind, and it seemed no one wanted to work for him. hopefully now there will be some baseball minded people in the front office and out promoting the team. and hopefully more people at the ball park.

slack day tuesday after lazy monday im on the second of my two days off. watching mash from season 4. i have the last season of cheers here too. next tuesday i try to get season two of simon and simon. not too far the 2001 season of the red green show is released. gotta get my hands on that too. in due time of course.

pittsburgh steelers super bowl champions what a great finish to superbowl 43. down 20-7, arizona came back to go up 23-20. pittsburgh marched downfield and scored the game winning touchdown. final score pittsburgh 27 arizona 20. pittsburgh has become the first team to win 6 super bowls. santonio holmes was named game mvp. what a way to start february