the mad sports man

a surprise and a favorite superbowl bound can you believe this? the arizona cardinal are making their first ever trip to the super bowl with a 32-25 win over the philadelphia eagles in the nfc. meanwhile in the afc the pittsburgh steelers are making their 7th appearance in the super bowl with a 23-14 win over the baltimore ravens. super bowl 43 is in two weeks

it feels like spring its definitely feeling like spring out. a good day to get out of the house considering i am off today. i dont know what to do yet. i'll figure something out after my laundry is done.

divisional sunday, onward to conference championships the pittsburghs steelers beat the san diego chargers 35-24 and will face the baltimore ravens next sunday in pittsburgh. meanwhile the philadelphia eagles knocked out the defending champs n.y.giants 23-11 and will go to arizona next sunday to face the cardinals.

divisional saturday the arizona cardinals are making their first ever trip to the nfc championship game by beating the carolina panthers 33-13. earlier today the baltimore ravens beat the tennessee titans in a close one, 13-10. so divisional saturdat was "for the birds." tomorrow its the philadelphia eagles @ the n.y. giants and the sandiego chargers @ the pittsburgh steelers.

a saturday off i actually have a saturday off. i had last saturday off as well. didn't do too much. got my laundry done. i may hit the mall to look around. and possibly get new shoes.

canda wins gold x5 canada has just won its 5th straight gold medal with a 5-1 win over sweden in the gold medal game in ottawa. it was a good game all around. great job by the guys. earlier russia beat slovakia 5-2 to win bronze. so thats it for another year. next tournament is in saskatoon next year.

world jr semi final saturday canada was 5.4 seconds from losing, jordan eberle ties the game at 5 and then canada wins it in the shootout. the go for gold on monday against sweden, who earlier beat slovakia to get to teh gold medal game. slovakia plays russia for bronze.

world jr semi final saturday coming up tomorrow canada will play russia in one semi final (5:30pm on tsn) while slovakia plays sweden in the other. the winners will go for gold monday night at 5:30 on tsn while the losers play for bronze.

happy new year 2009 happy new year to everyone. goodbye to 2008 and hello to 2009

new years eve fireworks watching canada vs usa in the world jrs and this one has been a good one so far. its tied at four and its been a feisty one. later its the battle of alberta doubleheader with the oilers in calgary to play the flames and the hitmen here to play the oilkings. plus royal canadian air farce's final ever episode tonight. fun night already. update 1: canada 7 u.s. 4. canada goes to semi finals. u.s. goes to quarterfinals update 2: last chicken cannon target ever was the canadian party leaders and the canadian coalition attempt. update 3: calgary hitmen 4 edmonton oil kings 1. update 4: calgary flames 6 edmonton oilers 4. thats it for 2008. see ya in 2009

merry christmas have a safe and merry christmas. and enjoy unwrapping the presents.

welcome to winter bigtime officialy winterbegan today. from cold weather to snow storms, much of north america has seen it all. travel plans have gone askew, roads are rough and people stranded everywhere. so a nasty winter already. and a white christmas.

im dreaming of a white christmas with the cold weather here and the amount of snow we have, its liable to happen. with a slow warm up to wednesday, it will happen. so yay for that.

cold weather arrives near red green after a hockey game the cold weather is on the doorstep and the wind has a bite already. bundle up or stay home. why freeze? i finally got the red green show - the 2000 season on monday. already a few episodes into it and already a craving for m&m's. goes back to when the show first started airing and i was always munching a bag of m&m's. was at the oilers game last night and boy was it a bummer of a game. lost to the florida panthers 2-0 despite outshooting the panthers 41-15. their goalie saw all the shots, gave up no rebounds at all. plus the oilers didnt forecheck, crash the net or had much energy at all. it was frustrating to watch. next time - hopefully.

lousy cold and confusing weather been dealing wiht a cold the last few days. not exactly fun. and i still have it a bit. no wonder ive been feeling lazy lol. i think weve ditched the freezing rain. it was a rain/snow mix a few days ago. its snowing now and its supposed to sonow again tomorrow and friday. from what global is saying, we could hit highs of -20 by the weekend. and global has been pretty accurate with their forecasts. theyve only shown the four day forecast. so the six day will be interesting.

december has arrived december has arrived via a gust of wind and a bunch of snow in northern alberta. rest of alberta still waiting for snow to show up even thouhg a couple of local ski hills opened up with man made snow. with lots of hockey and nfl football, it will be a good month for sure. hopefully it will snow here

end of november already. cant believe it's the end of november. still trying to figure out where it went. let's see what happened. 1. jimmie johnson wins third straight nascar championship. 2. calgary stampeders wins the 96th edition of the grey cup. 3. it snowed twice and disappeared twice. although its supposed to cool off and snow in the next couple of days. on to december we go.

96th grey cup in montreal the calgary stampeters just beat the montreal allouettes 22-14 in the 96th edition of the grey cup. the calgary defense was huge in the second half holding montreal to one point. calgary's touchdown late in the first half i think was the turning poing. sandro deangelis was named most valuable canadian and henry burris was named most valueable player. so theres another cfl season.

jimmie johnson 3 in a row champion with a 15th place finish, jimmie johnson has won his third championship in a row and chad knaus became the first crew chief ti win 3 in a row. last driver to win thre straight championships was cale yarborough in 1976-77-78

cfl division final saturday it will be the montreal alouettes and the calgary stampeders for the grey cup. the alouetes beat the eskimos 36-26 in the east final. in the west the stampeders beat the lions 22-18 to go to the grey cup. so the 96th grey cup will be nov.23 in montreal. a "home game" for the als. im guessing it will be sold out