the mad sports man

i can't believe it is already the end of February. nascar has started, the super bowl was contested and players are showing up in Arizona and Florida for spring training baseball. and nearing the playoff stretch in hockey. spring is not that far away. although the cold doesn't want to go away. March will have preseason baseball, more nascar, more hockey and hopefully warmer temperatures. but who knows.

can you believe it? season 30 of survivor has begun. it is survivor: worlds apart. it is blue collar vs white collar vs no collar. hard work vs top dogs vs free spirits. the immunity challenge just ended. someone will be the first voted out. find out on cbs or global.

it was mild the last couple of days. it started to rain a bit at lunch. then a home time. now it is snowing and the temperature is about to drop. at least to -11 by tomorrow. supposed to hang around that for the next week. and march begins Sunday. blaaahhh.

the Canadian flag celebrates its 50th birthday. it was raised on parliament hill on his day in 1965, thus also retiring the red ensign. there were many choices, but the maple leaf and red sides was chosen. there was a lot of controversy in late 1964 when the change was about to happen. even from the war veterans who fought under the red ensign and union jack. Lester B. Pearson was behind the campaign for the flag. so happy birthday to the Canadian flag.

it's hockey day in Canada and this year Halifax, Nova Scotia is the host city. all seven Canadian teams are playing. Edmonton is at Ottawa at noon, Toronto plays Montreal at 5pm, Winnipeg is at Detroit - also at 5pm and the capper has Calgary in Vancouver at 8pm. 13 hours of hockey and features. on cbc right now. update: Ottawa 7 Edmonton 2. after a close first period, it was all Ottawa. update 2: Montreal 2 Toronto 1 in the shootout while Winnipeg beats Detroit 4-3, also in the shootout. update 3: Calgary 3 Vancouver 2. that is it for another hockey day in Canada. until next year

Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops b.c. will be picking up a bronze medal in a ceremony from the Beijing summer games after the Andrei mishnikev of Belarus was banned for life from competing after a second doping offence this past august. that will put Canada's official total to 19. (3g, 9a 7b) and will move Canada from 14th to 13th in the medal standings.

not much since the super bowl. a tad chilly the past few days. had some more snow on Thursday. 10cm then. spent Friday shovelling stairs at work. meanwhile, the northeastern u.s. is getting slammed again. at this rate the snow will be gone in July. who knows when spring will be here. the time change is in three weeks and more daylight hours. next weekend is a three day weekend. that will be good. and thinking of someone.

wow that was some game. the new England patriots are super bowl champions in a thriller of a game. it was tied at 14 at halftime. seattle went up 24-14. new England came back with two touchdowns in the fourth. leading up for a crazy ass finish. Jermaine Kearse made one heck of a catch, getting the seahawks into scoring range. instead of handing off to marshawn lynch, Russell Wilson throws for an interception to seal the new England win. former CFL'er chris Matthews had a heck of a game for seattle, made a couple of great catches, one for a td. it is new England's first super bowl in ten years and fourth overall. tom brady was named super bowl mvp and won a 2015 chevy Colorado truck. that's if for another football year. CFL training camps are in four months. looking forward to that already.

the new England patriots blew out the Indianapolis colts 45-7 and will be heading to super bowl 49 in Arizona to face the seattle seahawks. the patriots were up 17-7 at halftime, but blew it open in the second. super bowl 49 (XLIX) id February 1 in phoenix, Arizona.

this ended up one heck of a finish. green bay was leading most of the game until the last two minutes of the 4th quarter. seattle then scores two touchdowns in a row, the second after recovering an onside kick to go up 22-19. green bay ties it with a field goal to send it into overtime. the seahawks score a touchdown to win it in overtime 28-22 and will be into the super bowl. whey await the winner of the afc championship game between Indianapolis and new England.

the indanapolis colts defence shut down peyton mannings offence as the colts beat the denver broncos 24-13 in denver. the colts are the first road team to win in this years playoffs. they will be going to new england to face the patriots for the AFC championship game next sunday.

the green bay packers trailed most of the game, scored two touchdowns in the 4th and beat the dallas cowboys 26-21 at lambeau field and will now go to seattle to face the seahawks in the NFC championship game. that should be a good game. up next, it is the indianapolis colts and the denver broncos with the winner going to new england to face the patriots.

the seattle seahawks knocked out the carolina panthers 31-17 to go to their second straight NFC championship game. two touchdowns in the fourth put the game away. the seahawks will host either dallas or green bay for the nfc title next sunday. dallas/green bay is tomorrow.

the new england patriots are into the AFC championship game after beating the baltimore ravens 35-31. the pats trailed by 14 points TWICE, (14-0 and 28-14) and still came back. the patriots will be hosting either indianapolis or denver. they play tomorrow.

this was one helluva game. a nerve wrecking game. it was canada up 2-1 after the first. they go up five to one midway through the second, then russia scored three in four minutes. canada managed to hang on to win 5-4 to win their first gold since 2009 and avenged four straight losses to russia in the medal rounds. canada's 16th gold. russia takes silver. next tournament in finland. WOOOOOOOOOOO CANADA

talk about huge. slovakia earned their secend ever bronze after a 4-2 win. it is also their second ever world junior medal. i will be betting slovakia is still partying congrats to slovakia.

it was a tight one through half the game, but canada opened it up and beat slovakia 5-1. nick petan scored a hat trick in the game. denis godla of slovakia stood on his head. why he wasn't chosen player of the game for slovakia, i dont know. slovakia will play sweden for bronze at 2pm and canada will play russia for gold at 6pm. rivalry renewed.

the dallas cowboys, after being down 14-0 and 17-7, came back to win 24-20. they will be going to green bay to face the packers next sunday, while carolina will be going to seattle to face the seahawks next saturday. now the real fun begins.

russia, from the second period to the end controlled sweden to the tune of a 4-1 victory and a trip to tomorrow nights gold medal game. sweden will be playing for bronze tomorrow afternoon. canada vs slovakia at 6pm edmonton time

this ended up a no doubter as the indianapolis colts 26-10 over the cincinnati bengals and will go to denver next sunday to face the broncos. next up: the detroit lions at the dallas cowboys.