SportsNet – Hockey Canada’s board of directors says it supports CEO Scott Smith
Sal says that the entire Board and all of the executive of Hockey Canada need to be swept out right now. Next time some kid takes an opponents head off with a stick the mea culpa will be if the Board and Executive of Hockey Canada aren’t responsible for their actions why should I be.
Time for some accountability.
Asking the current Board and Executive to investigate themselves and rebuild an organization that Canadians will trust is liking asking Clifford Olsen to babysit your kids.
SportsNet – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians have lost faith in Hockey Canada
Sal says that the structure of Hockey Canada insulates Hockey Canada from direct Federal government intervention.
As The Baffert Zedan Medina Spirit Appeal Turns
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Medina Spirit Hearing Concludes After Closing Arguments
TDN – Petrunyak – Baffert Returns to Stand for Sixth and Final DQ Appeal Session
Horse Racing Nation – Baffert hearing: Zedan, Hall of Fame trainer are final 2 witnesses
TDN – Petrunyak – Route of Administration Argument Continues in Day 5 of Derby DQ Appeal
Horse Racing Nation – Flatter – Baffert hearing: Scientists spar Monday; trainer is on deck
Horse Racing Nation – Flatter – Baffert hearing: Trainer could be on the stand again Monday
While the government of day had no way to counter the powers of reservation held by the Lieutenant Governor, it did control services provided to Government House, which served as official residence to Alberta’s first six vice-regal representatives. In the spring of 1938, the Committee of Supply of the Alberta Legislature eliminated all funds for the upkeep of Government House and Lieutenant Governor Bowen was informed that he and his family would have to vacate the residence by May 3. Lieutenant Governor Bowen refused to leave without an Order-in-Council while Premier Aberhart argued that such a measure was not necessary. To end the standoff, the Premier cut off the utilities to the building and fired the staff. The Lieutenant Governor finally signed the Order-in-Council and left Government House on May 9, 1938.
Alberta’s Lieutenant Governors have never returned to live in Government House. However, the contributions Honourable John Bowen offered as a guardian of Canada’s constitutional principles are shared with visitors to the house and stand as an important chapter in the nation’s vice-regal history.
Lieutenant Governor Alberta – Lieutenant Governors and Royal Assent
Sal says to remember just how important Vice Regents are to Canadian thoroughbred breeding.
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – War At Sea, Cabo Spirit Rematch in Del Mar Derby
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Millionaire Grade 1 Winner Gayego Dies at 17
Paulick Report – Grade 1 Winner, Veteran Sire Gayego Dies At Age 17
Bar None Ranches – Gayego Dies at 17
Sal says that Sal fears that Gayego may not be replaced.
Paulick Report – Hoyt – Oaklawn Will Offer ‘Stay Until May’ Trainer’s Bonus Money
Sports Business Journal – Serena wins again before record U.S. Open crowd
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
TDN – Report: Brown Hearing Postponed Two Weeks
TDN – Sherack – APBs: Forbidden Kingdom Gearing Up for Santa Anita Sprint Championship
Garden and Gun – Kornegay – What It’s Like to Run a Restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi, Right Now
Sal says that low and no tax states sound good in theory, but when there’s no money for proper infrastructure average Joe Citizen bears the brunt.
FiveThirtyEight – Nerkar – Which Basketball Schools Are Pretending To Be Football Schools?
It feels callous to point this out, but is there any doubt that if Gruden had won the AFC West at 13–3 in 2020 and was 5–0 before the news of his leaked emails became public last year, that there’d be some team trying to tap dance its way into bringing him on board in ’22 once said club felt like people didn’t care as much anymore? If Gruden’s tenure wasn’t pock-marked with puzzling drafts and mammoth whifs in veteran free agency, wouldn’t there be some owner out there forcing his public relations manager to pen a hollow statement about contrition and the opportunity to create meaningful change through this acquisition?
Sports Illustrated – Orr – Jon Gruden Ignoring Reality Won’t Get Him Back Into Coaching
Sal says that the slime bucket in Cleveland comes to mind.
Front Office Sports – Perez – How ‘Punt God’ Matt Araiza Avoided Scrutiny For Months
The Ringer – In the Game of Streaming, You Either Win or You Die
Sal says that he’s never heard or heard of Leah Hextall before this article and always turns the sound down and listens to tunes rather than the babbling of the obsequious sports commentators.
Sal says that the comments on this article raise interesting points. A number of them claim that Leah Hextall receives the criticism she does because she’s brutal and not making efforts to improve, not because she’s a woman. Some of them raise the interesting point that political correctness has swung so far that one can’t criticize a brutal incompetent person for fear of being called a racist or misogynist. And the majority of the comments are just fucking stupid or ignorant.
NPR – McCabe – Against the odds: How Blondie shattered the conventions of punk and pop
Wired – Burgis – The Three-City Problem of Modern Life
DRF – Privman – Erik Johnson will enjoy day with Stanley Cup at Del Mar
Modern Farmer – Swenson – The Great American Chestnut Tree Revival
Sal says that Sal hopes the GMO chestnuts will roast over an open fire.
Horse Racing Nation – Jay Privman of DRF will retire at the end of Del Mar summer meet
The Hockey News – Proteau – Three Ways to Improve the NHL
Bloodhorse – THA’s Open Letter on the Launch of HISA
Sal says that Alphabet Soup was a more prolific sire than we knew.
TDN – Thornton – Melancon Arrested On Evangeline ‘Buzzer’ Charge
Front Office Sports – CBS Sports Chairman: NFL TV Ratings Are Speeding ‘Freight Train’
Sal says that the NFL should stop patting itself on the back and give the credit for increased viewership for NFL games where it belongs – increased gambling.
National Post – Jesse Kline: Lisa LaFlamme is not necessarily the martyr you may think she is
The Ringer – Sherman – Will Bill Belichick’s Big Coaching Gamble Backfire?
The Ringer – Fader – Inside the Pain Cave
Horse Racing Nation – Pacific Classic 2022: See the field for the $1 million Grade 1
Bloodhorse – Crosby – Grade 1 Winner Maracuja Retired
Rolling Stone – Greene – The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz Would Like a Word With the FBI
Sal has just one thing to say – The Monkees?
Sal says that if the FBI has a file on the Monkees they must have an encyclopedia on the Dead Kennedys.
Sal says he won’t even try to imagine what the FBI had on the Fish.
National Post – Frank Stronach: You can’t fence in money and talent
Healthing – Arnold – What the heck is Tommy John surgery?
Tommy John pitched for 17 years after the surgery.
Sal says that the surgery being called Tommy John surgery shows just how unfair celebrity and fame are. The surgeon perfects a technique that saves the careers of many athletes and non-athletes alike and they name it after a ballplayer.
Bloodhorse – NYRA to Hold Fan Appreciation Week at Saratoga
Bloodhorse – HISA to Establish Horsemen’s Advisory Group
TDN – HISA Establishes Horsemen’s Advisory Group
Sal says that any horsemen with hands-on experience will tell HISA hands-off.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Front Office Sports – Byers – Coveted Mickey Mantle Card Sells for Record $12.6M
Restaurant Business – Maze – Little Caesars kicks off its NFL sponsorship with Matthew Stafford
Et tu Matthew.
Detroit Deep Dish Pizza
You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me
The Culture Trip – Marklew – The Top 10 Places to Try Detroit Deep-Dish Pizza
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
Anna Quindlen
Sal says that with Penn Entertainment acquiring all of Barstool Sports the pizza reviews may be up for grabs.
Little Caesars Chicago Style Pizza Review
Sal says that if you can’t decide between Detroit deep dish or New York thin crust this Vancouver and Edmonton chain has both.
You can say Pizza Hut is terrible pizza, but they also sell more pizzas than anybody else.
Jimmy Kimmel
The Guardian – Lamont – A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world
Horse Racing Nation – Macatangay – What we learned: Epicenter shows speed figures can mislead
National Post – CP – Bell CEO says Lisa LaFlamme’s departure not related to age, gender or grey hair
Sal says that this tempest in a teapot could have been avoided by sweetening LaFlamme’s exit parachute, she wanted gold they offered bronze. Maybe that’s the real discrimination issue – severance packages.
FiveThirtyEight – Lundy – Serena Williams’s Unimpeachable Serve
DRF – Andersen – Dandy Warhol stepping up, stretching out in Del Mar Derby
Los Angeles – Times – Masunaga – NASA’s return to the moon is delayed after launch scrub
National Post – Brean – Artemis 1 launches a new era in interplanetary science
The Guardian – Smith – ‘He’s got that beast in him’: the difficult legacy of Mike Tyson
Rolling Stone – Rawnsley and Suebsaeng – Trump Bragged He Had ‘Intelligence’ on Macron’s Sex Life
Sal says that Sal’s amazed that the demented Twittler wasn’t whacked by a foreign intelligence agency or American intelligence agencies.
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
FiveThirtyEight – Rogers and Mithani – Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories
Sal says that if you’re a gambler and especially a horse player be thankful for those who bet with the stomach rather than their brain.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar
National Post – Australia enlists Shaquille O’Neal on Indigenous reform
Southern Living – 70 Football Party Food Recipes Made for Game Day
Hawthorne Sal
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