New York Times – Roger Cohen – Olympic Ceremony Put a Changing France on Full Display
Phil has a question:
What about the Canadian singer from the former French colony of Quebec.
New York Times – David Chen – In Oregon, a Bid for Urban Casinos Threatens a Gambling ‘Arms Race’
TSN – Mitchell helps Tiger-Cats blitz winless Elks
Phil has a question:
Now that the Captain fired the “Elks” Coach and GM and nothing improved when will the Captain get fired.
How many more seasons does the CFL have.
Sports Business Journal – Bret McCormick – Duke unveils ‘Devils Deck’ at Wallace Wade Stadium
Study Finds – Sports fans are paying sky-high prices to watch their teams win
With so much money at stake, companies often prioritize the parts of their games that use microtransactions. That incentive is a significant shift from sports games of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the emphasis was on improving gameplay and graphics to produce the most realistic simulations possible.
New York Times – Calum Marsh – When Sports Games Feel Like Casinos, Players Rarely Win
Phil has a question:
Why do we regulate gambling when money can be won (seldomly), but don’t regulate gambling where it costs money to play and all you win is a virtual loot box.
Maybe they’ve just got bigger hearts in Edmonton than every other NHL city. Maybe they see the fragility of the human spirit and understand the need for forgiveness and second chances.
Or maybe they just want to win, knowing all is forgiven in sports when you win.
ESPN – Stan Bowman, after Blackhawks scandal, hired as GM of Oilers
Phil has a question:
While Bowman was learning about making the game of hockey more inclusive did he also learn about managing the salary cap.
How many hockey fans think that Bowman and Quenneville’s failure to act was justified in their pursuit of Lord Stanley’s cup.
Did the Oilers make this hire just to give the trolls more to troll about during the dog days of summer.
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret Thatcher
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
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I think it was Jack Benny who once said, “A comic says funny things, but a comedian says things funny.” I guess I’d fall into that latter grouping.
Don’t get confused between my personality and my attitude… my personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.
Donald Duck
I have PMA—Positive Mental Attitude. I am positive, I am mental, and I know I have attitude.
Daffy Duck
Paulick Report – HIWU: Suspended Joseph Taylor Attempted To Blame Positives On ‘Tampering’
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa
GoodGoodGood – Grizzly bear baby boom in Yellowstone triples cub count in national park
It’s good to be curious about many things.
Mr. Rogers
Phil has a question:
When I cut someone off in traffic and they give me the lane, do I get an assist for helping them perform one act of kindness.
This is why, watching all this nutrition programming, I often find myself wondering if their aims would be better accomplished by simple cooking shows. Turn on a cooking show, and you probably will not be scolded or patronized by people who know little of your struggles or the loves, memories and traditions you have forged around food. Turn on a cooking show, and you will see the pursuit and the practice of pleasure itself — say, the ways mushrooms can muster intense savoriness or roasted vegetables can be as satisfying as anything that bleeds. You will see new ways to love food. And that, if you’re lucky, may point the way toward a healthier way to live.
New York Times – Nicholas Cannariato – Why Do So Many Food Documentaries Seem to Think We’re Stupid?
Phil has an answer:
Because most people are stupid.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
You can’t legislate against stupidity.
Jesse Ventura
Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way – that’s the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.
Jose Andres
New York Times – Cybelle Tondu – Tomatoes Vinaigrette
Garden and Gun – You Say Tomato, We Say Delicious Recipes
Just when you’re beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
Will Cuppy
SportsNet – AP – Uruguay players fight with Colombia fans after Copa America semifinal
Phil has a question:
Where was the security in the stadium.
Is it easier to climb stairs in cleats than in skates.
I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
Kurt Cobain
Phil has a question:
How many millions of Alberta dollars flow to Brigham Young University in Utah every year.
“He wasn’t paying bills,” says one former team employee who spoke to Front Office Sports on condition of anonymity. “He can deny it all he wants, but that stuff is true. His reputation was horrible. No one wanted to work with him. He didn’t treat employees very well and he was just a cheap ass. That was the reality of the situation.”
Front Office Sports – A.J. Perez – The Dysfunctional Family Affair That Poisoned Arizona Coyotes
Sometimes Phil just gotta succumb to the Urge.
Phil has a question:
Did Meruelo learn his business skills at Trump University.
Phil has a question:
How stupid was the Lakers management to not get Lebron locked in before they drafted his under-talented son.
SportsNet – Michael Buffer, Flyers select Jett Luchanko No. 13 in 2024 NHL Draft
Canadian Gaming Business – Tom Nightingale – Minister Dale Nally discusses Alberta’s gaming path
SBC America – Jessica Welman – Alberta will open up regulated online gaming market
CTV News – Chelan Skulski – Sports betting: Alberta looking at Ontario’s privatized model
Phil has a question:
Where does betting on horse racing fit into this model.
Will Clark Kent and the Undertaker gazing out a window get horse race betting included in the new Alberta model.
Phil has a suggestion:
When gaming is privatized how about 1 machine in each VLT establishment that takes wagers from all the online operators and allows cash deposits and withdrawals on the spot.
Phil has a question:
What about bricks n mortar sports-books at casinos and RECs.
The Score – Joseph Casciaro – Lay off Bronny: Criticism of NBA’s 55th pick is uncalled for
The Ringer – Howard Beck – Is The NBA’s Second Apron Preventing a Mess or Creating One?
ESPN – Jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws in ‘Sunday Ticket’ case
The Ringer – Kevin O’Connor – 2024 NBA Draft Grades
Front Office Sports – Margaret Fleming – Unusual NBA Draft Starts With French Teenager Again
The Ringer – Michael Pina – Did the Knicks Just Get Fleeced on the Most Expensive Reunion Ever?
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – What’s Going On Here: No Going Back
“We understand the delay in an auction is a disappointment for our applicant and members ofthe public, but the change in timing is the prudent decision for the Trust,” the land department said. “ASLD remains open to working with our applicant to bring the land forward to auction in the future if a special use permit is received.”
Hockey Feed – Jonathan Larivee – Former NHL player destroys Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo.
Phil has a question:
Does anyone think that Meruelo’s going to spend time and MONEY applying for a special use permit when he can take the NHL’s money and run.
How much profit did Meruelo make when he was running the Coyotes into the ground.
Sometimes Phil just gotta succumb to the Urge.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Balance Between CAW, Retail Market Sought in California
Bloodhorse – Amplify Horse Racing – Annise Montplaisir – Connecting Youth to Thoroughbred Racing
Paulick Report – Montplaisir: Connecting Youth To The Joy Of Thoroughbred Racing
TDN – Purses and Breeders’ Incentives in Alberta Get a Boost
Paulick Report – Horse Racing Alberta Increases Purse Allocation, Breed Improvement Program Funding
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue.
William Shakespeare
You can’t grow long-term if you can’t eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
Jack Welch
The team with the best players wins.
Jack Welch
The Ringer – Bryan Curtis – JJ Redick’s Media Studies
ESPN – Adrian Wojnarowski – Sources: Lakers hiring JJ Redick to four-year deal to coach team
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Sometimes Phil just gotta succumb to the Urge.
The Ringer – Danny Chau – Who’s Taking the Bigger Risk: JJ Redick or the Lakers?
The team with the best players wins.
Jack Welch
Several players have said they consider Mazzulla “crazy,” but his tactics didn’t bother them. They seemed to love them. For as much as the key Celtics players had accomplished earlier in their careers, they needed someone to push them past their previous limits.
SportsNet – How Armstrong’s work with Indigenous youth honours her legendary grandfather
Phil has a question:
If George was playing today could you call him Chief.
Phil has a question:
Did the Capitals trade for Pierre Luc Dubois to see how the buy-out function works on their new toy.
Sports Business Journal – Report: Boyd Gaming shows interest in Penn Entertainment acquisition
The team with the best players wins.
Jack Welch
The Ringer – Michael Weinreb – Willie Mays Brought Us Together by Being Himself
The Ringer – Rany Jazayerli – Willie Mays Was the Greatest Baseball Player Who Ever Lived
Sports Business Journal – Baseball legend Willie Mays dies at age 93
Sports Illustrated – Tom Verducci – Willie Mays Brought Unrivaled Style to America’s Stuffy Pastime
Sports Business Journal – Joe Lemire – Rickwood Field: Field of Forgotten — And Renewed — Dreams
Southern Living – Meghan Overdeep – Charles Barkley Announces Retirement From Broadcasting
ESPN – Charles Barkley says he’s retiring from TV after 2024-25
Front Office Sports – Edgar Walker – Charles Barkley Announces Retirement From Television
Phil has a question:
How will Charles survive without being in the limelight.
It is also hard to see Barkley go because — what is he going to do? The man is a talker. He cuts through because he is the same on the air as he is off and treats his former best friend Michael Jordan just as he would you or I. That is the secret sauce of Barkley — there is sincerity without a filter. He will seemingly talk whenever to whomever and whatever.
Just last month, on ESPN Cleveland, he said he was open for business to talk about other offers. Now, he says he has changed his mind.
Maybe Barkley goes, but he is still going to be talking. Hard to see why he wouldn’t want to continue to make some more millions.
If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The ‘art of leaving off’ at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.
William Lloyd Garrison
Nevermore.
The Raven
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
Howard Cosell
The Ringer – Lex Pryor – The Lakers Shot for the Stars and Landed in a Black Hole
The Ringer – Howard Beck – Jerry West and the Burden of Being the Logo
Esquire – Jason Diamond – The Lost Art of Buying a Round for the Bar
The Ringer – Seerat Sohi – The Tao of Joe Mazzulla
If they think we’ve got an edge, we’ve got an edge.
Red Auerbach
SportsNet – Luke Fox – Q&A: Oilers ‘secret weapon’ George Mumford on McDavid, Jordan
Sometimes Phil just has to succumb to the Urge.
Phil M Stockmen
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