Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Friday, July 15, 2011

Sick Goal

Eliezer Sherbatov scores a sick goal at the IIHF Division III World Hockey Championship in Cape Town, South Africa back in the middle of April 2012.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Canada vs England at the FIFA U17 World Cup

Down 2-1 after 86 minutes of play, Canadian goalkeeper, Quillan Roberts, puts the ball in play and then this happens...

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

REAL MADRID DROPS COPA DEL REY TROPHY

You've just won the National Championship> What do you do? Why you drop the trophy from the top of the bus and let the bus run over it of course!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Probably a good thing the Steelers lost...

Adult film star Diamond Foxxx offered oral favours to all her twitter followers if the Steelers won the Super Bowl. Never mind that the CDC probably would have had a heart attack but I'm thinking if she had been really thinking about this she might have reconsidered if her worst case scenario came true and she had to give oral favours to all 36,348 of her followers...

Fan dunk competition

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Outdoor classic? Si señor...

I'm not talking about the Winter Classic in Pittsburgh. No, not the Heritage Classic in Calgary either. It's the opening game in the 2011 IIHL World U20 Championships!

But the World Juniors were just played in Buffalo you say. We witnessed the greatest third period collapse in World Junior history by the Canadians to the Russians you say. There were no outdoor games played in Buffalo. Well, you're absolutely correct. But the opening game of the Division III Championships were played outdoors this past Sunday.

...in Mexico.

That's right folks. Zócalo Square was transformed into a winter wonderland as Mexico and Bulgaria faced off to open the tournament. The IIHF reported that they expected no less than 50,000 fans to take in the unusual outdoor game. TSN reported tonight that just over 3,000 spectators (or maybe mostly curious onlookers) came out to watch the spectacle. They then proceeded to throw in a little sarcasm by saying tournament officials pointed out they still outdrew the Phoenix Coyotes. Mexico handily dispatched the Bulgarians 8-0. The very Mexican sounding, 18 year old forward, Christian Smithers scored four times for the home side. The 6'2", 176lb forward hailing from San Jeronimo enjoyed a team high nine shots on net. Rounding out the scoring were Diego Linares and Hernando Chavez who each potted a pair.

I can't believe I can't find anything on the internets reporting this game. TSN had a quick mention on Sportscentre that the game took place with a little bit of film footage but no score was reported. I would have expected a write up by the IIHF at least but they only had an article to hype the game. I found a few more write-ups about the possibility of an outdoor game but nothing beyond that. So I guess you could say this is a FOTI exclusive. Woohoo.

Alright, seriously. I'm not trying to belittle the Mexican team. They could probably skate circles around me. I'm happy they pulled off a win in front of their home crowd and I wish them well in the tourney. Still, it was an interesting idea to hold an outdoor game in Mexico. I wonder how hot it was. The quick clip on TSN showed puddles of water on the ice like we saw in Pittsburgh when the rain came down. I would have liked to play a shift.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Hoops whoops

The most lopsided game of hoops I have ever heard of. At least they didn't get shut out.