One of the things that I was really looking forward to about my move to Canada among many other things was being able to head up to Montreal each June to take in the Montreal Grand Prix. A few months ago I got the bad news that it had been dropped from F1’s calendar but held out hope that it could still be saved. Unfortunately today news broke that it has officially been lost. All I have to hope now is that it will be back again the following season. Regardless, I still find it an absolute disgrace that the race has been lost.

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So now that I’ve had to breathe for a few days following that most dramatic of World Championship endings at the Brazilian Grand Prix all I can say now is that I cannot wait already for the 2009 season. You will never see a climax to a championship in any sport quite like what we seen in the F1 on Sunday but the 2009 season shows no signs of not being an even better season. That for me ranked right up there with Liverpool’s Champions League win in 2005 in terms of pure drama. If you missed it I say you missed the best five minutes in sport.

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So here we go, it is time to start, it is time to find a champion and I am sitting ready to watch. I will do some updates as I watch it as I think it’ll be good to read back on down the line as this could be a pretty historic day. MORE »

I’ve been looking forward to this race ever since the last one that confirmed that the title championship would come down to the final race. Hamilton vs Massa it is all on the line. Hamilton is the big favourite simply because he leads the title into the race and only needs a 5th place or higher finish to ensure himself the championship (any tie breaker favours Massa) but this is F1, this is motor sport and absolutely anything can happen to throw a cat amongst the pigeons. This is going to be exciting. Can Hamilton make history by becoming the youngest ever Formula One World Champion?

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A good hockey game on Friday night to go and watch followed up by a two-leg victory over Sheffield in the British Elite League followed by a huge win for Liverpool over Chelsea in the Premier League. Chelsea hadn’t lost at home since early 2004, a pretty incredible record, but Liverpool wiped that out with a great performance on Sunday morning. The win puts Liverpool in sole position at the top of the league and with wins over both Chelsea and Manchester United now, Liverpool genuinely are title contenders for the first time in years. This is going to be exciting.

Now that I am no longer living in the cauldron of T.V - slash - Radio - slash - Tabloid Journalism - slash - Media over-hype that is the British footballing world I actually don’t mind the England football team. Now-a-days all I get are the goal highlights, and of late with England racking up the goals I only get a selection of the best in a 30 second clip. You know, I can live with that right now — it is as much England as a non-Englishman needs and it actually allows you to like the team for the players and not hate them for everything that surrounds them.

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It probably won’t interest a lot of you but along with the football season this is my T.V. life for the next 8-months. From early October until early June this is what it is all about here in Canada, the hockey season. It is already well underway after starting out in Europe with a couple of games and has returned to North America to start also. In case you were wondering, my team is Philadelphia and has been for a lot of years now. Wonder why? Keep reading.

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. . . Not to mention the fact it was now my home GP and the GP I could potentially attend for years to come.

Yes, Formula 1 will not race in Canada in 2009, in fact it will not race in North America at all next year for the first time in decades. The scene of Lewis Hamilton’s maiden Grand Prix victory in 2007 (which I had the pleasure of attending) will be replaced by NOTHING. Yes you heard it. In fact the Turkish GP will move into it’s place and create a 4 week summer break in the middle of the F1 season. Wait? Am I alone in realising the stupidity of having a summer break in the middle of a summer sport?

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Check out this video. It’s fight clips of a guy called Steve MacIntyre who has just signed for the Edmonton Oilers as their enforcer for this season. The main point of humour though is not his knockout punches but the third and final fight in the video. Check out his opponent refusing to drop his glove going into the fight. MacIntyre’s reaction is amusing also but yes, the guy goes ahead and gets on with the fight with the glove on . . . and still loses. Granted he might have been playing with a broken hand and if so that is still pretty brave.

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“Chelsea have signed 12-year-old French schoolboy Jeremy Boga - dubbed ‘the new Zinedine Zidane’. After weeks of talks with the boy’s parents, Chelsea have reached an agreement for the midfield prodigy to join them when he turns 16.”
– The Sun, September 20, 2008

Does anyone else find this stupid? I mean I shouldn’t be suprised, it is the Sun afterall and before the abuse starts, I don’t read the sun, I just seen this on the rumors section of the BBC Sport website.
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“I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.”
– Babe Ruth, pre-the first ever game at Yankee Stadium, April 18, 1923

“Only God knows who will hit the last one here”
– Babe Ruth upon hitting the first ever home run at Yankee Stadium in the first game.

The final home-run to be hit here is the one everyone is waiting to see. Their have been two tonight so far, both for the Yankees the latest being by Jose Molina after Johnny Damon hit the first.

It is 10:50 p.m. and I have to be up by 6 a.m. for work but I refuse to go to bed while sporting history is in the making on the T.V. right now.

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Tonight is the last time Yankee stadium will host a baseball game before its doors close for good and the Yankees move literally across the road to a new home. It’s sad to see one of the greatest stadiums in the world shut its doors for good but I am glad to say that I have seen two games at the original Yankee Stadium, back in 2002. I will be sure to tune in and watch the game to see sporting history in the making.

In the mean time here is an article from the TSN website on a huge list of memories and historical sporting moments from Yankee Stadium.

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So I got news that I start my new job on Monday, but enough about that. There were more pressing matters at hand this morning. I had my alarm go off for 7.45 a.m. this morning to get up and watch the Liverpool v Manchester United game. Prior to waking up I had a vivid dream that I had woke up and found out that Liverpool had lost the game 2-1 so there was no point in getting up to watch it. Very bizarre, but then dreams tend to be so after a few drinks the night before. Anyway, I did get up in real-time and watched the game online with a great picture, well certainly clear enough to make out Wes Brown firing into his own net and then Babel grabbing a second half winner for the Mighty Reds. Oh why oh why have we finally beaten Untied when I am stuck in Canada and unable to properly gloat?

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What can I say, it is definitely me. Or at least I was beginning to think it was up until yesterday evening when the Blue Jay’s finally lost a game snapping a ten-game winning streak. The winning streak stretched all the way back to August 31 when I arrived in the country and having been here and watching most of the games in the evening through the winning streak I was beginning to believe I had brought the team some good vibes. I wasn’t quite sure where from because it certainly wasn’t from supporting Liverpool back at home, but none-the less I was here and an average Blue Jay’s team were now invincible.

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I have been for about two full days now and I have left behind a footballing world that is distinctly different than the one people back home are talking about today. Yes them minnows of the Premier League, Manchester City, are now the biggest team in the world and are even outbidding Chelsea for world class players. How did it all change so quickly? MORE »