Two and half cent quickies

The extra half cent on this month's quickies reflects our solid Canadian dollar. Enjoy it.

- I am cheering for Kansas or Oregon to win the NCAA football championship. Oregon because I really like the way their field and jerseys look. And Kansas because again the jerseys are spiffy and their coach is Mark Mangino. If you haven't seen Mangino I would describe him as the love child of golfer Craig Stadler and "the Penguin" when played by Danny DeVito in the Batman movies. Can't wrap your brain around that one? Maybe this will help. Fun! And don't think I am taking shots at him, because the Jayhawks are 9-0 and this is Kansas football! Not Kansas State.

- I would rather poke my eyes out with a rake then re-watch a game like the Raptors-Bulls affair the other night. Apparently Bulls coach Scott Skiles agreed because he benched his starters 3 minutes into the second half and we never saw them again. Which was good...and bad. Because then we had to watch 20 minutes of Sefolosha, Duhon, Nocioni, Khryapa and Gray. And I watched. It was like when you come across a train wreck and you can't turn away. I am guessing however that if a train full of basketballs crashed and there happened to be a hoop sitting near the tracks...more shots would have been made in that situation then by the Bulls. Sefolosha (who hails from the bball hotbed of Switzerland) took about 10 shots and I think 2 hit the rim. And one was a sloppy dunk.

- Great CFL playoff games or so I heard. It seriously has gotten to the point where I would rather watch the Bengals and the Ravens then a CFL playoff game. Shame on me. I did see Troy Westwood with what appeared to be the tail of a lemur sticking out of the back of his helmet come out to kick the winning Bombers field goal. I thought man he's ugly...and then changed the channel before the winning kick. Couldn't miss a mid 2nd quarter Ravens 3 yard run now could I?

- Speaking of the Ravens...its like their QB's are having a contest to "outsuck" each other. McNair seems to have the grip of a 3 year old girl and the fine motor skills of a 3 month old sloth. And Kyle Boller sits on the sidelines waiting for his chance to seemingly come in and try to do worse. Yesterday in relief he threw an interception and actually fumbled while warming up on the sideline. Not even joking. Luckily it was recovered by this fella below...who now has a 60% chance of starting at QB next week against the Browns.

- Is it sad that the Canucks are playing better now that their so-called top defenceman of Bieksa and Salo are out? Alex Edler is going to be an awesome hockey player for years to come. And Luke Bourdon hasn't messed up in the minute he gets to play once we are up three goals and its the last shift of the game.

- Players that some people think are good whom I never want to see on my Fantasy Football team: Jon Kitna, Willis McGahee, Steve McNair, Julius Jones, Vincent Jackson, Philip Rivers, Eli Manning, Vince Young, Shaun Alexander. Help you one week and murder you the next.

- My fantasy football team this year (the best I've had in a while): McNabb and D. Anderson, Westbrook and Jones-Drew, Colston, Edwards, Fitzgerald, Winslow, Josh Brown and the Ravens/Vikings D. Nice. Needless to say I have become way more interested in Cleveland Browns football than ever before.

- Remembrance Day is a good thing. But c'mon there has to be a better singer in the army, navy, air force, coast guard, or the national war cemetary then the guy who sang the anthems at the Canucks game the other night. Nothing honours the country more than racing through the national anthem in a key only dogs can hear.

Thats all I got this time. Hopefully by next month we will be up to three cent quickies.