THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL FIRST, CELINE DION; NOW, THIS.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH After a little encouragement and a lot of embarrassment, the Montreal Canadiens fans finally cheered during the playing of ``The Star-Spangled Banner'' before Saturday night's game. Booooooooooooo. That just ain't right. If those sub-Arctic, Molson-sloshed, snowshoe-fitted, doughnut-eatin', Expos-dissin', Don Cherry-lookin', codfish-smellin', fur-tradin', pine tree-cuttin' puckheads shouldn't feel bad for wanting to jeer the red, white and blue. They have that right, eh? No one should have to coach them on how to react about the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Leave 'em be. Oh, by the way, last NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there team ditching ``O Canada'' for the right to pay Celine Dion to sing ``God Bless America'' at a packed arena, please make sure the outhouses OUTHOUSES. Buildings adjoining to or belonging to dwelling-houses. 2. It is not easy to say what comes within and what is excluded from the meaning of out-house. are locked. ... --Houston Astros outfielder Lance Berkman reacted to what Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines said about President Bush - namely, she was ``ashamed'' he was from the Lone Star State. ``I don't want to shoot them or anything,'' said Berkman, a Texas native, ``I just want them to move to Oklahoma.'' ... --Sacramento County sheriffs reported two men were arrested Saturday after a couple of sheep in a high school's agriculture classroom were found brutally beaten and stabbed with a pitchfork. Surprisingly, there were no handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. insults left on either animal. ... --Morten Andersen, 42, saying he wants to kick in the NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga until he's 50, signed a four-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs The Raiders are drooling drooling the discharge of saliva from the mouth. A normal feature in some breeds of dogs such as St. Bernard, Newfoundland and English bulldog, presumably because of their loose, pendulous lips. to get him between 46 and 50. ... --Even if the NFL owners' greed moves them to allow 14 teams instead of 12 into the postseason, it still means that most teams - 18 - won't qualify. ... --Ricky Davis was just confused. Shooting at the opponents' basket was his way of helping the Cavaliers continue to throw games. ... --If the king of triple-doubles, Magic Johnson, played a full NBA career - say 16 seasons instead of the 12-plus he ended up with - John Stockton and Mark Jackson would be nowhere near him on the all-time assists list. In 906 regular-season contests, Magic had an 11.2 assists-a-game average, the league's all-time best mark. Compare that to Stockton (10.5 in 1,491 games) and Jackson (8.2 in 1,241 games). ... --They had to cancel the upcoming World Ice Golf championship in Greenland the other day. Not enough ice. The average temps in the Arctic Ocean were unusually warm the last three weeks - between 14 and 32 degrees. ... --Danny Sheridan's line in USA Today against winning the NCAA Tournament, posted before this all started, had IUPUI IUPUI Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (Indianapolis, IN, USA) at 100 gazillion ga·zil·lion n. Informal An indefinitely large number: "The crowd cheered wildly . . . as gazillions of balloons poured down from the rafters" Tom Shales. to 1. Somehow, Vermont was only 87 gazillion to 1. The Sweet 16 survivor with the greatest odds starting off is Butler - 250,000 to 1. ... --Cincinnati offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski, after watching Carson Palmer last week during a private workout at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. : ``Talent-wise, he has quite a bit of talent.'' Seems the Bengals are also lacking adjective-wise. ... --It was 1942 when baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis Kenesaw Mountain Landis (November 20 1866 – November 25 1944) was an American jurist who served as a federal judge from 1905 to 1922, and subsequently as the first commissioner of Major League Baseball. asked President Franklin Roosevelt whether the sport should continue during World War II. In what's now known as the ``Green Light'' letter, FDR replied: ``I honestly feel it would be best'' to keep playing. To which Landis said: ``I hope that our performance will be such as to justify the president's faith.'' As the 2002 baseball season starts this week, we keep that hope alive again. |
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