843...Entourage Guest Star's Wife Pregnant

Tom Brady, an actor with a very thin resume, and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, a human clothes rack, are having a baby.

Mr. Brady confirmed the rumour that he and his new bride, they were married in December of last year, are going to have a baby during an interview with ESPN's Chris Berman. The interview will be on ESPN today and tomorrow and probably forever.

For those of you not current on Mr. Brady's back up job, in case the acting thing doesn't pan out, he is arguably the greatest quarterback of our time, a Super Bowl champion out of Michigan presently toiling with the New England Patroits. He is quite possibly the finest NFL quarterback in the history of the game.

Just in case you think I am some kind of New England Patroit fan, uh, think again. They suck.

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441...Air McNair, Grounded

Permanently.

I first saw this on ESPN.com but it is everywhere as I write this.

Steve McNair, the thirteen year NFL veteran, the second Black man to start at quarterback in a Superbowl, was murdered late last night/early this morning in Nashville, Tennessee. He was found with a single gunshot wound to the head at the apartment of his girlfriend in downtown Nashville. She also perished.

Mr. McNair, who played the bulk of his career in Nashville with the Tennessee Titans, was only 36 years old when he passed.

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86...The Team1200

Is a local Ottawa all sports station. For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian radio and TV, direct competition is an anathema to the governing body of broadcasting in the Great White North. The Canadian Radio and Television Commission is bureaucracy and superciliousness taken to the next level. Therefore, unlike the land down under the 49th, there will never be two of anything trying to serve the same market and demographic in this country on the radio dial if the CRTC can help it.

In Ottawa that means we have one country station, one all news station, one sports station etc. Our sports station is The Team 1200 and it is sooooooo random.

Please bear in mind this is really a one sport town and that sport is hockey, National Hockey League hockey. Everything else pales in comparison.

Here is what is cool about The Team 1200. Saturday afternoon they had the Washington/Pittsburgh NHL playoff game on and allowed the full feed, with Pittsburgh local adverts and id's and everything. It felt so local on two levels, an Ottawa level and a Western Pa. level.

Here is what is random.

Sunday when the Detroit Red Wings were playing Anaheim Ducks The Team 1200 ran...no hockey, no local feed from Detroit or Anaheim, no cut ins just a talk show from either ESPN or FoxSports where they were talking about college and NFL football. One, and I am one, would think at the very least you could find some Eastern Ontario or Western Quebec motormouth who would talk about hockey for like 12 dollars an hour but noooooooooo they just run a feed from the States talking about stuff that, well, I am interested in but most in Ottawa are not.

Not hating, just stating and wondering, that's all.

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