916...The Next World Champ Boxer From Canada

Is an Ottawan.

In today's Ottawa Sun was a story about the future champeen of the world, Jessica Pickard, who was given a conditional discharge yesterday for putting the beats on her boyfriend and her friend who she caught dancing horizontally April 27 of this year.

Megan Gillis of the Sun, who seems to get all the fun stories, reports that not only did she put the beats on her now ex and her now ex friend but she also set the woman's shoes on fire.

Wait, it gets better. Miss Pickard, 20, also admitted to Judge Dianne Nicholas that she assaulted two young women at a Kanata mall March 1st and also acknowledged doing a dance on top of a stranger's Volkswagen Jetta April 12th causing 1500$ in damage.

Wonder if she is single?

Fingers crossed.

WFDS

748...The National Capital Is Now A Big Time City

Heard on CFRA yesterday that the capital of the GWN, Ottawa, is going to get a 24 hour bus!!!

The 95 will run 24/7/365 from one end, Orleans, to the other end, Kanata, all day and all of the night.

Bytown has finally made it to the show!

WFDS

723...More On Dany Heatley

This is cut and paste from Barry McLoughlin's blog on what he sees going on in the Dany Heatley slmozzle.

For your erudition I am one of Mr. McLoughlin, world class spin doctor, says so right on his web site, I am one of Mr. McLoughlin's two followers.

I, by the way have *3*.

Which makes my base 50 per cent larger than Mr. McLoughlin's.

For those of you wondering, what I just did, that is spin.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Hockey Star Faces PR Challenge

Welcome back to the dog days of August. Often it's a time when otherwise mundane stories can escalate into front-page national stories, causing pain and notoriety - whether deserved or not. For Ottawa Senators fans, the handling of star forward Dany Heatley fits into this category of news event. Word had leaked out back in June that Dany was unhappy with the way coach Cory Clousten had been treating him and told Senators management that he wished to be traded (only one year into a six year, $40 million plus contract. Outrage immediately followed - casting Dany as a spoiled, ungrateful brat turning his back on Ottawa fans. [Whoever said politics is mean? Sports fans can show no mercy at all.]

Dany waited all summer, refusing to say anything, and then only days before beginning hockey camp with the Canadian Olympic team, he holds a conference call/news conference.
Did he meet the test? Clearly not. What went wrong? I was interviewed on that and here is the resulting Ottawa Citizen story:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/contradictory+message/1918390/story.html

Personally I think the problem with Dany Heatley is that he doesn't like his new boss, ain't thrilled with living in Ottawa/Kanata and has the resources to tell the Senators and his employers to go f'k themselves and that pisses off the 99.9 per cent of us that have to do what we have to do.

That's what I think.

No need to rebuild his image; 35 goals this season and a medal in Vancouver will do that just nicely.

And if he was some 3rd line schmo, we would not be having this conversation; he would suck it up and be happy.

WFDS