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Saskatchewan Roughriders 19....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 6 http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4176884 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home Despite being with the team less than a week, Michael Bishop started for the Riders and led them to victory. I was unable to listen to the game, and have no idea how much of the playbook he could have learned in that time. ***** I am leaving on a business trip tomorrow, and expect to be gone about a week. If anyone would like to post the scores and article links, you are welcome to do so. If not, I will plan to catch up upon my return. This will be the first Labor Day doubleheader I will miss in about twenty years. Before there was an internet to catch the games, I used to spend the day at a sports bar watching the CBC feed off the satellite. Those were good times! I wonder if Sarah Palin has ever caught the Canadian league games on TV up in Alaska!

Here's a good article about the origin and development of the Edmonton-Calgary Labor Day tradition. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...623681-sun.html ***** Here's a Sun report on the Argos rumor. If there is any truth to the report, Argos GM Adam Rita wasn't admitting to it last night. "Not that I know of, but sometimes the husband is the last to know," Rita told Sun Media's Terry Koshan. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Tor...623671-sun.html

Robert, I feel like I'm telling a kid that there is no Santa Claus! I don't think there was ever a time when pro wrestling was on the level. I read a book about it (either the Complete Idiot's Guide or the For Dummies) which was "written" by Captain Lou Albano, and it said that pro wrestling developed out of phony six-hour long wrestling matches staged at carnival shows. Anyway, it was clearly ridiculous in the late 40s (before Killer Kowalski's time) when Gorgeous George was popular on TV.

Herb Zurkowski is reporting that the Argos have approached Pinball Clemons to return as head coach if the Argos lose to the Ticats Monday. I didn't know that Pinball was the Argos' second winningest coach. http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news...1d-3b2826d17256 ***** The Ticats released Timmy Chang Friday. One day later, he signs with the Blue Bombers. I didn't know that he set all of the NCAA passing records with Hawaii. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=248074&amp...os=secStory_cfl

Now here's a name I haven't thought about in nearly fifty years! This is from the AP: http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...portsOther/home Wrestling pioneer Kowalski dies at 81 Associated Press August 30, 2008 at 3:21 PM EDT EVERETT, Mass. — Pro wrestling pioneer Walter "Killer" Kowalski has died from a heart attack. He was 81. Kowalski died Saturday after his family decided to have him taken off life support. Kowalski had been in critical condition at a hospital in Everett, Massachusetts, since the heart attack on Aug. 8. The death was announced on Kowalski's Web site. The 6-foot-7, 285 pound Kowalski earned his nickname in 1954 after dropping opponent Yukon Eric during a match in Montreal. He became famous for various moves, including a stomach vice grip called the "Killer Clutch."

Montreal Alouettes 30....British Columbia Lions 25 http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4176350 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home Great game! It ended with the Lions on the Als' one yard line. Buck Pierce played for the Lions instead of Jarious Jackson. Ben Cahoon caught a pass in his 100th consecutive game. The Als offense struggled. The Lions are the only team which has been able to give Anthony Calvillo problems - they've done it twice this year. edit for spelling

Fred Williams Week 10 preview http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4176128

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord.

When I was a boy, my exposure to auto racing was mostly listening to the Indianapolis 500 every year. Formula One received no coverage here in the US. But I sure knew the name Phil Hill. He was the driver who raced in Europe. I didn't know that he won at Sebring and LeMans as well as Formula One. A few years back, I heard him interviewed on the radio, very likely an Indy 500 broadcast, and as I recall he was saying that the CART/IRL split was stupid and that they would have to get together for the sport to grow. I can hear his voice in my mind. Here is his LA Times obituary. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,1758007.story Phil Hill dies at 81; only American-born driver to win Formula One title AP 1961 file photo of Phil Hill of Santa Monica, Calif., receives cup after winning the Grand Prix of Italy at Monza in a race which saw Wolfgang von Trips of Germany and 11 spectators killed in a three-car collision. Von Trips was Hill's teammate on the Ferrari factory squad. The reserved, Santa-Monica-raised Hill won for Ferrari in 1961 and was a three-time winner at both Le Mans and Sebring, among other victories. He never suffered a serious injury. By Jim Peltz, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 12:08 PM PDT, August 28, 2008 Phil Hill, a reserved Californian who became a gifted race-car driver and the only American-born driver to win the Formula One international auto-racing championship, died today He was 81. Hill died at Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula of complications from Parkinson's disease, according to John Lamm, a close friend who is also editor-at-large of Road and Track magazine. Hill won the Formula One title for Ferrari in 1961. He also was the first American to win the 24-hour endurance sports-car race at Le Mans, France -- a race he would win twice again -- and he won the Sebring 12-hour race three times, among many other victories. "Phil set the standard" for other American drivers who competed overseas, such as Dan Gurney and Mario Andretti, said the late Shav Glick, longtime motor sports writer for the Times, in 2006. (The Italian-born Andretti, whose family emigrated to the United States when he was a teenager, won the Formula One title in 1978.) Hill "also was a great representative of the sport," Glick said, adding that he was "quiet and not given to self-promotion. A very gracious man." Hill won his Formula One championship at the season's penultimate race in Monza, Italy, after he had swapped the series lead all year with his Ferrari teammate Wolfgang von Trips of Germany. In the same race, Trips died in a crash that also killed 14 spectators. As a result, Ferrari did not participate in the season's final race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., and Hill was unable to celebrate his championship in his home nation. Hill, despite driving with safety gear in his race car that paled by today's standards, never suffered a serious injury in his career. He retired from driving in 1967 at 39. "I had an amazing amount of luck to race for 22 years and not a drop of blood or a broken bone," Hill once said. Then he quipped: "Maybe I wasn't trying hard enough." But racing was not always easy for Hill. According to Formula One's website, Hill was "profoundly intelligent and deeply sensitive," a driver "always fearful and throughout his career he struggled to find a balance between the perils and pleasures of his profession." At one point in the early 1950s he stopped racing for 10 months because of stomach ulcers, but then returned and "by the mid-1950s he had become America's best sports car racer," the website said. Philip Toll Hill was born in Miami on April 20, 1927, and was raised in Santa Monica. His love of cars began at an early age and, when he was 12, his aunt bought him a Model T Ford that he would drive on private roads in Santa Monica Canyon. He studied business administration at USC in 1945-47 but eventually dropped out because his passion was race cars. Hill worked as a mechanic on other drivers' cars and, in the early to mid-1950s, drove in races in Santa Ana, Pebble Beach, Mexico and Europe and eventually joined the Ferrari team. In September 1958, Hill finally got the ride he wanted in a Ferrari Formula One car, which would culminate with his world title. The first of Hill's Le Mans victories also came in 1958, where he co-drove a Ferrari with Olivier Gendebien. After retiring, Hill focused much of his attention on his lifelong love of classic automobiles, as well as his collection of player pianos and other antique musical instruments. He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1991. Hill is survived by his wife, Alma, son Derek of Culver City, daughter Vanessa Rogers of Phoenix, stepdaughter Jennifer Delaney of Niwot, Colo., and four grandchildren.

Duane Forde rates each team's non-imports. http://www.tsn.ca/columnists/duane_forde/?...os=topStory_cfl

Happy 50th kh!

Is that George Reeves (Superman) on the right?

Another surprise move by the Argos. Today they released Orlondo Steinauer. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Best wishes, Alexander. Prayers go out.

To make room for Michael Bishop, the Riders have cut Marcus Crandell. This is the first time I can think of where a first place team has cut its starting quarterback midway through the season. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

I have to think that Oh! Pretty Woman was the song he was most famous for, but look at the hits he played on! Here is his Long Beach Press-Telegram obituary: http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_10279669 <h1 id="articleTitle" class="articleTitle">Renowned Music Row and Nashvile drummer Buddy Harman has died</h1>By Peter CooperArticle Launched: 08/22/2008 07:39:18 PM PDT var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Buddy Harman, the percussion heartbeat of Music Row and Nashville's best-known and most-recorded drummer, died Thursday evening of congestive heart failure. He was 79. A native of Nashville who was born Murrey Mizell Harman Jr., Harman played drums on more than 18,000 recordings, including Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman," Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man," Ray Price's "Crazy Arms" and Elvis Presley's "Little Sister." He was the first staff drummer on the Grand Ole Opry and the first prominent drummer in country music history, according to a country music book author. "Buddy Harman set the standard, both quantitatively and qualitatively, for what a great country drummer should be," wrote David Cantwell in "Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's Greatest Singles." "The mind boggles at the number of musically distinctive and emotionally fitting ways Harman found to lay down a beat." Harman helped invent the country shuffle during the "Crazy Arms" session, and he was enough of a musical chameleon to play pounding rock 'n' roll on "Pretty Woman," stately, restrained pop on "I'm Sorry," graceful swing on Roger Miller's "King of the Road" and straight-ahead country on Loretta Lynn's "Coal Miner's Daughter." Country music historian Eddie Stubbs said of Harman, "If anybody could be called the father of modern country drumming, it would be Buddy. He defined the role of the Advertisement GetAd('tile','box','/news_article','','www.presstelegram.com','','null','null'); &lt;a href=" http://ad.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh=v8/3726/3/0/%2a/m%3B207011559%3B0-0%3B1%3B11628882%3B4307-300/250%3B27932764/27950643/1%3B%3B%7Eaopt%3D2/1/10/0%3B%7Esscs%3D%3fhttp://clk.atdmt.com/MEA/go/111212041/direct/01/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://view.atdmt.com/MEA/view/111212041/direct/01/6337684"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;a'>http://view.atdmt.com/MEA/view/111212041/direct/01/6337684"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh=v8/3726/3/0/%2a/m%3B207011559%3B0-0%3B1%3B11628882%3B4307-300/250%3B27932764/27950643/1%3B%3B%7Eaopt%3D2/1/10/0%3B%7Esscs%3D%3fhttp://clk.atdmt.com/MEA/go/111212041/direct/01/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://view.atdmt.com/MEA/view/111212041/direct/01/6337684" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;drums in country music. No matter the song, he knew what to play. More importantly, he knew what not to play. Always." Harman is survived by wife Marsha Marvell Irby, two daughters and three sons. Details about a memorial service were not yet available.

This just in. The Argos have traded Michael Bishop to the Riders for a conditional draft pick. Bishop has been little used this year because the Argos acquired last year's Outstanding Player Kerry Joseph. Last year the Argos were 11-1 with Bishop as a starter. The Riders have to feel that a rusty Bishop can't be any worse than Marcus Crandell's performance Thursday. I don't know how many weeks will pass before Darian Durant comes back from his rib injury. After two straight losses, the Riders must have felt that they can't afford to wait any longer. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Calgary Stampeders 36....British Columbia Lions 29 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4174846 Good game. Calgary dominated, but BC kept it close, and tied it with seven minutes left in the game. Jarious Jackson left the game in the third quarter with an injured middle finger in his throwing hand. It looked serious, maybe enough to keep him out of next week's game. Buck Pierce came in and looked pretty good. This was Calgary's first win in Vancouver since 2002. At 4-4, BC is now in last place. Sandro DeAngelis was 5 for 5. The Lions have a surfeit of running backs. Last year's league leading rusher Joe Smith has been a healthy scratch for the past two games. There has been much speculation in the press that the Lions will trade him. The Security at BC Place used to wear orange. So many fans are now wearing Lions orange jersey and t-shirts that the Security had to change its outfits to yellow.

Edmonton Eskimos 27....Saskatchewan Roughriders 10 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home In the first quarter the Riders scored the game's first ten points. After that it was all Eskimos. Marcus Crandell was back, and I think he went 7 for 24. I imagine the Sask fans can't wait for Darian Durant's ribs to heal. Have you noticed how much the Eskimos have improved over the last month?

Gene Upshaw obituaries: LA Times http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,6768705.story AP http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Interesting that you should say that. I have seen more praise on the internet for Gnu High than any other ECM album. It was the first one of this batch that I thought I would order.

Fred Williams Week 9 preview http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4174413 ***** I didn't know that Troy Westwood's column for the Winnipeg Sun is a weekly affair. After he wrote the column criticizing Coach Berry, the league withdrew his media credentials. The FRC (the beat writers' organization) has protested. It hasn't been resolved yet. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...526436-sun.html

I have a new ECM album I can recommend by a young (28) trumpeter from Norway named Mathias Eick called The Door. This is his first album under his own name. I like Eick (get it? ) because of his beautiful open tone. Like most recent ECM issues, the songs seem more stream of consciousness than compositions, but I find all of this one to be pleasant to listen to. It is relaxing, but not as quiet as some other ECMs that have come out this year. Pianist Jon Balke plays a major part in this. His recent album Book of Velocities was discussed here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...03&hl=Balke Balke's playing is much more upbeat here than it was on his own album. The other musicians are Audun Kleive on drums, Audun Erlien on electric bass, and Stian Carstensen on pedal steel guitar.

I've only done that once, and it was just a few months ago. I spent one of Aggie's $2.79 BMG codes on the new remastered Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street. When I entered it into my database, I learned that seven years ago I bought a Japanese copy of that album I found at Borders for $4.99, which I hadn't opened yet. Well, can't complain about the money! Any guesses as to whether the new US remaster sounds better than the old Japanese?

The Eskimos have signed Airabin Justin to help in the secondary. http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news...13-a5944e0e21ff ***** Jesse Lumsden will be back for the Ticats for their next game Labor Day against the Argos. They have little hope without him. http://www.thespec.com/Sports/article/421204 ***** Here are the weekly stats. http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=t.../cflleaders.htm You will notice that the Als' Avon Cobourne is close to being on pace for 1000 yards for both receiving and rushing. No one has ever done that before.