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I haven't verified all of these yet this season, but to the best of my knowledge these are the websites of the flagship stations of the radio networks of each of the eight teams. In all cases you can listen to the broadcasts of the games. You will need to first download Windows Media Player (it's free) if you haven't already done so. CJAD Montreal http://www.cjad.com/ The Fan 590 Toronto http://www.fan590.com/ CHML Hamilton http://www.900chml.com/ CJOB Winnipeg http://www.cjob.com/ CKRM Regina http://www.620ckrm.com/ CHQR Calgary http://www.am770chqr.com/home/index.cfm CHED Edmonton http://www.630ched.com/ The Team 1040 Vancouver http://www.team1040.ca/ edit to correct the Vancouver station as per B. Clugston's suggestion.

Sounds terrific! Good luck!

Happy Birthday Kat! I remember when I turned 18, I felt like I was old enough to do anything I wanted, but not old enough to be responsible for it. In those days 21 was the age of majority.

Happy Birthday Guy!

I have a friend in Las Vegas who told me that there is often jazz in Las Vegas. This surprised me. Did you notice that any jazz act was there?

The Globe is now posting on its website each team's stats! Here is the link to the Argo stats. From there you can go to each other team. http://stats.globesports.com/cfl/teamstats.asp?team=5615

Here's a new twist. Atlantic Records has agreed to have 16 million copies of a song placed on illegal downloading sites for a fee from Sprint. Sprint's logo will appear on the iPod and computer screens. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082007/busin...eter_lauria.htm

I remember Cavett asking Zappa, "What do you call your daughter Moon Unit?" Zappa said, "Moon". Cavett then said, "Who does Frank Zappa think is weird?"

Saskatchewan Roughriders 49....Calgary Stampeders 8 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4089438.htm I listened to this one too. It featured a match-up between what I consider the two most over-rated players in the league - Kerry Joseph and Henry Burris (I was extremely surprised when the players union voted Burris the best QB in the league last year.) DJ Flick had a good game, catching two TD passes. Considering the way the Ticats have been shellacked both weeks this season, I have to think that Flick is glad to be out of there. The score was 8-7 Stamps after one, but after that it was all Riders. Most notably, the Riders capitalized on, and scored on, just about every mistake the Stamps made. That's a mark of a good team. The Riders have looked very good both games so far, but they play the Lions on Friday, so that will give us a better picture of how good they really are.

Week 2: Winnipeg Blue Bombers 32....Montreal Alouettes 23 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4088823.htm I listened to this one on the internet Thursday night. Charles Roberts scored 4 TDs last week, but he didn't do anything this week. They hardly ever gave him the ball. Last week Milt Stegall tied George Reed's and Mike Pringle's record for career TDs, so everyone in the house expected Stegall to get the ball and break the record in the home opener. The Als double covered Stegall well and shut him down. Unfortunately for the Als, double teaming Stegall left Terrence Edwards, Jamie Stoddard and Chris Brazell open all night. It looks like the Bombers' picking up Terrence Edwards in the off-season as a free agent is going to be a huge plus for them. The Als looked like world beaters in the first quarter, and led 13-0 after one. But they did nothing in the second and third quarters, and settled for field goals in the fourth. I realized late last season that Kevin Glenn is much younger than I realized. He is now 28. This reminds me of Anthony Calvillo, who was a starter for Las Vegas at age 22, and spent years in the league before he developed into the top flight QB he is today. Maybe now after all these years Glenn is just now coming into his own. Troy Westwood didn't play. The Bombers picked up young Rob Pikula from the Lions last week. He both punted and place-kicked, and didn't look very good doing either. At least he didn't miss a convert! British Columbia Lions 29....Edmonton Eskimos 9 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4089090.htm Toronto Argonauts 30....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 5 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4089257.htm Tonight: Calgary at Saskatchewan

I googled Nik Bartsch today and found that he was featured at NPR's website when the album Stoa came out: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5507990 I note that it refers to Bartsch as "Swiss-born", so maybe the band isn't German after all. I assumed it was because he wrote the liner notes in German, which were then translated into English.

I was discussing this sort of thing with a friend just a couple of weeks ago. It is my opinion that quite a number of people are going to go to hell for this. All of my best to you.

Thanks for that Brownian! I had read a little something about that, but hadn't seen anything about the CFL tie-in, so that makes it interesting. I can't say for sure that I remember Charles Gordon. Sort of rings a bell. Does anybody here remember him? My CFL encyclopedia says that he played for Ottawa 1991-93, BC 1994-95 and Montreal 1996-97. Total interceptions 35, for 590 yards and 6 touchdowns. ***** BClugston, I believe that Damon is the first CFL grandfather since Tommy Joe Coffey of the Ticats in the early 70s. Is anybody else here old enough to remember him?

I like New York pizza. My favorite pizza growing up in New Orleans was a small restaurant called The Italian Villa. The Board of Health closed them down. Considering the general incompetence of everything related to the New Orleans government in those days (the 60s, but I've no reason to think life is any different today), the kitchen must have been really filthy! Maybe it was the dirt that made the pizzas so delicious!

I agree, Garth. I really like his tone. But his playing still needs a lot of work.

Dig the eyelashes!

I didn't know that McDuff recorded for Blue Note. I was only aware of his Prestige and Atlantic sides.

This reminds me of Joe Frazier's deal. He was funded by a group of investors called Cloverlay, who for their investment received some of his earnings, and also managed his money so that he was far better off financially than other top boxers (many of whom like Joe Louis were mismanaged and wound up with little).

Happy Birthday Randy!

Jim, I don't have PayPal, so I'll put a check in the mail Monday. What is the address?

Happy Birthday Jack!

Happy Birthday Whitey!

I didn't realize that Crazy Legs Hirsch was in Unchained. Here's Hy Zaret's LA Times obit: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...news-obituaries Hy Zaret, 99; lyricist for hit tune 'Unchained Melody' From Times Staff and Wire Reports July 4, 2007 Lyricist Hy Zaret, who wrote the haunting words to "Unchained Melody," one of the most frequently recorded songs of the 20th century, has died at the age of 99. Zaret died Monday at his home in Westport, Conn., about a month before his 100th birthday, his son, Robert Zaret, told the Associated Press. He wrote the lyrics for many songs and advertising jingles, but his biggest hit was "Unchained Melody," written with composer Alex North for a 1955 prison movie called "Unchained," starring Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch. It brought Zaret and North an Academy Award nomination for best original song. Zaret refused the producer's request to work the word "unchained" into the lyrics, instead writing to express the feelings of a lover who has "hungered for your touch a long, lonely time." The song was recorded by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Lena Horne, U2, Guy Lombardo, Vito & the Salutations, Willie Nelson and Joni Mitchell, who incorporated fragments into her song "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody." An instrumental version was a No. 1 hit in 1955 for Les Baxter, while a vocal version by Al Hibbler reached No. 3 the same year. But most baby boomers remember the song from the Righteous Brothers' version. The record, produced by Phil Spector, reached No. 4 on the Billboard chart in 1965 and was a hit again 25 years later when it was used on the soundtrack of the film "Ghost," with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. In all, "Unchained Melody" was recorded more than 300 times, according to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, which listed it in 1999 as one of the 25 most performed musical works of the 20th century. "Although I had had success as a pop songwriter, I hesitated when Alex, whom I knew from our days as soldier songwriters in World War II, called me … to ask me to write a lyric for a movie theme he was working on," Zaret told Billboard magazine in 1991, a few months before North died. "I hesitated because I was busy writing songs that gave me enough income to fund me so I could continue to create musical public service announcements, work I was extremely proud of and for which I didn't get a penny. I was spending 85% of my career writing these spots, while using the other 15% to earn a living…. "I agreed to do the lyric, and in two days had it completed. It's unusual, because the title of the song is never used in the lyric. In the film, Todd Duncan sang the song as a prisoner with a cigar in his mouth." Among other songs Zaret collaborated on were "My Sister and I," a hit in 1941 for Jimmy Dorsey; "So Long, for a While," the theme song for the radio and TV show "Your Hit Parade"; "Dedicated to You"; and the Andrews Sisters' "One Meat Ball." "He had some big, big hits," said Jim Steinblatt, an assistant vice president at ASCAP. Born Aug. 21, 1907, in New York, Zaret graduated from West Virginia University and Brooklyn Law School. In later years, Zaret had to fend off the claims by another man, electrical engineer William Stirrat, who said he wrote the "Unchained Melody" lyrics as a teenager in the 1930s and even legally changed his name to Hy Zaret. Robert Zaret and Steinblatt both said the dispute was resolved completely in favor of the real Zaret, who continued to receive all royalties. Steinblatt said Stirrat died in 2004.

Here's a brief AP obit: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288119,00.html Bill Pinkney, Last Surviving, Original Drifter, Dead at 81 Thursday, July 05, 2007 AP Bill Pinkney DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Bill Pinkney, the last survivor of the original members of the musical group The Drifters, has died. He was 81. Pinkney was found dead Wednesday at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Daytona Beach Police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said. The death was not considered suspicious, he said. Pinkney was scheduled to perform for U.S. Independence Day festivities there. The Drifters, whose hits include "Under the Boardwalk," "Up on the Roof," and "Save the Last Dance For Me," still performed Wednesday night. An announcement about Pinkney's death was made after the show, said the group's publicist, Donnie Lowery. Pinkney, born in Dalzell, S.C., was not with The Drifters when they recorded their biggest hits. He left in the band in 1958 because of an argument over cash. His distinctive bass voice can be heard on the group's version of the holiday classic "White Christmas." Even though he left the group, Pinkney didn't let go of The Drifters' name. He fought for laws allowing performers or bands to claim an affiliation with a classic group like The Drifters or The Coasters only if at least one member recorded with the original group. The Drifters were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Pinkney was a World War II veteran and pitched for the New York Blue Sox of the Negro Baseball League in the late 1940s and early '50s.

Week 2 picks: http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4088732.htm