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Sports and life meet in the Cloud9 Weblog. I blog and podcast baseball, hockey, football and link them to life experiences. Blogging about sports has changed my life, and has become my career and/or job. Enjoy my personal take on sports at Cloud9.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective NHL Forecasting
Sports-Celebnalism: Morphing from ESPN to TMZ.
Fans are thrilled by walk-off jacks, pick-6's in OT and end-to-end game-winning ginos. It's only understandable that they become intrigued by the people who are responsible for eliciting these powerf...
Dealing with Crooks is Gary Bettmans' Fatal Blunder!
Huge props to melroserocks blog for this image. It makes me feel good to be alive.----------It's tough to fire people for being stupid, because doing so implies the error was that of the hiring agent...
NHL Futures, HNIC Song and Wild 3-Way's.
I've screwed the pooch like it was paying my bills of late, so I figured writing something -- regardless of the quality -- would be an invaluable exercise in blog-preservation. This time of year leav...
TMZ-Style Sports Blogs are Journalism!
Update (5pm):Listen to radio show tonight. 6-9PM C101.5 w/ guest(s):Spencer Kyte from Bugs and CranksJDub from the Hammer to talk Euro 2008Cheers, Derek.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...
Weekly Wed. All-NHL Podcast #12
With three series in the bag, whats left for the interest of NHL fans? (Runs 20.5mins)Topics:Why are the Wings and Pens are so dominant?How the class nerd is a lot like Dallas -- identity=victory!Is P...
Misc. Monday Podcast
Runs: 20minsMay contain adult language... err, most likely does.Topics:Corporatization, Tires and the Olympics. What Facebook Chat Feature shares with the Cleveland Indians.Why the Toronto Blue Jays...
2008 NHL Playoff Picks In Pictures
The NHL Playoffs have arrived and where would NHL fans be without some well-researched guidance? In order to make these projections I have painstakingly broke down every series based on the following...
Cloud9 Linkfest - Tuesday Teasers
MLB: Retire Ruths #3 League-wide? - He was drunker than Jackie, at least.Extensive baseball predictions from ESPN - Where Olney, Gammons, Law and Stark are the only ones that matter.NHL:Soooo, Sean A...
Forget No-Touch Icing, Lets Abolish it all together.
I wasn't the first to move on this issue, so I'll state that straight away. But, much like my previous piece which listed numerous viable -- and frequently radical -- changes that would help revoluti...
Stompin' Chris Pronger Teaches a Valuable Life Lesson.
I intend on revisiting this with my Weekly Wed. All-NHL podcast tomorrow, so I will be terse here. This has been a real hot button issue and I wanted to give a few readers a fresh perspective on how ...
How to Fix the Maple Leafs: Player-by-Player
So the task is obvious: rebuild. The methodology is – in stark contrast – very much up in the air. Until a permanent GM is in Toronto this raging debate about how to rebuild will incessantly be ...
Why are the Maple Leafs still starting Vesa Toskala?
In the midst of a post-deadline mix-up that saw the Toronto Maple Leafs trade away three role players in an attempt to build for the future there seems to be a conflict of interest between the suits i...
The Sundin Aftermath: He stays, who wins??
It looks like John Ferguson Jr. has risen from the grave and stabbed the hearts of Leaf fans yet again. By giving captain Mats Sundin transcendental ability to veto any and all trade offers the forme...
Counting Down the Sundin Saga: Make or Break for Mats. (w/ Chart)
It is with a substantial degree of reservation that I throw my hat into a ring whose floor is completely saturated with those of others also speculating on the future of Mats Sundin and the Toronto Ma...
Forsbergs' foot is still fooling us all. Is he back... AGAIN?
This man was the best player in the NHL, is one of three members of the double Triple Gold Club, and recently turned down numerous NHL contracts that would have enhanced his wealth and protected his f...
Podcast #4: Shaq, Forseberg and the NHL Hotstove, Ray Emery is TO!
The best podcast to date! Check out the analysis on the Shaq/Marion deal in the NBA, the how the Peter Forsberg sweepstakes changes the NHL, and the best piece I've done yet: Ray Emery is the TO of t...
The Corporate NHL: We the dying stand united.
[Edit: Note the Date of Publication. JFJ was fired 4 days later (Jan22). Enjoy!]--------------------General Managers all over the league have been outspoken with their steadfast disapproval of Maple...
BREAKING: Maple Leafs make Tavares an offer.
Very interesting reporting from Dave Shoalts of the Globe and Mail has revealed that the Leafs are up to some trickery – or at least up to something other than underachieving. A very unique set of...
NHL '07-'08 -- The Best-of-the-Best Part One: The 60-goal scorer?
It's been a long time since the NHL saw a 60-goal scorer and the league is begging for this trend to be broken. Following Mario Lemieux's '95-'96 season in which he buried on 69 separate occasions, ...
Why Leafs' Coach Paul Maurice is a GENIOUS!
Game Theory 101: Professor Paul MauriceWithout officially announcing anything, the Toronto media deduced the starter for tonights Leafs v. Sens season opener: incumbent Andrew Raycroft. To many people...