“I hired a car at the airport.”

I had nice beautiful roommates who never complained when I watched sports on the communal TV, so when they’d chatter that “Sex in the City” (their pronunciation) was about to start, we didn’t have a problem with it either, we’d hunker down and watch too.  Everybody was happy.

Nail Yakupov, who was drafted first overall in 2012 by the Edmonton Oilers but never established himself in the NHL and now plays in the KHL, reportedly had similar first-rate practice habits and conditioning. He didn’t have the sainted ‘hockey IQ’, and was memorably described as “He plays like a guy being chased by a…

I for one welcome and second the motion to accommodate boobs.

Fuck you Bettman

I use a slightly different but equally effective technique:

Michael Scott: Ladies and gentlemen, I have some bad news. Meredith was hit by a car.

Wildcat team.

all the resistance of a broken parachute.

1) Lord I miss Jim Tomsula’s Lifehack. Drew is a special talent. If I tried my hand at it, I’d overshoot or undersell. He gets it just right. “Rusty Joe” whereas I would have fumbled it with a ‘Chatanooga Charlie’, something lame like that. The mouse toasted on the hot mower engine? Perfect.

Heck, show me a crisp twenty.

Yeah, those occasions where you harangue your audience with the veterans standing behind you in support are never stilted and awkward.

Calling your bros or coworkers ‘cupcake’ is underused and devastating.  It maligns one not based on the colour of their skin or similar superficial attribute, but rather on the absence of their character.

Whenever I read the word ‘cracker’ in this context, in my mind I do it with Dave Chappelle’s incensed voice.

If they suspend and cut him, that’s one thing, he still gets a whack of guaranteed money, his bonus money, if they’re just ‘moving on’ from him because his performance is unsatisfactory. If they try to fire him for cause, and void the contract and not pay him anything, that’s a different level and because of the…

Growing up, he probably had years of coaching from a master on the subject, a Maestro if you will.

Was it Deion Sanders who said he got paid to practice, the games he played for free?

A player with a guaranteed contract, to have it honoured, has to report to work, first of all, and then do the regular work of a player, like attending meetings, medical appointments, abstaining from punching the GM, that kind of stuff. If the player refuses to report, or commits a major breach of the…

Pick a side, we’re at war.

Why anyone would watch SNL when there remain archives of SCTV, I’ll never know.