Left Coast Sports Babe

Well, we may have had a week without any big new scandals, but in Arkansas recently, Republican senate candidate Curtis Coleman said that to go to the southeast part of the state means mean you “might as well get a visa and shots.” He later said he was “heartbroken” that this was interpreted as meaning southeast Arkansas is like a third world country.

Not at all, actually, you don’t need shots or visas for many third world countries.

His latest followup comment. “It is a thousand more times more likely that I am stupid than I am racist.” This could be true, but I would say he is batting 1,000 on both.

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Regarding Steve McNair’s funeral, and yeah, it’s probably a little soon to joke. But in all seriousness too, you have to wonder, how many his fellow NFL players attending the funeral and eulogizing him in the media have to be thinking “there but for the grace of God and/or gun laws…

Suppose CFL (Canadian Football League) teams would probably be above using in their recruitment pitches to US players… “tighter gun laws.”

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And another exhibit of why it’s just a little different in Canada:

This letter, to the Globe and Mail. a national paper published from Toronto, and written by one Ted Wright from Nova Scotia.

“I’m confused. A pop star, whose accomplishments far exceed those of Mohammed, Newton, Christ, Gutenberg, Pasteur, Michelangelo and Euclid combined, passes away, and yet you insist devoting space in your newspaper to G8 summit meetings among world leaders that could determine whether or not the human race will survive the next three decades. What’s that all about?”

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On the Canadian sports scene, the CFL season has started and the Grey Cup (the Canadian equivalent of the Super Bowl) champion Calgary Stampeders are 0-2. And the hapless Hamilton Tigercats, (the Canadian equivalent of the Detroit Lions) actually are 1-1 after knocking off the B.C. Lions, a playoff team last season.

So for NFL fans, this might mean that the Pittsburgh Steelers shouldn’t get too cocky, and the Detroit Lions actually could have some hope for next season….. (Well, maybe we shouldn’t get too excited about the Lions.)

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