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by Jammer Karim

“You may make it. You may not. But that doesn’t matter, Jammer. What matters is that you’re here. Look around. Who ever thought you’d make it this far. 1..2..3.. triple deke. Take your best shot. I believe in you Jammer. Win or lose.”--Gordon Bombay, pumping me up before writing this blog.

1. I challenge you to watch this video and not sing along by the end of it. It can’t be done. And if you weren’t on the Habs bandwagon before, you certainly are now (tip to DetCapC19 for the clip):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnF9MoM0-3I&feature=related

2. Note: I keep wondering if Canuck fans should be cheering for the Habs. I mean, for the last three years the Knuckleheads have been Canada’s best shot at ending the country’s Stanley Cup drought, and have constantly failed to come close. Montreal on the other hand, gets into the playoffs on the last day of the season with an overtime loss, and are now only eight wins away. If the Habs win, won’t Canuck fans be just a little bitter?

3. Quote of the week: “They were banging away in front, and Sidney Crosby couldn’t get it up”--CBC announcer Bob Cole, referring to Sidney Crosby in game seven.

4. After turning 22 and earning tens of millions of dollars over his NHL career, Sidney Crosby has finally decided to move out of Mario Lemieux’s house and into his own place.

5. One of three things must’ve happened here: 1) Lemieux kicked him out after his no show in the Montreal series. 2) Crosby finally grew a pair and moved out after four years. Or 3) Crosby made a pass at Lemieux.

6. Let’s be honest, you’d be pretty shocked if it was number two.

7. This man might be an idiot. This man might need to let go of his past. This man appears to be heading straight for prison. This man, on the surface, appears to be an absolute joke of a human being. But, despite all of his faults, I commend this man for attempting (and for a good amount of time, achieving) something all of us past our prime high school athletes have dreamt about at least once. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5182279

8. My favourite line from the article: “He was totally dedicated to basketball”. If you’re a 22 year old man posing as a 16 year old high school student just so you can relive your basketball heyday, you better be “totally dedicated to basketball”.

9. I wonder what happened at school dances?

10. Note: Lawrence Taylor is reading this blog and a light bulb just went off in his head.

11. Meet Sami Salo’s new best friend: http://withleather.uproxx.com/2010/05/this-guy-did-not-get-signed

12. Stat of the week: 15: The amount of wins over the last two years that Lebron James has in the playoffs. Do some quick arithmetic and you realize that for the past two years he was 17 wins short of winning a championship. Not even close your highness.

13. David Beckham has only played in 30 games for the LA Galaxy since his arrival in August of 2007. So in other words, he has been to more Laker games as a spectator than he’s been to Galaxy games as a player. That 250 million dollar deal is looking more worth it every day.

14. Picture of the week: Put a Celtics jersey on any of these guys, and $20 says they shut down Shaq http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2X7hlD/sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/imag...

15. Remember my article about upsets being bad for sports? Well after Lebron and the Cavs flamed out in round two, an article came out illustrating another great reason why upsets are killer for potentially epic sports moments http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/columns/story?id=5187553

16. Toronto Raptors head coach Jay Triano was at Game three of the Canucks/Blackhawks series. When they put him up on the big screen, nobody knew who he was. Once they put up his job title, the whole place start booing like crazy. That’s Rough. (hat tip to Alberto)

17. Roberto Luongo let in 16 goals at GM Place in the second round versus the Blackhawks. He had so many holes even Tiger Woods didn’t know what to do with him.

18. Is this the best spoof commercial of all time? I rank it right up there with Sami Salo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pZoYw3kcKo and that underrated Burger King spoof on Pizza Hut (tip to DetCapC19). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9u81Jq20g8&feature=related

19. Sticking with Gordon Bombay, has there even been a bigger hypocrite in movie history? All he talks about is his famous “triple deke”, which he never actually scored on. The guy’s more a fraud than the dude from point 8.

20. Final Thought:This week we reserved the most revered and coveted spot in Sunday fodder for the U21 Richmond Pilots Women’s Soccer Team. Why the hell would I talk about this? Why the hell would any of you care? Both good questions, which I don’t really have an answer to. Nevertheless, the greatest women’s soccer team in the history of my hometown won their first Provincial title on Saturday morning. In true authentic soccer fashion, the game ended 1-0.

21. After the game, I got to thinking: Aside from volleyball, is there a better female sport than soccer? Female kicks trumps basketball, hockey, baseball, and most definitely golf. You could argue tennis, but those grunting noises are hit or miss for me (miss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-YayY8Zm0). Soccer also has the added advantage of having 22 girls on the field at a time. Nothing comes close to that.

22. So to my favourite girls from Richmond, congratulations on the big win! And the next time you see some creepy guy at your games, be nice to him because there’s a good chance he read this blog.

23. Or be nice to him, because there’s a good chance that creepy guy is me.