What a week for ice hockey! Canada wins the World Cup, then the NHL lockout begins. And aren't the gloom merchants having a field day!
I'm not personally going to go into much depth on this - I couldn't care less about ice hockey really - except to track a few perspectives on events, mainly from a Canadian angle.
It's on, or should that be off. There will be no professional baseball in Japan this weekend. Talks between the Japan Baseball Players Association and the owners broke down on Friday night.
At issue is the planned merger between the Orix BlueWave and Kintetsu Buffaloes. The association, concerned about player redundancies, opposed the merger then offered a compromise of deferring the merger till 2006 so that another club could take its place. The owners refused.
May 4, 1886: About a dozen deaths at a labour rally in Chicago when dynamite was thrown into a police line. They retaliated by shooting at the crowd. A memorial was unveiled this week (reports from New York Times report | Chicago Tribune).
Frustrated with the refusal of John Howard to cut and run into retirement? Try doing the following to relieve some of the election frustration:
1. Create a "new folder" on your computer.
2. Name it "John Howard".
3. Send it to the trash.
4. Empty the trash.
5. Your computer will ask "Do you really want to get rid of 'John Howard'?"
6. Answer calmly "Yes" and press the mouse button.
7. Repeat as required.
(Source: Crikey's subscriber newsletter.)
Cork beat Kilkenny in the final of the All-Ireland Hurling Championship at Croke Park last Sunday. I won't stop bemoaning the fact that this wasn't on television in Australia and apparently will not be shown at a later date.
Cork's victory was something of an upset, the final score being 0-19 (19) to 0-7 (7).
A big day for Sammy Sosa Wednesday. He hit a grand slam homer in the Cubs' 13-5 win over Pittsburgh, following one he had already hit in the first inning.
Tiny Doll is dead. The sister of Grace Doll, Daisy Doll and Harry Doll, Tiny (born Elly Ann Schneider) was a munchkin in the Wizard of Oz (1939).
Tiny was the last of the Doll brethren, and there are now only eight surviving Munchkins from Oz. I can't be bothered doing the research, if anyone can tell me who they are I'd be most grateful.
"He caught his shin on an iceberg and never stopped crying about it."
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The shocking proof that George Washington lied about his war record!