If you can't be with the one you love...

...find someone else kinda like them...?

So let's just say you're in love with a girl, or a guy...no, actually let's stick with girl, much hotter that way any way you slice it.

Now this girl happens to be dating someone else and although they might actually be interested in you too, they feel bad about leaving their partner. So what would you do?
Go after another girl who also used to date that same person, duh!

That's exactly the situation the Montreal Canadiens are finding themselves in as we speak.

Reports out of Montreal are claiming that if the Habs can't land Vinny Lecavalier, they might be interested in pursuing former Lightning and current Dallas...er Star, Brad Richards.

Makes sense to me...if you can't get one superstar player who will cost you $7.727 mil under the cap, get an inferior player who will cost you $7.8 million under the cap, but for nine fewer years.

Why haven't more teams employed this sure-fire, Cup-winning strategy?

Revenge tastes best on ice...

The Leafs led 3-1 in the third period....The Panthers tied the score 3-3 with under a minute to go...
Bryan McCabe scored the winner in overtime....in Toronto

I think the collective Leaf fan just puked a little in it's mouth....

The most exciting part of my day...

I just got back from my lunch break. That in itself is not particularly interesting, unless you're a big fan of lunch like I am.
However, for the the first time ever, today I realized that not only do I have a choice of about 78 different restaurants and fast-food joints that I can hit up within a four block radius of the office, I actually have days where I have to decide WHICH Subway (registered trademark) I want to go to. There's the Subway that's across the street and down about two blocks, which is essentially a straight walk crossing only one street light. But there's also the Subway down the other street corner, which while I do have to cross two street lights to get to, I get to pass about 20 other really cool stores and restaurants that tempt me with their product goodness.

What a dilemma....Jared (and now Michael Phelps too, I guess), you've never steered me wrong.
Man...capitalism rocks!

Kobe is a ball-hog

Yah that's right, you heard me.

Last night Kobe Bryant set a record for most points scored by an opponent in Madison Square Garden (that's the current MSG, not the old MSG, get it straight) when the Lakers beat the Knicks 126-117.

Kobe dropped a cool 61 on the Knickerbockers, passing Michael Jordan's old record of 55, set in March of 1995.
Bryant now has five career games of 60+ points, second all-time only to Wilt Chamberlain who Kobe could catch if played like 20 more years. Wilt has 32 of 'em.

Now, though Bryant's career high is 81, a total which is the second all-time highest scoring performance to Wilt's 100 and a full 20 more than last night, Kobe really should learn to pass the ball...

His 61 points came in only 37 minutes!!
Listen people, I'm all about being selfish, but this is ridiculous. Kobe was 20 for 20 at the free-throw line and 19 of 31 from the field. He took 31 shots! The next highest number of shots taken by any other player on either team last night was 17. He made more shots than anyone else even attempted. In fact, this year Kobe is second in the NBA in field goals attempted per game at just over 20. He trails just Dwayne Wade in that category who happens to, ya know, lead the NBA in points per game.

Ok Kobe, we get it. You're good. You may even be 21.262 million dollars-a-year good. But do you really need to show it off to us mere mortals in such a brazen and brash way?

For god's sake, did you even play defense? You went the entire game with ZERO rebounds and ZERO steals! You would think you'd get at least one of either just by fluke.

You also only had 3 assists. Now, I didn't watch the game, but I saw the highlights. The Knicks were definitely double teaming number 8 and sometimes even triple teaming! You don't think instead of taking one of those 31 shots you might find the open guy in the post for a better look...? No...? Whatever

David Lee put it best after the game:
"He wouldn't speak to anyone on the court. He was very quiet tonight. By the time he hit his first two 3's, you could see what he was attempting to do in the game," Lee said."It was very obvious to all of us by the middle of the first quarter that he wasn't in a distributing type of mode or in a getting 10 rebounds type of mode, that he was going to try to score the basketball tonight."

Duh...

Kobe, there's a reason you've alienated so many teammates and still to this day carry a reputation as a spectacularly talented player who can do things with a ball no other man can, but just isn't a natural leader. While a stat line of 61-3-0 is nice, 50-8-6 would've looked much better.

Only a president this cool...

...could get away with yukking it up with NBC's Matt Lauer before the Super Bowl, while at the same time trying to save the world from terrorism, the economy and the super evil that remains the BCS.

I got this post today from whitehouse.gov (yes, I subscribe. What, you dont?)

"As the Steelers and Cardinals faced off in Tampa, congressmen and senators from the teams home states crossed party lines – and team loyalties – to join President Obama at the White House."

Well isn't that nice? I'm sure they served little elephants in a blanket along with some donkey themed appetizers as well...one can only hope it wasn't actual donkey.

To add to the excitement, the Super Bowl gave the president, rooting for the Steelers, yet ANOTHER reason to make fun of John McCain, sweet!!

But I must admit the best part of the White House post was that they included the entirety of the Matt Lauer interview...it included this question:

Q Do you have a Terrible Towel in the other room?

...lets pause for a second to consider how that question might have been interpreted had it been asked to Bill Clinton.............
............and we continue

THE PRESIDENT: I do, actually, so
Q Are you going to be waving them at the party?
THE PRESIDENT: I’m not going to be rubbing it in, we’ve got some Arizona congressmen here and I may need their vote on the recovery package. (Laughter.)

How cool is this president? A White Sox fan, an advocate for a playoff in college football, and he actually has a terrible towel!!
Four more years!!! Four more years!!!

full interview on the link....