Stampeders!!

ok so heres the latest on the mighty Calgary Stampeders. they defeated the BC Lions on Friday last week 36-29, in a great back and forth game, to move to 5-3, dropping the lions to a record of 4-4 at the time. the win moved the Stamps into a tie for 2nd in the west with the Edmonton Eskimoes, who defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders the night before (dropping the Riders to 6-2). The Stamps were able to shut down the Lions and prevent a late comeback after dropping earlier games in the season from late comebacks.
the Stamps have now won 2 games in a row, defeating Saskatchewan a week earlier 30-25.
This weekend is Labour day weekend, the unofficial start of the playoff drive. the Montreal Allouettes defeated the BC Lions last night in a game that the Lions somehow managed to stay in despite a rediculous 6 turnovers. the Lions had a chance late in the game from the 1 yard line with no time left, a chance to put the winning points on the board with a 5 point deficit. the Lions were stuffed 2 times in a row but the Als took penalties, on the third attempt the Lions fumbled and the Als won. the Als move to 6-3, atop the east division, by 6 points pending the outcome of the Tigercats-Argos game on Monday(TSN, 5:30pm).

the Stamps play the Eskies (esky is austrailian for cooler....) at 2pm in the Labour Day Classic at McMahon stadium in Calgary (TSN). the two teams are tied at 5-3, one win back of the riders who play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on sunday(TSN,1pm) in their own labour day classic.
the stamps-eskies labour day game is always a classic, but this year will be great because of the meaning in the standings and both teams coming in off of big wins. the rematch will take place on friday(tsn, 7pm) in edmonton. most years the teams split the games, meaning both teams would come out with 6-4 records, but lets hope the Stamps can pull a Labour day sweep.

in hockey news, the flames newcomers arrived and the rookies have started practicing. the flames have heaps of games on tv this season, on sportsnet west, tsn and cbc.
the Ottawa Senators have traded Meszaros to Tampa Bay for two young players and a first round draft pick.
Mat Sundin still hasnt decided what he wants to do this season
Joe Sakic has resigned for one year at $6mil with Colorado, essentially giving them hope for this season.
the Blue Jays have fallen 10 games back of the wild card race, the nfl had its exhibition game at Rogers center last week, with $500 tickets being scalped for $50 and fans complaining about lack of atmosphere (haha) and tailgating. Toronto is due to host a regular season Bills game in December. ted Rogers still thinks he's going to get an nfl team, move it to Toronto and be successful in that, he is crazy, along with all the other toronto nfl fans that think it will fly.
the University of Calgary Dinos football team lost to the U of Saskatchewan Huskies last night 25-0 to open the CIS season.
thats all for now
thanks for reading
Adam

Adam's Olympic update

alright, so the summer olympics started 2 weeks ago in Beijing and are nearly done. in the first week of competition Canada got no medals, while the Americans and Chinese dominated the medal table. the Americans were led by Phelps in the pool, who won an amazing 8 gold medals.
in the second week Canada started pulling in the medals, they now sit at 3 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze, with a good chance of 1 or 2 more coming.
Canada is in the top 16 in the medal standings which was the goal. my favourite Canadian medal win was Simon Whitfield winning the silver in triathalon. he came from behind and almost got the gold, it was a great finish. Canada's softball team lost to the aussies and finished 4th.
Canada won 2 medals in equestrian....alright. i think the horses should get the medals, the riders just sit on top.
another sport that is questionalbe is taekwon do. i watched a Canadian girl beat up a swedish girl and yet lose. the announcers weren't sure why...the judged sports are always frustrating (unless your the home country......China). I have seen alot of volleyball on tv in the olympics, which is a little annoying, canada isnt even in volleyball. i heard there is a racewalking competition. walking?? ok its 50k or something nuts like that, but it is walking. oh well, it takes more athleticism than curling, which shouldn't be in the winter olympics. if a fat smoker can win in it, its not an olympic worthy sport, not to say its bad, but im pretty sure it doesnt take the athleticism of hockey, skiing, swimming or running.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the gold and set world records in the 100m and 200m. that is amazing, the guy actually slowed down and celebrated before finishing the 100m. setting world records in those is amazing, they take two different sets of athleticism in my opinion. I think he won another track medal today.
Canada has outdone its performances in Athens and Sydney, and is short of the 18 it recieved in Barcelona and the 22 it got in Atlanta in 1996.
heres hoping we get to 20, but congratulations to all the athletes that made it to Beijing and the ones that won us medals.
Go Canada Go

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stamps play on friday vs the lions....Go stamps go. both teams are 4-3. saskatchewan plays edmonton tomorrow (edmonton is 4-3 and sask is 6-1)
thats all

August sports update

ok so the stampeders recently beat the saskatchewan roughriders, in saskatchewan to move to 4-3 and end the riders 6 game winning streak. with the BC win over Edmonton last night, the Stamps are tied with the Lions and Eskies at 4-3. the als beat up on the bombers who are in last now at 1-6, the als move to 4-3 and hamilton defeated toronto to move to 2-5, 2 points back of the argos who drop to 3-4. so the west is still best at the moment and the stamps rebounded with a win.
heres a short recap of the last few weeks for the stamps
in week 4:
Calgary 43 - Hamilton 16
in week 5:
Winnipeg 32 - Calgary 28
not much news for the flames
and week 6:
Saskatchewan 22 - Calgary 21 (soo close)
and this week
Calgary 30 - Saskatchewan 25 (the Stamps at one point led something like 27-4)
next week the Stamps have a bye week
on Aug 22 the Stampeders play the BC Lions in BC place. a pivotal west division matchup between two 4-3 teams.
not much news for the flames
they did end up signing Bertuzzi for 2 years, im not sure about it but the Nolan deal turned out alright, and Bertuzzi was pretty good, should be interesting to see how he playes and how the fans respond to him. also the preseason sked is out.
Go Stampeders!
and Go Team Canada in the Olympics, which started yesterday.