The next ace?

The Toronto Blue Jays pulled out a 4-2 victory last night against the Chicago White Sox to extend their hot start this season.

But with last nights performance our eyes and our hopes just rose to a new level of excitement.

Ricky Romero showed his poise, his effectiveness and his swagger last night when he threw seven complete innings of no-hit baseball. It was broken when Romero hit White Sox batter A.J. Pierzynski and the next batter, former Blue Jay, Alex Rios was lucky enough to get a hanging changeup that he took over the left field wall.

Who is a sports journalism icon?

When you glance through the newspaper, or you read sports online, which columnist fits your personal sports theories and beliefs?

I know when I read the Toronto Star sports I always find myself looking for the Damien Cox articles.

This man is a hockey genius. He talks about issues all around the NHL, he focuses on the Toronto Maple Leafs, must take a TON of effort, and he is very reliable and presents his articles and his thoughts very thoroughly.

When you read his articles you feel the sense of connectivity. You can relate or you can acknowledge that he is right regularly. If you get the chance to read his articles I say take the time, you’d probably find out more varieties of hockey news.

Celebrity vs. Arts/Entertainment Journalism

Everyday journalists write, whether it’s news, sports, politics, etc. but when we write about the arts or celebrities, what is it that gathers people’s attention?

As journalists we are always perceived as the bad guy/woman. No matter what we write people think, how could they write about that? Do they not have any feelings? but really it’s to provide viewers with global news. People read articles because they are interested in the story or topic.

We will always have critics. We need to accept this and continue to do our job.

Saying that what is it about celebrities that seem to grab your attention? Is it because you’ve got a Hollywood crush? Is it because they are easier targets than reality? Is it because it’s just always placed in front of our faces? Who knows, only you have the answer.

Are we the Lohan vultures?

Lindsay Lohan just can’t stay out of the news, she was seen falling flat on her face at a night club shortly after leaving another one.

Lohan had just finished leaving the Club Deux nightclub, in Los Angeles, and then getting rejected at the doors of another nearby nightclub. Shortly after getting rejected, Lohan was seen falling flat on her face outside of the nightclub.

She claims that the bouncers had pushed her, forcing her to fall. She also claims that other people are targeting her and setting her up so she looks like a mess. Blah blah blah.

Come on.

The cheating significance?

Sandra Bullock has enough on her mind right now, her husband cheated on her, she’s looking into divorce and now a sex tape may surface.

Allegedly A sex tape of Sandra Bullock and her, soon-to-be, ex-husband Jesse James may be brought to the courts bargaining table.

Jesse James supposedly has a tape that Bullock and James made during one of their sex episodes. The tape has James dressed as Nazi with a Hitler mustache and having laced sex with Bullock.

The beliefs are that James will use the tape to bribe Bullock into paying James a feasible sum to keep her mouth shut. If she doesn’t cooperate than James possibly would release the tape and jeopardize Bullocks career.

Sometimes April fools just isn’t funny

Aprils fools jokes are funny, once-said-and-done, but Kenyon Martin, of the Denver Nuggets, sure isn’t laughing about the joke played on him.

I was reading an article on Yahoo.com that caught my attention. I found this story so humourous that I figure I should share it and collect your opinions. So hear it is.

Kenyon Martin is a power forward who plays for the Denver Nuggets in the NBA. On Thursday he approached his Range Rover with anger.

When Martin got to his car he noticed that inside of the luxurious SUV was buttered popcorn. Someone from the Nuggets organization had filled Martin’s car with the popcorn.

Jays rotation finalized

With opening day just three days away, the Toronto Blue Jays have finalized their pitching rotation and prepare for the Texas Rangers on Monday.

The Jays had a variety of options and had to finalize their pitching staff yesterday morning. Dana Eveland pitched fantastic for the Jays this spring and has earned a spot in the rotation as their fifth pitcher, leaving Brett Cecil off the big club… for now.

Cecil also pitched incredible during this years spring ball and made his last two outings phenomenal. On Wednesday Cecil faced off against the World Series runner-ups the Philadelphia Phillies. Cecil pitched six strong innings, allowing just two runs while walking nobody and striking out, all-star first baseman, Ryan Howard on two separate occasions. The week before Cecil pitched another six scoreless innings against the Boston Red Sox leaving Cecil to believe that he’d made the Jays rotation. Cecil however wasn’t on high hopes and was prepared for the demotion.

Just another day in Toronto’s haven

Toronto police found explosives and other several weapons inside a storage unit last night, the explosives were then transported to a secure area for detonation.

The explosives were found in Agincourt last inside of a storage unit while police officers were conducting a search.

Toronto police closed several streets and parts of two major highways to transport the explosives.

To think everyone driving on those streets had no idea that some coward/idiot left explosives right under their noses. People could have been seriously hurt or possibly killed and they were able to live another day. That’s a scary fact, we fear to much in this world already and now it seems we need to be scared to live our everyday life. Who knows what tomorrow holds when we wake up? It’s disgusting to think that there are people living on this earth who could actually wake up and decide “Today is the day I write my name in history.”

The NHL’s redemption?

The NHL enforced a new rule yesterday that will eliminate blindside head shots that seem to have been happening one-to-many times lately.

Colin Campbell, Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations, is the NHL’s disciplinarian and now has the opportunity to suspend players who deliver an unexpected head shot.

The rule takes place in the NHL immediately.

The role was officially handed to Campbell when the executive board of the NHL Player’s Association announced they supported the rule. The NHL’s board of governors has already said they will give unanimous support.

We can’t forget that unpunished act that Matt Cooke of the Pittsburgh Penguins got away with. For those who don’t know check out the video.

The Kingston Police plan

I went home to Kingston, Ontario this previous weekend.

As I was on my way back, I received some news that shocked me. I was warned about the new law Kingston Police have been enforced upon by their Police Chief Stephen Tanner. The law was published in the Kingston Whig Standard back in January.

I realize I am a little bit late, but I haven’t been home for quite some time and I had someone tell me about this so I had to look for myself. To my unfortunate surprise I found out that this was true. So what are the details that come from this new law? For those who don’t know, let me explain.