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https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/31510602/wayne-gretzky-steps-edmonton-oilers-vice-chairman Wayne Gretzky has stepped down from his role with the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday, effective immediately. According to sources, Gretzky will join TNT as a hockey analyst next season. He had been heavily courted by the network and his good friend Charles Barkley, sources said. The Hall of Famer and former Edmonton captain returned to the Oilers organization in 2016 as vice chairman. He worked as a close adviser to owner Daryl Katz and also has had a hand on the commercial side of the business with the team's parent company, Oilers Entertainment Group. (More by clicking the link.)

Make it a retractable roof, but make sure it's open in December or January when the Dolphins come here.

Lighting a warehouse full of $100 bills on fire worked for Delaware North.

That's actually not a bad idea

Just that the Pegulas met with state and county officials today, and named two people to head up the discussions.

Isn't Ertz due to be released after June 1st, therefore nullifying his contract? I don't think Beane does this deal with Ertz's current contract, but if new terms can be worked out, this is a good deal all around.

I now see how Mods on TSW make decisions on locked topics, et al.

There was a dispute between CBC and the widow of the guy who wrote the song, so she pulled the rights from CBC and agreed to a deal with TSN. It's still there, just we in the US can't hear it on a weekly basis. Speaking of TSN, they did a slight rework of it for the 2010 end of regular season and playoffs. Some guy named Peart played drums on it.

I'd get leg cramps of a different kind...

From what I have heard so far, if this is the stuff that got pushed aside, and if there's more to be released, we're in for some really good s**t! The 4 songs I've heard so far are amazing!

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9575491/tragically-hip-surprise-saskadelphia-album/?fbclid=IwAR2VGeMQZolO2JyR_tUZ2ZwM7RqA1veaYFri_rbC0dx0l2qjU2bqy29XDRo The Tragically Hip surprised fans on Thursday (May 20) with the announcement of a surprise new album, Saskadelphia, which will feature six previously unreleased songs. The collection, due out on Friday (May 21) is made up of tracks written in 1990, five of which were laid down during the Road Apples sessions in New Orleans, according to a press release. The sixth one is a live version of "Montreal" recorded at The Molson Centre in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2000; it was also written around the same time, but the band has yet to find the original recording. "With no shortage of material and higher ups at the American record label resisting the band’s call to release a double album, countless tracks were left behind on the studio floor," reads a statement about the collection. "And so one album, Road Apples, heads out into the world, a rung on The Tragically Hip’s climb to legend status, while the rest of the tracks are tucked into boxes and moved out of sight." 1991's Road Apples was the second studio album from the Canadian rock band fronted by beloved late singer Gord Downie, who died in Oct. 2017 at age 53 from brain cancer; the band retired the name a year later. "Welcome to Saskadelphia: the record that stayed in the wings as Road Apples hit the stage," the release continues. "The title, a term coined by the band in a nod to the extensive touring they were doing in the early 1990s, was the original working title for Road Apples before it was rejected by those same label execs as being 'too Canadian.'" “I went ‘Wow’ when I heard ‘Ouch’ after all this time,” said guitarist Rob Baker. “We were a pretty good little band," with drummer Johnny Fay explaining why the band felt they needed to share the three decade-old recordings with fans. “We didn't know what was there, so this meant baking them and listening to them as they were being transferred," Fay said. "Hearing them for the first time in 30 years was crazy.” The tracks include: "Ouch," "Not Necessary," "Montreal," "Crack My Spine Like a Whip," "Just As Well" and "Reformed Baptist Blues." The band will receive the 2021 Humanitarian Award Presented by Music Canada at the 50th annual Juno Awards on June 6 in Toronto.

You would have long, grey hair too if Rex Ryan was your brother.

I'm thinking comparable numbers to last season. Josh will be close to 5000 yards but I think he'll fall just shy. What I think would be most amazing is that Diggs, Beasley, Sanders, and Davis will all be over 1000 yards receiving. When was the last time a team had 4 1000 yard receivers in the same season?

Since A's President Dave Kaval freely posted this on Twitter, it's my duty to share with y'all. His email is president@athletics.com. I'll be writing him in the next couple of days. Feel free to do the same.

JP Fitzgeralds is in the village of Hamburg, and they're always hoping. Pre-Covid anyways. LInky link

This is like 2 years old, well before Covid Just looked up the date the video was posted, September 27, 2019

We need another Thurman type on the Bills. Signed, the guy who started the Jim Kelly thread.