Ref screws Reyback and Show is on top of the world

The night was completely built around the WWE title and Paul Heyman and CM Punk trying unsuccessfully getting out of the match against Reyback inside the Hell in the Cell as Heyman was around Vicki all night first trying to convince her that cancelling the match would be the best thing to do for the business and her future. Then later thanked her for cancelling the match and she said the match was still on and Heyman said he had heard a rumor that it was cancelled and when this did not work Punk meet with Vince and asked him to cancel the match and Vince asked what Punk was worried about and Punk said that he was not worried. The rest Punk was not worried was because he turned out to have Referee Brad Maddox in him back pocket and Maddox is one of the Refs that made bad calls against Punk last month and Punk called him out and asked him to reverse his call and he refused. So tonight Maddox was reffing the match tonight between Punk and Reyback and everything was on the up and up until Reyback had Punk on his shoulders ready to finish him and Maddox low blowed Reyback and then helped Punk pin him by hold his legs down while counting the fastest three count in WWE history. In the end Punk retains his title for a 49TH week and the brilliance of Paul Heyman shines through and coming out of the match the big question has to be what effect will this have on Reyback's push as he was over tonight and it was one of very few things anyone was interested in tonight as this is like the one figure pin by Nash to Goldberg that killed him character in WCW. Big Show dominated Shamus and throw him around like a rag doll and Shamus fought through everything and battled Show though choke slams as he blocked two before taken one but getting his shoulder up and he he got Show on his shoulders for the White Noise which brought the crowd alive and did get a bro kick on him too but Show kicked out of it both times. The match ended when Show on his third punch of the match finished Shamus off to become World Champion and after all the talk from Ziggler about how he was going to cash in his contract it still did not happen. The surprise of the night was not that Hell No imploded as Kane was going for the coke slam in the corner and Bryant tagged himself in or that Kane broke up Bryant's pin or that on the outside of the ring Bryant went to hit Roades with a clothline off the ring apron and missed and hit Kane instead. That was not even that Roades Scholars won the match but it was that Kane destroyed everybody in the ring except the ref and was disqualified so that team Hell No keep the titles and I guess it sets up a rematch for Survivor series. One of the best things was the Miz promo about if Kofi Kingston keeps the title it will be the end of the world and during the match that he did not win he did change Kofi's character as he took off his boot, his knee pad, and knee brace so that he finished most off the match with only a black sock on his left foot and he kicked Miz with his right for the trouble in paradise. So the crowd at the movie theater I was at and the Phillips arena in Atlanta did not get interested in anything really and they will need to do a lot of damage control starting tomorrow to rebuild Reyback. Tom Mehegan

Bieber and Carly Ray performing at the Grey Cup

On November 25, 2012 the Grey Cup will be turning 100 years old and the CFL in their biggest of the season are going to celebrate in style with a 30-minute half-time who is who of Canadian music at centre field. The list of performers is the one and only Justin Bieber, who was born in London, Ontario and grow up in stratford, Ontario which quite close to the site of the 100TH Grey Cup game being played at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario. He will be also join by Carly Ray Jepsen from Mission, British Columbia who has been on tour with Bieber for a while now and both will be putting on a concert a week later at The Air Canada Centre which is down the road from the Rogers Centre so they are both coming in a week early to be a part of the big Canada music/sports celebration. Also on at halftime will be Canadian Music Icon will also be performing at halftime along with Marianas Trench whose lead singer helped Carly Ray write her first studio album and the group is also from British Columbia as they are from Vancouver. For the pregame warmup acts they have setup Burton Cummings a Canadian Icon from Winnipeg, Manitoba and the only performer not born in Canada is Johnny Reid who has grown up in Canada. It maybe a mess trying to get four acts on and off the stage in about 25 minutes and maybe a couple will be moved up to before kickoff as there is way more time to perform before the game as the gates will likely open in the 4 or 4:30 time slot for a 6:30 kickoff. In the end after the last Grey Cup in Toronto five years ago was headlined by Lenny Kavitz it diffidently a big improvement as that part of celebration left me lacking a lot and I will enjoy the music more this time around. Tom Mehegan

Rob Ford puts his foot down and wants bottle water

Rob Ford went on his local radio program on News Talk 1010 in Toronto where Rob Ford is the mayor of the city went off on City Council about not being able to get a bottle of water at City Hall. People are not able to bring in a bottle of water as it is banned from City Hall and this is because in environmental decision and the stupid thing is U can buy a bottle of pop or juice at City Hall or even bring a bottle of this less nutrition value of pop. So people can get water from the tap and get it in plastic cup and if U walk around with it u can spill it and it becomes a big mess and a cup is a lot easier to be knocked over by a hand or elbow than a bottle would be. The thing is for a guy like Ford and some other councilors can u having water more than the other options and it would be surprising that someone could not fill up a bottle with tap water. If City City Hall wants to have a green thumb than they should ban little bottles of everything including pop or juice and bring in bigger bottles and then pour it into a cups like they do with water and cut down the amount of plastic being used. Them singling out using bottles for water as their example of being green friendly is very silly approach of doing things and it is just the way City Council under Rob Ford as nothing seems nothing gets down and it is all because nobody wants to listen to Ford as he can not even get his Subway expansion on the right track and it was the platform that he ran on to get into office. Rob Ford still is unable to get things completed as the major Tom Mehegan

Reenee Paquette is heading to the wwe

Who: who is Reenee Paquette and the answer is that she a Toronto, Ontario, Canada native who has been at the Score in Canada which is the official station for all WWE programming in Canada. She has been apart of aftermath which is the official after show for RAW (after the Tuesday replay of the Monday show) and right after Smackdown on Friday night alongside former WWE ref Jimmy Korderas and the host of the show Arda Ocal. WHY: Why is this happening and the reason is with Wednesday Main Event and with the WWE having a Saturday morning show on CW which leads to having more need for more talent even backstage. With the whole Jerry Lawler incident it opened up a need to move people around and it turns out that Michael Cole is only doing RAW and Josh Matthews looks to be out of the interviewing tasks for seat one on Smackdown beside JBL. When: With Josh Matthews having issues with RAW GM A.J. Lee and taken it to the WWE board of trustees and Matt Striker was put into a match by A.J. against Kane which basically writing off RAW to go on and do other WWE programming. So the long and short of it is that she will be put into place as the RAW backstage interviewer as of September 22, 2012 episode of RAW. HOW: It is very easy for her to get connections inside the WWE as she is closely linked to the WWE on the outside so she could of gotten a video very easily inside the Stafford Connecticut headquarters. Or she might have caught the eye of a wrestler because she is good looking and they could of pulled a few strings and if that is the case I look at mister John Cena who is single and is rumor has it that he is a player and he diffidently has pull inside the WWE. In the end she will be handing herself strongly as she may of been feed lines but she knows more about the WWE than most Divas inside the WWE and it is a good choice for both sides Tom Mehegan

A-Rod's replacement is on fire

A-Rod (Alex Rodriquez) of the New York Yankees was 2 for 16 and has not picked up a RBI in the four of five games AL divisional playoff series with the wild card Baltimore Orioles and has not picked a RBI since September 19TH. He been k'd 9 times by O's pitchers and has been booed mercilessly by the Yankees fans over the two games he played at the new Yankees Stadium. Wednesday night in game 3 Joe Girardi made the gutsiest call a Yankees managers has had to do in a long time by saying to A-Rod that he did not believe that with one out and down by a run A-Rod would not be to simply get on base. Instead he brought Raul Ibanez off the bench for the highest paid player in major league history and had an at bat in the ninth and homered to tie the game at 2 and then won it in the 12TH with another solo homer 3-2. Then after losing game 4 2-1 in 13 Joe Girardi decided in a winner takes all game that A-Rod would be nowhere near the field as he put Raul Ibanez in the lineup again for him and he came up with a RBI single to put the Yankees in flight 1-0 in the sixth inning on their way to a 3-1 victory behind C C Sabathia complete game. Now heading into the AL Championship series against the as powerful Yankees the Tigers of Detroit it would not be surprising if A-Rod stays invisible that Girardi goes to his bench for Ibanez. A-Rod hook seems to becoming much shorter and maybe humbled even more and may soon find his way out of town and the Yanks will be picking up the contract so this maybe A-Rod final chance to prove himself worth of the pin stripes. It will be a good series Tom Mehegan

Drew Brees sets another record

Drew Brees who has been incredible since joining the Saints in '06 as a free agent as the San Diego Chargers, the team that drafted him in 2001 in the second round, decided that they did not need him anymore and moved on with Phillip Rivers. On the other hand the Saints put together a very good team around him with a great defense with a great incentive plan that they are now paying back with not being able to have Jonathan Vilma playing on their D and Will Smith not being able play the preseason. Brees has become the faster quarterback to throw for 40,000 yards and broke numerous records last season for yards thrown (5,476), completions (468), the highest completion % (71.2%), and most 300+ yard games (13) along while becoming the quarterback with the best completion % in history (65.94%). Then yesterday afternoon against the same Chargers team that did not want him and looking at going 0 and 5 on the season Brees went out with just over 3 minutes left in the first quarter and throw a 40 yard TD pass to Devery Henderson to set a new consecutive TD streak with him now throwing a TD in 48 straight games. This broke Johnny Unitas 52 year old 47 TD game streak that he had accomplished over the '56 through '60 seasons and was down by the Saints bench before the game and get a hug from Brees and then took him seats in section 115 and row 29 with his son beside him watch it all unfold right in front of his eyes @ Brees new home in New Oreleans. Brees finished off the Chargers 31-24 with 4 TD day while bringing them back from a 10-point deficit as also suspended for the season Saint head coach Sean Payton was in a press box watching the game as a request by Brees that the NFL agreed to. Brees began this record march as he and the Saints marched to the SuperBowl and then marched out with the SuperBowl in '09. In the end way likes of Elway, Marino, Kelly, Brady, and one of the Mannings boys in the NFL it is surprising that this record stood for so long Tom Mehegan

Miguel Cabrera wins first triple crown in 45 years

Miguel Cabrera has really turned it around after a lot of alcohol problem with him being arrested for being dunk and a fight with his wife and was put into jail and the GM of the Tiger Dave Dombrowski bailed him out and he was taken to the ballpark for the final game of the 2009. He also pulled over during the grape fruit league in Florida was pulled over by police and was charged with a DUI and a bottle of alcohol. His 2012 season was one best over season in quite a few seasons as he became the first batter in the majors in the past 45 years to have the best hitting average (.330), the most RBIs (139), and homers (44) to claim the first triple crown and was not tied at the end of the season in a category. Ever the great Carl Yastrzemski did not even do when he won the triple crown in '67 as he was tied in homers with Harmon Killebrew with 44. The number break down is insane as batting average was .330 and Mike Trout was next with an average of .326 and he went 6 for 9 in the first two games of the final series with the KC Royals. Homers he had one more than Josh Hamilton had two in the last 5 games of the regular season the first to tie Hamilton with 43 and the second to past Hamilton with 44 long balls. He crushed everyone in RBIs as he had 11 more RBIs than Hamilton and just ran away with RBI title and he did all this on a bad wheel. So yes he had Prince Fielder behind him which allowed him to see more fast balls than he would otherwise see as pitchers did not want to have him on with Fielder up but he also had trade in his first baseman mit for a third baseman mit as he switched corners of the infield and he still able to not cost the Tigers games with his fielding. In the end Miguel Cabrera deserves the MVP as it is something that has not been done in 45 years and on top of his triple crown # he also cracked 40 doubles and fell short of 100 ks which is hard for power hitters (98) Tom Mehegan

Jay Onrait and Dan O'toole have a podcast and it maybe too late

Jay Onrait and Dan O'toole a week ago began doing a podcast for TSN radio Toronto and it sounded like it was something I heard before and that it resembled Tim Micallef and Sid Seixeiro early podcast of a weekly hour show. the Jay and Dan podcast had a story about Sudbury where Dan got the same room key as Jay and walked into the room where Jay was in his underwear and then stick around eat some cheese that was in the room before leaving. Jay talked about how they started doing the Olympic coverage with Jay staying in Canada while Dan was in London and then TSN decided to send Jay to London and in the end he was unable to get into events so he bought three pairs of shoes. They also played clips from sportcenter where they cracked up after listen to a story about how a family painted their house in Eskimos colors and they found a clip of Arron Rogers complaining about the replacement refs and a reporter saying "aw ha" and used both clips throughout their first two podcast. They find a clip about Charles Hughes mooning the fans at Mosiac Stadium in Saskatchewan and they would play him saying I sorry to... and like the Stamps fans or the organization and then Dan would say for my ass after everyone. They were shills for Mark's clothing throughout their podcast and then also throw bell under the bus for not given them a discount on phones and how their phone lines are horrible. All of these kind of thing like finding different kind of clips and playing them forever along with ripping their bosses is totally out of the Tim and Sid podcast Manuel but is still very interesting. If TSN radio was smart they would of done these kind of things leading up to the launch of TSN radio like have Jim Richards do a podcast to give people in Toronto an idea what the big calling card for the station sounded like before it was launched. Also Jay and Dan are great for the TSN radio brand with the only exception being that they should of been doing a show starting nearer to March 13, 2011 not the beginning of Fall 2012. It is on TSN radio Toronto on Friday nights @ 10 PM and on TSN.ca/TSN radio and the week after they put it up on youtube Tom Mehegan