| Saints stars go out on loan
SAINTS' financial problems came back to haunt them yesterday as they off-loaded star striker Grzegorz Rasiak and midfielder Rudi Skacel. Czech Skacel has gone to Bundesliga side Hertha Berlin on loan for the rest of the season with a view to a permanent move. Prolific Polish hitman Rasiak has joined Bolton on loan until the end of the season with a view to a permanent move. Rasiak and Skacel were two of the club's top earners. Raziak was believed to be on around £12,000 a week and Skacel is also on top wages. That saving in wages, combined with the potential fees for the two most expensive purchases in the Saints squad, proved too much for the cash-strapped club to turn down. Saints tried to put a brave face on the deal by saying it was also a way of easing the log-jam of strikers' but in reality it was another massive dent to their promotion hopes.
His big breakthrough
In January 2006 an entire show paid tribute, with laughs and tears, to his dad, who had died the day before. Of course, he generally dwells on not-so-weighty life issues, such as a recent meditation on movie-going when he voiced plans to see "The Spiderwick Chronicles." "I don't really know what a spiderwick is," Ferguson admitted. "I think it's a combination of Spider-Man and Wikipedia: He fights crime and gives you the wrong answer for everything." Ferguson, who hits the road lots of weekends, spoke one recent Saturday night backstage at an auditorium in Sparta, N.J. Soon he would have a house full of fans convulsed in 80 solid minutes' worth of laughter. At 45, Ferguson is not only a talk-show host and standup comic, but also an actor, writer and musician of sorts: At 16 he quit school "mainly to drink" and joined a punk-rock band on drums.
Just say no to two-tiered TV
In fact, the powers that be are so obsessed with keeping everything Canadian that I even get Canadian TV ads when I watch US networks. Pardon me, but when I pay my monthly cable or satellite bill, should I not see the content that I pay for - unblemished?
If Canadian television was forced to fight for viewers to make ends meet, they'd either go under within a week...or be forced to start producing quality programming that the general public would appreciate. The CRTC and the CTF do not represent me! Posted 07/02/08 at 8:14 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Filed under: NFL
-The worst month for sports is what were going through right now. The NBA is hitting the mid-season and there is yet to be any real excitement. You have the NFL that just got over a month ago, and yes, we're all sad because that marks the end of football for another 6-7 months. College Football recruiting is always fun, but we all know that in a sense it is just a waiting game that is boring. We have College Basketball hitting conference schedules real hard which is truely fun to watch, but we then enter the conference tournaments and they mean nothing. MLB isen't even heard of in this month, and NASCAR has qualifying on the week before Daytona. Isen't that just interesting. The month of February is a complete let-down. This month is almost worthless in the world of sports. I mean, the NBA season may be shaping up, but there is another 40 games to be played.
Edwin Coppock, Fed Fund Rates and The Dow
Aha there you are readers, I couldn't see you, hidden behind all that steam rising from the cups of mulled wine. A warm welcome to the last letter for 2007 - did I hear cheers and whoops of delight? Well its to be expected I suppose, I have been a rather grizzly writer over the past 2 years and I know you would prefer to see a more positive outlook. However, a positive outlook requires positive action to happen now that will help further ahead on the economic road. Alas, I am not seeing too much that gives me cause for hope. I hope you found time to visit http://www.livecharts.co.uk/livewire/ and read the articles posted. As well as shorter articles covering topical subjects by myself you will find articles written by others too. Its well worth a visit. As you know I try to peer into the future and divine what the economic outlook has in store for us.
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