Author: Dr. Steroids

It just doesn’t get any better than this. The play-offs are just around the corner and there is great hockey every night of the week. The contenders are getting their game faces on, and even the pretenders are getting their last licks in before they get their golf clubs out. The lowly Nashville Predators, for instance, beat Edmonton and Phoenix, tied Colorado, and extended (but lost to) Detroit last week. From top-to-bottom, West to East, here’s the early call… Western Conference St. Louis Blues — The best road record, the most wins, the best defense pairing (Pronger for the Hart…

THESE GUYS CAME TO PLAY Who are the NHL’s money players heading down the stretch? These are the top performers for the two weeks ending 3/20 Eastern Conference LW   Gary Roberts, Carolina, 6 GP, 5 G, 3 A, 8P C   Ron Francis, Carolina, 6 GP, 2G, 7A, 9P C Yannick Perrault, Toronto, 6GP, 5G, 4A, 9P RW Steve Thomas, Toronto, 8GP, 6G, 4A, 1P D Sean Hill, Carolina, 6GP, 6A, 6P, +3 D Wade Redden, Ottawa, 6GP, 1G, 4A, 5P, +6 G Curtis Joseph, Toronto, 4GP, 3-1, 1.75GAA, 1SO, 7G/115S Western Conference LW Markus Naslund, Vancouver, 8GP, 4G,…

Obviously, Miss Hancock is new here on the scene with WCW, how do you like it so far? Miss Hancock: Oh, I love it, it’s a blast. It’s like a big family, everyone’s been treating me so good, so I’m very happy to be here. How have you been getting along with the management? MH: I’ve been getting along great with the management. I appreciate that they come to me and ask me ‘would you this?’ or ‘would you not do this?’ So I am glad that I have some input in what I can and cannot do. You know,…

Scott, you’ve been out of action for a while, when can we expect you to be back on the scene? Scott Steiner: It all depends. I think everybody has heard why I was suspended, because I did an interview on Ric Flair, and I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true, but since this company is run by a bunch of old men, his friends, they tried to give me the heaviest fine in the history of wrestling. Of course, that didn’t hold up in a court of law cause it’s a bunch of bullshit. It just shows you that this…

Tank, give me your thoughts regarding the night of your title shot against Sid? Tell me about how you felt about that match. Tank Abbott: Well basically, I was out there and I achieved my objective, which was to hurt him. When he was getting his ribs checked out in the hospital, I was at the bar having a cocktail. I didn’t really care about what was going on, because he was in pain and I was in ecstasy having a good time. Could you take Ken Shamrock in a fight? TA: Well let’s put it this way, he had…

Downtown Dave: An obligatory question to begin, how did you decide to become a professional wrestler? Jeff Jarrett: Just a family business. My grandmother on one side of the family, she used to say she did everything but wrestle. She promoted and everything in between and my grandfather on the other side of the family, he wrestled. Then of course my Dad ran a regional promotion for about 20 years and I grew up around the business. So like father like son, I followed in his footsteps. Where did the Jarrett/Chyna angle originate from, and do you consider that a…

There’s been a wee gap but like a good midfielder I’ll play a ball right through it and the intended receiver is Sir Stanley Matthews, RIP. But Sir Stanley will no longer control a through ball on earth and the news of his passing onto the Great Soccer Field in the sky has been greeted with a genuine sense of loss, even at the “acceptable” age of 85 years. The man insinuated immortality on the playing fields and although I never got to see him “live”, he had become a “living” legend before the phrase was popularized. He was the…

Depending on how you look at it, the youngest player in the NHL is either Simon Gagne of the Philadelphia Flyers or Tim Connolly of the New York Islanders. Regardless of how you look at it, the two rookies are among the leaders of a leaguewide youth movement. Gagne was born Feb. 29, 1980, a leap year. If you figure his birthdate rolls around only once every four years, Gagne celebrated his fifth birthday recently. But if you aren’t going for that leap-year stuff, Connolly, who was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on May, 7, 1981, is the youngest player in…

Here’s how to lag it close from long range and avoid those agonizing three-putts 1. FOCUS ON SPEED Spend less time reading the break and more time focusing on speed. On long putts, the surest way to get the ball close is to judge the distance correctly. Stand to the side of the ball and rehearse the stroke, getting a feel for the effort required. It also helps to divide the putt into segments: Walk halfway to the hole, look at the ball, look at the hole, and then make some practice strokes. Dividing the putt in half will make…

So I’m at King Kev’s table in Frankfurt and we’re thrashing out the fixtures for the 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign. Unfortunately so are a great many other people and it’s like a paparazzi reunion, such is the interest in the England versus Germany match, slated for October 07 this year to kick off the group. “Remember ‘66” and “Who won the war?” and “In those days we only needed two digits to know what year it was,” and so on. What all this boils down to is Keegan will behave in a superb professional diplomatic manner and I won’t…