I’ve been holding off from posting, waiting for the Canucks to announce something substantial in the dizzying NHL free-agent market. But since it looks like the hockey club and its fans could be waiting a while longer, now seems like as good a time as any to start pounding away at the keyboard.

Is it just me, or is everyone else wondering what the hell Mike Gillis is doing? I was so excited for free-agent frenzy on July 1, but every time I checked the signing updates, nothing had happened. Sure, the Canucks signed a couple of defensemen and a couple of PP/PK specialists, but I was hoping for a big-bang kind of a signing, especially someone who could score.

Olé, Olé Olé Olé! Euro 08 - What an amazing three weeks of soccer. And, in the end, the best team definitely won. The Spaniards--who have been on fire all tournament long, and who finished undefeated, with six straight wins--clearly deserved to hoist the cup yesterday after their 1-0 victory over Germany.

Vancouver’s tennis scene got a big boost today with the announcement that Odlum Brown has committed to three more years as the title sponsor of the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, the top professional annual tennis event in Western Canada.

Kyle Wellwood was put on waivers by the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Canucks swooped in and picked him up. The small but shifty centre should add some depth to the Canucks' roster as long as he can stay healthy.

The story behind this clip is that Phoenix Suns centre Shaquille O'Neal took the stage at a New York nightclub on June 22 to freestyle some rhymes to crow about his former team, the Los Angeles Lakers, having lost the NBA championship. He had particularly colorful words for Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant.

By Mike Cowie

It's a good thing the golf world got a chance to see more of Tiger Woods than usual this past week when he was forced to play an extra 19 holes on Monday to win the US Open, because no one is going to see Woods play golf again this year.

It’s a natural hat-trick of sorts. Ryan Walter, who played for the Vancouver Canucks and was later an analyst on the team’s television broadcasts, has rejoined the hockey club, this time as an assistant coach.

On Wednesday, June 11, longtime vabncouver Canuck Trevor Linden will announce his retirement from the National Hockey League.

So CTV felt the need to ride to the rescue of the Hockey Theme? I was quite prepared to move on with my life, but I guess I won’t get that chance. I kind of thought CTV might have better uses for its money––like a long-overdue going away party for Lloyd Robertson, but I digress.

It’s never over until the fat lady sings—or the lawyers get involved. CBC announced today in a media release that it has brought in Gord Kirke, a well-known sports and entertainment lawyer, to act as an intermediary in negotiations over CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada theme song.

Province sports columnist David Pratt has been fired for plagiarizing parts of an article that was published in Sports Illustrated, the newspaper has announced.

She’s done almost everything for the Vancouver Whitecaps organization and as a reflection of that, long-time player, captain, and playing assistant coach Andrea Neil will have her #5 jersey retired by the soccer club. A ceremony will follow Saturday night’s women’s Whitecaps match against the Seattle Sounders.

The Detroit Red Wings are Stanley Cup champions—again. Congrats to them. And although their 3-2 victory over Pittsburgh in Game 6 of the final marked the official end to a very long hockey season, the best part of the hockey season for many is only now about get underway.