Episode 44 - CANUSA Sports Desk 05-18 Podcast Rewind

Elisa Pessetto and Derek Marques talk about the Historic Rivalries that are happening in the Second Round of the NHL Playoffs, the city of Seattle being rejected back into the NBA, Andrew Wiggins deciding to pursue his Education at the University of Kansas, Josh Hamilton's struggles in Anaheim and more.

Tiger Wins With Sigh of Relief

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The red Nike polo was out with good reason this past Sunday at The Players Championship in Ponte Verde Beach Florida, as Tiger Woods won his fourth title of the year. Woods hasn’t won the Players Championship since 2001 and he now joins Steve Elkington, Hal Sutton, Fred Couples and Davis Love III as the only winners to complete that task twice at The Players Championship, Sawgrass. Woods now has 78 wins on the PGA Tour throughout his career and he is only four wins short of tying the record of 82 wins set by Sam Snead. Woods finished on 13 under 275 earning him $1.71 million, with a grand total of $5.8 million in only seven tournaments so far for the year.  Woods is no stranger to winning and this makes his twelfth season where he has won at least four times. This is also the second time Woods has won on Mother’s Day; last time was at the 1998 Bell South Classic.
 

"We just go out there and play," Woods said. "I had an opportunity to win the golf tournament when I was tied for the lead today, and I thought I handled the situation well and really played well today when I really needed to. And that's something I'm excited about it."
 

Woods and Sergio Garcia made the final holes of the tournament very exciting, and were tied going into the final 2 holes.  Garcia wasn’t able to have much luck with the water on the final two holes as he hit three balls into the water giving himself a quadruple-bogey-double-bogey ending. Woods handled the pressure well and after hooking his tee shot into the water on the 14th hole for a double-bogey, he used his short game to make up the difference by going par on the 15th hole. Woods had a much needed birdie on the 16th and wrapped up the tournament shooting a 2-under 70 on the final two holes. Garcia wasn’t as luck as Woods and had a disastrous 17th hole and continued to fall apart as he hit his tee shot on the 18th into the dreaded water. Garcia wound up taking 13 shots on the final 2 holes costing him to go 6 over par and down spiraling into 8th place.

Boogaard Family Suing NHL For Negligence

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The family of former NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard has filed suit against the NHL itself, claiming that the league was negligent in contributing to circumstances which eventually led to his death.

The wrongful death suit was filed by the law firm of Corboy & Demetrio, whose offices are based in Chicago. The suit claims that Boogaard, who suffered multiple head injuries in his time in the league, was a victim of negligence and malpractice on the part of team doctors who were treating him for the injuries. Specifically, it states that in the 2008-09 season these NHL doctors (and dentists, as well) prescribed Boogaard a total of 1021 pills in order to treat symptoms produced by the repeated head injuries he had sustained. In one two-week period alone, Boogaard received 150 oxycodone pills for pain.

The law firm has asserted that these prescriptions contributed to, and likely caused, the same addictions which later led Boogaard to take his own life on May 13th, 2011, and as such the league was directly responsible for his death.

Episode 43 - CANUSA Sports Desk 05-11 Podcast Rewind

Toronto Blue Jays Pitching Prospect Casey Lawrence (@caseylawrence) joins Derek Marques and Chad Setera to talk about video replay in Major League Baseball, the Second Round of the NBA playoffs and what the Boston Celtics should do with their "Big Three". The guys also talk about the coming out party for John Tavares and the New York Islanders in this 2013 NHL Playoffs and more.

Lebron James Fourth MVP and Counting

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LeBron James became the youngest player in the NBA to win a forth NBA MVP award on Sunday. James is only 28 and has been in the NBA since he was drafted first over-all by the Cavaliers in 2003. This was the second time in NBA history where the vote was almost completely unanimous except for one voter. The same thing happened to Shaquille O’Neal in the 1999-2000 season when he fell short one vote of a unanimous decision. The one vote that didn’t look quite like the other 120 went to Knicks superstar, Carmelo Anthony and James had an idea on why that may have happened.
 

"It's probably a writer out of New York that didn't give me the vote," James said during Sunday's award ceremony. "I know the history between the Heat and the Knicks. 

James wasn’t right about his inkling for the voter’s identity and although the NBA does not leak out the names of the voters or their ballots, Gary Washburn from the Boston Globe was happy to acknowledge his voting choice in the Globe on Monday after the ceremony. After much outrage from fans Gary stuck by his decision and offered up his reasoning.