SportZone lineup for March 30

Here's the tentative lineup for this week's show, airing tonight at 9 p.m., tomorrow at 3 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m. on Access channel 7:

SportZone Guests for Mar 30/10
Community Co-Host: Mitchell Blair

1. A post mortem on the 2009/10 season for the University of Regina track and field team. Guests: Bruce McCannel (Interim Head Coach), Jeremy Eckert & Nicole Breker (Cougar athletes).

2. A preview of the annual Kids of Steel Icebreaker Triathlon. Guest: Terry Hooper (Organizing Committee) & Paul Tokarz (Youth Participant).

3. A report on Regina Ringette Association playoff action, featuring the Misfits and the Blitz. Reporter: Brendan Pawliw.

4. A Regina man is trying to revive the sport of tractor pulling. Horsepower ensues. Guest: Stacey Getz (United Promotions Inc.).

5. A post mortem on the 2009/10 season for the U of R wrestling team. Guests: Steven Schneider & Gilbert Musonza (Cougar wrestlers). (These guys didn't show up. Quelle surprise! And thus ends my interest in providing any further coverage to the Cougar wrestling program.)

6. The Blair Necessities. Our weekly sports commentary by local sports raconteur Mitchell Blair.

SportZone trivia: How many gold medals did the U of R track and field team win at the 2010 CIS championships? Send us your answer, and your contact information, for a chance to win a free pizza from Panago!

Monday musings

Assorted thoughts after a whirlwind weekend of birthday debauchery:

• The garlic bread with cheese at the Keg is the best in town, hands down.
• The pizza at WestSide Pizza is rivalled only by the pie at Sparky's and Tumblers.
• High Impact Wrestling was everything it was cracked up to be. And more!
• It was an honour to treat the J-man to some birthday wrasslin', and to sit with the likes of Rob Vanstone (who I think may hate jogging more than I do), Mitch Blair and Tony Playter. Truly, a unique experience.
• The following night, I survived the J-man's birthday party, including the all-night slumber party. I'm thinking there are some tired boys wandering the halls of Jake's school today!
• Now that the NCAA basketball tournament is down to the final four, I suppose I should start watching!
• The sports talk stations on Sirius have been absolutely obsessed with March Madness. Well, that and baseball spring training.
• Good luck finding some U.S. coverage of the NHL though.
• The Moose Jaw Warriors travel to Calgary tonight for game seven of their first round WHL series. The Warriors led the series 3-1 at one point.
• I was pulling for a Moose Jaw (what?) upset, but now I think the Hitmen are back in control.
• Speaking of Hitmen, Brett the Hitman Hart was a featured performer at last night's Wrestlemania pay per view. I missed it, and I suspect I'll live.
• I must have missed the news release about SGI proclaiming Saturday "Give a Driver's License to the Mentally Incompetent Day". Good lord it was scary out there!
• The last remnants of the winter's worth of snow will be gone by Easter. That works for me!

Friday thoughts

Only one thought that matters today: Happy Birthday Jacob Andrew!

I never would have believed 11 years could fly by so quickly, but lo and behold - they have! And I've loved every minute of watching my boy grow into a fine young man. Let the party begin!

Thursday Cheers and Jeers

It would be tempting, but very career-limiting, for me to opine about yesterday's provincial budget. However, if you want to, be my guest. In the meantime, here's my list for this week.

Cheers

• Sports Exchange (again). Good deals on used sporting gear - and a chance to get some money back on your own "gently used" gear. What's not to love?
• Mitch Blair and Rob Vanstone, for cajoling me into treating the J-man to the cultural phenomenon known as High Impact Wrestling on his birthday tomorrow. This entry could be moved to the jeers category next week, depending on how the show goes!
• Access Communications - hopefully Access helps fill the void (even more than it already does) for locally-produced tv programming created by the impending end of the Saskatchewan Communications Network. Okay, I guess that was sort of budget-related.

Jeers

• Whoever came up with the brilliant idea of forcing Regina police to write more tickets for inconsequential vehicular issues, rather than focussing on actually getting lousy drivers off the roads. Mind you, the young female cop who cancelled my ticket on the weekend was quite fetching, so it wasn't all bad!
• The stomach flu. Just because.
• The lack of a proper indoor tennis facility in this city. Granted, the courts at the Fieldhouse are better than nothing. But just barely.

C'mon, let's hear from the raging masses! What or who is making you happy/ticked off this week?

SportZone lineup for March 23

Having the stomach flu can really put a crimp into a guy's blogging routine! Well, I'm back off the dl, and offer you this preview of this week's show - airing tomorrow at 3 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m. on Access channel 7 in Regina.

SportZone Guests for Mar 23/10
Community Co-Host: Carlo Palazzo

1. A post mortem on the 2009/10 season for the University of Regina women’s basketball team. Guests: Becky Schmidt (Guard) & Brittany Read (Post).

2. A preview of the 5th annual Regina Red Sox sports dinner, and the 2010 season. Guest: Rob Cherepuschak (Red Sox Head Coach).

3. A review of the 2010 provincial high school basketball (Hoopla) championship tournament,a and the end of an era in Regina high school athletics. Guests: Skip Campbell (Campbell Tartans Head Coach), Matt Campbell, Mike Malecha & Jessee Cole (Campbell players).

4. A post mortem on the 2009/10 season for the U of R women’s volleyball team. Guests: Meagan Onstad (Outside Hitter) & Solveig Nilson (Middle).

5. The Blair Necessities. Our weekly sports commentary by local sports raconteur Mitchell Blair.

6. A post mortem on the 2009/10 season for the U of R men’s hockey team. Guest: Caine Pearpoint (Forward).

SportZone trivia: Which member of the U of R women's volleyball team was named an All-Canadian this season? Answer: Beth Clark.
Congratulations to Cody Kezama of Regina, who collects a free pizza from Panago for being the first person to email in the correct answer!