Want to make America great? How about we get back to basic decency and tolerance…

It was late October, 1956. A cold rain was falling and the playground at William Cullen Bryant school (named after the 19th century poet and editor of the New York Evening Post) was a labyrinth of mud puddles. We were perhaps a week away from the presidential election that pitted the eminently decent Adlai Stevenson …

Why, Bobby? On the intense reaction to Orr’s bad call

When I first heard that Bobby Orr had taken out an ad in the New Hampshire Union-Leader supporting Donald Trump in Tuesday’s election, I was furious. It felt like a betrayal. A profound act of faithlessness that called into question everything we thought Orr to be. I wrote a blog and posted it, expecting the …

Bobby Orr, Trump’s fool

Bobby Orr, you chump. To do what you have done, you would have to be dumber than a bucket of frozen pucks. You have embarrassed a nation, made a complete fool of yourself and tarnished your reputation forevermore. And for what? To support a grifter and fraud who makes your former agent, Alan Eagleson, look …

On Claude Julien, an astonishing play and the great Lewis Hamilton

Y’know, boys and girls, we here at MMQB Central have been watching sports longer than most of you have been around. Since Rocky Marciano was heavyweight champ and Hank Aaron was a rookie. So long that when Cassius  Clay won his gold medal at the Rome Olympics, I felt inspired to go climb the fence …

On fast runners, fast drivers, Claude Julien and more…

Y’know, boys and girls, we here at MMQB Central have been watching sports longer than most of you have been around. Since Rocky Marciano was heavyweight champ and Hank Aaron was a rookie. So long that when the man who was then Cassius  Clay won his gold medal at the Rome Olympics, I felt inspired …

The Blue Monday Blues

Here we are, 19 days into October. The leaves are falling. The world is upside down, the streets a masked parade of anxious souls. And it is 39 years since Blue Monday, the day the Dodgers and Rick Monday wrecked the Expos’ World Series plans and, arguably, sent the organization on the road to extinction. …

On this Blue Monday anniversary, something to cheer about

Here we are, 19 days into October. Your Monday Morning Quarterback has grown a year older. The leaves are falling. The world is upside down, the streets a masked parade of anxious souls. And it is 39 years since Blue Monday, the day the Dodgers and Rick Monday wrecked the Expos' World Series plans and, …

Of COURSE Gallagher was going to sign. What did you expect?

There was an incident seven or eight years ago that pretty well defined the way I have thought of both players since.          I don’t recall the date or the opponent, only that Brendan Gallagher had taken a bad hit along the boards and was down on the play. Max Pacioretty was a few feet …

Molson stuck with Bergevin and now it’s paying dividends

Hating Marc Bergevin is a cottage industry in Montreal. There are niche broadcasters and columnists whose entire schtick is based on ripping the guy day after day after sorry day. It saves effort, I suppose, and thought, and dispenses with the need to actually know what you’re talking about – but it’s also ugly, unfair …

Those loyal Sabres fans get taken in – this time by Taylor Hall

When I first came to hockey during the 1970-71, the Canadiens (here’s a surprise) were my team. They had a few players you might recognize: Jean Béliveau, Yvan Cournoyer, Henri Richard, Serge Savard, J.C. Tremblay, then Frank Mahovlich and Ken Dryden. Sometime after that, I adopted a second team: the Buffalo Sabres. Something about the …