Amidst all the hoopla surrounding the Laraque fiasco, a minor deal went down involving a player that many expected to be the “The Next French Hope” of the Habs; one that this writer didn’t expect to see. Guillaume Latendresse, who has been known as everything from an overrated 4th liner to a province’s prodigal son, is off for relative obscurity (or at least, compared to... 

For those of you that follow the professional game of hockey on this continent, and haven’t been in a coma, Siberia, or the Sun Belt over the last week, you’ve probably hard about the Laraque-Kronwell incident that occurred a bit ago. For those that haven’t, here’s what happened. In what I’m sure was not the idea when they signed him to “toughen up their team”,... 

It seems that there is an epidemic afoot in the sports world. Building over the last decade or so, it has penetrated into every major sport on the continent. Finding an ideal environment to grow and prosper, it has gained strength with each passing year, penetrating more and more of the sports establishment until what was once a rare occurrence is now practically commonplace. A plague that sports...