Found this story in the Toronto Globe and Mail and thought I'd pass it on for our good friends in the Great White North. ESPN might have been looking to add a Canadian channel to it's repotoire, but it looks like the possibility of it happening is slim to none....

Despite pressure from cable companies to open up the Canadian market to more foreign content, the likelihood of ESPN coming into the country is virtually zero, executives said yesterday.

"We've said let in the American channels unless they threaten the economic viability of the Canadian channel," he said. "If they could put a Canadian channel under and drive them out of business, then we would say don't let them in."

ESPN would represent competition to Canadian sports channels, including Rogers-owned Sportsnet. TSN would be most severely hit by ESPN's entry into the market. They're both national services that carry a wide selection of high-end programming, some of it the same.

(Usually) Everyday I'll throw out a photo from the AP or one of the bigger sites and you provide the caption. Hilarity ensues. I'm also adding a handful of links at the bottom of the page that you should check out each day.

Yesterday's Winners....


"Everything does look better through Beautymist!"- Anon

"Barnes: "Oh my God, what did we just do?"
Bevo: "Relax, baby. It's natural."
- White Speed Receiver

"What the hell is Mack Brown's son-in-law doing on the court???"- G-Money

""We always hang in the buffalo stance...we do the dive every time we dance""- Calgary Dave
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Are you funny enough to create a caption for this photo of Jay Bilas interviewing his man crush, Tyler Hansbrough? (Should have had this one up yesterday....sorry about that)


Daily Links:

MLB Stripper Gear (Joe Sports Fan)
Baseball Fan Fights Are Pretty Weak (Red Sox Monster)
What We Learned From Opening Day (Baseball Mastermind)
The NBA's Best Glue Players (Empty The Bench)
Blessed Balls Can't Help The Phils (Lion In Oil)
A Collection Of Weird MLB Promos (100% IR)
Jimmy Key Was Not A Nice Guy (The Money Shot)
Angelina Jolie And The Undertaker's Bed (On 205th)
Calipari: A Photo Essay (Gutty Little Bruins)
The Rocking NL West (Cake Rocks The Party)

You can say a lot of things about Derek Jeter (he's a partier, he's a bad defensive player), but this is pretty classy. The shortstop had NY Yankees public address announcer record his intro so he can have the "Voice of God" always introducing him...

It won’t be Bob Sheppard at the microphone today when the lineups are introduced here at windy, drizzly Yankee Stadium for the final opening day. Sheppard is recovering from an illness and hopes to be back by midseason.

But Sheppard’s voice will still be heard. Last season, Derek Jeter took a step to make sure of that.

“One of the things I had him do was record him introducing me,” Jeter said a few minutes ago, “so I’ll always come to the plate with Bob Sheppard.”

I guess if someone decided to do an impersonation of one of my loved ones who passed away I might be a little ticked off as well. AT&T has been airing commercials in the Chicago area with Caray's likeness and Dutchie Caray is none to happy....

Dutchie Caray is furious with AT&T over television commercials featuring comic John Caponera pitching cable TV while impersonating the late Harry Caray.

"I just get shivers when I even think about it," she told WGN-Ch. 9 on Monday morning.

"I was gone the whole month of March and I didn't come back until a couple of days ago. ... It made me so sick and disgusted. ... What they did [was] so unprofessional, so jerky. ... I might make an AT&T commercial, wrap myself in telephone wire, ughl-ughl-ughl and act like an idiot dope."

Many of you wrote in yesterday saying you enjoyed the new Baseball Tonight commercial with John Kruk's briefcase and the bugs. I didn't think it was that funny, but that doesn't really matter. Well for those of you who enjoyed it there are two more recreations you might enjoy....

The three 30-second spots feature Karl Ravech, John Kruk, Steve Phillips, Peter Gammons, Tim Kurkjian, Orestes Destrade and Eric Young re-enacting three memorable baseball moments -- last season's "Bugs" moment (Indians vs Yankees), Curt Schilling's bloody sock from 2004, and Bobby Thompson's "Shot heard 'round the world" from 1951.

Our friends up north are going to have to help me with this clip. First PBPer Steve Martin says that the Raptors defense is like "Canadian Ketchup", then sideliner Stephanie Ready trys to explain to the booth that she is a fan of it. Does anyone have any idea what they're talking about?