The Z View

The Canadian women's hockey team won their third straight gold medal yesterday but all the buzz is about how they celebrated.  Read the article and take a look at the photos and decide if you are offended by it or not.

You can go ahead and aruge about the 18 year old (left in the photo) holding a can of beer but what we should really be focusing on is the blonde pictured above holding a can of COORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  How can you ever be forgiven for drinking a Coors on Canadian ice????  Where is your love of country????  Do you have no pride???? 

And what's with the warped gold medals?  Did Willy Wonka get picked to manufacture them this year?  Hmmm. lets go with the gold covered chocolate medals this year!

Apparently when fans make noise, Danish curlers cry.  Well, at least one of them.  Her name is Madeleine Dupont and she broke down when Canadian fans piped up.

We talked about this on the air, I actually took on the role of the wheeping curler, and afterwards a friend of mine shot me a text.  She follows curling more closely than I do and she plays.  She informed me that curling is a "gentlemans game" and loud cheering (and heaven forbid taunting) is not an acceptable practice.  Taking that into consideration, maybe the Canadian fans were in the wrong for making too much noise and maybe Dupont has a legit complaint.  But that's no reason to cry about it!!!!!!!!

Coach Jimmy Dugan said it best, "there's no crying in curling!" Wait, I think he meant baseball, but you get my point.  Complain about the fans if you want, verbally scold them if that's what you need to get through the night.  But don't whine about it to the press.  I know it's the Olympics and you were very close to winning but take it like a woman and move on.  No one respects a sore loser. 

Did I mention that Dupont is the skip of the team?  Well she is.  You are the leader, suck it up.

Are you kidding me?  This is a joke right?  Wait....it's not?  These dudes actually took the time to right a song about Brett Favre and make a video too?  This is unbelievable!  And by unbelievable I mean completely ridiculous.  Please don't enjoy:

U.S. snowboarder Scott Lago and his racy pics that hit the web and caused him to leave the games early.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586627,00.html

NBC's Meredith Vieira got a little confused when she was talking about who might be the torch bearer at the Olympic ceremonies on Friday night:

She meant to say Terry Fox and not Michael Fox.  The shot was live and mistakes happen but what's with NBC showing the photo of Michael?  Seriously?  They show Terry and then morph into a photo of Michael.  Watch it again and notice how fast they cut away from the photo of Michael and just go back to the campfire.  Also, were the marshmallows really necessary?

Lindsay Lohan is making more headlines and more controversy.  Check out her latest magazine cover:

I'm guessing the photographer wasn't trying to make it look like Lohan just wants to hug everyone!  We all realize, even if you aren't religious, that the point is to make her look Christ-like.  Do you think anyone prays to her?  Maybe she is a religious figure to the drunk and drugged up but that's just a guess.

Not everyone has a "special someone" to share Valentines Day with this Sunday but that doesn't mean you are out of luck.  There is still time to find a great person to spend V-Day with and I've done all of the hard work for you.  All you have to do is sit back and listen.  Happy Valentines Day!

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Have you mastered the front 9 of Tigers Mistress Golf???  Well, it's time to move on to the back 9 and try your skills.  Happy hunting....I mean golfing.

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Finally the ridiculous portion of the auditioning process is over and we get to watch the judges weed out the talented from the not so much.  Speaking of judges, Ellen made her debut last night and I was pleased with her performance even though it was brief.  I think she should be good as long as it doesn't turn into a stand-up routine each night.  Simon also seemed to tolerate her which is a good first sign.

So what did I think of the musical performances?  Two stuck out for me and here they are:

Andrew Garcia was my favorite last night and I had no idea someone could make a Paula Abdul song worth listening to. 

Crystal Bowersox not only has the best name of the contestants, Bowersox, she can really sing.  Dig it.

So, is that a fleur-de-lis or are you just happy to see me?

Floellen Rickard is a big time Saints fan and she took her team pride to another level when she swallowed what she thought were her pills.  Turns out, it was one of her favorite earrings.

Click HERE to listen to her explanation of what happened.

I can understand that the earring could get put in the wrong spot on the nightstand and that you might accidentally pick it up with your vitamins.  But wouldn't you notice that the very distinct shape in your mouth is unlike any of the vitamins that you take?  Unless you take Saints logo inspired vitamins (great idea by the way) how do you not notice?

As long as I'm talking about the Saints, did you see that the Saints championship shirts are made.....in INDIANAPOLIS!!!!!!!!  At least the city can make money off of Manning's most memorable interception.

And one final Saints related item, check out the Who Dat Dog:

If you aren't a fan of the two teams playing in the Super Bowl each year, you probably still turn it on to see the commercials.  Well if you are like me you were extremely unimpressed with this years crop (or crap).  The only ad that I really enjoyed was this one:

When it costs 3 million bucks to buy an ad spot during the Super Bowl, you better bring more than a bunch of horses and a bull, a dog with a bark collar, an old QB playing up the same flip-flopping schtick that's been used in other commercials for a different company or an old basketball player trying to rap about tacos.

What made the commercial breaks tolerable was knowing that in just a couple of moments the game would be back on and Peyton Manning would be doing his best Brett Favre impersonation.  I hate Peyton Manning but I admit he's the best QB going right now with the exception of last night.   

And don't get me started on the halftime show.  Ouch.