Post Tagged with: "brendan burke"

• Best Toronto Sports Reading Guaranteed

  sports and toronto July 4, 2010 10:50 pm 1 comment

  What a fantastic weekend in the GTA and cottage country! I am pretty sure we didn’t have one of these the entire summer of 2009. So, while I was sitting dockside, checking the bb or iphone on occasion and to be honest not much was happening, I was kind of [...]

   
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  Weekend Round-Up

  national football league, national hockey league, ottawa senators hockey, sports and toronto February 7, 2010 11:28 pm 3 comments

  I hope everyone had a great weekend…Just a few comments before signing off for the night. Let’s start with the Leafs What a performance against the Senators. While Giguere certainly played a great game (getting his second straight shutout), the team limited the Sens to very few quality chances. I [...]

   

• Toronto Star Reporter Incredibly Insensitive

  toronto maple leafs hockey February 6, 2010 10:06 am 10 comments

  Generally speaking, I am a Kevin McGran fan. I think he does a good job and is up there among his peers. Last night he crossed the line. “Brendan Burke – the gay son of Toronto Maple Leafs…..” That’s how McGran’s story on the sudden death of Brendan Burke, the [...]

   

• Tragedy Strikes Maple Leafs Brian Burke

  toronto maple leafs hockey February 5, 2010 10:05 pm 7 comments

  The Toronto maple leafs issued the followig only moments ago: “We are saddened to report that Brendan Burke, the youngest son of Leafs President and General Manager Brian Burke, succumbed to injuries he suffered in an auto accident earlier today in Indiana. The family asks for privacy at this difficult [...]

   

• What A Surprise- Berger Out To Lunch

  toronto maple leafs hockey November 28, 2009 5:59 pm 4 comments

  Stay at home Berger has a post about the “Burke” story of the week. “I’ve wondered – since the outset – why Brendan’s personal affairs are business. He is a law-abiding citizen, and should therefore have the same right as any of us to determine, without apology or defense, his [...]

   

• The Good, The Bad, The Shoalts

  toronto maple leafs hockey November 26, 2009 12:14 am 1 comment

  Greetings from Detroit. I listened to the Leafs take on the lightning tonight on XM radio as I drove across the 401 and I have to tell you I have never heard a more boring play by play duo as the guy on Tampa radio, one of whom sounded like [...]

   

• Respect Is Spelled B U R K E

  toronto maple leafs hockey November 25, 2009 1:12 am 11 comments

  So many different angles to take on this story. There is the proud father story, then there is the Maple Leaf fan side and lastly the courage/this is not a story about “me” take. Where to begin. Let’s start with the basics and maybe as I write, well things will [...]