Most likely the biggest cyber-bully ever on Talk-Sports is Laureen Foat. This cougar has been fighting with everybody on the Pau Gasol forum for several years now. She appears to hang also on the Manny Ramirez, Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, Marc Gasol. She has been banned on numerous occasions only to return with new usernames and IP addresses.

Here are her various Talk-Sports blogs.

• http://www.talk-sports.net/blog.aspx?blog=b0bffa94-15b5-4602-b356-57cffb580a92
• http://www.talk-sports.net/blog.aspx?blog=f73f9e65-2326-442a-9037-d026635a0cb0
• http://www.talk-sports.net/blog.aspx?blog=0535acb2-d0f8-430e-9f24-bfe51906cf87

Here's some fragments from the very classy emails we receive on sometimes an hourly basis from her.

• You are a f*cking asshole and, I will seriously get you!!
• I already told Randy and I also told him that if continue like that I will file a police report against you

You can also check her out on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1640596874

New Leaf roster

Goalies

• Giguere
• Gustavson (RFA)

Defense

• Beauchemin 
• Exelby (UFA)
• Finger
• Gunnarson
• Kaberle
• Komisarek (injured)
• Phaneuf
• Schenn
• Van Ryn (out)

Beauchemin, Kaberle, Komisarek, Phaneuf are their top 4. Gunnarson and Schenn are the kids trying to crack the top 4. Somehow, we still have to move Finger's salary. We moved Blake.

Forwards

• Bozak
• Grabovski (injured)
• Kessel
• Kulemin (RFA)
• Mitchell (RFA)
• Orr
• Ponikarovsky (UFA)
• Primeau (UFA)
• Rosehill
• Sjostrom
• Stempniak (UFA)
• Wallin (UFA)

Grabovski is the only scoring center and he's injured. That's a big hole that needs to be filled. That makes Tyler Bozak the only player on the roster that fits the mold of a scoring centerman. I have to believe that Stempniak will be traded shortly. Poni, on the other hand, may be in Burke's longer-term plans. Mitchell, Primeau and Wallin can't like the acquisition of Sjostrom. Do we really need another non-scoring centerman?

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Majic Dorsey became the 4th athlete to take us up on our latest program to shut down his girlfriend blog. Check out the message he left for his Talk-Sports fans.

http://www.talk-sports.net/nbdl/girlfriend.aspx/Majic_Dorsey

I have to congratulate the Blackhawk fans in signing Toews and Kane to 5 year extensions. On the other hand, I don't understand why teams don't learn from previous long-term contract failures like Dipietro and Yashin. Keith got a 13 year extension? I'm gonna bet that the Hawks buy him out in the future and incur an extremely lenghty salary cap penalty. The Islanders look stupid right now with an injury prone goaltender consuming large amounts of cap space. The Islanders also look stupid with Yashin still on the books, having not played the last two years. The Hawks are in salary cap hell already and the combination of these three signings put them up against the cap for ever going forward. They will be dumping players to make the cap annually.

On the other hand, with Toews and Kane, they'll be competitive for years to come. Better than the Leafs or Isles or Canes.

Famous Herb Brooks speech before the US played the Russians in the semi finals in the 1980 Olympics.

Phil Disher became the 3rd athlete to take us up on our latest program to shut down his girlfriend blog.  Check out the message he left for his Talk-Sports fans.

http://www.talk-sports.net/sal/girlfriend.aspx/Phil_Disher

Overnight and this morning, we updated all the hockey rosters on Talk-Sports.

NHL KHL SEL AHL ECHL IHL OHL QMJHL USHL WHL

We'll do the same for basketball and football, maybe later today. Find the latest hot rookies.

Player-by-player report.

• Kaberle, on pace for 100 pts on a crappy offensive team, A+.
• Grabovski, pacing 60 pts is about what I expected, B.
• Blake, pacing 10 goals is lower than my lowered expectations, F-.
• Hagman, pacing 30 goals is slightly better than expected, B.
• White, pacing 50 pts and +1 on a mostly negative team, A.
• Ponikarovski, pacing 35 goals and +7 on a mostly negative team, A+.
• Stempniak, pacing 20 goals and -7 for a top 6 forward is bad, C+.
• Stajan, pacing 15 goals and -8 for a top 6 forward is bad, D+.
• Mitchell, pacing 10 goals and 35 pts, B.
• Beauchemin, early season giveaway-itist put team in hole, D.
• Finger, -4 in 7 gms is bad, 4 pts is good, D.
• Kessel, 4 pts in 4 gms is great, A.
• Kulemin, 3 pts in 12 gms for a top 6 forward is bad, D.
• Wallin, 0 goals in 16 gms is really bad for a 3rd line center, F.
• Schenn, only -2 on a D-line full of -5, -7, -9 is good, lowered expectations are likely helping, B.
• Mayers, apparently he likes the pressbox, F.
• Primeau, 1g in 12 gms on 4th line, D.
• Orr, 47 PiMs in 16 gms is his job, B.
• Rosehill, apparently he likes the pressbox, F.
• Exelby, -5 in 9 gms and likes the pressbox, F.
• Komisarek, -9 and 0 pts in 16 gms, trying to do too much, D.

Nori has agreed to be our seventh Talk-Sports deputy. She joins pjfarmar5, AJ, hottie.chick, G, Steph and MzBGSharper.

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Memories of Toskala, from Ondrej Pavelec.

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9 yr-old YouTube hockey censation Oliver Wahlstrom.

Some thing this is an original goal. In fact, Rob Hisey use to do this years ago. Here's a variation where Hisey does the same, but with his stick between his legs.

That said, Rob was a teenager and Oliver is doing this at 9 yrs old. I can't wait to see his moves when he's 16.

These are my predictions for the NHL Eastern Conference.

Rangers

The Rangers are off to a great start. Nothing new. Lunqvist does this every year. Don't credit anybody but Lunqvist and laugh at hockey analysis who make anything of the Rangers fast start. Lunqvist comes back to Earth as the season wears on him.

Senators

If Leclaire keeps it up, then expect the Sens near the top of the Northeast division.

Capitals and Penguins

The Pens and Caps will shoot it out again for the conference title.

Sabres

If Miller remains healthy, then the Sabres are playoff bound.

Thrashers

Great start. Maybe they can make the playoffs. Maybe. It's 50-50.

Devils

Still getting worse and relying on Brodeur more than ever. Brodeur will likely get them into the playoffs yet again. Someday he won't.

Flyers

Amazing team outside of management and goaltending. How do you put Randy Jones up for grabs? How do you gamble on the Emery headcase? If Emery doesn't implode the team, then they make the playoffs.

Bruins

Should easily make playoffs. GM is executive of the year for the Kessel trade. Last 12 months have put them into Stanley Cup contention for the next 10 years.

Lightning

They can't play defense. I feel sorry for their goaltenders.

Hurricane

Getting old. Need to surround Cam Ward with younger players. This is likely a good year for them to exit from the playoff picture and get a good draft pick. Ward may make that difficult.

Panthers

They suck again.

Canadians

Too much change in team personel, plus Andrei Markov not heathly, equals a lot of unfair doubt on Carey Price's skill and no playoff.

Islanders

The Isles will never make the playoffs until Garth Snow is fired.

Leafs

This franchise is turning into a joke. The Ducks cup win obviously had little to do with Brian Burke.

Here's my eval of the Leafs this season. Brian Burke has turned out to be an idiot. Toskala sucks! Kulemin sucks! Primeau sucks! Stempniak really sucks! Mayers sucks! Blake really sucks! When your GM, starting goalie and 5 of your forwards suck or really suck, then you will lose a lot of games. Kulemin, Stempniak and Blake are three of our best scoring forwards and have three points combined over 18 games played. Somehow, Wilson benches Stajan and Hagman, our top and goal scorers and point producers. Wilson, have you watched Stempniak and Blake? Both play so far from the oppositions net that they might as well be in the pressbox. Oh wait, I forgot, Ron Wilson sucks too! He won't get fired because his friend is the GM. I'm guessing this off-season has set the Leafs Laughs back another two years. Maybe we'll make the playoffs in 2012.

Pete Hunter became the 2nd athlete to take us up on our latest program to shut down his girlfriend blog.  Check out the message he left for his Talk-Sports fans. Pete is a retired NFL player.

http://www.talk-sports.net/nfl/girlfriend.aspx/Pete_Hunter

To laugh at ones-self is to truly laugh.

Tracy has agreed to be our seventh Talk-Sports deputy. She joins pjfarmar5, AJ, hottie.chick, G, Steph and MzBGSharper.

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Kamau Peterson became the first athlete to take us up on our latest program to shut down his girlfriend blog.  Check out the message he left for his Talk-Sports fans. Kamau plays in the CFL and was outstanding Canadian in 2008.

http://www.talk-sports.net/cfl/girlfriend.aspx/Kamau_Peterson

Matt Ziesel scores one of the greatest TDs ever.

Read the entire story.

http://www.kansascity.com/703/story/1452971.html?storylink=pluck_recommended

September 1st, we went to Hockeytown Cafe, just across the street from Comerica park in Detroit. We were going to the baseball game and I've always wanted to go to this restaurant.



The food was OK. It's worth going. At least once if you love hockey.



They have memorabilia everywhere. Mostly hockey, but baseball and football as well. Oddly it's close to the baseball and football stadiums and a big walk from the Hockey Rink.

http://www.hockeytowncafe.com/

hottie.chick has agreed to be our fourth Talk-Sports deputy. She joins G, Steph and MzBGSharper. See our previous annoucements. We will add at least two more shortly.

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