It will be interesting to see how Roger Goodell reacts to the trouble league golden boy Brett Favre has got himself into.  Goodell set the bar very high when earlier this year he suspended Steelers’ quarter back Ben Roethlisberger for committing no crime except that of being accused of acting inappropriately in a bar with a young, and quite frisky in her own right, young lady.

Farve, in case you have not heard has been apparently caught sexting Jenn Sterger, a former sideline reporter for the New York Jets, pictures of the most naughty sort.  Apparently, so the story goes, two years Sterger rejected Favre’s advanced and the attempts to woo her continued.  Basically, Favre was stalking the reporterette.

Hey, even if the allegations aren’t true Big Ben was suspended six game, since reduced to four, all on allegations too.  So that is the minimum that Favre should get.  But based on what is coming out and Brett’s uncanny silence on the issue it seems there is a little more here than just smoke.  If so and the charges are true Goodell would be forced to levy a harsher punishment on Farve than he did Ben or look like a hypocritical fool.

If true Brett Favre deserves to be suspended for the season.  Then he can retire once and for all in shame only to come back again next year I suppose.

O Canada! What has happened? Many people thought that a Canada – Russian match up would be for a gold medal in Vancouver not in an elimination game where the loser goes home without any medal at all.

Tonight the Canucks take on the Ruskies and Sid takes on Geno … and Ovechkin … and Gonchar. With the likely starter for the Canadians being Luongo, who has never risen to the challenge of being a big time goaltender and an entire team of “potential” on the ice, the guys from the Great White North are going to need a miracle.

So far the Canadians have not played up to what people have seen as their potential. They struggled in the preliminary round and their only two easy victories have been against teams that could probably be beaten by a good college hockey squad.

Thus my prediction is a Russian victory tonight when this bloodbath ends.  The Canadians will scratch and claw with all their might to not go quietly into the night. But what we have seen to date is a team of aged talent that hasn’t been able to prove itself. Crosby is their ace in the hole by Russia holds the trump in a pair of stars named Malkin and Ovechkin.

In order for this prediction to turn out wrong Luongo would have to have the game of his life. Either that or the Canadians would have to swallow their pride and get over the fact that Fleury lost a big game and disappointed his countrymen in World Juniors. Much has changed for the Penguins net minder since then and I think a Stanley Cup should be more than enough to get the stubborn forces of Canadian hockey to give the man who should be in goal the chance he deserves and his team more than a long shot chance to win tonight.

But that will not happen. So Canada had better pray for that miracle.