Happy belated National Hunting and Fishing Day

Who knew that last Saturday was National Hunting and Fishing Day in America?

This important holiday was established by President Nixon 39 years ago to recognize American sportsman for their efforts in conservation!

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by: Paul Gozzo

The NASCAR CUP CHASE pre-chase CALL by PAUL Gozzo

Ya like that title?

OK, here tis the call. Jeff Gordon will win his 5th NASCAR Cup title . The headlines will be that JGR's engines kill Kyle Bush's championship hopes...and Kurt Bush and Jimmy Johnson wreck each other's chances.

1. Jeff Gordon

2. Kyle Bush

3. Carl Edwards

4. Jimmy Johnson

5. Kevin Harvick

6. Ryan Newman

7. Matt Kenseth

8. Brad Keselowski

9. Denny Hamlin

10. Kurt Bush

11. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

12. Tony Stewart

by: Paul Gozzo

Three new Hockey Movies: The Last Gladiators, Goon, and Breakaway

I'm looking forward to seeing these three new hockey movies, "The Last Galdiators", "Goon", and "Breakaway". All have either Academy Award winning directors or decent star power, most notably: Alex Gibney, Seann William Scott, Rob Lowe, Liv Schreiber (who did the voice over for HBO's 24/7 last year), Ludacris (ya that one), Sabres Goalie and US Olympian Ryan Miller, and a bunch of others you might recognize.

I'm guessing the Gibney documentary about Chris Nilan from his Montreal Canadians days will be the best of the bunch.

Here is an article about the three hockey movies stealing the show at the recent Toronto Film Festival.

by: Paul Gozzo

Winnipeg Jets new jerseys

I can't help it....I am routing for the Winnipeg Jets this year. I am also routing for every city, like Hartford, who lost a team to southern expansion, that they get their teams back! Going to Whaler games was a big part of my childhood and I am hopeful for many other kids who are growing up playing this great sport of hockey without a local professional team to rout for.

Paul Gozzo

Apple to have Retina Display, soon iTV!

With a buzz forming around Apple's next move and many believing that the next version of the iPad (3) will have retina display...I am more interested in Apple TV which has =actually been in market since 2006.

Along with renting movies and TV shows....Apple TV will probably allow users to watch Youtube on their TV's and watch movies from Netflix as well...

Because Apple TV has been around for 5 years you may think this part of the business is not doing well, but you have top imagine forward ala Steve Jobs and so imagine a world where Apple makes the television screen perfect while integrating all of the content from Apple TV. It is a tough vision to have, so maybe just start with thinking about what the iPod did in combination with iTunes and how that affected the music industry.

by: Paul Gozzo

The Autumn Rut

The Autumn is my favorite time of year. The weather change, the beauty of nature, baseball playoffs, football Sundays and Monday nights, cold weather meals, burning leave piles, hockey is just around the corner....and The Rut!

For those of you who don't know what The Rut is let's start with Wikipedia's definition since everything posted on the Internet is true: "The Rut for white-tailed deer usually lasts from 1-3 months in the Northern Hemisphere and may occur most of the year in tropical zones. The rut is the time when white-tailed deer, especially bucks, are more active and less cautious than usual."

And that last part, my friends, is what it is all about. Catching that big boy out looking for a lady, when he is thinking with the wrong head! Sometimes a hunter will scout an area for many hours only to be surprised at what he sees when the season finally opens up and the rut is in full effect.

Words cannot fully express the excitement and I cannot accurately describe the feeling. Perhaps the best way to describe the general notion of hunting the rut is to go back to the beginning of this blog and to take some of the different feelings from each one of those early fall activities and add them all up and that result is the closest I can come up with to describe the rut.

Happy fall all!

Paul Gozzo

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American Eagle watching over her heros by: Paul Gozzo

A picture from the Minneapolis Star / Tribune taken on a June morning at the Minneapolis National Cemetery.