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National Post
3 hours ago
- National Post
Honouring Buck? Martinez just grateful to be back in the Blue Jays broadcast booth
Another crack at kicking cancer's rear end may have kept Buck Martinez from the broadcast booth for more than two months, but it hasn't stopped him from intently following the Blue Jays rise to the team with the American League's best record. Article content And there are plenty of thoughts ready to spill from the mouth of the 76-year-old Sportsnet legend when those familiar tones hit the airwaves on Friday night in Los Angeles. Article content Article content Article content Martinez, whose most recent game was on May 29 before a diagnosis of lung cancer sidelined him, always has been fond of the little guy. That's why he's particularly enamoured by the efforts of players like Ernie Clement, Davis Schneider, Nathan Lukes and Myles Straw. Article content 'These guys, they value every single opportunity they have and that's what (manager John Schneider) wanted to get across to them in spring training,' Martinez said in an interview with the Toronto Sun. 'And he's done that. And these guys, the way they are playing, this is how you play winning baseball. This is how you win championships. Article content 'This is the perfect team for this era of baseball because they have five or six stars. But the rest of the team is guys who have had it taken away from them. There's so many guys who care about winning and care about each other that it's a wonderful group of talent.' Article content Article content What a welcome late Friday from L.A. it will be to have Martinez back talking baseball with such passion, alongside his long-time play-by-play partner, Dan Shulman. Article content Expect many more of his views over the three-game weekend series and beyond. Martinez will also call the Jays six-game homestand beginning on Tuesday. He'll then head to Houston for a final cancer chemo treatment and return for the duration of the Jays run. Article content Article content Judging by the reaction to our Thursday column in which Martinez candidly shared details of his latest cancer fight and his yearning to return to the job that he loves so much, there will be joy on the other end of the screen as well. Article content Besides a steady stream of well wishes from fans who have missed the soundtrack of their summer, many are calling for Martinez's immediate addition to the Blue Jays Level of Excellence, an honour that surely will come his way. Article content Others have suggested a Buck Appreciation Day during the final homestand and that the team find a way to honour him some time during what has the potential to be one of the more exciting final two months of a season in his terrific broadcasting career.
CTV News
3 hours ago
- CTV News
Another sex toy interrupts final seconds of WNBA game, as commissioner Cathy Engelbert denounces ‘totally unacceptable' trend
The Atlanta Dream defeated the Chicago Sky to win their fourth straight game. (Shaina Benhiyoun/SPP/Sipa USA//AP via CNN Newsource) Yet another sex toy was thrown onto a WNBA court, this time in the closing seconds of the Atlanta Dream's 86-65 win over the Chicago Sky. With just under six seconds remaining at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Thursday, play was momentarily stopped after a purple toy was thrown from the stands – the fourth in growing lists of recent copycat incidents. According to Front Office Sports reporter Colin Salao, a second sex toy was thrown on Thursday but only made it behind the Dream's bench. Two people were questioned by security shortly after the incident, according to Salao, but were let go as there was no evidence they were responsible. CNN Sports has also reached out to the WNBA, the Chicago Sky and the Atlanta Dream for comment. Earlier this week, the WNBA said any fan caught throwing sex toys onto the court will face prosecution as well as a ban from the league. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has also denounced the trend, calling it 'unacceptable.' 'I'm almost in my 40th year in business and unfortunately we get these kinds of acts and it's totally unacceptable,' Engelbert said to Sportico Sports Business, before the latest incident on Thursday. 'These people are trading whatever notoriety they're getting for a felony conviction. So, we have caught two of the guys and they're being charged with felonies and it doesn't make any sense to me for whatever their little joy ride is.' She added: 'Hopefully, it just ends with the fact that, if you want a felony conviction on your record, go ahead and do it. But obviously it can be very dangerous to throw anything, let alone what they are throwing.' It is the second time a Sky game was interrupted by an incident. Last Friday, a sex toy was thrown from the stands during the team's game against the Golden State Valkyries. The toy landed just out of bounds underneath one of the baskets. A 'distraction' Earlier on Thursday, Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve called the growing number of incidents a 'distraction.' 'This has been going on for centuries,' Reeve told reporters. 'The sexualization of women. This is the latest version of that. And it's not funny and it should not be the butt of jokes on radio shows, or in print or any comments. 'The sexualization of women is what's used to hold women down and this is no different. This is its latest form and we should write about it in that way. These people that are doing this should be held accountable and we're not the butt of the joke. They're the problem.' Thursday's incident also comes two days after a green toy was thrown in the direction of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham during the team's game against the Los Angeles Sparks at the Arena. The 28-year-old Cunningham had previously asked people to stop throwing such objects earlier this week on social media but appeared to be struck on the leg by the toy during Tuesday's game. 'this did NOT age well,' she wrote on X after the game, replying to her own previous post calling for spectators to stop throwing sex toys on the court. She also had posted a message on her Instagram Stories, saying: 'No way that thing actually hit me. I knew I shouldn't have tweeted that.' The Valkyries and Dream were also subject to an incident at Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia last week. The individual involved in the incident in Atlanta was identified and arrested, according to the WNBA. They are reportedly charged with disorderly conduct, public indecency/indecent exposure, and criminal trespass, according to Reuters, with a court date yet to be established. According to social media posts seen by the Associated Press, green toys were also previously thrown in Phoenix and New York, but didn't reach the court. A growing trend On Thursday, a group of cryptocurrency meme coin creators claimed responsibility for some of the incidents. In an interview with USA Today, a spokesperson for the group said members had started throwing the green items to coincide with the launch of a new meme coin, the name of which is a play on a type of sex toy. The spokesperson told the outlet the new coin was in protest of the current state of the crypto market, and the group said they were 'viral stunts' to gain attention for the coin, rejecting the narrative that the incidents were disrespectful towards women's athletes. 'We didn't do this because like we dislike women's sports or, like, some of the narratives that are trending right now are ridiculous,' the spokesperson said. 'Creating disruption at games is like, it happens in every single sport, right? We've seen it in the NFL, we've seen it in hockey, you know … fans doing random things to more or less create attention.' By Jacob Lev, Ben Church, CNN
CBC
4 hours ago
- CBC
Why did the Nelk Boys talk to Benjamin Netanyahu?
Two members of the Nelk Boys, a famous group of Canadian-American YouTubers known for their prank videos, recently released an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The interview aired on the Full Send podcast. Hosted by Kyle Forgeard and Aaron Steinberg, the conversation ran for more than an hour, and it has earned almost two million views as well as more than 36,000 comments on YouTube alone. In this podcast-exclusive episode of Commotion, political commentator and streamer Hasan Piker, as well as political journalists Justin Ling and Alyssa Mercante join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to react to the interview, and unpack what it reveals about the current media landscape.
