A Bunch of Stuff Worth Mentioning

**Going into tomorrow night's game in Calgary, the Islanders have picked up three of a possible eight points. Not good. But don't worry, reinforcements are on the way. The Isles sent Darryl Bootland to Anaheim yesterday for a winger named Matt Keith. Keith will report to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers just in time to play with Kyle Okposo. Keith had played 34 games with Portland this season and was 5 and 5 for 10 points. He has appeared in 24 career NHL games, all with the Blackhawks.

**Today I heard a good one. Josh Brown, the kicker of the Seahawks, is going to wear battery-powered heaters in his pants this weekend. Seriously. I guess it is a thing you wear when you're hunting but it sounds really funny. Battery-powered heaters in your pants. In Green Bay. The weather is allegedly going to be twenty degrees. Sure, you'll get cold and stuff but if I were ever to wear battery-powered heaters in my pants, I don't know if I would tell a lot of people about it.

Also, and this is the big question: have the NFL's uniform police cleared the battery-powered heaters for your pants? Could Josh Brown get fined for these heaters? Either way, it pretty much proves that kickers are not really football players.

**Red Sox Supermouth Curt Schilling is playing one more season and then he is going to retire to run a video-game company. I doubt that he will ever be able to pull himself away from a microphone long enough to do anything else. I know a lot of baseball fans who simply hate the guy. I don't even like baseball or follow it but he just pishes me off. What a media ho. We all know he faked that bloody sock thing and what's more, he knows that we know.

**Good to see that Chris Osgood is playing well in Detroit again and that he just signed a new contract for three more years. Ozzie was bigger than big when he played for the Isles and he really helped restore a measure of credibility to the team back while we all waited for Ricky to mature and take over between the pipes. Plus, let's never forget that he played a few weeks for the islanders in bright red goalie pants. No word on whether or not they were heated. I'm betting that they weren't.

Speaking of Osgood, whatever became of Justin Papineau, the guy we got from St. Louis when Ozzie was traded? Well, he signed with the Devils and then over the summer Papineau signed with EHC Basel of the Swiss National League. Thanks, Internet!