Cleaning out the inbox

Time to clean out the inbox where interesting things from sports and outside the sports world build up for future posts like these.

Great to see Neil Young at the closing ceremonies of the Vancouver game.
The Canadian star was the perfect choice to play in the finale.
Neil didn't play this song there or even in Vancouver, but I like it so here it is.


The New Jersey Devils made a minor move at yesterday's trade deadline in obtaining defenseman Martin Skoula from Toronto for a fifth-round draft pick.
Skoula spent this season with the Penguins before being traded to the Leafs on Tuesday.
Skoula played for Jacques Lemaire in Minnesota, so he knows the system, but this is a depth move at best.

The NFL player movement period starts tonight at midnight and the Cleveland Browns are reported to have been talking to several teams about trading for a quarterback.
Among the teams mentioned are talks with the Eagles, which scares me as Andy Reid is close friends with Mike Holmgren and Tom Heckert came from there.
Donovan McNabb would be a short-term fix at best and Kevin Kolb looks promising, but is he any more proven than Brady Quinn?
I suppose it depends on the sticker price.

The Browns cleared cap space with the release of Hank Fraley.
Fraley started 51 games for the Browns after arriving from the Eagles in 2006, but the arrival of Alex Mack put Fraley on borrowed time with the Browns
The undersized, but always hustling Fraley will be missed.

Those of you that wanted to see Boxing invade UFC will get your wish as three-division champion James Toney has signed a multi-fight deal with Dana White's group.
The downside?
Toney is 41, has not won a significant fight in years, and was not considered a huge puncher in his sport.
Anyone going from boxing to UFC is going to have to be a huge puncher and that was never Toney's game with the exception of his one-punch career extinguishing KO of Michael Nunn in 1991, NINETEEN YEARS AGO!

Keep that in mind when Toney fails (and he very likely will) that Toney fighting MMA today is the rough equivalent of Royce Gracie putting on boxing gloves and fighting one of the Klitschko brothers.
Past your prime and fighting another man's game is generally a losing bet.

In a time where we seem to lose species every day, some good news in Australia as The Yellow Bell Frog was discovered on a farmer's land after being thought to be extinct in 1980.
Seems like the gentleman that owns the land is willing to work with conservationists and that seems to be a great sign.

And finally, Scott Bowden over at KFR says goodbye to Angelo Poffo, who passed away at 84.
Poffo wrestled himself but is most remembered for being the father of wrestling star "Macho Man" Randy Savage and lesser star "Leaping" Lanny Poffo.
Poffo is also listed in Ripley's believe it or not for his record of 6,033 situps over a four-hour period.