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Celebrity wedding: Rabbi Poupko and Mindy Shear tie the knot

Rabbi Reuben J. Poupko, the charismatic spiritual leader of Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation in Côte Saint-Luc, is no longer the most eligible bachelor among the local Jewish clergy. He recently walked down the aisle with the gorgeous Mindy Shear, a high profile makeup artist/entrepreneur  in the community. The happy couple are pictured below at their nuptials.

In 1986 Pittsburgh native Rabbi Poupko, then   27, arrived via New York . From the start, everyone who met him knew he was not your average spiritual leader. At the pulpit his tremendous oratory skills, both in praise of Judaism and Torah and in the defence of Zionism and the modern State of Israel, provided audiences with a tremendous lift. He also showed an extraordinary sense of humour, prompting many to suggest he should consider a sideline as a standup comedien. In fact, he got rave reviews for his performance in the nationally televised Schmelvis: The Search for the King’s Jewish Roots, a documentary investigating Elvis Presley’s supposed Jewish roots.

From the moment he arrived in Montreal, students turned to him for guidance and leadership. So did the community at large and over the past 21 years he has served in some high ranking leadership positions. He remains a media darling in this city, with the press constantly at his doorstep for what they know will be a catchy soundbite. He has been on more than a dozen March of the Living trips and visited Israel  more than 100 times.

I have known Mindy since she was a teenager and was part of the  same mission to Israel with her about 20 years ago. That just happened to mark her first trip to the Jewish homeland and from that point on her devotion to Judaism grew. In 1987  she established Mindy Shear Makeup Studio with the aim of bringing superior performance and elegance to the daily ritual of make up. After extensive beauty industry training and of her completion of a fine arts degree, she  set out to approach the make up business with an artist’s eye.  Over the years she  has had the opportunity to work with various actors, models, photographers and fashion designers in different countries.  She now has her own line  of makeup products. 

While Rabbi Poupko's five children and  seven grandchildren all live out of town, he now has a new youngster in his life: Mindy's young son Shalev  Shear Yaacov.

"We've known each other for many years as we are both involved in community,"  said Mindy.  "We had a long friendship, but we lost touch for a few years.  About a year ago we ran into each other and went out for dinner to catch up.  Slowly over time, we started spending more time together and our friendship blossomed into a more serious relationship. And the rest is history!"

Good luck to the happy couple!

 

Gazette's Mike Boone Column on Rapper Annakin Slayd

 

Last summer, after watching rapper Annakin Slayd's amazing Expos tribute video, I contacted him and asked whether he would consider doing something similar for the public school system. Read Mike Boone's column, see the Global TV interview and the actual  video below:

Lending some street cred to stay-in-school message
 
 
BY MIKE BOONE, MONTREAL GAZETTE FEBRUARY 15, 2011 9:01 PM
 
 
Annakin Slayd, reluctant messenger, is bringing the message to LaurenHill Academy's junior campus tomorrow.

The hip-hop artist (among other things) - whose medicare card lists his name as Andrew Farrar and his age as 32 - is still trying to get his head around this spokesman thing. He and CJAD newsman Andrew Peplowski will be visiting the high school to promote the public education system, but salesmanship runs counter to hip-hop's street ethos.

"It was a really tricky thing," Farrar says of Go Publique, the video he recorded for the English Montreal School Board. "It could have come off as really hokey - me trying too hard to attach myself to a product. I asked them to assure me it wouldn't be some sort of pamphlet."

It isn't. Go Publique is a bilingual, colourful and very personal endorsement of the role education played in making Farrar who he is. And it's winning a new audience for Annakin Slayd.

"After the school board song," Farrar says. "I'm everybody's mom's favourite rapper."

He is a favourite of Mike Cohen, who handles communications for the EMSB. Like most sports fans, Cohen loved Farrar's hip-hop tributes to the Canadiens (Feels Like '93) and Expos (Remember), and he approached Farrar to do Go Publique.

Farrar was born in St. Léonard, but his family moved to Chomedey when he was 4. Farrar graduated from Dawson College's theatre program and went to New York to pursue an acting career.

As a 21-year-old rookie in the big leagues, he spent two years doing what young actors do: performing in off-Broadway productions, scrambling to pay the rent and hoping no one would notice his lack of a green card.

"Auditions were sparse and I wasn't making any money," he recalls.

"Then I saw a call for hip-hop auditions."

Farrar had grown up with that style of spoken-word music.

"I had friends in Montreal who were into funk," he says. "I'd get on the mike and drop a 16-beat verse, just for fun.

"I figured I was in New York, nobody knew me, I had nothing to lose, so why not take a shot at it?"

Farrar ended up cutting three tracks for "a label that wasn't really a label."

Then he ran out of money, returned to Montreal and began to record some hip-hop sides.

His stage name was inspired by the Wu-Tang Clan, members of which meshed comic book and film character names to create their aliases.

Farrar took his handle from Annakin Skywalker, a character in the Star Wars movies, and Slayd, from "a really obscure comic-book."

"I could have used nicknames like 'MC White-boy' but decided not to," Farrar says.

"I wanted something personal because the sides were reflecting my beliefs."

Eminem has established street cred for white rappers. They still can't pull off the gangsta thing without risking ridicule, but someone like Farrar has something to say. And hip-hop recording and performance (including a recent tour of Europe) are only two components of his multi-disciplinary career.

"My job is the arts," he says. Farrar has many creative irons in the fire, including TV and film writing, theatre and voice work on an animated TV series.

"This is one of the first years when I've made equal money being a writer, an actor and a hip-hop artist," Farrar says. He is quick to credit his girlfriend of seven years for making enough money, as a high-end hair stylist, to keep the household afloat through his lean periods.

The upside to being an Annakin of all trades is mastery of many forms.

"It's easier than it's ever been to dabble in things," Farrar said. "I just shot a movie using an iPhone. It's HD, so the footage is going to look as good as Spielberg's."

Schindler's Contact List? Farrar credits Jean-Michel Simard for shooting and editing the slick Annakin Slayd videos that you can watch on YouTube.

Farrar will tell LaurenHill students about his career and the potential of the online world.

"You can upload videos of things that are more interesting than your cat or your friend falling on the ice," he says. "Everyone can be a star, and we have the technology to further that dream."

mboone@montrealgazette.com

ALSO, please see this interview with Annakin Slayd on Global TV

 

    

 

CSL Resident Sam Kloda meets Harrison Ford

Côte Saint-Luc financial advisor Sam Kloda was recently invited  by the Aero Club of Washington to attend their annual National Aeronautical Association Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy. This year it was presented to actor  Harrison Ford for  engaging the nation's youth in aviation and inspiring tomorrow's leaders, innovators and enthusiasts to secure a strong future for all of aviation.   

Ford, owns and personally flies five different aircrafts. He uses a lot of his time and money to help young people become pilots.  “I met Mr. Ford and took a few photos with him,” Kloda shared with me. “ I spoke to him for a few minutes in Yiddish. He speaks a bit,  but understands more. He is a really  nice guy.

“In 1994 I started working part-time for a US organization in Washington on an aviation problem,” Sam added. “I have a Masters degree in Mathematics.  After I completed the project, I was invited to many parties. Each year I travel to Washington and other US cities to visit friends in aviation and meet new ones. I have been very fortunate to meet famous test pilots, aviation designers, astronauts and  military figures.”

Sam is the brother of prominent event coordinator Harry Kloda.
 

A "small world" story: The Zygielbaum connection from California

Stanley Diamond, the charismatic founder of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal, contacted me with this very interesting story. I will share with you what he wrote.

My daughter Jessika Diamond is moving from Alameda, California to Toronto next week.
 
After 12 years in the Bay Area, Jessika is divesting of anything she does not want to ship, store, mail or bring in her car (she is driving cross-country in January).  Her goal is to throw nothing out – everything is going to charity, recycling, to friends, or out on Freecycle, a mailing list where people post what they are giving away, or what they need.
 
This week, she posted an offer of dozens of file & hanging folders.

A number of people expressed interest, including a young woman at a nearby non-profit.  Since Jessika is partial to non-profit groups (as an event manager, her specialty is large-scale galas & fundraising events for charities), she chose this young lady to receive them.
 
As she was replying, Jessika noticed the young woman's name is Zygielbaum, the same name on the sign in the park across the street from our house on Edgemore (Arthur Zygielbaum)  in Cote Saint-Luc where she grew up.  Her comment to Beth Zygielbaum was “and for a random moment… you have the same last name as the WWII resistance fighter for whom the park across the street from my parents’ place in Montreal is named!” 
 
Beth’s reply was “not random at all to me, he was my great grandfather!! His son, my grandpa was also heavily involved in the resistance in Poland as a leader of a militia living in the forest near Warsaw.  I visited the park with my family as a small child but haven’t been back since then.”

When her family – including the next generation, the 15-month-old great, great-grandson - came to pick up the folders, Jessika took a picture with them.

Go figure, Jessika, daughter of a Dutch Holocaust survivor, growing up spitting distance from this park named for Zygielbaum, meeting the great-granddaughter of that man, in a small city in California, where they both reside.

Pictured: Jessika Diamond (left) and Beth Zygielbaum.
 

CSL resident Ros Schneidman to be honoured

As the longtime national executive vice-president of Emunah Women of Canada, the local branch of the world’s  largest women’s Zionist organization, Roslyn Schneidman knows the importance of an annual gala fundraiser. In fact, one of her main tasks over the years has been to seek out honourees from coast to coast.

It was therefore a bit of role reversal last summer when  Rena Schondorf and  Bayla Aspler entered her Côte Saint-Luc office and  requested that she be the 2010 honouree.

“There was a time when  I convinced both Rena and Bayla to be honourees so they knew I could not refuse them,” Schneidman said. “This basically completed the circle. I may be working for the organization, but Emnuah is really in my blood and I truly only accepted because of where the proceeds will be directed."

The tribute evening in honour of Schneidman and her 33 years with Emunah will take place on Monday evening November 8  at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (6600 Cote de Liesse). Proceeds will go towards   supporting  the expansion of the Orfus-Sinai Dormitory for Teenage Girls at Risk at Neve Michael Children’s Village in Hadara, Israel, located  half way between Tel Aviv and Haifa.

“It is a cause so very close to my heart,” said Schneidman. “Neve Michael is a safe haven for Israeli children at risk whose biological parents can no longer care for them. It provides sustenance, education, and a warm and caring environment to needy children from the ages of  three to 18 years old. Together with the devoted membership of Emunah, we realized the creation of the Canada Pavillion  Crisis Centre for Children at Risk and the David Shock Synagogue at Neve Michael.”

Schneidman estimates that she has been to Israel in her Emunah capacity at least 60 times. “I remember being at the airport in Israel when these teenagers from Ethiopia came off the plane barefoot,” she recalls. “We settled them at Neve Michael and watched them grow. We see them now having served in the army, with families of their own  and as proud Israelis.”

Emunah, notes Schneidman, means faith.   Her granddaughter, Emily Lawrence, recently became a fourth generation Emunah family member when she rallied her classmates at Hebrew  Academy to raise money for Neve Michael. “She did a powerpoint, showed it to her class and brought  in over $400,” said a proud Schneidman.

Schneidman was raised  in Outremont and lived there most of her life until a decade ago when she and husband Leonard sold their home and bought a condo in Ditsrict 2 of  Côte Saint-Luc.  Her first vocation was that of a public school teacher at  the primary level. When she got married and her wedding day fell in September she was told that she could not have the necessary time off. That propelled her into community work for a number of organizations, ultimately leading to her present post at Emunah.

Emunah Women of Montreal has a local membership of 600 active participants. Their 13 chapters meet regulary. Some of the projects supported by Emunah Women in Israel include: day care centers, children’s residential homes, high schools for girls, golden age clubs, Jewish studies groups, family and marital counselling services as well as training volunteers to aid newly-arrived immigrants in adapting to life in Israel. 
 
Now 75 years young, Schneidman realizes that retirement will come sooner than later. “Not just yet,” warns the woman better known as “Mrs. Emnunah.”

For more information about the gala call (514) 485-2397.

I am proud to be her city councillor.

 

Saluting David Taveroff's Milestone

Côte Saint-Luc's  Director of the Parks and Recreation Department, David Taveroff (pictured below),, officiated his 1,000th game in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) on Sunday, October 17 in Verdun. That is a remarkable achievement. It's also quite impressive that he kept track of all those games.

Taveroff  joinied only two other officials at the 1,000-game level. He has been officiating QMJHL games for 28 seasons. His first game was on September 25, 1983. His association with the league led to a career highlight when Taveroff officiated at the World Junior Hockey Championship in Sweden in 1993. He is also the video replay judge for the National Hockey League for half the Canadiens games played in Montreal. 

“People who know me, know how much I love sports in general and hockey in particular,” said Taveroff, who joined the City of Côte Saint-Luc in 2002. “Officiating games across Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and Maine has put a lot of kilomteres on my car, but rewarded me ten-fold with lifelong friends and wonderful memories.” 

Taveroff says officiating has given him invaluable experience in managing people and building consensus. 

“When you’re on the ice with young, strong players, you learn how to defuse situations quickly,” Taveroff said. “Hockey—like life—can be a tough, emotional experience and the job of the official is to make sure everyone feels they were treated fairly.” 

QMJHL teams are based in Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Maine. Many hockey greats have passed through the league en route to National Hockey League, including Mario Lemieux, Luc Robitaille, Patrick Roy, and Sydney Crosby. The Montreal Juniors and the Quebec Ramparts are two of the league’s 18 teams. 

“It’s been a blast watching the development of young players and of hockey in general over the past 28 years,” Taveroff said. “Officiating has allowed me to retain a passion for the sport of hockey and to participate at a high level.”

David certainly has his hands full these days in CSL, as he helps to oversee the construction of our new $18 million Aquatic and Community Centre.

Future Electronics Owner Robert Miller in Bitter Divorce Battle

Billionnaire Robert Miller once played in the Côte Saint-Luc Slo Pitch Association. I was a young scorekeeper at the time and twice, at the end of the season, he gave me his baseball glove. Robert was also a strong supporter of the West Luc Saints hockey organization, which played out of the Samuel Moskovitch Arena in Côte Saint-Luc. His son played on the team. He is best know as the man who created Future Electronics, the model of  a successful corporate entity. I had the occasion to meet his then lovely wife Margaret often.  As you will read here, in a story written by my old journalism school classmate Andrew Mcintosh he is in the midst of a rather bitter divorce.

Log on to http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/07/30/14874151.html.

Human Rights Walkway Ceremony July 1: Issues close to my heart

I am very proud to be co-chairing the July 1 Côte Saint-Luc Human Rights Walkway ceremony with Councillor Glenn J. Nashen. At 5:30 p.m., immediately following a Canadian Citizenship ceremony and preceding the kickoff of Canada Day celebrations at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Park, we  will honour those who spoke out and fought for Jews oppressed in the former Soviet Union, Syria, and Ethiopia.

For Glenn and I, this will be a very special moment. I was the national director of communications for Canadian Jewish Congress for 11 years, from 1988 to 1999. When I arrived the Soviet Jewry movement was making the type of progress nobody ever thought possible.  Canadian Jews, and those in Montreal very specifically, had played a critical and influential role in allowing the ‘prisoners of zion” to leave the former USSR. Glenn and I participated in the emotional Simchat Torah rallies where thousands congregated in Phillips Square (“Turn Phillips  Square into Red Square” was our catch phrase). Together we marched to the Soviet Consultate. Leading the way were a group of Dynamic Women calling themselves the Group of 35 and a polished speaker and advocate in Martin Penn. Marty was employed by the CJC for many years as the staff person for the Soviet Jewry dossier. He would ultimately leave that post and go to rabbinical school, remaining very much involved in the movement.

By the late 1980s, the Soviet-Jewish protest movement had achieved far more than its founders had expected. The large majority of Soviet Jews applying to emigrate were being permitted to do so, and inside the Soviet Union, for the first time since the Communist revolution of 1917, a yeshiva was established. In early 1990, more than ten thousand were leaving Russia monthly. I remember being in Israel on CJC missions where we went to Ben Gurion Airport to welcome the  new Israelis as they stepped off the plane.

We owe a lot to individuals like Martin Penn, who sadly suffered a debilitating stroke more than a decade ago. He lost his greatest gift – the ability to speak. We very much hope Marty will be with us on Canada Day.

In addition to Soviet Jewry, we are focusing on two other movements – Ethiopian and Syrian  Jewry. Glenn and I were preoccupied with these dossiers as well. Myself in the role of a staff person and Glenn as a volunteer and staff person at Federation CJA.

The story of Ethiopian Jews is an interesting one and local lawyer Stan Cytrynbaum was a hero on that front. He will be with us July 1. As for Syrian Jewry, Toronto’s Judy Feld Carr was nothing short of a miracle worker. Why someone has not made a movie of how this Montreal born former music teacher and grandmother of 10 was responsible for the rescue of 3,228 Jews from Syria over 28 years, is  beyond me.
 

We have gone beyond the July 1 ceremony thanks to the talents of Darryl Levine, our director of public affairs and communications. Darryl  has produced a 20-minute mini-documentary called “Human Rights Activists for Oppressed Jews in Foreign Lands.” The video features interviews with Irwin Cotler and Stan Cytrynbaum. Professor Cotler, who today is the Member of Parliament for Mount Royal, discusses his involvement, including serving as the legal counsel for political prisoners in the Soviet Union. Stan provides a personal account of how the first learned about Ethiopian Jews and later helped create a movement in Canada to draw attention to their plight and advocate for their rescue. The video is available at CoteSaintLuc.org. 

I would also like to salute the late Alan Rose, who as executive vice-president of Canadian Jewish Congress played a huge role in this movement. The same goes for Jack Silverstone, who as national executive director of CJC hired me when I was only 25 to assume an important role and schooled me on this issue in very quick order. Jack is now an immigration lawyer in Ottawa and remains a close friend.

 Our mini-documentary is meant to educate young people about these events and to inspire them to join or create human rights movements of their own.  

The Human Rights Walkway was inaugurated in 2000 and is dedicated to men and women who, through their actions, have promoted and defended human rights. This will be the tenth plaque unveiled on the walkway.

“Many of the past honourees have been people who put their lives on the line in many parts of the world,” Councillor Nashen said. “By selecting a movement of people—many of them local—we wanted to highlight the fact anyone, anywhere can help those in need, even from the safety and comfort of our suburban homes in Canada. Professor Cotler, Stan Cytrynbaum, and Judy Feld Carr—an unassuming former music teacher and grandmother of 10 who was responsible for the rescue of 3,228 Jews from Syria over 28 years—are three examples of a movement that helped rescue hundreds of thousands of people.”
The public can learn more about the past honourees at www.CoteSaintLuc.org/en/Walkway.

You can view the documentary below:

Actor Jamie Elman's Breakout Role in Crazy/Sexy/Awkward

Jamie Elman lived on Greenwood Avenue in Côte Saint-Luc for 20 years and attended Jewish People’s and Peretz Schools (JPPS) and Bialik High School in the same municipality.

Now aged 33, but looking much younger, Jamie pursued a career as an actor immediately after graduating from high school. It is a big gamble, with so few individuals actually making it in the business. His first brush with stardom in the business in 1997 when he landed the lead role of  Cody Miller in the YTV/Fox sitcom  Student Bodies. It aired for three seasons, gained a cult following and set the wheels in motion for his move to Hollywood permanently in 2000. He has been one of the lucky ones, landing a number of television and movie roles. Besides appearing in such well known programs as Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, CSI New York, Crossing Jordan, and Mad Men, he won the role of Luke Foley in the NBC drama American Dreams for three seasons (2002-2005). He played the love interest of Brittany Snow, who subsequently went on to star in Hairspray.

In terms of his own favorite TV shows, Elman says he was always partial to Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.  It was therefore the thrill of a lifetime in 2007 when he got called to be a guest star in an episode of Curb. His entire scene was with the show’s star and creator Larry David, also the genius behind Seinfeld. He played a bartender at a party hosted by Ted Danson. David strikes up a conversation and asks him why he is wearing a bow tie.  When Jamie indicates it was Danson’s idea, David tells him he will raise the matter with the host. The back and forth between Elman and David

Here is that scene and a few of his other appearances:

 

 “Curb is completely improvised,” Elman notes. “I auditioned for the role with Larry David himself. They tell you the situation and you come up with the lines. Guest starring in that show was a dream come true.”

It was also an inspiration for Elman’s new project, Crazy/Sexy/Awkward of which he is the star, co-writer and producer. For now, this is a series available exclusively on the internet at  www.crazysexyawkward.com. Set in the singles scene of present-day Los Angeles, each episode is about six minutes long and follows gun-shy romantic Ben (Elman)  as he tries to re-enter the dating game after a year of mourning his last relationship with his first love, Rachel. Joining Ben in his efforts, for better or worse, are Sebastien and Ashley, his hyperactive best friend and alluring neighbour, respectively played by Jewish actors Jason Kaufman and Maité Schwartz Each episode finds Sebastien and Ashley dragging Ben, kicking and screaming, into another opportunity to end his self-imposed celibacy, and follows the humiliating results as Ben pursues women with a single-mindedness that proves time and again to be his downfall.

The show is being   produced and financed by  Atomic Wedgie, the digital comedy production arm of Hollywood giant FremantleMedia, which is behind such top programs as American Idol and The Price is Right. 

Elman and his co-writer Jerome Sable, who like him grew up in Côte Saint-Luc, pitched  the idea to Freemantle and they liked it.  Anyone who watches the webisodes will see the similarity of Elman’s character to David on Curb Your Enthusiasm and George Costanza on Seinfeld.

“The biggest compliment I have received so far is from people who ask if the script is improvised like Curb,” says Elman.  “It is not, at least 90 percent of what we do is scripted.”

Elman says that his friend Sable was pursuing a graduate degree in film from the University of Southern California. When Elman found out Sable’s teacher was Michael Watkins, who directed him in American Dreams, he decided to collaborate on a short film which turned out to be the pilot of Sexy/Crazy/Awkward.

“We pitched  it to Freemantle and they loved it,” Elman said. “We  auditioned for the cast. I never met Jason or Maité before, yet we come across on film as real life best friends. As a crew, we had some of the brightest young minds from USC.”

The episodes were shot a year ago.  Post production took place during the summer while the sound was completed in the fall by Montreal’s Wave  Generation, an outfit which includes Jamie’s brother Michael.

Internet buzz about the show is excellent. It has been screened in Los Angeles and while in Montreal just prior to Passover Elman premiered all six episodes for close friends and family at the Segal Centre of the Arts CineSpace.  Efforts are now been made to have it carried on American and Canadian television and for  to   develop 30 minute episodes.

Elman is keeping busy with other projects. He just filmed a two episode guest spot on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, which will air April 23 and 26. He’ll appear in the big screen soon in The Chicago 8, based on actual court transcripts of eight anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One of his co-stars is David Julian Hirsch, another Montreal born Jewish actor who has done well in Hollywood. Elman will also appear in the sci-fi drama The Scientist.

Bravo Jamie!

CSL Sports Talkshow Host Matthew Ross Shines

From the time it went on the air I have been a huge fan of THE TEAM 990, Montreal’s all-sports radio station. Their programming is excellent. Elliott  Price, Denis Casavant and Shaun Starr are a great wakeup crew. Tony Marinaro is fabulous to listen and knows his hockey better than anybody. Old pro Randy Tieman of CTV Sports has been a solid addition to the regular lineup, but what can we say about Mitch Melnick and his entourage of  Rod Francis, Andie Bennett, Pierre Macguire, Stephen Brunt and a cast of other regulars?

The City of Côte Saint-Luc can take pride in THE TEAM as well. One of our own residents, Matthew Ross, has been hosting the popular Game Points program since the fall of 2004. A marketing and communications professional, Matthew  has been working in media and marketing for over seven years.  Some national  television shows such as TSN’s Off   The Record have recognized his talent and had him as a guest. He has  been published in the National Post and The Montreal Gazette and once reported for The Suburban.  Since March 2008, Matthew has also been operating ContentServicing.com, a content and communications company, providing copywriting, PR and other media and marketing services.

I urge you to listen to Game Points, which airs   Tuesday nights  from 11p.m.  to 1 a.m.  and Sunday nights from  6 p.m.  to  8 p.m. (during Major  League Baseball season).    Matthew brings esteemed analysts from around North America to the listener, offering a different point of view on the same old stories. Plus, get the full gamut of coverage as he takes you through what's going on in all of the major sports (except soccer!). 

Here is a clip from my recent appearance on Game Points. Please right click and press open to hear:

Game Points InterviewRossMarch2010