In June of last year, I wrote this tribute to Christine Sinclair, Canada’s greatest ever soccer player of either gender. I think, in light of her Olympian performance, it deserves a repeat. Oh, and ignore my thoughts that Canada should go a long way in the Women’s World Cup… didn’t happen. I know I’m opening […]
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Well, here we are at the end of another arbitrary span of 365 days that we call a year. And what a year it was! Things happened! Famous people died! Future famous people were born (how come nobody talks about that?)! Movies and TV shows were produced, some of them good, and some of them […]
When I first heard that the Edmonton Eskimos had traded quarterback Ricky Ray to the Toronto Argonauts for quarterback Steven Jyles, my first thought was: “Is Eric Tillman crazy?” Turns out, he’s not crazy. He’s courageous. Just ask him. “Ultimately, though, you have to have the courage to do what you believe is right,” the […]
The Canadian Football League, the plucky little collective that has survived almost in spite of itself since 1958, is about to enter its post-season. It’s my favourite three sporting weekends of the year, culminating in the 99th Grey Cup (or, to put it in terms Americans would understand, Grey Cup XCIV). I love good ol’ […]
Maybe this is rude, but it has to be asked … are CFL quarterbacks stupid? OK, yes, that was rude. And I certainly don’t mean to question the intelligence of all CFL QBs. But in two separate games I watched on the weekend, I saw a couple of plays that made me question the collective […]
If Edmonton Northlands had a Facebook page, I’d be tempted to click on that ‘like’ button. I haven’t always been a fan of the not-for-profit ‘agricultural society’. It has always been an old boys’ club, and far too cozy with the PC elite. Over the years, Northlands has received hundreds of millions of dollars of […]
This past weekend, I did something I haven’t done in a long time. No, it wasn’t changing my socks and/or underwear. Although, in my current state of employment (which would be ‘un’), the daily ritual of clean socks/briefs seems less and less important. No, I went to the horse races at Northlands. I went because […]
I know I’m opening myself up for criticism, but women’s team sports, as a rule, sucks. With the exception of Olympic hockey – in other words, Canada vs. U.S. – women’s hockey sucks. A reasonably talented group of junior B boys can beat women’s teams nine times out of ten. Same goes for soccer. The […]
So there I was last night, watching Boston humiliate Vancouver, with a great big smile on my face. From time to time, CBC would show pictures of an enormous, ‘Victory in Europe’ size crowd watching the game on big screens outside. “Hmmm,” I thought to myself. “This isn’t going to turn out well.” Win or […]
With a Canadian team poised to win the Stanley Cup, I feel it is incumbent upon me to comment on their joyous occasion. Except, I can’t. I’ve been told by my sons and approximately 187,253 online comments that the Vancouver Canucks are the most despicable group of thugs, Neanderthals, foreigners and cheats since the Philadelphia […]
