Category Sports
Dollars and Sense
Sports salaries have long passed any relation to reality, but baseball seems to be taking things to new heights. I don’t begrudge the exorbitant earnings of athletes. The worker is, after all, worthy of his hire. Professional athletes in a capitalist system may be well paid – but they would not get that money if […]
Grey Cup 2015
Today is the big day for Canadian football fans, the annual Grey Cup championship game. Unlike our cousins to the south, we don’t get all fancy and use Roman numerals to describe the game. We don’t need to add artificial gravitas to it – our trophy has been around for more than a century, something […]
Canadian Tradition
The boards have been up for a month now. Still no snow on the ground, but everyone knows it is coming. The city can’t wait for the cold weather to put up the skating rink boards in the local park. There are so many parks, they have to start early. This being Canada, a skating […]
Arena Security
My initial reaction was: who do they think they’re kidding? I received an email from the folks at the Canadian Tire Centre (formerly Scotiabank Place, formerly the Corel Centre and formerly the Palladium – the stadium name changes frequently) with news that their security policy has been upgraded “to provide our fans with the safest […]
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
There are very few things more boring than watching baseball on television. I don’t remember when I last bothered to watch a game. It is about as interesting as watching paint dry. On the other hand, I love live baseball. There is something special about taking in a game on a hot summer afternoon, or […]
Watching the World Cup II – The Women’s Game
FIFA, the international soccer body, has taken a big hit lately. Corruption, rumored for years, has come home to roost – 14 FIFA executives have been arrested recently and the news seems pretty bad. Except in Canada, where the Women’s World Cup kicked off this week. No charges of corruption or bribery in the awarding […]
Sunday Morning in Bucharest
I am away until the end of May. Until I get back I am re-posting some favourites so you don’t miss me too much. It is an island of English in a sea of Romanian and was completely unexpected. I was raised in a family where the expectation was that everyone would attend church on […]
The Blown Call
The Ottawa Senators unlikely hockey playoff run ended last night. In the end the team was not beaten by their on-ice opponents, the Montreal Canadiens, but by an officiating mistake. I pity the referee whose early whistle cost the Senators the tying goal. By losing sight of the puck he, in theory, could have cost […]
Jumping On The Bandwagon
The National Hockey League playoffs start tonight, and the Ottawa Senators will be squaring off against the Montreal Canadiens. Does anyone care? Apparently millions of people do. Montreal has always been hockey mad, and the Canadiens are the league’s most storied franchise, an obsession throughout the province of Quebec. The Senators don’t have the same […]
The Offer
According to the fine print of the email I received yesterday: “This offer does not include a 6” Subway sandwich.” Which has me confused. I’m on the mailing list for the Ottawa Senators hockey club, and yesterday’s discount ticket offer had that message, indicated by an asterisk beside the ticket price. The Senators have been […]
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