Category Sports
Exercise in Futility
Don’t forget the reader’s poll I’m conducting this week. Seven easy questions – you can fill it out in a couple of minutes, or maybe even fewer. Click on the link to take part. I think I mentioned at some point that I gave up my season tickets to the Ottawa RedBlacks of the Canadian […]
Working Class Heroes
Today is a holiday in Canada and the United States: Labor Day. The day is set as ide as a tribute to organized labor. Call it the North American equivalent of May 1. That May 1 holiday, known as International Workers Day is a much bigger thing in Europe. North Americans give very little though […]
Dribbling
I’ll admit it. I was entertained despite myself. I don’t watch basketball on television. Or in person for that matter. Haven’t since the 1970s. The sport has always struck me as a good way for football players to keep in shape. The actual games are rather silly – they are almost always decided in the […]
Relegation
It seems more civilized somehow, but I can’t see it going over in North America. Our sports system is different. I went to a football (soccer) game in London. I figured while I was in the UK I should take in a Premier League game, arguably the best in the world. Many of the team […]
The Dream Dies…Again
In 1993 the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup, the ultimate prize in professional hockey. No Canadian team has won it since. The Cup, donated by the Governor General of Canada more than a century ago to the best team in hockey, is a very Canadian thing. For decades only Canadian teams were eligible to […]
The Boys of Summer Return
When you are a young athlete you dream of the big time, what in baseball they refer to as The Show. For members of the Ottawa Titans, this is a season of hope. The Titans play in the Frontier League. It isn’t quite the bottom of the baseball ladder, but there are a lot of […]
Best Laid Plans
I delayed posting today because I wanted to be the first with post-series analysis as the Toronto Maple Leafs were swept by the Florida Panthers in their NHL playoff series. I was just waiting for the game to end before sharing my thoughts. Now my carefully thought out analysis is worthless as the Leafs managed […]
Was It A Wise Choice?
I remember the day as if it was yesterday. My friend Ian, who lived down the street, called. His family was going to the Expo ’67 World’s Fair. Did I want to join them? It was May 2, and the fair had opened just four days previously, so while I had a season passport I […]
Shattered Dreams
Like most sports fans, at times my head and my heart are at war with each other. Never has that been more obvious than during the World Cup this year. Canada qualified for the tournament for the first time in 36 years. We finished first in our qualifying division, ahead of the US and Mexico, […]
The Goal
It was a moment that defined a generation. Any Canadian my age, and many much younger, can tell you exactly where they were 50 years ago today, the afternoon Paul Henderson scored the goal. Americans my age know where they were when they heard about the assasination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. For a previous […]
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