Category Sports
How To Win Fans
Times have changed. No longer can visiting musicians woo Canadians by praising the Prime Minister. That is so 2015. Maybe the Rolling Stones are just out of touch with Canadian society. No shame in that, given that they don’t live here. And I guess the fans don’t care who the band likes. But I’ll bet […]
The Dream Lives On
If you are a Canadian you’ve been there before, though possibly only in your dreams. The Stanley Cup finals. Game seven. One game to prove who is the best in the hockey universe. For most of us that is a memory from our childhood. When we played road hockey, as pretty much every Canadian kid […]
Super Bowl 2024
Unlike millions of people, I don’t care about the Super Bowl, the American football championship, which starts a few minutes after this will be posted. I don’t follow the league. I don’t care who is playing the half-time show. The ads, which are so hyped, are now all available online – there is no need […]
Game On!
I’m typing this while watching the Grey Cup, Canada’s football championship, on television. No Roman numerals needed for this one. In the US, the Super Bowl is a big deal. Arguably more for the size of the television audience and the commercials aired during the broadcast than for the game. I may not be an […]
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 […]
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