I know that a statistical comparison of Chris Osgood and Dominik Hasek — at least so far this season — comes up overwhelmingly in Osgood’s favour.
I know — from watching as many Red Wings games as possible on the NHL Network, the odd TSN telecast and an occasional last-night, West coast game on CBC — [...]
(Preface: This is long. But worth reading, he said humbly.)
You could, if you so desired, dig through the archives of this blog, and other blogs and opinion pieces I’ve written, and find dozens of knocks on the American political system. From detailed rants to throwaway insults, I’ve thrown more than my share of darts at [...]
It’s a well-known fact that I can’t dance. Well, okay, I can dance, just awkwardly, drunkenly, shamefully or Caucasian-ly. Or all four at once.
But … can Bill Clinton dance? (Remember, this is the man that Toni Morrison said was “our first black president, blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in [...]
Just as every race has a winner, every race also has the fat kid, huffing and puffing, chest stuck out defiantly, imploring people not to pack up and go home before he can drag himself across the finish line. The race to the White House is no different. It’s just as sad to watch, and [...]
We hear a lot about the underfunded education system, both here and in the United States. We hear about a lack of teachers, old and outdated textbooks, no money for special needs education, cutbacks in fine arts classes and book shortages so extreme that in some schools children are not allowed to take their books [...]
Where else in the Wide World of Sports would you find a team expressing open interest in a former General Manager who left the scene after nearly running the franchise into the ground, moved to another hockey market and General Managed a second team through years of less-than-mediocrity and was then fired the year before [...]