By my own city nonetheless. This is just so … Toronto of us.
Hey, look. It’s a family having fun. Good times. Summer days. A city that, while probably suffering from a Smog warning, still has plenty of summertime activities to enjoy.
What problems could the City of Toronto have with a photograph that displays exactly that [...]
Soon we will return to juvenile rants about why the Detroit Red Wings are God’s gift to hockey. And whooo boy, they sure look the part these days.
It is, after all, springtime, and this is what we do every Spring.
But first, I read something today that helped clarify an idea I’d been wrestling with — [...]
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Yeah … this is an essay about JRR Tolkien, the hero’s journey and how it applies to flameouts in [...]
(I just wanted to share the video)
Aaron Downey is a hockey player — a tough guy from the prairies who has carved out a career for himself in the NHL by being more than willing to fight anyone.
Sometimes it works out well for him.
Sometimes it really doesn’t.
But that’s not why I love Aaron Downey — [...]
In our ceaseless quest to forcibly inject literature and poetry into the realm of professional sports, we are returning to the poignant haiku and the always-amusing limerick as a means of eloquently and succinctly previewing the coming season for every NHL team.
After all, if you can’t sum up a team’s potential in 17 syllables or [...]
It’s not easy, sometimes, being a Red Wings fan.
Okay, I’m lying. A lot of the time it’s easy as hell; I get to watch elite players share the puck and play keepaway from lesser teams, the best management and scouting in North American sports continually drafts and develops all-stars, the finest captain in hockey history [...]