Are you watching? Good. Because this is me, not panicking six games into the 2009/10 hockey season.
See? I’m breathing deeply, sleeping well and eating full, balanced meals. I’m drinking delicious Canadian beer in reasonable quantities and am not under any circumstances swigging straight from the bottle of American whiskey and cursing at my television set [...]
Apparently, athletes wearing red are more likely to succeed. It’s all psychological.
Experts believe that red could make individuals and teams feel more confident as well as being perceived by others as more aggressive and dominant.
No kidding. Could that be because red is an ass-kicking colour? The colour of blood, and flame and [...]
English soccer fans rioted yesterday.
People’s faces were messed up, hundreds of beer bottles were broken and crooked, yellowing teeth littered the ground. None of these things had anything to do with the soccer riot. That’s just London on a Tuesday.
I could write, were I so inclined, about the emotional intensity of “big” games, and how [...]
That’s the closest I can come to summing up why the Red Wings are consistently able to get more from players than other organizations.
I’m not just talking about the reclamation projects, though that’s the impetus for this post, but about roughly 75% of the team.
When speaking of successful organizations, obnoxious pundits — yours truly included [...]
Sarah Palin is dead. Politically speaking, anyway. And I am sad.
But not too sad. Because I refuse to believe she will ever really go away. Whenever the wind whispers the word abortion in a pregnant teenager’s ear, Sarah Palin will be there to Fight For Life. Wherever presidential candidates are palling around with terrorists, Sarah [...]
(Trust me, it fits.)
No. 821 on the list of Sports Media Cliches can be phrased in several different ways. There’s no substitute for experience. You have to learn how to lose before you learn how to win. Never underestimate the will of a champion. Until somebody knocks you off, you’re still the champ.
Etcetera, etcetera. But [...]