I guess — much like me and blogging, he said humbly, the great ones can only goof off for so long.
Considering hockey is supposedly a winter sport, the idea of a team hibernating like fucking bears for four months, only to emerge when the snow begins to melt, seems pretty antithetical. It is, however, exactly [...]
(Yeah, it’s been a while. But the season only really began a week or two ago, so sue me.)
Tonight — about six weeks after pundits began to say that we’ll see what the Detroit Red Wings are truly made of — we’ll get to see what the Detroit Red Wings are truly made of.
I said, [...]
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 [...]
A few days after Michael Vick showed everyone that you can pretty much do everything short of actually killing people and still deserve a second chance, a couple of former sports heroes decided to follow his lead.
First, Brett Favre, who never did anything illegal, is apparently ready to join the Minnesota Vikings. While Favre may [...]