Entries Tagged as 'Some non-sports stuff coming soon I promise'

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

The Return Of Hank The Tank

The above image can also be found in your favourite dictionary of popular phrases, directly beside the entry for ‘game face’.
As for last night’s Wings/Coyotes game, I have a few thoughts beyond the instinctual ‘holy-fucking-shit-yes’s and ‘ohmygodpleasedon’tscore’s that were the only possible reactions at the time to what was, to paraphrase a fictional old gay [...]

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The season begins tonight

(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, [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

No one on the corner has swagger like us…

(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 [...]

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Out.Coached.

I know what you may be thinking but — despite the title in the header of this blog — this is not a website dedicated to the Chicago Blackhawks Game 4 performance.
In fact, one of the reasons we named the blog ‘Dirty Games’ is so that we could call that sort of cheap, thuggish and [...]