When I was in high school, my father's hometown team placed Celtic, they played Rangers - they were in the Scottish top league. Once in a blue moon in the 1970s, you could catch - on the BBC World Service, coming in on the organic flow of shortwave radio at some crazy frequency like 15220 (the …

Already, we hit the third edition of the Monday Morning Quarterback. I'm not that sure the theme has holding power but at least it gives some meaning, however meager, to my half-hearted obsession with sports.  •  The confusion within the Blue Jays has already hit a new level of panic even though …

Because it's my birthday! Imagine - me, forty-five. Boy am I old. So old I bought black Doc Marten boots yesterday which I now consider my first mid-life crisis purchase. And it's gonna be sunny and warm today plus through the weekend. And it's Friday. And portland's showing for the weekend. And …

Not just TV, but I listen to the radio, too. I listened to golf on the radio at about 7 pm yesterday. 620 AM out of Syracuse had the end of the Masters going. Golf on the radio is hard to follow. Apparently there is a tradition and a guy playing lounge piano involved.  •  A guy from South Africa …

Rain is one of the shocks of spring. When the last snows pass you think that is it, worst is over...and then you get flooding rains and lashing winds and making snow angels suddenly don't look all that bad. Garden report: onions survived the winter and are already up as are the chives. There is …

I really should just make this a sports blog. After all, it's easy and is Harper really all that bad? Compared to him the evil that are the teams I dislike is to utterly diabolical, how can I take my attention off them? And these are evil times:  •  Yikes! But lets consider a few things. Toronto …

Boo hoo. Boo hoodly hoo. Sooner or later the International Olympic Committee is going to learn that no one thinks much of them and their embrace of totalitarianism. But this is just funny:  •  “The IOC will consider scrapping the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay as a result of …

A taunt. All it takes is a taunt. Looking for meaning with a blog that is approaching five years of its troubled existence, a glimmer of hope and purpose shows up in a 27th comment:  •  “  •  Temujin [12:19 AM April 7, 2008]  •  http://hockey-madness.blogspot.com  •  How about a special Monday …

Aside from the likelihood that we'll be watching the athletes though heat sensing camera due to all that smog, realizing how disassociated freedom and Olympianism are is a bit stunning:  •  “Rule 51 of the Olympic charter, the constitution of the Olympic movement, forbids athletes from …