Posts Tagged: Sports, Games and Competitions
Budget Watch 2008: How Grit-like Can A Tory Be?
Posted by on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 in - 5 comments
This is a big day. If the Federal Conservative Party can actually convince the nation through today's budget that they are better at rolling out the Liberal agenda, they may win the election that the Liberals may force by voting against the budget. It will be interesting to see if the tiny and …
Your Friday Bullets For Cabin Fever Weekend
Posted by on Friday, February 22, 2008 in - 9 comments
This weekend needs it's own name - the last weekend of February when there's still a crud-dispensing storm or two floating across the continent just those jerks in grade six holding you down giving you a cherry belly. Cabin Fever Weekend. What to do? Wash the car in your shorts despite the sleet …
Get Prepared to Bid Golf Adieu
Posted by on Thursday, February 21, 2008 in - 10 comments
You could see this coming years ago. As boomers go, so goes golf. Being dedicated to golf is sorta like eating ham salad sandwiches in a public setting other than a church hall - just something you don't see anyone much under 45 taking on in a big way any more. Why? • “The men gathered in a new …
Friday Bullets For The Humpday Of February
Posted by on Friday, February 15, 2008 in - 6 comments
Doesn't February cling on this year, demanding one 24 more hours before we get to the month of hope? Well, February is half over as of noon today. I hate February. I really don't know why particularly as there never were exams or a rush to get a paper out. Never a particular drain on the budget or …
A Bad Day For Roger And For Baseball
Posted by on Thursday, February 14, 2008 in - 4 comments
Three faces of angry • What a gorgeous photo atop The New York Times's report on the Clemens testimony before Congress yesterday. The night's sports talk radio was hot with the response of fans as to the treatment one of the greatest of all time received as well as the treatment one of the …
Things Getting Grim For Morton
Posted by on Monday, February 11, 2008 in - leave a comment
Sad Cappielow tidings from Saturday: • “Two injury-time goals saw Clyde leapfrog Morton and the home side drop into the relegation play-off place. The Greenock side looked on course for a valuable victory after Chris Millar's deflected shot gave them the lead. However, Clyde substitute Ruari …
The Super Dooperest Bowl Of All!
Posted by on Monday, February 4, 2008 in - 6 comments
First, I have to admit that the situation is no unlike that song by the Smiths, "Girlfriend in a Coma", in which I always took (perhaps wrongly) a guy who has just started dating a girl, kinda likes her but that's it, faces the fact that she is in a coma after an accident and is sort of a jerk. I …
The Game Of Measured Expectations
Posted by on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in - 3 comments
Why isn't it called The Supreme Bowl? You know: good, better, best? Good, superior, supreme? The hedged their bets that something else better could still come along, I suppose. Maybe today will prove that point, given that New England could smoke the Giants and make a snoozer of this one, leaving …
First Friday Bullets Of February
Posted by on Friday, February 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
All my life I had been looking forward to January 2008 and now it's gone: • Dirt coming. • The Hall of Fame Game at Cooperstown was announced this week and it will be the last. Here's what it looked like in 2006. • Google's losing ad money and Yahoo's about to be bought out. It's over. Back …
The Last Friday Bullets Before February
Posted by on Friday, January 25, 2008 in - 17 comments
Janufeb. The grey blur before the melt, made more grey those three out of four years without Olympic curling. It is the time when the Morton teeters, when show turns that other colour. We've seen the dark edge of the storm and even had double lake effect this week. I heard an ad for large screen …
