You may have noticed I am not camping in New York or attending Bread Day at the state fair. Colds have struck. So I am rummaging.  •  The gent to the left is Andy Blair who in June '29 was enjoying his first summer as a NHL player after finishing his rookie year with the Leafs. My grannie-in-law …

Mike is at it again. Posting about things I wished I had thought of. His post about playground games reminds me of stickball.  •  This was played in one field in Kingston, Nova Scotia in the early-70's behind Jeff Bond's and Tony Smith's houses. We were taught the rules by older kids who drifted …

All his kids recovering from the blackout of 2003 blackouts.  Only grandkids 1500 km to his west.  Behind my mother's voice on the phone, Dad can be heard shouting out his only real concern: "Who are they playing?"  •  Stenhousemuir, as it turns out, where they, the mighty Greenock Morton, won 2-0 …

I was checking and here are last year's results from the 2002 Beach to Beacon race:  •  Place: 3954  •  Name: ALAN MCLEOD  •  Home Town: HUNTER RIVER, PC  •  Nationality: CANADA  •  Division: Male (35-39)  •  Time: 1:19:24  •  Place In Div.: 336  •  # In Div.: 343  •  Net Time: 1:15:56  •  While …

In my continual series of confessionals, I have to admit I watched an entire CFL game last night. After years of training us to watch Hockey Night in Canada, the CBC has realized that Saturday night in the summer can be a sports night, too. About time.  •  The game was at the recently expanded …

Somewhere Charlie Hunter, Rhodes scholar and my high school soccer coach - the man who told me of a player on the other side "I don't want to see him in the second half" - is whooping it up on this news.  •  Instant Update: There he be.

On the road writing from the Owen Sound Library here on the shores of Georgian Bay. Not as grand a trip as this or this but you do what you can.  •  It's grannie-in-law's 87 and, as she has been a mad hockey fan since before she attended the opening night of Maple Leaf Gardens, it is a good time …

Sports analogies are like...well, you know.  •  Most often now the point of sports analogies spewing out of "SportsCentre" talking heads is to challenge you the viewer to keep up with the story you are actually being told. Images of war, politics, family relations are all employed. Watching the …

I guess I have been sidetracked for a few days. My dad's hometown team - Greenock Morton Football Club - won the big game yesterday. This morning after, I feel a level of relief that surprises me - I didn't realize I got so caught up.  •  I suppose making phone calls to strangers in the …