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 … read more »

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 …

CBC.ca says "according to the newspaper report, Roy's house in Littleton, Colorado has been for sale for the past couple of months.  Jacques Demers says he packing it in.  If so, it is the end of something that should be noted.  •  I have never liked the Habs, mainly due to living through the … read more »