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Winning...tour style
May 15, 2012 / 5:00 am
“I love playing the game of golf. I have fun doing it. I am a golf junkie.” In case you have cause to believe that this is some ridiculous sports psychologist pre-round, locker-room, anger management, 18-Hole affirmation to be hummed prior to your 2nd Round C-Flight Match-play...
The more things change...
May 1, 2012 / 5:00 am
For the briefest of fleeting moments – read, before the playoffs started – pundits and hockey fans on both sides of the border were noticeably drooling over the possibility of Rangers/Devils, Bruins/Flyers or Penguins, Canucks/Blackhawks, Blues/Red Wings as potential 2nd Round...
Let the fallout begin
Apr 24, 2012 / 5:00 am
Suffice to say, I did not expect us to be having this conversation in April, a mere 5 games or 2 endlessly dreary self-important Coldplay concerts into the NHL post-season, as the Canucks bowed out with grace, dignity and a series of say-the-right-thing Sedin interviews which will no doubt leave...
Down goes Frazier
Apr 17, 2012 / 5:00 am
With a nod to the late, great, incomparable Howard Cosell when Smokin’ Joe hit the canvas in the first round against George Foreman, the NHL playoffs have begun and Stanley’s favorites are getting pounded into the ice and off the scoreboard like Frazier on that fateful day in 1973 in...
Bubba Golf
Apr 10, 2012 / 5:00 am
The 10th Hole at Augusta National Golf Club on the second Sunday in April is, according to the legends, where the Masters begins. This extra-ordinary Sunday, it was also where the 2012 Masters ended amidst a small southern squall of tears as a man named Bubba became the 5th lefty Champion of the...
Canada's playoff bug
Apr 3, 2012 / 5:00 am
It is that time of year again Sports Fans! We are a week away from the annual beauty and pageantry of the Masters, Norwegian curling pants are in full bloom at the World championships in Switzerland and the Toronto Maple Leafs players and Fans alike are Googling which Ontario golf courses are...
Was there ever any doubt?
Mar 27, 2012 / 5:00 am
It was 2 years, 6 months and 12 days between victories on the PGA Tour for He Who Once Was Eldrick. It has been a tumultuous time of personal upheaval, of professional re-evaluation and restructuring and for a man whose addiction to perfection, to fitness and to winning on the links of the world...
Peyton's Place: A Reality Show
Mar 20, 2012 / 5:00 am
Remember we talked last week about Peyton’s Place and how by this weekend the world’s most eligible Unrestricted Free Agent would have been on his last 6 hour date/throwing session and after much pondering and hyperbole would have chosen which NFL franchise was to receive his...
A QB Russian Roulette wheel
Mar 13, 2012 / 9:00 am
It’s the second Sunday in March, 2012. Glenn Howard is sucking double doubles out of another Tim Hortons Brier Tankard, Tiger Woods is enduring a white Bronco-style aerial chase away from Doral post-injury withdrawal, the Canucks, Leafs and Bruins are all enjoying end-of-season naps and we...
New kid in town
Mar 6, 2012 / 5:00 am
It is possible, assuming you were taking advantage of a beautiful spring-like day in the Okanagan and polishing up the Callaways with thoughts of threatening range balls with your pent-up winter golf anger, that you may have missed Sundays coronation of a new World Golf #1 – that 22-year...
It's a show about nothing
Feb 28, 2012 / 5:00 am
Similar to the final episode of the vaunted “Seinfeld”, we have waited far too long to get to the NHL trade deadline day only to be dreadfully disappointed by a complete lack of any kind of sustainable plot-line. While we often cheered Jerry’s hijinks for 22 running minutes of...
FIGJAM and Tiger's Toast
Feb 14, 2012 / 5:00 am
Late Saturday afternoon as the sun was tucking itself into bed beyond the crashing waves of the Monterrey Peninsula, golf insiders were having a quiet giggle to themselves over a 19th Hole double Balvenie and social media was lighting up like the Rockefeller “Don’t Call It...
The ups & down unders of the week
Jan 31, 2012 / 5:00 am
This week is best described as a whirlwind of sports emotionality, the veritable highs and lows and shifting sands of public opinion displayed daily like a U.S. Republican race, which despite Stephen Colbert’s best efforts is sadly still missing the Pizza Godfather, politico-Casanova,...
Where in the world is David Tyree?
Jan 24, 2012 / 5:00 am
It seems as though I have once more forgotten to check the settings on the DeLorean because unbeknownst to me yesterday’s Conference Championship games have landed me smack dab back in 2007/2008, forced as I will be in two weeks time, to watch “Eli/Brady 2 – The...
Phony Tebowmania's Bitten the Dust
Jan 17, 2012 / 10:10 am
Photo: Contributed Okay, let’s get this out of the way quickly. If you have ever used the phrase “comic genius” when referring to the career of Jimmy Fallon pre, during or post-SNL then I suggest that now would be the best time to...
The best laid plans
Jan 10, 2012 / 5:00 am
My apologies to the great Robert Burns for the paraphrasing of the immortal line “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men” but once Sidney Sheldon has bastardized your work, I think everything else is fair game - he and Aaron Spelling most likely named a...
What better way to finish
Dec 20, 2011 / 5:00 am
While I compose my “Best of 2011” list for our next visit together on January 10th, it occurs to me that I have to prepare for the advent of the Year of the Dragon with one final rant, one worthy of ending a triumphant year in sports and on a personal note for yours truly....
He of the Golden Goal
Dec 13, 2011 / 5:00 am
I awoke this Monday morning to get the official news that Sidney Crosby, He of the Golden Goal is once more sidelined indefinitely for the Pittsburgh Penguins with concussion-like symptoms. His timetable for a return to the ice is unknown although he is most definitely out of the...
#Tiger, #Tebow and #Twitter
Dec 6, 2011 / 11:00 am
#Let's talk about phenoms. Some people just don't know how to stay out of the news or simply have the force of character, the skill-sets and mindset which do not allow them to live in the grey area outside of the public consciousness. This weekend showcased two such men - one who has...
Lookin’ good BC, lookin’ good
Nov 29, 2011 / 5:00 am
This, it has to be said, was another tremendous week to be from BC. It was also, as is the case with yours truly, a tremendous week to be transplanted to BC because I’ve got to tell you, as a Sports Fan – BC just flat out got it right this week. As much as I am sad that I can no...
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