A Sports Fan Speaks
Let's get it on
As any comedian, MLB pitcher or obstetrician will tell you – “It’s all in the delivery”, so our title today, Sports Fans, needs to be...
The World of Golf ...This Weekend
It would be really easy for me to dial in one more NFL week especially in lieu of yesterday’s Patriots loss to the Bills, another Vikings second half...
Week 2: Let’s Talk Playoffs!
On a day when the Indianapolis Colts managed to look only slightly less worse than last week’s debacle against Houston, I urge you to take the time to...
Are You Ready For Football?
I wanted to open this column with some unique outlook about Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. I thought I might have some words to make sense of that horrific day...
Anyone for tennis?
Now that New York City has kicked Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene to the curb through a massive undertaking of preparedness and sheer NY will and...
Burning Bridges
Did anyone catch the Regina screening this week of “Forgetting Greg Marshall”? The movie itself seemed to run for eight, long, entirely...
Lists - I hate lists
Safe to say, I spend a lot of time reading sports writers from all walks of life, scroll through endless channels of late-night sports viewing, and troll...
Guess Who's Back?
Last Thursday saw the return to the links of golf’s morally Slim and Shady, dragging the eager paparazzi to Akron, Ohio for the WGC Bridgestone...
A Worthy Week
It has once more been a brilliant week of unsportsworthy discussion amongst Sports Fans, low-lighted by another non-Canadian victory at the Canadian Open at...
Heard of the Chubby Slam?
You would be wrong if you were to assume that this was the latest grease-filled, over-egged, pseudo-meat offering for the late night reveler offered at your...
Play ball
Perhaps this week’s column needs a reading of “Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in 1888” as a beginning in order to celebrate...
Three up, three down
We continue to move further into the depth of the Dead Zone. The NBA has officially joined the NFL on strike or lockout, depending on your stance, and unlike...
The Dead Zone
Wow… welcome to the Dead Zone Sports Fans! No, not the 1983 Christopher Walken classic film adaptation of the Stephen King novel or the lesser known TV...
Apologies are like opinions
How many Sports Fans are at present, on a pleasant Tuesday morning, with cup o’ joe in hand and a plate full of bacon and eggs, anxiously awaiting a...
Timing is everything
As I sit here late Sunday evening, June 12th, I realize that I have become a victim of my own careful planning. A Monday noon deadline allows me to organize my...
In a perfect world
In a perfect world, a self admitted BC resident Boston Bruin fan might not be readying himself for the concession speech after only two games of Stanley’s...
Behind enemy lines
I thought for a pleasant change, Sports Fans, we might take a break from our usual routine and spend this time reviewing a slightly above average movie from...
Sports & the weekend that wasn't
Generally, it is safe to say that when the weekend winds down and Monday rolls around one more time, I have endured a hefty amount of sports viewing. I...
Golf Loses a Legend
At 2:10 p.m. local time on Saturday, May 7th, the world of golf lost Severiano ‘Seve’ Ballesteros to a battle with brain cancer. On Sunday, as the...
Mid-March To Stanley, in May
Before the 2011 NHL playoffs began, TSN happily declared that the finals would be decided between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins. Well, in truth it...