Locked. In.

You can see it in their eyes.
It’s the best part about watching sports. Or watching politics. Sometimes — and it is rare enough that it should be treasured — a person who makes their living in the public eye goes to a place where they are simply beyond the competition. Other people do it, too [...]

Why Aaron Downey is awesome

(I just wanted to share the video)
Aaron Downey is a hockey player — a tough guy from the prairies who has carved out a career for himself in the NHL by being more than willing to fight anyone.
Sometimes it works out well for him.
Sometimes it really doesn’t.
But that’s not why I love Aaron Downey — [...]

Hockey poetry season preview: Southeast division

In our ceaseless quest to forcibly inject literature and poetry into the realm of professional sports, we are returning to the poignant haiku and the always-amusing limerick as a means of eloquently and succinctly previewing the coming season for every NHL team.
After all, if you can’t sum up a team’s potential in 17 syllables or [...]

Everything you need to know about American politics and voters

Alternate title: The reason we’re going to start writing about hockey and basketball tomorrow.
From the Washington Post this morning:

In the Washington Post/ABC News poll released this week, 48 percent of respondents said the candidates’ positions on issues are their main concern, compared with 37 percent who said they place greater weight on personal qualities such [...]

Barack Obama is finished

You know what? If Barack Obama honestly believes this, then he’s finished. Done. Cooked. Hopeless. Expired.
And in some of his strongest language yet, Obama suggested that, in its new ad, the McCain-Palin ticket was simply trying to “make stuff up.”
“You can’t just recreate yourself,” said the Democratic nominee. “You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American [...]

Lipstick Pitbull, meet Hillary Clinton.

Hey, McCain campaign. You guys wanna talk sexism?
I’m pretty sure that’s a discussion Hillary Clinton is itching to have with you. Her and a few other notable female politicians.
The conventions are over, and now this election is about to get gully. Barack Obama is going to keep himself above the flailing, let loose the Hilldogs [...]

You can’t stop Sarah Palin …

… you can only hope to contain her.
This whole thing has now become a lolection.
I should quit the posts completely and devote my time to captioning pictures of Sarah Palin with “I can has veep nao?” and the like.
I could have spent the entire day at my computer, writing a new post every time I [...]

Political Quotables

I’m not going to be snarky, angry, disgusted, repulsed, horrified, sarcastic, wryly amused or even righteously indignant about the American election today.
It’s more effective (and so much fun!) to simply dig through massive amounts of news stories, blogs and political analysis in order to find a bunch of quotes that have gone public in the [...]

OMG! Babymama drama!

I love it.
Now that I’ve taken a few deep breaths … now that I am no longer so quick to become scornful and condescending over how ridiculously superficial American politics can be when the Fate Of The Whole Wide World is hanging in the balance … now that I’ve realized that Canadians won’t ever allow [...]