Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
A solid trouncing
My poor Hurricanes. They truly can’t decide whether to win or lose. After shellacking the best team (admittedly without their top goalie) in the NHL they lose to the worst team in the league. They follow that up by getting shut out by the Penguins. Tough space. We were there on New Year’s Eve watching our [...]
Laraque, ever the gentleman
Georges Laraque, one of the most renowned enforcers in the NHL, provides some fascinating insight into an often misunderstood part of the game of hockey. Simply classic.
It puts on the skates and skates in circles
First post in 2 months and I come off sounding like Keith Olbermann. (Aside: since when did this sportscaster become some kind of hopped up liberal newsguy?) There’s simply been a confluence of events culminating with that bill passing that had to come flying out, so I guess if that’s what it takes to unplug [...]
A hockey introspection
As zygotes, we humans have precious little control over our environs. We are cast out of the womb into whatever vile place our parents happen to call home. Until a certain, accepted age is reached we still have very little input into our destiny, being told what to do, where to go, how to live [...]
Hurricanes Win!
The Carolina Hurricanes Win The Stanley Cup! I swear I haven’t seen anything as beautiful as the emotion on Rod Brind’Amour’s face the first time he hoists The Cup. He simply couldn’t contain his excitement which is, for someone as typically reserved as he is, incredibly touching. Congratulations to the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes for finally bringing [...]
This is why we call them “Cardiac Canes”
Carolina did everything they could to lose the game yesterday. They gave up dumb penalties and the first penalty shot goal of the Stanley Cup finals ever. They granted 5 on 3 opportunities. They gave the Oilers a 3 to nothing lead. They botched passes, they didn’t skate, they looked shaky. And yet they won, 5 [...]
Hurricanes Win It!
The Carolina Hurricanes are going to the Stanley Cup finals!
I am clueless
So I go eat at the neighborhood P.F. Chang restaurant yesterday. I sit at the bar one stool over from the only other person at the bar. I get my menu, look up at the tube, get settled in. A couple minutes later the guy sitting next to me says bye to the bartender and [...]
