I can only imagine what went through your head when you read this title. You should be ashamed of yourself. Maybe go to confession. Yes, it’s World Series time! I can remember in grade 5 when I brought my little red transistor radio to school and the teacher let me listen to the games, which [...]

Game four of the Stanley Cup Finals goes tonight. Go Kings. End this. Then all 30 teams can start off even again next fall. I want this thing over with, but I hate sweeps, especially in a final series, whether it’s the NHL, World Series, or a Delhi-Punjab cricket showdown. Books aren’t written about sweeps. Playoffs ending in suspense-filled seventh-game overtime drama is [...]

  Your hangover might say Halloween’s over, but it’s not. We’re right in the middle of it. The kids haven’t even gone out yet to get those homemade popcorn things that people put together because they’re too cheap to buy chocolate bars. Not that I like Halloween. In fact, I hate it. I’ve hated it ever since that [...]

  Fascinating Fact #1…..Kyla Bremner, a woman wrestler competing for Australia in this year’s Beijing Olympics, is a native of my town, Powell River, BC. She’s on the Australian team because her mother is Australian. But make no mistake, she’s a Powell Riverite. Fascinating Fact #2……I recently saw a documentary on Russian Czar Peter the [...]

Bill Bryson wrote a great book about growing up in the 1950′s, called The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. I read it and realized he and I have a couple of things in common.   We both lived in towns with great main streets. We both wore Davy Crockett coonskin hats, we practiced [...]

I miss the Expos.   I miss Warren Cromartie and Tim Raines and Tim Wallach and Steve Rogers.   During the 198o’s, I almost followed every pitch. The Expos were one of baseball’s best teams, and for a nice stretch during these times, they were always in the thick of it come September.   I [...]

Is it possible this could be a dream series after all? Is it possible that one team, although badly outshot in the series, down three games to one, with one young star, Evgeny Malkin, asleep at the wheel, and the other young star, Sidney Crosby, not behaving like the new Wayne Gretzky, can now make this [...]