MOAR PLZ!!!!

So with the Olympics over and the softballers all sad that their sport is done, it brings up the question of why? Why is the IOC removing softball (or, more specifically, baseball—I kind of get softball) from the Olympic games? I don’t get why they remove sports at all unless those sports are no [...]

How do they get away with this?

Breaking the monotony of all the Olympic posts (I’ve still got two more), were switching gears and talking about football. Of course, it’s not really about football, but more about football stadiums. One thing I’ve never understood while watching an Eskimos game is the endzones at Commonwealth.

Huynh should feel the Cock-BURN

This smiling, happy, blinged out lady is the rightful flagbearer for Canada at last night’s closing ceremonies. Instead, trampolinist Karen Cockburn had the honour, but, with no disrespect to Cockburn, the COC made the wrong call on that one.

Olympic Leftovers: Thoughts from the track

Out of nowhere bronze from Priscilla Lopes-Schliep aside, it was a pretty pathetic output from the track and field team once again this year. The saddest part of the decline of Canadian athletics, which has won only Lopes-Schliep’s bronze since the double gold in 1996, is that we’ve put together some strong track teams that [...]

Thomas Hall is the new Adam Van Koeverden; Adam Van Koeverden is the new Brent Hayden

Eighth place? Eighth fucking place?!?!?! I know Adam Van Koeverden let up a little after he realized he wasn’t going to medal, but I could be having the same reaction if he finished fourth. There were three men who were head and shoulders above the field: Van Koeverden, Tim Brabants, and Erik Larsen, and Van [...]

Lamaze Class; I can’t make a good pun on ‘Heymans’

So we have a bonafide coke-fiend as an Olympic gold medallist now, which is nice, I guess, even if it comes in a sport where the human isn’t really the athlete. I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to assume that Eric Lamaze is the first Olympic gold medallist to be kicked off of two previous [...]

Usain Bolt is costing me sleep

I’m blaming the CBC on this one, or, more accurately, http://cbc.ca/olympics, which indicated that the men’s 200m final would be streamed at 4:49am (Mountain). Of course, once 5am rolled around with no signs of Usain Bolt, I did some digging and discovered that the race wasn’t being run until 8:20am. And of course, at that [...]

Olympic Round-up: More medals than Cuba; up next: The Netherlands

I took the weekend off, mainly because the girlfriend gets all snippy when I spend my time constructing epic posts about CBC announcers instead of paying attention to her. And of course, Canada pulls off like 6 more medals, making all the bitchers from five days ago eat their words (note that, as a bitcher, [...]

CBC, TSN, and BOCOG: Make staying up to all hours worth my while

The first eight or nine days of the Olympics were perfectly scheduled: swimming finals in the morning, diving after those (before the swimmers came back for afternoon/evening heats), gymnastics or rowing right after the swimming, wrestling finals coming closer to the afternoon. It was perfect if, like me, you could last until 3 or 4 [...]

Best overuse of McDonald’s advertising

I can’t stand the McDonald’s ads on CBC, but I am addicted to this product placement game on ESPN. Basically, they show you two pictures and you find the five differences. It’s great. My high score is a paltry 162 000. Go play it. Now. Ensure you don’t have somewhere to be soon.