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• The value of sports is in the lessons learned, not...
  Of course, they were discussing this at the pro level with the debate focusing on guys like Patrick Roy being known as a "winner" because of his ...
• The value of sports is in the lessons learned, not...
  Of course, they were discussing this at the pro level with the debate focusing on guys like Patrick Roy being known as a "winner" because of his ...
• Sam Etcheverry will be dearly missed
  It’s not that I think athletes are all that special because they’re athletes, rather, it’s the characters that come with the team, the alumni, ...
• Sam Etcheverry will be dearly missed
  It’s not that I think athletes are all that special because they’re athletes, rather, it’s the characters that come with the team, the alumni, ...
• Vick & Rose suffering from the same rush to judgement
  What Vick did was a horrible thing, but the point of my last column wasn’t to give him a free pass, rather, it was to say people make mistakes ...
• Welcome back, Michael Vick
  We don’t need to get into the details of Vick’s well-documented transgressions, but the quick summary is that at the peak of his career – and ...
• Welcome back, Michael Vick
  We don’t need to get into the details of Vick’s well-documented transgressions, but the quick summary is that at the peak of his career – and ...
• Kane the latest in a series of dumdum pros
  By now, everyone’s heard of Kane’s alleged attack of a Buffalo cabbie last weekend and the blowout from it is bound to keep grabbing headlines ...
• Grande was wrong, but unlike Zidane, eventually got...
  The long story short is that I criticized Zidane when he visited Montreal for a charity soccer game and spent an afternoon talking to kids in ...
• So long Saku – Good riddance Kovalev!
  Let me preface this by saying that I am a lifelong Canadiens fan and I’ve always said they could go 0-82 and I’d still cheer for them. I think ...
• Zidane is as low as they come in sports
  I remembered his cowardly and completely unacceptable head butt to the chest of Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup, I remembered his cowardly ...
• The sky hasn’t fallen – let’s give Jacques...
  I’m a sports fan, just like all of you, and like what I’m sure is the majority of you, I’m a fan of the Montreal Canadiens. That said, I’ve been ...
• Coaching women is extremely rewarding
  Again, just for the record – I’ve never argued in favour of fighting in the women’s game, but I do believe firmly that taking bodychecking out of ...
• Round 3: Canes & Hawks will move on to the Stanley...
  After going a dismal three-for-eight in the opening round, I nailed three of four in the semi-finals, correctly picking Detroit, Carolina and ...
• The game is still bigger than the cheater
  Manny – who cares?Blah, blah, blah… A Major League Baseball player has tested positive for some banned substance and has been suspended for 50 ...
• From NDG to Lower Westmount, via the World Series of...
  Somehow over the course of Canada’s first hockey-less season since the invention of artificial ice, the country turned to poker of all things to ...
• Here’s a look at Round 2
  Recently seen on Facebook: Noah Sidel is prepared to admit he sucks at pools. Yeah, I have to admit, sometimes I really can’t pick a winner for ...
• A look at the playoffs
  The playoffs are always a crapshoot and there are many pratfalls awaiting those of us who venture into the world of fantast pooling. That said, ...
• Right, wrong and somewhere in between – a look...
  There are still a couple of games left before the conclusion of the 2008-09 NHL season, but now’s as good a time as ever to look back on the year ...
• The wonderful world of fishing, cricketing and the...
  Cricketing, you ask? Yes, that’s what you’re doing when you’re playing cricket – which is basically the national sport of Antigua & Barbuda, ...
• There’s something to be said for Lac St-Jean
  With the Alouettes, I’ve travelled as far north as the Lac St-Jean region, Abitibi and Rimouski, and all over the south-west of the province. But ...
• Liquid Nutrition World Outdoor Hockey Championships...
  Or, at the request of his sponsors… the Liquid Nutrition World Outdoor so on and so forth… Actually, it’s fun to joke about corporate ...
• The beauty of a great logo or uniform
  Sports fans like us can watch and read anything related to any sport, pretty much at any time. Heck, I’ve been known to watch the same episode of ...
• Keep women’s ski jumping off the program – for now
  Sport is a microcosm of the “real” world, reflecting the values and traditions of a society on the ice, on the pitch or on the court, and will ...
• How to break in your new gear!
  Think about the dropped popups that come from the stiffness of a new mitt, or the blisters your new soccer cleats gave you last summer. For me, ...