The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking for a new manager and even though many are available – Ken Macha, Jeff Banister, Dale Sveum to name a few – none scream of the ideal fit like someone else I know. Despite the club having considered John Gibbons, Carlos Tosca and Eric Wedge already, the only single person […]

With the Texas Rangers now in the World Series – for the first time ever, no less – you might be asking yourself “who are these guys?” or “why should I cheer for them?” Well, I’m here to help you out with a quick guide to the Rangers and to show you why you should, […]

Keith Van Horn’s pale, gaunt face haunts me while I sleep. Not in a Paranormal Activity 2 way, but a Charles Dickens-meets-W.P. Kinsella sort of way. Monthly at first, then weekly. Now almost every damn night. So imagine, if you will, falling asleep with the seven-foot silhouette of a man watching you through your doorway, […]

The NBA is changing fast. Uncomfortably fast. And I’m starting to feel like a crotchety old man who needs his professional sports left untouched. Is it too late to bring Mitch Richmond and Rik Smits back? When the Boston Celtics won the 2008 championship with a convoy of ringers, it opened up a can of […]

Very few NHL players can call themselves a Stanley Cup champion. Even less can call themselves a four-time champion. Not many can say they played 16 years in the NHL either, 14 with one team. And only 250 can say they’ve played 1,000 games in the show. But what exactly qualifies someone for the Hockey […]

In professional sports, and specifically hockey, you have significant franchises and then you have everybody else. For each Original Six team in a city that understands how ice works, you have a handful of irrelevant franchises battling for the attention of viewers with archived footage of Slamball and tape-delayed episodes of Regis and Kelly. We […]

If you make a song about wolves, I’m going to listen. If you design a t-shirt with the silhouette of a wolf pack howling in the moonlight, I’m going to buy it. And I’ll wear it too; I don’t even care if it’s uncomfortable. So naturally I’ve found myself drawn to a certain basketball franchise […]

It all started with a comment from a Memphis local at the neighborhood corner store; the Canadian version of the Beer Store. “You getting ready for the tailgate, son?” As a matter of fact, I was, it was my first one and I enthusiastically replied as such. Disheveled, the cashier looked at me, “You better […]

In the year 2010, all it takes is the push of a button to receive up-to-the-minute updates from the vicariously covered sports world. This is due in large part to the millions of dollars devoted annually by technology companies such as Apple and Research In Motion (RIM) to consistently advance their products through software engineering. […]

“Tell them I’m through, ‘for love of the game,’ Billy Chapel.” Clear the mechanism. Snowstorms, rain, hail, tornado warnings, or maybe it was sunny skies. You drag your net out onto the shovelled street or driveway with a smile on your face. You throw sticks to decide on teams and usually argue on who is […]