Funny – I don’t see any vendors hawking hot dogs or kebabs or popcorn in the stadium. According to the Wall St Journal, stadium food in Beijing isn’t so good. They can’t sell anything you can throw. The guy in the article got potato chips and some piggies in a blanket. Man, I am nervous. […]
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US – Canada women’s soccer
Thank god for rain delays. It gave the Canadian women a chance to get their game on. Their defense is tight. They effectively shut down the American strikers since the last rain delay. Most of the play has been at midfield or in the American end. And – they tied the game. Canada – 100% […]
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US – Canada women’s soccer
Christine Sinclair takes a long shot from far and outside and it sails right into the American net! IT’S TIED, YOU DAMNED YANKEES! Rain delay was about an hour. Canada has replaced their keeper. Looks like McLeod was injured. Leblanc is in. Canada is playing as well as I’ve seen them. Putting on good pressure […]
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US – Canada women’s soccer
The US started off the game by running straight through our defenses and shooting on goal. It went over the cross bar, but sent the message to everyone: they think they have our number. Admittedly, there have been hairy moments. Canada is struggling to contain the Americans. The Canadian team is pumped for this. I […]
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Shotputters make better beer drinkers
The big spinning men who spend four years perfecting the art of balancing big steel balls between their chin and hand and throwing them as far as they can must love drinking beer. They all look – every one of them from Norway to Germany to Latvia – like perfect cuts of beef, but with […]
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Unbelievable…
OK. It’s bad enough that the Spanish men’s and women’s basketball teams had the lack of judgement to think that making a racist slant-eyed gesture was a good idea, but the photos were actually published in advertisements in Spanish newspapers this week. I thought we were way over Breakfast at Tiffany’s kinda shit. And now […]
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Pep talk time
My favourite comment on the medal drought comes from a commenter on the CBC blog. Cheek Monk said we shouldn’t fund olympians at all. We should make them train in the Canadian wilderness, against bears, wolves, blizzards and beavers. Alright. Maybe that idea has legs. But – there are a lot of Leafs fans in […]
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Maybe the Canadians can get a medal!
I mean, if they look around on the floor, back behind the podium, maybe there’s one rolling around somewhere…. Angry Swede throws down medal, quits BEIJING, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian threw down his Olympic bronze medal in protest on Thursday after his bid for greco-roman gold was ended by a decision […]
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Savage Love
Q: After six months of marriage—I’m a straight male—the sex had become routine but enjoyable. To remedy this, my wife and I discussed new things we might like to try. We were both being shy, so I said the first thing that came to mind: “Anal?” My wife got quiet. The conversation ended. A couple […]
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Project Olympic runway
There’s only one show that can interrupt my newfound Olympic obsession, and that’s Project Runway, the Heidi Klum-helmed fashion designer competition. So you can imagine how thrilled we were when this week’s challenge was to design an opening ceremony outfit for the American Olympic team. Some of the contestants had never watched the Olympics before, […]
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Sucks to be Perdita
Remember Canadian track star Perdita Felicien? If not, maybe this will refresh your memory: Hurdle. Face. Sadly, the media has a long memory and every time her name is mentioned, it’s in the context of that glorious fall, which also took out the Russian athlete, at the Athens games. Apparently the Russian runner was so […]
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Let’s do lunch
MV: And welcome back to Beijing. All right, guys, I have a question for you.AC: Hm.MV: Have you eaten lunch today?AC: No.ML: Yes.MV: I don’t really want to know. That is the Chinese way of saying, `What’s up?’ Hey.AC: Oh.MV: That’s–the translation is “Have you eaten lunch?” It comes from a time when people really […]
