Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Apr 19
Face Photos from Readers
Thanks to John Whitman for this slightly dismayed face from downtown Ottawa.
This space is available for other submissions.
Tag Archives: Sports
Only in Canada
“Sas-kat-choo-waaaaan!” I startle awake to find myself still in my seat. What happened? Is something wrong? Continue reading
Poor Mike
A surprising look at Mike Weir – well, surprising for me. Continue reading
In Position to Make the Call
The heckling and cat-calling at a baseball game leads me to consider what it takes to be in position “to make the call” in my own life. Continue reading
I Know Just How you Feel
Sometimes, life intervenes. I have no new blog this week. Instead, I offer an op-ed piece I had published after the Australia Summer Olympics, but not previously seen in this space. The players may have changed; the game, not so … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Policy, Sports and Exercise, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Attitudes, Sports
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Rites of Passage
Homecoming weekend at RMC in Kingston is an opportunity to see in action many fine characteristics: endurance, teamwork, competitiveness, and self-restraint. The aim? Get your entire team of fifteen to twenty first-year university students up and over a twelve-foot wall … Continue reading
The Reason We Watch
They play, apparently, for the love of the game. That seems right — it’s the same reason we watch. Continue reading
The Kismet of Golf
Negative patterns underlie many of the cautionary stories we tell. An inexplicable, random bad choice here or there — how unsatisfying, somehow, compared to a pattern of bad choices that signals a human frailty. Continue reading
Downhill Headfirst
Because no one goes downhill headfirst on a cafeteria tray better than Canadians. Continue reading
Be the Ball
Game. Hobby. Recreation. Sport. Addiction. Golf is all of these and more. It is enticing, impossible, ridiculous, relaxing, impossible, invigorating, frustrating, impossible. Continue reading