Category Archives: Sports

Five Pop Topics Round Up

Recurring feature alert!  I've done this before where I do five quick hits on my five most common topics on this blog and why not, let's do it again.Here's a few quick hits on my most popular topics… HockeyUhm, it's July 28.  This does not bode well for this aspect of the Pop Topics recurring […]

Vote for My Hometown to Win a $25 000 Sports Upgrade Courtesy Kraft & TSN

My hometown of Indian Head is one of two Saskatchewan finalists for a $25 000 make-over courtesy Kraft & TSN.  You can vote for Indian Head today until noon.  If we get the most votes, the money will be used to upgrade our historic ball diamonds (20 000 people used to come to our small […]

Friday Fun Link – Three Lions

 

Blackhawks Win 2010 Stanley Cup

The best part is that the Toronto Maple Laffs now have the longest Stanley Cup drought in the NHL.  And the way that team's going, the Kitchener-Waterloo Blackberries have a better chance of winning a cup before the Laffs do! 

Belated NHL Playoff Predictions

Each year at the start of the NHL playoffs, I usually do my predictions for the first round.  (I miss the old playoff system when you could see the entire playoff brackets all the way through instead of the new system where seeding can impact who plays who each round.)  So yeah, even knowing the […]

Saturday Snap – Just Kicking It

I haven't done any freelance writing (the kind that pays anyhow!) for quite awhile but through an old high school friend who works in magazine publishing, recently ended up with an assignment to write a profile of a world champion female kick boxer who happens to work in my hometown.  I did the interview at […]

Ole ole ole!

Just in time for Regina's mini-World Cup soccer tournament, the WCP Cup, Jaime Garcia has added some information to his web site targeted specifically at Regina's soccer community.  Jaime has a long history of involvement with Regina's soccer community and is still actively involved as a player and a coach.  So in a riding where […]

Saturday Snap – "Snapping An NHL Record"

I was going to do my usual weekly picture of Pace being cute but this NHL highlight is worthy of a video version of the Saturday Snap, I think.  Tonight, the Bruins scored an NHL record THREE short-handed goals during one powerplay.  Having just read a CalgaryPuck thread about NHL records that will never be […]

Five Pop Topics Round-Up

A few quick hits on my most popular topics… HockeyI really hate the Canucks and think it would be a travesty if one of the Sedin sisters won the Hart Trophy.  I mean, a guy with a career average of 65 points a season gets a bunch of assists and is now one of the […]

I Feel Like A Heineken For Some Reason…

This clip isn't technically related to St. Paddy's Day but it is a pretty cool little promotional stunt from a company that makes “green” beer so close enough, right?