Everyone is asking me if I am watching the Olympics and the answer is no. I haven’t seen any of it yet and I doubt I will. I had been telling people once Canada started the Olympic hockey tournament I would be there but they are playing Norway tonight and I am missing the game [...]
Olympics
The absurdity of the Olympic Games
This quote says it all, Australia, primarily a summer-sport country, has a budget of about $250 million for sport, said Baumann. The Aussies – with 20 medals after seven days – are worried about their count here, however, and are saying they’ll need another $200 million to keep them among the world’s elite, he added. [...]
Live coverage from your living room
CBC’s live coverage and play by play of the Olympics will be done from Toronto. It’s this: A good number of the on-air people covering the Games for the CBC, TSN, NBC, BBC and other international broadcasters will not be in Beijing or anywhere near the Olympic city. They will call events off a monitor [...]
Upset of the Century!
Team USA beats demoralized Canada is basketball exhibition game. Sadly it will probably mean the end of the road of team Canada head coach Leo Rautins. Rautins was a controversial choice for the national job from the start, primarily because he’d never been a coach. One of Canada Basketball’s motivations was the hope his profile [...]
