Category: Sports
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Flying Home
Flying home from visiting family in Kelowna, today. all set to watch the Oilers play, tonight, in game six of the Stanley Cup finals. Edmonton attempt to do what only one team has done and that is to win the cup after being down three games to none. The only other teams that did that…
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Hockey Town
The city of Edmonton and fans of the Edmonton Oilers throughout the planet have been a bit bipolar of late. The Edmonton Oilers are in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time in 18 years. Last Thursday they fell to three games to none against the Florida Panthers. Oilers fans were in deep depression.…
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F—k You
This is Kate. She works in the oil fields in Northern Alberta. She was at game six of the Oilers series against Dallas, when the Oilers clinch that series. She had eight hard seltzers in the first period and was a bit exuberant when the Oilers finally won the game. She raised her oilers jersey…
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US$1,106
The Edmonton Oilers are in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 2006. Back in 2006, I and either my wife or my daughter went to every home game in all four rounds of the playoffs. We were earning middle-class incomes and we could afford to go to all the games. Single game…
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FINALS FINALLY?
The last time the Edmonton Oilers were in the Stanley Cup finals was back in 2006. They were eighth place team in the west and the upset Detroit, San Jose and Anaheim to end up meeting the Carolina Hurricanes. They had a three to nothing lead, in game one, before their goalie. Dwayne Roloson got…
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Stupidity All Around
So many stories to comment on this morning. All of them makes me question the survival of the human race. During a congressional oversight committee meeting, Marjorie Taylor Greene made an insulting comment to another congresswoman about her eyelashes. Things degenerated from there. Chairman James Comer lost total control of the meeting. Greene’s comments were…
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Leafs Fallen Again
I will admit the back of the 1970s the 80s and part of the 90s, while living in Ontario, I was a Toronto Maple Leafs fan. That changed when I moved out West. Leaf will remember that the 80s were terrible under Harold Ballard. Though they did have a couple good runs in the early…
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Our Big Dance
The US has the NCAA basketball tournament, known as the Big Dance. The first week of the Big Dance is full of upsets. It is the most exciting week in NCAA basketball. Canada has our own version of the Bug Dance, that being the NHL playoffs. Especially the first round, compared to basketball’s first week.…
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Just Awesome
In all honesty, I have never been that big on women’s basketball. For me, on the men’s side, basketball is 4th in my list of things to watch, after football, hockey and baseball. Basketball, I will watch the Raptors (not so much this year) and will start following college basketball during tournament time. If you…
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Cancel Parades?
America, do you realize how bad you look to the rest of the world? Kansas City held a Super Bowl victory parade for their beloved Chiefs. Schools were closed and a million people showed up for the parade. A day of celebration ended in grief when one person was shot dead and 22 injured, half…