I doubt I was alone in waking up at 5am EST to watch the 'women's and men&

The 2008-2009 edition of the Leafs (and their fans) will face a number of battles. Jeff Finger will fight

Canadians are, on average, far too humble about our country and its institutions. Part of that is an ingrained aspect

Well, you can't say that Canadian athletes are playing with some fire in their belly. The water polo

Still no Canadian medals but there were some close calls and the Canadian records are being smashed which helps give

This is another Olympics-inspired off-topic rant. If you just want the links they are after the jump. The

Lots to read as you stare a 5 day workweek in the face. Also, check out Maple Leaf Blue'

I just managed to catch a couple of minutes of the opening ceremonies but wow, can communist countries ever put

The latest in a long line of bloggers v. Howard Berger missives took me a long time so read it

By now I would imagine that everyone has read the ultimate Howard Berger takedown penned by CoxBloc commenter Varry Galk.

Well since there is so little hockey news I am going to unload on a couple of things that have

The Puck Daddy is having various media people help fill his posting gap during the summer with five ideas on

I was originally going to write this just as a FanPost on Mile High Hockey but I figured that you

Whew. What does not kill you will only make you stronger. In fact, my liver will now be competing in

Today ends months of speculation and countless loss hours as Mats Sundin has decided to (retire to a life of

Edit: So much for that hypothetical. I knew I shouldn't have believed anything this guy wrote. I know

We all know that one of the favourite hobby horses of the mittenstringer crowd is to blame the fans for

You know that there is not much news in the hockey world when the New York Times devotes an entire

Lots of good responses on the topic du jour that was kicked off by this great fanpost by "Dave

First off, thanks for all of the birthday wishes yesterday. I did survive my birthday weekend (barely) and have 364

Do you know what this calls for? Consider this an open thread to discuss anything Leaf related and help bump

As I mentioned this morning (or last night depending on how you read it) last night I attended the MLS

Wow. The MLS All-Star Game last night was awesome. I'll have a longer post up with some

Today is the kind of day that makes you long for a Saturday night in December (but not the 13th

I cannot even begin to tell you how disappointing last night's TFC game was...actually, look at who