From The Branches

Hail, Hail Robonia, A land I didn't make up...... This is it, the big one. Aside from that trifling matter of little or no importance tomorrow of course. Tonight will decide both the men's bronze medal in ice hockey and European bragging rights until the next

Using the picture above as an example, and with conceptual help from PPP member Fergus30, I thought I'd use this morning's FTB to bring you some gold medal moments from these Winter Games. (Click the caption for the picture. This isn't one of them.

Well yesterday was spectacular!!!!  4 medals for Canada, plus we spanked Russia all the way back to the homeland!  Frankly, I'm so exhausted from the spectacular day had by Canada, I don't have much to say.  Sure, I didn't go downtown to join in

You all know what happened last night, and are all aware of what is going to happen to night. The most desired matchup of these Olympics comes to fruition as Team Russia goes up against Team Canada. Win and you move on to the semis; lose and you'll

So of the10 medals Canada has managed to win at these Olympics, 6 of them have been won by women.  Not every woman who was favoured to win has come through - Mellisa Hollingsworth comes to mind - but they've been more reliable than the men.  And the

So unless you haven't been following the Olympic hockey tournament, you know that Canada fell to the US by a score of 5-3 last night. This was largely in part due to Ryan Miller giving a better performance for Team USA than Martin Brodeur did for Team Canada.

Canada/USA, Russia/Czech Republic, Sweden/Finland. What a great day of hockey this promises to be. The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the

You know, a lot people have asked me how I'm able to follow sports that take place when most sensible people are in bed. The answer of course, is simple. Booze. That's right, short upon double upon measure upon pint upon litre upon boot upon yard

I don't KNOW what it is about Switzerland, but somehow they have Team Canada's number when it comes to International hockey.  Even though the game ended with a shootout win for Canada, that was not a win you'll be seeing celebrated today, and one

Well as I sat down to watch this, the best game yet of the Olympic hockey tournament is on TV - The Czechs versus the Slovaks, starring our very own Tomas Kaberle. And strangely, as I started writing this, with the Czechs on the power play, Kabby just took a

So the Olympics finally started for real last night with the beginning of the men's hockey tournament, and boy did it start off well for Teams USA and Canada.  The USA was competent in their 3-1 win over Switzerland, but looking shaky at times and made rudimentary errors.

So yesterday was another successful day for Canada at the Olympics. Except I'm a bit confused. His name is really Mike, and he really is from Canmore? Growing up in a stereotypically Canadian household, watching the Royal Canadian Air Farce on Friday night was a tradition. The comedians

Well last night was pretty exciting... I finally got to hear the end of the "who will win the first gold for Canada on home soil?" story and instead was inundated with stories about an amazing athlete who everyone overlooked when considering who would fill that void.   Frankly,

* Fresh from a botched attempt to kidnap his wife, extort money from his father and ultimately make Steve Buscemi end up in a wood chipper, Jamie Lundmark joins the Blue and White after being claimed off the waiver wire. Maple Leaf Hot Stove, Toronto Sports Media, Matchsticks and Gasoline, The

* Those of you that haven't sneaked out of class already to watch the ski jumping (always been a particular favourite of mine), will have noticed that the Leafs played their last game before the Olympic greak last night, going down 4 - 0 to the Blues. Vintage Leaf

For those of you who may be living under a rock in your parent's basement; tonight marks the beginning of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics games.  For the next two weeks nearly 3,000 athletes from over 80 countries will compete in over a dozen disciplines for national pride

Well my ability to follow the hockey world has been severely hampered the past few days.  And not just because we got a new puppy, but because I'm crate training her and housebreaking her.  I haven't actually watched a full hockey game in about Friday, which

As I sat in the middle of collecting the links for today's FTB, my phone rang. On the other end was newly nuptialed Overlord Chemmy, back from his honeymoon in Cancun, asking me to let him and Mrs. Overlord into the apartment building for he was drunk and

Please forgive me if today's FTB is a little... bland.  I've been taking care of the little critter pictured above and, let me tell you, housebreaking is a lot of work.  She's finally down to bed and I can squeeze in some time to

Hats off to the New Orleans Saints for winning Superbowl 44 and saving us from hearing more asinine comparisons of Peyton Manning to Tom Brady and other legendary quarterbacks. Although this probably will prevent Manning from appearing on SNL again; which was hilarious. Last night's biggest winner however

Luke owns Ottawa so much, they should just rename the team the "Schennators" Our very own Archimedies, via Twitter It's hard to imagine that the Blue and White wouldn't be charged up for the fourth battle of Ontario of the year after events of

I thought we'd give the levity a miss today if it's okay with you chaps. * More on yesterdays desperate news from Indiana from Toronto Sports Media, Maple Leaf Hot Stove, The Hockey Writers, Puck Daddy, NHL Fanhouse, Toronto Mike, Rock Outta SoCal and Wrap. * The Leafs

So I wanted to write some neat little blurb here about the Kovalchuk trade, but then that little blurb ballooned into what is now over 700 words of a FanPost that I'll post later today/tonight.  So be on the lookout for it. If you want some information

With no Leaf game and no Lost last night, my TV was definitely lonely last night. Instead, I relaxed with some music and a book. Having gone through my Beatles Boxed set, I felt it was time to go back further, to another famous music innovator - Elvis. Amazingly enough,

Brian Burke needed last night's performance to keep the media from calling him a moron for trading away so many players, and boy did his new hires have their bosses back. Three new Leafs; three stars of the games. Dion Phaneuf smashed and punched people; Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped