From The Branches

Yesterday, my illustrious, hard-working partner found something quite intriguing on Passive Agressive notes.  The letter pictured above was written by a young girl who shares my name.  In it, she apologizes for calling her mom a "pice of poo".  Frankly, I still haven't stopped laughing

If you don't have a Twitter account, I have two things to tell you: 1) Get a Twitter account. All the cool kids are doing it, and it's great for breaking news. 2) You missed out on dead raccoon movie quotes yesterday; the #1 trending topic

Know it sounds funny, But you just can't stand the pain MattBlack you're leaving us tomorrow Seems to me MattBlack, I know you've done all you can I see you begged, stole, And you borrowed Ooh, that's why you're easy

Saturday mornings are a great time to lounge around and what better way to pass the time than to read about hockey. Also, as a sidenote, our friend across the Atlantic, Mattblack, will have to take another sabbatical from his role. He is a very important person in London and

No words, just links. Tomas Kaberle happy with deadline outcome. Yeah I bet you are jerkstore [Globe and Mail] I don't care if you want to emulate Tyler Kennedy; do not lick your hockey stick [The Hockey News] Burke on why he goes Luca Caputi over picks for

The picture says it all. You know what happened yesterday. In case you forgot take the jump to a plethora of links. Starting off, the Battle of Cali has a quick rundown of all the trades made yesterday [Battle of Cali] Another quick trade wrap up [Suite 101] A look

So last night saw Alexei Ponikarovsky shipped off to Pittsburgh for prospect Luca Caputi (sweet name) and defenseman Martin Skoula (salary dump). First it was Pittsburgh, then it wasn't, then it was LA, but maybe someone else, then Pittsburgh again, repeat ad naseum. I can only imagine the

With the Olympics over, Vancouver seems empty.  And, well, it's gone back to being kind've boring.  Nobody in my office took the day off or came in hungover, which I found boring.  As for the players and coaches, so much for revelling in that Olympic Gold

Well the whirlwind of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics is over.  It's been a blast.  The party is still going on down on Robson street - it's so packed that you can't even move.  What an incredible two weeks.  I'd do a review of

North America was collectively pissed when the Riddler owned the podium. Well, I don't think this mother needs any more building up from the likes of me. Whatever happens, we're going to be talking and chewing on this for a long, long time. The FTB has

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 Canadian women&

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/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 heck

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

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 Memories,