Category: sports
The roster for the Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey team was announced on Wednesday. Since that time, the analysts here at NTBTWK have been conducting a thorough analysis of the roster. The results of this research are as follows: Forwards Patrice Bergeron, Boston Bruins Not hot Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins Hottie! (Though not the best pic […]
A few months ago I was approached to write for CurioCity, a e-zine for teens about science that is produced by the science outreach organization I used to volunteer with. The articles are geared at teens and focus on science in everyday life. Since I’m totally missing the science outreach work I used to do, […]
Kim and I arrived at the rink a bit earlier than normal today, so we decided to hit the concession stand, where we saw this: Doesn’t that seem insanely cheap for hot dogs? I mean, you’d get FOUR hot dogs for the same price as ONE can of pop. Being a herbivore, I’m not up […]
Yesterday was “phase 3” of Vancouver 2010 Olympic ticket sales ((Phase 3 was supposed to happen the previous Saturday, but there computer system was b0rked, so they made it yesterday instead.)). I hadn’t tried to buy tickets in phases 1 or 2 ((although my friend Rachel got a bunch of tickets in phase 2, so […]
I have discovered that my swear of choice when I’m hit in a hockey game is “JESUS CHRIST!” I don’t do it consciously, it’s just what happens to come out whenever someone cross checks in my back ((which happened to me both last night and the night my family came to watch me play)) or […]
Just saw this on Twitter and it was too funny not to share with you: And when you follow the link, you get this search result from the Vancouver Public Library’s catalog: In truth, I think it’s the Toronto Maple Leaf *players* that need those books, rather than fans. And I just tried to do […]
OMG! Why did no one tell me that The Hockey Sweater is on YouTube?? This is a a Canadian classic! We watched this every year in elementary school, usually right before Christmas break when the teachers showed us a bunch of films ((yes, I’m so old we watched movies on actual film projectors)), probably because […]
I may be short. And our team may have been playing with a very, very short bench ((we had only nine skaters tonight, while the other team had, I’m pretty sure, a thousand)). But it was the other team that came up short against my killer shot. And by killer shot I may mean that […]
Two years ago, I registered for the Royal Victoria half marathon, but training – not so much and so I ended up with an injured foot. This year, I’ve been training for the Royal Victoria half marathon, but registering – not so much. And now, despite it being almost a month away, they are *sold […]
Because apparently I’m a masochist. Or perhaps I thought I could get my entire year’s worth of exercise into two days. At any rate, my weekend consisted of: Saturday: Hiking Eagle Bluffs with Rachel (about 3 hours) neither Rach nor I had done this hike before and it was a really nice, a fair bit […]