We are finally at the point (or so it seems) where Canada Soccer is running things with their heads out of their collective asses, which is interesting timing since the USSF may have taken up that very stance. And that heads-in-the-butts thing requires not only missing all the local cues, but not seeing what threatens…

No, I think that’s been changing. Was a comprehensive disaster, that I would buy.

With players in the Bundesliga, Belgium, Liga MX, English Championship (and having been in the BPL), Turkish League, Serbian SuperLiga, MLS, and of course currently both the Champions League and Europa League, I’m thinking this “glorified D3 college team” might be a tad... dismissive. Or silly.

I’ve heard rumours that Iceland’s population is pretty small, too. That argument goes nowhere. This is a top-down thing that has nothing to do with population.

Also, why the hell am I suddenly in the grays?

I misread the headline as “Bills Fans Remain Alarmingly Still...” and really didn’t see a whole lot to change that reading. At 19 or 20 seconds somebody steps forward and put something down behind the tree, and while I know what it really is, part of me really wants it to be a memorial candle.

It’s all caps, so clearly an acronym. I’m figuring Color Of Us Politicians.

Ironically, the Vancouver Sun has a white supremacist problem, and looking at a picture of Adams I feel bad for him being stuck here, although I imagine the sports desk is removed from at least some of the mess there.

No. That would be wished he died.

I was going to mention this one, but really, every one mentioned is gold.

First time I heard of the Cars was when a friend and I were walking down Jasper Ave in Edmonton and we bumped into another friend in front of the Paramount Theatre and he pulled their first album out of a bag, having just bought it. Nothing had even been on the radio yet, as far as we knew. I questioned this, but when…

In college, a tech program with only 40 students between the two years, I convinced the guy in charge to give me Martin’s locker combo for April Fool’s Day, then convinced the custodian to let me into the building before opening. Spent all night making popcorn, then opened his locker, emptied it, taped garbage bags to…

Whatever it is, it’s Sad!

Thanks for clearing this up, because I couldn’t figure out why goddamn Pennywise was needed to unlock her computer.

It’s Football Ventures (Whites), not (White). Which is interesting, because they’ve also bought the hotel which is attached to the stadium. When I stayed there the hotel was the Devere White, but now I see it’s the Bolton Whites. Glad my Bolton toque won’t go out of fashion.

There are certain European football teams that, if you played for one of them, playing for their deadly rival is Not On. The odd player will break this rule, but usually after having played for an intermediary club to soften the blow. I suspect fewer shits are given if you’re a nobody player.

They can still crash out of the Champions League and win the Europa League again.

Yeah. Three years later, he was probably pretty tired of being asked to play the same damn thing all the time.

Probably Steve Earle and the Dukes in the summer of 1996 at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. My son was 2 months old at the time and my wife was covering his ears (outside, high up on the hill) the entire show. Richard Thompson another year there was goddamn magic, and at a fest way back in 1980 I remember Warren…

I saw Frampton at the Rock Circus in Edmonton in ‘79, and found him kinda disappointing. Maybe it was asking too much for him to live up to my expectations.