Running for the cure
This year on Oct. 4, I took part in Winnipeg’s CIBC Breast Cancer Run for the Cure. At 9 a.m., everyone from infants to seniors…
Sports
You bet your bottom dollar!
In my lifetime I don’t remember ever really winning a bet placed on a sporting event. Not a significant bet, anyway. Any time I’ve put…
Not a good weekend for Bisons basketball
It was a basketball filled weekend as the Bisons Invitational Tournament took place for the women’s basketball team, and the men played two games at…
Playing in pink
Forget brown and gold, the new Bisons colour is pink. Well, for a week anyways. The women’s basketball team proudly showed off their pink jerseys…
The Speedo, the square and the jammer
I have two older brothers who live in Ontario and in their spare time they train and compete in triathlons. My brother Mikhail is an…
Sports fiction
Blernsball Origin: Futurama television series The world of Futurama has a fair number of bizarre spectacles, but perhaps none more confounding than the sport of…
Weight loss for dummies
Disclaimer: this might not be for everybody. This could be taken as a guide, but should not be taken as a manual. That is, use…
Be healthy, live technologically
Do you remember those FBI disclaimers that used to play on every video arcade game in the ‘90s, the ones that warned kids “winners don’t…
Boxer walks 150 km to Winnipeg . . . and back
Running down the highway on a hot, sunny day, followed by a caravan of family, friends, and supporters, Richie Goosehead is an impressive sight. A…
Defying gravity and stereotypes
It is the mark of good cheerleading to make gravity defying stunts appear effortless and enjoyable to a crowd of sports fans. Yet behind their…