Sports
Stop criticizing the Olympics
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Since the Vancouver 2010 Olympics have started there has been a rush to see who can criticize them to the greatest extent. I would like to debunk a few of the more ridiculous complaints...
Roller derby proudly returns to Winnipeg
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I got my first glimpse of the Murder City Maidens at a practice on a Canadian Forces base late one night last week. Not since junior high field trips to Wheelies, where Salt-N-Pepa’s song...
So you want to climb?
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I can honestly admit that some of the coolest people I know are climbers. Maybe they’re cool because they climb. Or maybe climbing makes them cool. Or maybe they’re cool because when they talk...
Olympics bring obscurity to the forefront
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Winter sports are few and far between, likely because many of us want nothing to do with the frigid outdoors. There is hockey, skiing, snowboarding, snowman-making and — how could I forget — hockey....
Mastering the Bosu ball
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“See that circle right in the middle? That’s what we call the ‘sweet spot.’” Brenda is the instructor of a Bosu class I’ve started taking at Joe Doupe, the Bannatyne campus’ gym, and she’s...
Welcome back from reading week — it’s Bison Briefs!
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Basketball
The men’s basketball team finished their season on Feb. 11 with an 88-65 loss to the University of Winnipeg Wesmen. The Bisons outscored their opponents 24-13 in the fourth quarter but it wasn’t enough...
Off-season blues: The Brett Favre saga
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It’s that miserable time of year again.
The weather is consistently awful, students are right in the vortex of the black hole that is their academic life, the first round of American Idol is...
