Sports
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...
Whatcha gonna do . . . when MMA runs wild on...
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Would you be interested in watching a sanctioned fight between two faded sports celebrities? Of course you would — don’t lie to me. Now, would you pay good, hard earned money in order to...
The Super Bowl spectacle: a fan’s perspective
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Super Bowl Sunday is the culmination and the highlight of my annual sporting calendar. This year it will definitely face stiff competition from the World Cup and Olympic hockey, but there just isn’t...
