The Canadian Football League released their 2011 schedule a couple of days ago and naturally I looked into possible road trips. The CFL is a tricky league for travel - although there are only 8 teams, they are spread across a large area and you don't have much choice about the order in which you visit the cities; you either start in Montreal and finish in BC or vice versa. Of course, you can backtrack, but for me, I'd probably do the return leg through the northern US and try to catch some other sports. Teams play once a week, although there are...
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
It's that time again, when millions of fans around the world look forward to another magnificent event with bats and balls, and umpires too. Yes, after a long, hard winter, it's time for the Cricket World Cup! This is the 10th edition of the tournament, which takes place every four years. This time it is being held in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh from February 19th until April 2nd. That's 7 weeks of cricket featuring 14 teams, including Canada, who are by far the worst squad to participate. (As a sign of Canada's weakness, their opening opponents,...
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
With the Super Bowl over, attention turns to the ongoing labour spat that may put a stop to the 2011 NFL season. I'm not going to go into detail on the issues or what I think about the whole thing (surely they can find a way to share $9 billion!), but rather just talk about the 18-game season that has been proposed.Most players are against the increase in games, and it's not hard to see why. There will be more injuries and careers will be shorter - 144 games currently takes 9 seasons (with 9 years of pay) compared to only 8 with the longer schedule....
Monday, 7 February 2011
My first live professional sporting event occurred 35 years ago on February 7th, 1976. Somehow my father had secured two tickets to a Toronto Maple Leafs game, where they would host the Boston Bruins. I remember excitedly looking at those tickets, which is those days colour-coded to match the seats. We had greens, midway up the upper deck near one of the blue lines (pic obviously not from that game - don't think Dad kept our tickets).(Courtesy Kings...
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Last year I wrote a long post detailing a visit to Chiyotaikai's retirement ceremony. For me, it also marked my last time going to a sumo event as the sport had become scandal-ridden and terribly boring. I mentioned that I would write a post detailing the situation but never quite got around to it. I'm glad I waited, because in the past week, yet another scandal broke that may serve to end sumo as we know it.First, a brief look back at the other stories that left the sumo world embarrassed. In June, 2007, a young wrestler named Takashi Saito died...
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
This summer sees the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup being held throughout the US. The Gold Cup is North America's national tournament, much like next year's Euro or the just-completed Asian Cup (won by Japan). The event will be held at 13 different venues over 3 weeks, which makes for an intriguing road trip. What is particularly interesting is that each venue hosts just two games in a doubleheader format, so you can move from city to city without retracing your steps. The full schedule is below:June 5: Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX Costa Rica/Cuba,...
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
It looks like I'll be in Japan for another year, so I've decided to help out a fellow roadtripper in his quest to document as many sports stadiums around the world. His name is Paul Swaney and his site is StadiumJourney.com. There are hundreds of reviews already posted by regional correspondents, and I've agreed to be the Northern Japan correspondent for this year. It only involves visiting the 5 baseball stadiums in the Tokyo area plus Sapporo and/or Nagoya. That's just one game a month, so I think I'll be able to handle it. I'll update here when...
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