Category Archives: Sports

We Need a New Hockey Word

Currently the NHL Chicago Blackhawks have a record of eleven wins, no losses and 3 overtime losses. They are undefeated in regulation time. The NHL has no word for this. Yet. Perhaps this post will make a difference. It was … Continue reading

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Show Swaps

In our sort of tolerant society-kind of, we are met with an odd situation. Eric Stonestreet plays a gay character on Modern Family. He is not gay. Neil Patrick Harris plays Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, a … Continue reading

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New Beleafs

I live in the most populous area of hockey mad Canada. The Toronto Maple Leafs are the only hockey team for the entire area which as well as Toronto includes Hamilton, Mississauga and Waterloo Region. Recently ESPN named the Toronto … Continue reading

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Ben Johnson for the Order of Canada

Let’s look at the good Ben Johnson did. He handled reporters well as an up and coming track star in the eighties. The steroids he took were not a magic bullet. He still had to train strongly to attain his … Continue reading

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Mercedes Woods

Is the closeness of the peace symbol to the Mercedes Benz symbol a coincidence? We at Many Rants doubt it. The Mercedes Benz symbol was established first so somehow that car company, through chicanery, got the peaceniks to adopt a … Continue reading

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Unhate

In case you were living under a rock last week, you might not have heard of Benneton’s new ad campaign, Unhate. In this campaign there were pictures of perceived political enemies kissing each other. Merkel/Sarkozy (although Germany and France seem … Continue reading

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Poor Millionaires and a Possible Penance for Cherry

It’s becoming more and more well documented that concussions are serious. Largely news of this reaches us from the sport of football and studies done on exNFLers. Which makes sense – the most likely sport for getting a concussion is … Continue reading

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Puke Gets Cartoond

Once there was a really cool cat who was the god of hockey. Now, like every cat, this cool cat had a fur ball and one day hacked it up in the country of Canada. . This furball, or puke, … Continue reading

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Stanley Cup Strike

A strike by the refs is exactly what I thought I was watching for the last game of the playoffs. Last night Boston defeated Vancouver to win the Stanley Cup, but it was the officiating that made me angry, not … Continue reading

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Is Phys Ed Where Cliques Begin

I suspect this happens in most organized physical education classes in schools across the continent. You know, the attempt early on, for physical education teachers to give some of their responsibility to some of the kids. Did you ever see … Continue reading

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