Dear Nickelback: You’re about to go on tour – I’m about to blow my lid
(Photo courtesy of Shayne Kaye via Flickr Creative Commons) KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CUP) — I’ve been able to bottle it up until now. It has been boiling in the background, but I put a lid on it and let it be. But now — now you’ve done it. You have, once again, ended up (almost) at [...]
With great power comes great responsibility. And as The Hockey News writes every year, there’s a handful of people in hockey with as much power and influence as Sidney Crosby. In the post-Michael Jordan “Republicans buy sneakers, too” world, athletes rarely use their voice for anything other than collecting cheques from corporate America. (For the [...]
Continue reading …This has been the year of the college football controversy in America. Thankfully, we’ve spent as much time discovering these “scandals” (The tattoo five at Ohio State, Jim Tressel, Reggie Bush, USC’s stripped national title, Nevin Shaprio, Cecil Newton, Stanley McClover, Josh Luchs, Willie Lyles) as deconstructing the silliness of them (Taylor Branch in The [...]
Continue reading …If you read the centrespread in this edition of the paper and are still not convinced that joining Twitter is worth your time, hopefully this piece will bring you to the light. Or you’ll take this piece of paper and throw it in your nearest garbage bin and throw a lit match in it. Either [...]
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There’s nothing like a good “get in the hole” bellow from a fan when a golfer hits his 35 foot putt for par. I often find myself asking, “What’s happened to the gentleman side of these sports?” when I watch golf and tennis. The idiocy of the fans, as well as the players, makes me [...]
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The problem with mainstream pornographic film these days lies in the performance of its actors. Contemporary pornography is often called fast, male dominated and aggressive – far from the ideal of sexual (and sensual) pleasure most young women have in mind. No wonder many women condemn their boyfriends for indulging in this kind of “exhibitionism.” [...]
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VANCOUVER (CUP) — “Are you serious?” That was my reaction when editors in the Ubyssey office started buzzing about how we had to make a last-minute change to the paper to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the just-deceased multi-billionaire former CEO of one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Its only current competitors [...]
Continue reading …Yes, Michael Lewis sold millions of copies of the book. Yes, it peaked into an up-and-coming mentality in sports management. Yes, a story about algorithms, pythagorean theorem and sabermetrics has been turned into a big budget motion picture staring one of world’s five biggest movie stars – Brad Pitt – and one of the five [...]
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You are lazy, cheap, afraid of failure and destined never to succeed because of it. But don’t worry, you’re not alone, we are in this together. Welcome to the “Entitled Generation” and yes, we all suck. At least, that’s what a new book by two Canadian professors Kenneth S. Coates and Bill Morrison called Campus [...]
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When a government spends $19.8 million – or $90,000 a day - in pursuit of cutting costs, I have to wonder whether they’re being honest about their goals. The federal government has hired Deloitte, a company known for its audit and tax consulting services to advise the federal government on where to cut costs. Meanwhile, [...]
Continue reading …Under embarrassing and unusual circumstances, the student union finally got it right. Or, at the very least, they’re on the right track. Students will be asked once more who’d they’d like to be their union’s president; Mark Henick or Craig Mazerolle. But there’s still a great deal that’s unclear about this re-vote. If the re-vote [...]
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