Tuesday, April 20, 2010

IIHF Division II Hockey Championship, Day Five: Last Day of School Edition

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Final day of the tournament And so we come to the end of a hockey-filled week in Mexico City. Five days, fifteen games, all for the low, low...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

IIHF Division II Hockey Championship, Day Four: Playoff Hockey!

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Five quick notes from Day Four of the tournament. 1. Every time a team scores (and there have been a hell of a lot of goals in the past four...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

IIHF Division II Hockey Championship, Day Three: Mexican Heartbreaker

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Putting aside the games themselves for a moment, there’s one question that I’m sure readers of these tiny, pithy dispatches (hi, Dad!) are w...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

IIHF Division II Championship: Day Two

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Twenty years from now, when I’m looking back on my eight months in Mexico, I’m probably not going to remember the many, many days I spent wr...
Monday, April 12, 2010

At the IIHF Division II World Hockey Championships (or, yes, they do play hockey in Mexico)

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For a homesick Canadian who’s been in Mexico for eight months and is ready to come home, the International Ice Hockey World Championship (Di...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Unbearable Lightness of Soccer

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Finally saw my first Mexican soccer – sorry, football – game last weekend. The atmosphere was amazing. Both the home and away teams had the...
Friday, March 19, 2010

A sincere call for more Cabinet-level airport freak-outs

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Lots of schadenfreude going on with two Conservative ministers getting in trouble for airport freak-outs. I like a bout of karmic comeupp...