Category Archives: sport

Vancouver 2010: new events announced

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Non-Canadians are probably not yet aware of an initiative known as “Own the Podium 2010“. The idea is to develop and support Canadian talent in the run-up to the upcoming Vancouver-Whistler Winter Games; the ultimate goal, of course, is for … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling, rants, silliness, snow, sport, Vancouver | 13 Comments

Puck off

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’m not going to comment on the result of last night’s World Junior Hockey Championship gold medal game*, for fear of a certain Swede coming up here and clobbering me. I wanted to focus instead on one particular aspect of … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, silliness, sport | 10 Comments

Booooooooo

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

We didn’t get ANY of the Olympic tickets we applied for. Resorting to Plan B… watch this space…

Posted in sport, Vancouver | 8 Comments

Hey, sports fans!

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

A friend of mine came up with a fun quiz in the pub on Saturday. As originally stated: how many professional sports teams have a name that does NOT end in the letter S? (i.e. no CanuckS, OilerS, PatriotS, DolphinS … Continue reading →

Posted in silliness, sport | 8 Comments

The Olympic dream is alive!

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Mr E Man and I recently applied for our 2010 Olympics tickets – hockey, snowboarding, freestyle aerial skiing, and curling (the latter only because the venue is within walking distance of our house, and it would be pretty cool to … Continue reading →

Posted in sport, Vancouver | 13 Comments

An historic result

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Vancouver Canucks 4 – 0 Nashville Predators (heh!) First of all I want to extend a great big THANK YOU to everyone who kept me updated on the results on my previous post, and especially Massimo (aka Okham) who was … Continue reading →

Posted in drunkenness, personal, politics, sport | 4 Comments

The election selection

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

As one of them pesky foreigners, I don’t think I should say any more than I already have about the US election. Instead I’m going to link to a bunch of excellent posts from around the blogosphere*. (Edit: OK, and … Continue reading →

Posted in atheism, bad people, blog buddies, blog roll, meta, politics, sport | 21 Comments

How stupid am I?

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’ve just realised that I have hockey tickets for the night of the US election. C’MON! How dumb was that? It’s only Nashville, I might be tempted to skip the game. On the other hand, it might not be a … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, sport | 25 Comments

Let’s all go and visit Okham instead!

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

This hilarious commercial sums up an experience that Mr E Man and I had at the weekend. Yup, flights home for Christmas = $crazy amount + >75% in fees, taxes and surcharges, FFS. We even had to call the bank … Continue reading →

Posted in blog buddies, rants, silliness, sport, videos | 14 Comments

hockey hockey HOCKEY!

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Season opener tonight! I was planning to write a nice long, thoughtful post about how this life-long football and rugby fan got into hockey after arriving in Vancouver. I was going to tie my experiences in to musings on the … Continue reading →

Posted in sport, Vancouver | 13 Comments