For Whom the Bell Tolls……
It happened to me yesterday. I wasn’t ready. I had no idea how ‘not ready,’ I was. It doesn’t matter how innocent it is. Or that someone had all the right intentions when it happened. It […]
Tag: hockey
Can two fans of rival NHL teams find love? Probably not.
Two Stanley Cup Playoff teams, both alike in dignity, in the Steel City where we lay our scene. I had a near “meet-cute” at Game 1 of the Pens/Bruins Stanley Cup Playoff Game when I […]
On Coaches
A college basketball coach recently got fired after a video emerged of him shoving players, throwing basketballs, and unleashing homophobic rants on a player. I’ve never understood the whole motivate-me-by-putting-me-down thing you frequently see in […]
Proof There Is A God
Dad and I are sitting in the stands at a Hartford Whalers hockey game. Our seats are twenty rows up from the glass in a corner of the rink. Two rows below us sits a […]
Go Easy On The Ref
It’s 5:45am on a Saturday. I’m standing in the center of an ice rink, wearing black nylon pants and a striped shirt, the attire worn by all Little League referees in our town. The cold […]