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“To play hockey you shouldn’t have to go through what I went through. I was just looking to have friendship and play the game I love.” Yesterday the story of Kayla Watkins was brought to my attention via both Puck Daddy, Buzzing the Net and the much adored Sarah Spain. Originally covered in . . . → Read More: How to Ruin the Game 101 “I’d rather see a guy fight and lose than turn his cheek and not fight of all and I think a lot of the players are like that. You pretty well realise that you have to fight, otherwise the guys look down at you.” Tie Domi “. . . . . . → Read More: On Red Ice : A Reflection on a Semester of Sport Sociology This semester, I have the pleasure of having one subject selection where I can take essentially any subject I want in the entirety of the university, to fulfill my non-law elective requirements. Now requiring students to take 2 non-law subjects (out of the total 32 required for a straight law program) seems rather ridiculous . . . → Read More: Sport has no benefit : Sociology of Sport Stereotypically men deal with things by ignoring about it and women deal with things by talking about it. In this day and age, it seems like both genders deal by tweeting about it. That’s how I learnt today in a tweet by @JayOnrait that Brian Burke’s son Brendan had passed. It is always sad . . . → Read More: In Remembrance of What Was and What Will Continue I have watched the Cormier video multiple times, pausing and going back just before Tam starts to go into convulsions. I have already seen twice in my life a player go into seizures before me on the ice, one an epileptic team mate, the other the result of a fight gone wrong and both . . . → Read More: Quebec v. Cormier: The Law v. The League When I saw the Ben Fanelli hit this past weekend, saw his team mates huddled together, visible shaken as they wiped away tears with thick gloves, watched as the young boy lay so motionless on the ice, I admit to being reduced to tears. As a hockey player, as someone who’s had helmets kicked . . . → Read More: The Logic of Punishment Thursday, instead of paying attention to the Private International Law lecture I was in, I got involved in a twitter based debate about the shootout with my favourite HNIC Host Jeff Marek (who has managed to push aside my adoration of PJ Stock by being so damn nice to me on twitter) and good . . . → Read More: Arguments about the Shoot Out with Jeff Marek and Brynna Everyone has a take, this is mine It’s been all over the news lately. You can’t miss it. We’re talking about Georges Laraque and the whole Octane 7.0 drama. Whilst I fail completely as a feminist and don’t have an issue with the scantily clad women in the advert, ones whom compared to recent . . . → Read More: The Uproar re: Georges Laraque |
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