Hockey Rhetoric

My first reaction when the Tiger Woods story (are we calling this Ti-gate yet?) broke was indifference. Unlike most people, I seriously don’t think this is really significant news but I can see how people made it significant, what with it being Tiger Woods and all. The fact of the matter is that a ton of male professional athletes have multiple partners, whether they’re legally bound by marriage or not. Personally, I don’t hold athletes to a higher moral standard. Whenever I hear adulterous stories or those of similar nature regarding athletes, I try and immediately push it out of my mind. What keeps me engaged in sports is the story that occurs on the playing field, not the personal life of the participants off it. Granted, I’ve commented a couple of times on the psychology of sports athletes (Derek Roy , Patrick Kane ), but those have always related strongly to athletic performance. Personal relationships, on the other hand, do not. » Read the rest of this entry «

When I was a teenager, I every now and then I would grow out my hair. I went to a school where most boys used hair-gel everyday and very few grew there hair beyond two or three inches. All of my friends and I were what most would consider clean cut and well dressed. We cared about our appearance no more or no less than anyone else our age. I would always tell people that I got tired of the same hair style and that’s why I grew it out. I also knew that most people thought I would look better if I cut it. Even I kind of did. » Read the rest of this entry «

I should first say that I’ve never meet Patrick Kane. We are the same age and share some mutual friends but I’m not in any better position to talk knowingly about his character than is any average reader of The Buffalo News. When I first heard about Kane’s incident with the cab driver, words like maturity and ego started floating around in my head. I heard the testimonies and I saw the bruises on the cabbie’s face. There’s no excuse for someone, anyone, to respond that violently towards a 62-year-old man. If I had sat down to write this three weeks ago, immediately after the details became a matter of public record, the tone of this post would have been a lot like this paragraph: judgmental. » Read the rest of this entry «