I woke up at what I thought to be a prompt 7am in the morning. Although a night of beer, must have clouded my mind. It was 11, and I had missed my squirts semi-final game. As I open the door to find out how my boys did, I was welcomed by a cooler full of beer. My coach had left early that morning, and with laws that don’t allow you to take beer, or booze back over the border, landed me with a cooler full of bud. Now, I get the bright idea that this, my last day at the NARCh finals, in Cincinnati, is going to be by far my biggest gonger of the trip. I grabbed a beer and headed off into the shower..

Although Canada’s World Cup of Hockey dressing room will house a group that practically has more captains than a Scouts Canada child abuse hearing, it shouldn’t comes as much of a surprise to any of us that “Super” Mario Lemieux has been given the captaincy again as he was in Salt Lake where Canada rose to victory capturing the Gold medal, tying Canada’s entire summer Olympic team.

With school a mere few weeks away from commencing for another year, most school-aged kids are already beginning to dread leaving the summer behind, and it sure doesn’t help that “back-to-school” advertisements are starting to pop up like VD in a whorehouse.