Standing on the 5th tee at Scarboro G&CC, I reach down and push the button on a water jug. Nothing comes out. Nothing to drink and no water to wet my towel. This isn’t the...
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Americans choke in losing Ryder Cup
My column on the U.S. Ryder Cup collapse appeared last night on Sympatico: Choke. It is a simple word, but in sports it comes...
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Sympatico: Love risks Ryder Cup on picks of Furyk, Snedeker
My latest Sympatico column looks at the decision by Davis Love to pick Jim Furyk, Brandt Snedeker, Steve Stricker and Dustin...
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Armstrong v. Armstrong – One Small Step, One Giant Turd
We lost a truly great one this week folks. And we also revealed a bad one. When I was a boy, my hero was Neil Armstrong. In...
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Let The Puckering Begin!
Everyone who is old enough remembers exactly where they were when JFK was shot…or when the Shuttle Challenger exploded…or when the first win tower came tumbling down. I suspect...
Kisses, Curses, Crow and Kiawah
This week’s funniest Olympics-related gag: There’s a poster circulating on the Internet, showing a flummoxed Jean-Luc Picard, sitting in his command chair on the USS Enterprise...
Burning Rubber and Olympic Flaming
Funniest Olympics-related gag so far: Last Tuesday 9 Olympians were sent home in disgrace, after being caught taking steroids and other performance-enhancing substances. One of those...
A Great Month to be Canadian!
I’m suffering from a serious case of “Dumper’s Remorse” today. No, I didn’t attend a member-guest at a fancy schmancy private course this weekend and ignominiously shart on the front nine. ...
The Open Championship (is all you have to say)
And…I’m back. After an unexpected week off, welcome back to Poolside; your home for whatever the hell it is that I do here. If you missed me last week, your time has run out. Sorry...
Björn on the Bayou
Back in the late 17th century, when I was a wee lad, Björn Borg was the greatest tennis player to stalk the planet. He crushed everyone in his path on the way to 5 straight Wimbledon...
On Gizmos and Gators
Technology is a wonderful, miraculous thing. And I’ll be the first person to admit that I’m an unashamed, gob-smacked, star-struck fan of all things magical from the worlds of science and...
I Do So Like Greens Jackets and Hams
Maybe I’ve just become spoiled. God knows I’m already jaded enough….and jaundiced and cynical and (add your choice of disgruntled, curmudgeonly epithets here). But did the “big...