Tag: sports

The Kaufman Show: Deadlines to Meet

| May 24, 2013 | 1 Reply
The Kaufman Show: Deadlines to Meet

By Avi Goldberg, Featured Writer,  All Habs Hockey Magazine MONTREAL, QC. — It’s two hours after a Montreal Canadiens victory and only minutes after midnight in the early morning of what will become opening day for the Toronto Blue Jays. … Continue reading

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Sports and Tragedy: Good Grief?

| January 1, 2013 | Reply
Sports and Tragedy: Good Grief?

Last month, following the NFL’s acknowledgments of the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide in Kansas City and the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, media commentators took time to assess the place of sports in relation to real life human tragedies. Is it helpful, it was asked, to play on and to use sports as an activity to help citizens cope with the horrors they’ve witnessed, or is it better to push sports to the sidelines and to encourage participation in true practices of grieving loss? Continue reading

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The Politics of Sports and the Hockey Lockout

| November 13, 2012 | Reply
The Politics of Sports and the Hockey Lockout

It’s been a rough couple of years for hockey fans in general and for fans of the Montreal Canadiens in particular. Between the lockout, intractable negotiations over arena deals, and intense scrutiny over whether the Habs coach and GM must be bilingual, much attention has been focused away from the game of hockey itself. Continue reading

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