Hoop and the harm: NBA playoff preview
As basketball’s elite officially tip-off the 2009 NBA playoffs today we take a look at the first round matchups and make our preliminary picks on who will cut down the nets come mid-June. Western...
The Reflector
Cougars, Calamities and Classics: Playoff Mania
By: Kelsey Hipkin It’s that time again sports fans – time to dust off your favorite comfy chair, time to polish that favorite bar stool and time to break out the beer by the...
In the grade scheme of things
It’s that time of year again. Projects are being completed, exams are being studied for, all-nighters are being pulled, and stress levels are through the roof. To add to all the anxiety and chaos,...
Cougars, Calamities and Classics: Mustache Lady Slammed And Other Reporter Mishaps
Attention journalists, in fact, attention people in general, there’s something to be said for how certain news anchors treat their guests. I found the link for the following video in the Calgary Sun, frankly the...
Jeremiah was a bullfrog: Spear survival, football farts & an eight-day erection
A Brazilian man who was struck in the head with a spear while underwater fishing says he is done with his favourite pastime. Emerson de Oliveira Abreu talked with the media three days after...
Amanda’s Hodge Podge: Blogging???
Professional journalists in the age of the internet look as doomed as the typewriter in the age of the computer. Local newspapers are disappearing. National newspapers and commercial TV stations are seeing the web...
Coming Attractions
The summer blockbuster. It’s become a staple of the film calendar ever since Steven Spielberg unleashed Jaws on unsuspecting audiences way back in 1975. Since then, the four months between May and August have...
Making the band
When Tim Callaghan, captain of the Mount Royal men’s hockey team, suggested that he receive guitar lessons from fellow team member Adam Knopp he was not expecting the monster creation that would result. Callaghan’s...
Paper plane to Austria
Many of us live the generic school life; wake up, go to class, do homework, and go to work. Not much excitement besides the occasional gathering at the local watering hole, but for one...
To whom it may concern
When 129,000 jobs turned obsolete in January the focus was the economy. Auto sectors, stock markets and inflation rates became topics of popular interest. But amidst attention being shed on these issues there are...
