The child in front of me had full run of two seats between his parents, but even that was hardly enough space to contain that much enthusiasm. His older cousin would run back and forth between the sections of seats, presumably because other relatives were over there somewhere. I looked up at the scoreboard to [...]

If you are to believe the producers at the 24-hour news outlets, their staff and various places around the Internet, the country (if not the world) is on a collision course between two very different, irreconcilable ideologies. It has lead at least one elder statesman to declare that the age of compromise is all but [...]

The hockey season ended moments ago for the home team, well short of the goal written on the whiteboard last fall. But that’s sports. Twenty eight other teams have had or will have their own version of tonight. When rookie camp opens in July, new faces will want their shot at it this rodeo on [...]

I am sitting in our living room at 10 a.m. on a Saturday. The television is off, mostly because I got lost in thought before turning it on to play video games. It is about the only kind of hockey I want to watch for the next few days — the only kind where three [...]