Old journalist recollections: Miami, 1969, covering a trial: JUDGE: So this man you shot, he was your best friend. ACCUSED: Yessir. JUDGE: And you shot him? ACCUSED: Yessir. JUDGE: Why did you shoot him? ACCUSED: Because he called me a red-pants motherfucker - and I was wearin RED PANTS!

Or why I’ve never been upset when called a “virtue signaller.” Damn rights I’m signalling.

After a slow start, Canada has hit the gas at the Olympics this week.

Jesse Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" is so wonderful. RIP

Again, my column. Getting a lot of nasty email about this but the problem with Wilson instigating the fight is the time, the score (10-2) and the place (Olympic Games.) He's very lucky he wasn't suspended. montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

Wow. Holy hell.

I was 10 years old watching this, transfixed. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxh...

#Habs Olympic break is over for the players not competing in #MilanoCorina2026 -- the team will practice at 3pm this afternoon in Brossard.

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My column. If there is a time and place to go berserk on the ice, the Olympic Games with a 10-2 lead isn't it. montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

Little known fact: Ottawa's Tim Stutzle has a chance to become one of those rare athletes who compete in both Winter and Summer Olympics. Winter with the German men's hockey team as we speak, summer in men's 10-metre platform diving.

SAAQclic scandal: Lies, missed warnings and a $500-million cost blowout montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

Says a lot about Robert Duval that they made a great Godfather without Marlon Brando but the Godfather with George Hamilton in place of Duval was awful.

This Canadian women's team is really struggling. Too old.

My column on super-thug Tom Wilson trashing Canada's reputation at the Olympics. montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

So the French give their player Pierre Crinon the boot from the Olympics while Canadians cheer Tom Wilson for trying (and failing) to beat him up in a 10-2 game. What's wrong with us?

That time 20 years ago when I was doing radio reports from the Torino Olympics and the host in Montreal asked me if Canada's win in women's hockey counted as 20 gold medals. Uhhh...

My email is sick. You wouldn't believe the number of people who think assaulting a guy in a 10-2 game is cool. In a sport that wasn't run by insane chowderheads, Tom Wilson would be lucky to get away with a one-year ban.

More than 10,000 works were stolen by russia from the Kherson Regional Art Museum during the occupation. Last week, I visited an exhibition featuring art prints of some of the stolen pieces. You’ve already seen a few of them in my letter. Here’s a short video.

My column on super-thug Tom Wilson trashing Canada's reputation at the Olympics. montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

Kyiv. We’ve been warned about a possible attack tonight. Energy and heating infrastructure will likely be targeted again. Frost is expected all week. Negotiations are scheduled for tomorrow. Nothing new. Evil in full bloom.

The US administration is imperialist, authoritarian, and fascist in is approach to politics, without respect for the rule of law either at home, or abroad. Conciliatory actions only invite further predation. Canada must find ways to defend its sovereignty and its democracy, or we will lose both.

Sharing a proud parenting moment with anyone who will listen! 11yo son responded as follows to a hockey teammate's crude locker room question about a girl's body: [scornful face] "uh, WHAT kind of question is THAT?!"

Re: Canada’s Olympic curling teams. Could we just grow up a bit? Denying the filmed obvious. Saying that “we” don’t need officials “interfering” with the game, then asking officials to do just that. Sheesh, embarrassing.

La Presse à Milan | Ça ressemble à quoi être sur la glace contre l’équipe de hockey tout-étoile du Canada? « J’ai eu à suivre Nathan MacKinnon 2-3 fois lors de cutbacks. Ce n’est pas très plaisant. » Cinq joueurs français m’ont raconté leur expérience. lp.ca/76oQPm?shari...

Curling is the only Olympic sport where the athletes look like they’re about to either win a Gold Medal or explain why the HOA won't let you paint your mailbox a different shade of beige. Absolute Divas. 🥌🧤 #SportyAndSmallTalk

I could be wrong. (Hey, there's always a first time.) But I think Bill Guerin built this team to play Florida in the Cup final and forgot the Olympics are different. The only way Canada can lose a final against the U.S. is if the goalie blows it. Talent matters. Ya need Hutson and Caufield, Guerin.

In my book this is class congratulating class. I guess he can skip Marc Kennedy.

To be fair, they did have it coming after the 2024 basketball

My tourney revelations so far - wow is Celebrini special - Slafkovsky has found two higher gears this year if not 3 - Horvat is a helluva player - it’s a skaters tourney so Hutson and Caufield would have done great - Celebrini McD Mac should be together - event little too fast for big D

Sorry but if Mark Stone scores a goal, Canada is obligated to throw it back. Still 2-1.

Put the hockey stick away, Ron. You look ridiculous.

This is creepy. I signed up for CBC Gem for the Olympics. I tried to find the short version of Kingsbury's run but Gem was only showing full competition so I went to YouTube. Clicked on short clip, which took me BACK TO GEM. Couldn't exit. Shut TV off. Still can't exit except to cable feed. Yikes

Brazil has more gold medals than Canada - at a winter Olympics.

Good that Marie-Philip Poulin is back for Germany today but I don't think this team can beat the US even if they dress Hayley Wickenheiser.

God I wish TSN would leave Mudryk on curling forever.

Amazing. 22.

My column on the IOC winning the gold medal for cowardice. montrealgazette.com/sports/todd-...

I thought Marc Kennedy was going to start throwing at curling yesterday. Stomping around, trying to show off his muscles, behaving like an ass. I don't care what the norm is in curling. When you get to the Olympics you are representing your country. Act like you understand that much.

My son today called Democrats in Congress the Washington Generals of politics and I think he should be the designated writer in the family.

Guy in a suit. There. Told you all you need to know.

I don't know what the high point of these Olympics will be but Ilia Malinin's pompous, ponderous, portentuous "poetry" was definitely the low point. The Quad Dog indeed.

@strategywoman.bsky.social For you, Yaroslava. montrealgazette.com/sports/todd-...

My god I'm going to be sick of Jay Baruchel by the time this over. Give me fingernails on a blackboard over that voice any day.

My column. montrealgazette.com/sports/todd-...

The whole sky just exploded in green here in Reykjavík. It was so bright, I didn't even need my flashlight to walk out to my neighborhood beach. It's rare when we get these whole sky engulfing shows. This season has been something else. #solarmaximum ftw! #northernlights #aurora #iceland

20 years ago, Team Canada laid a giant egg at the Torino Olympics. Part of the problem was Wayne Gretzky, whose wife had rung up gambling debts through a ring organized, in part, by Rick Tocchet. The scandal was a big distraction. Today? Tocchet is an assistant for Team Canada. Hockey morals.

Mark Stone just got a microfractured face!

The last goals scored against Team Canada men's hockey were by Sweden in a 2-0 quarterfinal win on Feb. 16, 2022. This nonsense about a scoreless streak going back to 2014 is complete bullshit and every panelist who lacked the balls to say so is a horse's ass. Team Canada is Team Canada. Period.

My column. montrealgazette.com/sports/todd-...