Kolby Solinsky

Let's try to not read too much into today's news that former gold medallist Donovan Bailey was arrested on March 28 for drunk driving.

I'm not saying we shouldn't read into it because it's not a big deal that somebody drinks and drives, or that we should just...

There can't be a more polarizing team in hockey. Really.

Well, maybe that's not true. Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Boston, Toronto... hockey's messed up, man. But, when it comes to Washington, things get confusing. Odd, interesting, and confusing.

No team is this much fun to watch lose. No team is this much...

Excuse me if I can't remain at a distance for this one, if I can't quite stay unbiased or "professional," or if I can't quite remain civil.

That's what happens when civility is betrayed, when we can allow a decision like the one by Judge Catherine Carlson yesterday...

Are there patterns to The Madness? Not really. It is The Madness, after all. But you will need a guideline for survival. For the couch, at least.

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1. You'll fall in love with one team's jersey...

You'd think it would just be Marquette every year....

The relationship between the two cities is extremely subtle, but it's there. Frankly, it's so subtle that most people in each city probably don't realize it, won't realize it, and probably find it insulting (because people can find anything insulting if there's a comment section available).

Walk around Vancouver, and...

What a great weekend for the NHL. Cody Hodgson and Zack Kassian -- and Marc-Andre Gragnani and Alex Sulzer -- played against their former teams in Vancouver, the Dallas Stars continued to be "real," and the Toronto Maple Leafs left the stone age behind by hiring bronze age coach Randy...

For Ocean's Eleven, and I guess, Ocean's Thirteen, the formula worked...

Let's get George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Clooney kind of looks like Cary Grant and he's not that big yet (this was 2001, after all), and we feel that Pitt can do more than just look good for

I have a friend named Sean Leathong who is pretending to be a television anchor in Hamilton, and he posed me this challenge a little while ago: "Can you write an article about how Toronto should get an NFL team? I've never heard anyone make a compelling argument."

We know we're at a scary moment in the history of minor hockey when a local Canadian association has banned bodychecking according to the Peace Arch News, a paper based in a suburb of B.C.

The article says, "It's just for the house leagues," but that makes...

*A review of last night's Rock Center w/ Brian Williams, NBC's "new" newsmagazine...

White Cover wrote last week that, to date, Rock Center's biggest fault is that it remains no more than an hour-long extension of Williams' Nightly News, with the occasional bit of humour from...

George Clooney is too cool. (On that note, you can expect a column shortly about my "man crushes," but the guy can take it away himself here...)

From the Huffington Post on Friday:

I cut tobacco for a living in Kentucky -- that was hard work. I sold...

The following is a dramatic analysis of how and why coffee runs my life, and why I consult it for advice, inspiration and motivation every day, and why I could never live in a place that routinely charges above $2.50 a cup.

Sometimes, you can't think of any other title...

Game one is done. The beer was flying, you can bet, while Main and Portage was rocking like Granville Street during the 2010 Olympic gold medal game. For one day, Winnipeg was the center of the universe, a bigger deal than it was at any moment during the existence of...

They remind me of the Sirens. They sing you songs about sorrow, about the blues, and they hang out in the lake like Peter Pan's mermaids. They grab onto your ankles, they pull you down, and they want you to join them down below and blast your vocal...

And, so, after the greatest night of regular season baseball in this 24-year-old man's history, the $41 million Tampa Bay Rays are in the post-season and the $161 million Boston Red Sox are out.

Dying. Happy.

If Wednesday night's action proved anything to me -- and it should have proved...

NOTE: I often have a problem writing things like these, because they're too serious. The wrong person writing them can be a terrible thing, and I don't see myself as the right person. But, as I sat there over the weekend and watched CNN's coverage of Sarah Palin's...

Here we go again.

Every year, the time comes... that time when everyone -- not just football fans -- falls victim to this culture of fantasy, where you can play GM for approximately the next six months like a little girl plays house with Barbie and Ken.

We don't think...

As someone who fell in love with Entourage as fast as Brett Favre fell in love with himself, it's been a bit of a rocky road for me.

Yes, I'm not sure there is a show in history that I have enjoyed more than Entourage... during seasons one...

The Kennedys is now on Global TV, finally making the jump to prime-time Canadian television and allowing all of us to marvel at the series and it's "stunning" portrayal of a family with "secrets" that "nobody really knows"... Oh, to be so lucky. But, there are...

Well, we're almost at the end of this current season of The Bachelorette and it appears that the NHL may be the only major North American sports league in operation come October.

Therefore, I have an idea.

After 23 years of being alive and bleeding nothing but hockey and...