How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

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No. 170: SIDNEY CROSBY / Before the famous victories that everyone watched, the brutally tough loss that no saw. In its wake, Hockey Canada was as cold as a mother-in-law's love.

No. 170: SIDNEY CROSBY / Before the famous victories that everyone watched, the brutally tough loss that no saw. In its wake, Hockey Canada was as cold as a mother-in-law's love.

87 won the Olympic gold in Vancouver with the OT goal against the U.S. Seven years before, when he wasn't yet household name, he got stoned in OT vs the Americans & I was the only media witness.

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AN either-or proposition has evolved into a rite of the beginning of the calendar year: Canadians celebrate a bunch of homegrown teenagers who are fresh off victory at the world junior hockey championships; or they second-guess the team’s management and take their shots at the kids who let a whole country (of television viewers) down.

The “either” and the “or” are both insufferable and neither seems better than the other. This week it was the latter.

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