“Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skillful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.” – Bob Marley WHEN BOB MARLEY used to tour, he would demand that there was ready access to a football field at all...
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What right does a Canadian have to write about loving America? Why would he even bother? Because when it comes to shopping, sports, and television, Canadians are treated exactly the same as Americans. We’re marketed to in precisely the same ways: inundation, intimations of inadequacy, and the notion that, if we’re told just what...
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In a new feature at The Barnstormer, every so often a few of the editors and contributors will weigh in on a topic of the day, something that for better or for worse has captured the front pages of the sporting universe. In today’s Editorial, Ian Orti, Mike Spry, and Andrew Forbes give their...
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I’M GOING TO OFFER two examples of past Ottawa Rough Riders quarterbacks as a composite illustration of why I think the Canadian Football League deserves your attention, provided (A) you like football and, (B) you reside in Canada, or love someone who does. I do this as a means of salvaging the reputation, somewhat,...
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I AM ABOUT to do two things. First, I will permanently alienate myself from the world of footballfutbolsoccer journalism by calling out this sport as the most boring sport played on a rectangular field. I will call out its players for being the weakest of all pro sports athletes. I will call out the...
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HE WAS A MEEK MAN, my father, but constant in all things. He owned and operated World Press & Tobacco, a two-aisle indoor newsstand and smoke counter that had every newspaper worth reading and several that weren’t. There were also thousands of magazines catering to every obscure habit, hobby, predilection and desire, arcane eddies...
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