With the NFL season getting started last night, player health, at all levels, comes to the front of my mind. I have recently been thinking about health insurance with respect to sports. Living in Canada, it is definitely less of concern than in the U.S., but I thought I would share some thoughts about the ...
Caught in a vicious cycle: the media and Lance Armstrong
People assume that I'm a big Lance Armstrong fan and it's easy for me to see why that presumption is made. Maybe it's because I read, and have on my bookshelf, 2 Armstrong books, It's Not About the Bike (that one's yours John, I've just had it for 9 years) and Every Second Counts. Maybe it's ...
Can you get there from here?
This is my first post since early June and I've got no excuse for being delinquent. I guess our unusually warm and sunny summer has made me listless. Nevertheless, I want to write and it's about time I put excuses (however valid) aside and get back to writing something. It's not like sports have disappeared ...
Your brain needs exercise and nutrition too
The benefits of exercising, keeping fit and eating healthily have been impressed on us (society, specifically North American society in which I live) for a long time. Unfortunately, it hasn't exactly caught on. It came close when Jared lost a bunch of weight eating subs everyday. Although Jared is to be commended for deciding to ...
Now what?
So I turn 32 today. It's kind of a non-age. In my mind, 33 is a bit of a milestone, 30 is an obvious milestone, but 32, that's nothing. Of course, I couldn't care less either way. Age means very little to me now, but I guess this is as good a day as any ...
Forest for the trees
Everybody knows about the 'concussion issue' in the NHL, NFL and hockey and football in general (youth-pro levels). It's all over the media. Occasionally it will be discussed somewhere else, but it rarely holds attention for much longer than it takes to read or watch the story. Unfortunately, brain injury is so widespread and can ...
Tralfamadore
I just finished Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It's about Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist in Ileum, New York who was a World War II POW in Dresden, Germany when it was fire bombed (Vonnegut, himself, was a POW in World War II in Dresden in Schlachthof Fünf (Slaughterhouse Five). He, like his future character, Billy Pilgrim, was there ...
Manuscript completed. Does anyone want to publish it?
The title speaks for itself. I never envisioned using my blog to push a manuscript, but the question stands. Yesterday I was writing a post about the importance of awareness of brain injury. I think the awareness aspect has been seriously diminished as compared to prevention and treatment. I had written probably most of the incipient ...
Back at it
I haven't written a post in a long time, but I was still writing. In October I started writing a manuscript for what I hope will be a book about my cross Canada bike trip in 2002, my bike accident and brain injury in 2003 and how my life has changed since then. I finished ...
This isn’t about Tebow…but it kinda is
On Sunday I watched the Denver Brocncos score 10 points in a little over 2 minutes to tie the Chicago Bears and then win in overtime. This is an impressive comeback, but it wouldn't be so believably unbelievable had it not involved the Broncos and their quarterback Tim Tebow. Last week Chuck Klosterman wrote an ...