Another Olympics in the books. It was my favorite in years, for so many reasons.
US Men’s and Women’s Hockey Silver Medals. OK, so they both lost to the Canadians, but both gold medal games were great. Seeing Jenny Potter with her kids on the ice and Angela Ruggiero tearing up but still [...]
An Open Letter to the Editorial Staff of USA Hockey Magazine:
I’m a bit surprised that the “Ivy on Ice” article in the November issue of USA Hockey magazine only talks about the men’s game. Co-education has existed in the Ivies for almost four decades, and the women’s game has a younger but equally important history:
The [...]
The more I blog and mention “the book,” the more questions I get about it. So here’s a summary of the book, in outline form, based on current course and speed. This is completely serious, including my sidebar comments about content and tone. Your mileage may vary, the actual contents may appear smaller [...]
The ECAC hockey teams are hosting their annual pink at the rink auctions for the next few days on eBay. Pink-wrapped game-used sticks, scarves, ties, and some signed team jerseys make up the nearly 300 items available for auction, at prices ranging from $50 to $150. All of the money raised goes to [...]
I’m regularly blown away by the comparative “regular guy” nature of hockey players, from kids to adult beer leaguers to professionals who will stop to talk, meet fans, and sign anything (or anyone) at just about anytime.
Today’s coolness: I’m on my way to San Francisco, in Newark airport for a flight delay that is [...]
With a tip of the propeller hat to the Beijing Olympics, I wore a USA hockey jersey to a training class today (I was one of the co-instructors; we all wore hockey jerseys representing USA, Russia and the Ukraine). Right theme, wrong Olympics, but for some reason I’m finding it hard to get [...]
Spent a vacation weekend in Montreal (and honestly, truly did no any work for four days, including blogging, reading email, or even texting friends from work). A work de-emphasis didn’t stop me from thinking about architecture and sustainability, however, and those thoughts were front and center as I toured the Basilica de Notre [...]
Shaun White, the Flying Tomato, rocks. Even in LAX, late at night, when he has better things to do like listen to some tunes and relax. He’s working, like the rest of us, yet he was talking, high-fiving, low-fiving, signing autographs, and generally being a Tomato worthy of a Jersey appellation. [...]
Here’s the closest I’ll ever come to snowboarding: I saw Shaun White in the airport last night. He was deep in conversation with someone sitting nearby, high-fiving kids as they went by, signing autographs (for people, me included, who recognized him) and generally being the kind of person you’d envision holding up as [...]
Spend any amount of time in a meeting when I’m discussing technical leadership and distinguishing talent and you’ll hear the name Michael Jordan dropped more than 3-point shots in a Final Four game. I frequently ask people to fill in the blank in “I’m the Michael Jordan of (blank).” The goal is to capture [...]
