Author Archives: Doug

Hockey Proud

Posted on April 11, 2013

There always has to be a first. Today, with much pride, that honor goes to the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association. Today’s announcement that the National Hockey League and NHLPA will begin building inclusive policies and practices for LGBT … Continue reading →

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Male Bag: Agony Uncles

Posted on February 6, 2013

Our mail bag has been stuffed lately. Well, maybe not so much, but we like any sentence with male and stuffed in it. Once we cleared out all the hater mail, threats from bail bondsmen and letters with a strange … Continue reading →

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“The Beautiful Game”

Posted on January 17, 2013

5v5 with CSN’s Bill Bell For every screaming, rabid Caps fan that packs into Verizon Center (where’s the Capstraunaut guy, anyway?) figures suggest there’s more than 10 – and perhaps many more than that – at home, watching on the … Continue reading →

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Notes On (Training) “Camp”

Posted on January 13, 2013

With Apologies To Susan Sontag Oh sure, we know how it is. Just because you’ve been sitting around playing (and losing) NHL 13 with some smart-mouth punk in Winnipeg, you think you’re ready and in shape for the 2013 hockey … Continue reading →

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Lockout Casualty Stories: The Production Line

Posted on December 26, 2012

Mourning The Great Red Wings Blog And Savior Of Curly Fries The inanity of the 2012 NHL player lockout has left our little corner of the world rather empty lately. We tried whistling past the graveyard for the first few … Continue reading →

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Lockout Blackout

Posted on October 13, 2012

What We’re Learning During Our Enforced Vacation   We admit it. We’ve been finding ourselves with a little extra time on our hands lately. And by a little we mean a shrieking, soul-crushing, metric ton of extra time. Which is pretty … Continue reading →

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Good On You, Orlando

Posted on October 5, 2012

And Good For Athletes Everywhere All of us in the sports press crowd – and yes, I guess that includes teh gays – got a bit of a jolt this week. No, not Teddy’s win, or Romney kick-boxing the President … Continue reading →

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SashaWatch©

Posted on May 30, 2012

What Would We Do Without Our Awkward Sasha? So yeah, there’s been plenty of talk out there about whether Alex Semin will be returning to the Capitals lineup next season. Some of it from Sasha himself, or not, depending on who you … Continue reading →

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For Seasons

Posted on May 13, 2012

Although it seems so much longer ago, it was only near this time last year (give or take a few weeks) that we were boarding a plane at Dulles that would take us to Amsterdam and Paris. Much of Europe … Continue reading →

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Rippling the Twine and Mending the Man

Posted on May 7, 2012

Well Wishes For Our #18  We’ve written before, perhaps a bit uncorked, about how much every other hockey call team on the teevee just plain stinks. Stinks, as in, if we could, “BOOOOOOO!!” I offer the jury exhibit A: Pierre … Continue reading →

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