Sporting Madness

Apologies for the shortage of posts here; I've been busy writing for Out of Left Field for the last couple of days. There hasn't been a shortage of interesting stuff, though. Here's my post on the Arena Football League's potentially impending demise and what that could mean for the CFL; I've also written a follow-up post on the Prime Time Sports segment discussing it and one today on the newest member of Toronto FC, Dwayne De Rosario . Should be back to regular posting here shortly.

Apologies for the ridiculously long absence: I've had to crank out 45 pages of essays in the last couple of weeks in addition to my normal work at the paper , so I haven't felt like writing much in the little downtime I've had. School's almost done for the term, though, and I don't have much Journal work to do until January, so I should be able to get more done here. Expect several posts today with more to come on the weekend. Thanks for sticking around here, and apologies again for the lack of content lately. - Andrew

I've been away from this blog for a horribly long time, thanks to the crazy last couple of weeks, so sincere apologies to all of you who bother to read my blabberings. In addition to my usual writing and editing duties for the Journal , Out of Left Field and The CIS Blog [note: that one, a review of the CIS soccer championships, might actually be worth taking a look at], I've had to deal with four massive history papers and presentations in the last week (on such various topics as the actions of General Motors under the Nazi regime, the Byzantine Empire's relationship with Russia and the significance of the printing press to the German Reformation), so my brain has been pretty fried. Anyway, things should hopefully get back to a slightly more normal posting pace around here, and I'll do my best to keep up with it. Thanks for putting up with the absence!

Apologies for the lack of blogging around these parts lately. It's been a pretty crazy week and a bit. As usual, Thanksgiving completely screws with the Journal 's schedule: we had to put together our usual Friday paper on Thursday the same as always the week before, but we didn't actually print it until Tuesday on the rationale that next to no students would be around Friday to read it. As you can imagine, that makes things particularly difficult for a sports section: you can't preview any of the upcoming weekend games because they'll already have happened by the time the paper hits the street, but you can't write game recaps for them because they haven't yet happened by your deadline. It's like one of those time-traveling paradoxes. We got around it by covering a soccer game from that Wednesday and some other sports that we didn't have space for in the previous Tuesday's issue , plus running a less time-dependent piece on various coaches...