True Confessions
Robin Brownlee
March 20 2009 09:52AM
Faster than oil companies have gouged us again with a four-cent increase at the gas pumps to mark the first day of spring, optimism over the Edmonton Oilers playoff chances has grown in leaps and bounds after Thursday's 8-1 laugher over the feeble Colorado Avalanche.
Under pressure
Robin Brownlee
March 17 2009 03:10PM
Funny thing how expectations work. When there are none, you get rolls like the Edmonton Oilers fashioned in their final 20 games last season as they went 14-5-1 and looked like the 1957 Montreal Canadiens doing it.
Deep Thoughts VIII: the great race
Robin Brownlee
March 11 2009 12:40PM
Not since Bob Stauffer and I attempted to propel our fat asses over 40 yards in a foot race without taking the twister at Edmonton Eskimos training camp a few years ago has there been a sight as sorry as the Western Conference playoff race the Edmonton Oilers are involved in.
No Oil Country for Old Men
Robin Brownlee
March 10 2009 11:53AM
I love old guys because I am one. I appreciate old stuff because, well, there's something to be said for time-tested reliability and familiarity even when it's obvious there's newer, better junk around.
The Lewinsky Effect
Robin Brownlee
March 08 2009 11:48AM
"I did not have sex with that woman." What else did you expect Bill Clinton to say after he got caught with his pants around his ankles and Monica Lewinsky under his desk in the Oval Office several years ago? "She was polishing my shoes?"
