Hi everybody, welcome to the CanSportsBlog.
Through some magical luck on my part, you've somehow made it here. My guess is, you're a Canadian sports fan with some web-saavy, just like myself. Maybe you found me through Blogger, or maybe you came across the official @CanSportsBlog Twitter account. No matter how you came to this post, on this blog, I thank you for checking it out, and I hope you'll check back as I plan on updating often.
My motivation for starting this blog is the culmination of a few factors:
I spend a lot of my time following, reading, listening to and discussing Canadian sports.
Seriously. I'm pretty obsessed with sports. It's the best drama there is: it never ends, it has a near-unlimited number of characters, story-lines, and you never have to look far to find someone who's willing to discuss and debate with you. Why spend your time watching anything else?
It's not just the actual games that are interesting, either. To me, everything about the sports world is genuinely enthralling. The business decisions that go on behind the scenes, where money and politics have just as much importance as what happens on the field. The media that covers Canadian sports, despite being somewhat homogenous compared to our American brethren, creates engaging discussion points, and many media members often become entertaining characters in their own right. Everything from Collective Bargaining Agreements to Amateur Drafts to new stadium developments is just downright exciting.
So, why Canadian sports? I'm really not one of those "Rah rah, Canada is the best, USA sux!" patriots. In fact, I think being overly proud of the accomplishments of your country (a.k.a. "nationalism") is kind of silly. But being a sports fan is also silly. It's fun to cheer for someone, even if they were born on the other side of the continent and have very little in common with yourself. And as I'll explain below, I believe that for a relatively small country with relatively little emphasis on sports, we're on the precipice of a "Golden Age" of Canadian athletes and professional sports.
