When the defending national champions beat you one night and you have a 20-point lead over them a day later, you don’t sit on your lead and wait for the clock to run out. The Dinos men’s basketball team almost learned this the hard way last weekend when they visited the University of Alberta Golden… Continue reading Dinos hoopsters bounce back
Month: November 2002
Holy puck!
Nobody in the Dinos locker room could be excited about coming out of the University of British Columbia with only two of the four points that were on the line this past weekend. The Dinos took the long trip to the coast to face off against a dismal squad from UBC, which prior to the… Continue reading Holy puck!
Ladies feel the basketball blues
The interprovincial rivalry between the women’s basketball teams from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta has seen its share of hard-fought battles, and last weekend’s games in Edmonton were no exception.The young Dinos squad dropped both games to the Pandas, but the standings don’t show how the visitors recovered from a disappointing… Continue reading Ladies feel the basketball blues
Chad Murray dives into our hearts
Think swimming. Dinos varsity swim team member Chad Murray does. A native of Lethbridge, Murray is currently clocking his 15th year in the pool, his third season with the University of Calgary, and his first year at the National Training Centre. To date, this 21 year old has enjoyed half a lifetime of swimming successes.… Continue reading Chad Murray dives into our hearts
Swimmers hope to stay afloat
By James Keller
With the Dinos’ second place finish in last year’s varsity swimming season, 12 years of swimming behind her and Olympic trials on the horizon, by some standards, third-year Dinos swimmer Emma Spooner is still a rookie.“I guess in the scheme of things, it’s not that long,” Spooner says about starting the sport when she was… Continue reading Swimmers hope to stay afloat
Golden Bears maul feeble Dinos
Have you ever seen that part of Billy Madison where Adam Sandler plays dodge-ball with all the young school-kids? If you’re like me, you laughed your ass off because it was a movie, but knew that in real life it would be terrible. Well, for those of us that wondered what it would be like… Continue reading Golden Bears maul feeble Dinos
Dinos topple the top seed two weeks running
This weekend’s performance reminded me of the Simpsons episode where they filmed a Radioactive Man movie in Springfield. In one scene, Radioactive Man gets hit with a 40 foot wall of sulfuric acid and you then hear him yell: “My eyes… the goggles; they do nothing.” Watching the Dinos play the U of A made… Continue reading Dinos topple the top seed two weeks running
Manic Street Preachers, Forever Delayed: The Greatest Hits
I’ve never understood how British groups are always able to choose the best songs for their albums, while North American groups just choose the shittiest radio-friendly three-minute ditties.Forever Delayed, the Manic Street Preachers’ new greatest hits album, is loaded from start to finish with some of the band’s truly greatest songs. Everything from number one… Continue reading Manic Street Preachers, Forever Delayed: The Greatest Hits
Pigeon-Hole, And The One They Call Lightning
Its wasn’t until a full 45 minutes into And The One They Call Lightning that I was fully struck by how good this album is. The folk-fusion atmosphere of the rest of the album drops away, leaving only its best elements: a jazzy bassline, hip-hop influenced drumming, and Isabelle Fahmy and Natasha Szuber crooning out… Continue reading Pigeon-Hole, And The One They Call Lightning
Snapcase, End Transmission
By Jeff Clemens
Snapcase’s newest album, End Transmission makes you wish this band’s disc didn’t have an end. This newest effort by the Buffalo, New York emo-core band is a progression from previous albums with a more natural flow to the music. The biggest strength of this CD is the lyrics, which are both intelligently political and philosophical.… Continue reading Snapcase, End Transmission