Welcome to The Sporting Life section. Here we take a few looks at sporting stuff in ways that may be serious or in other ways that border upon a bare-faced blasphemy. Your serious, witty or angry comments are welcome.
As sport moves so quickly along with social and economic changes I wanted to try and see what sporting lives would look like in the year 2025. So I waved my hands around my crystal balls, chanted ali-zumba-zumba-zee, and... Lue lisää
A bad time for Finnish men in the Winter Olympics. However, as in real life, the Finnish women take hold of the sails and keep the sinking boat afloat. Lue lisää
One of our sporting life big boys, Heikki Kovalainen, is making new waves in the football world. The news is that our own ”Kovy”, from Suomussalmi here in our northlands, is to join Norwich City football club soon. Lue lisää
My own ability at ice skating can be equated with that of an elephant on roller skates trying to get home after one of those famous Finnish Little Christmas events. Yet the sheer beauty of some of the ice skating we see... Lue lisää
Sometimes we take the sporting life far too seriously and try to use it in the service of this or that ideology. I want to praise those sporting life people that excell at doing those things that are totally useless. Lue lisää