The Cups Runneth Over

I am swamped by coverage of both the Stanley Cup and FIFA World Cup. To this point, I never really even realised I cared. But the hockey is good, with Edmonton (once) playing the best hockey I have seen in years. And the World Cup is, well, the World Cup, and you have to care because it is the sport of the world. Heck, I even watched a documentary on Maradona last night!

Strangely enough, this has left me happy that the Phoenix Suns are out of the NBA playoffs, because I would have been watching that, too.

This endless TV and couch surfing means I have been delinquent about many things these past two weeks. I am shorting myself on exercise (though I did run a 2:04 at the very hilly, soft-trailed half marathon in Ucluelet on Sunday) , I have not kept in contact with family and friends (sorry all, esp. Jana and Mike), and I am desperately short of sleep (not really by choice). Then again, ask me for an opinion on:

whether Edmonton will win tonight;
what the solution to their horrible power play is;
which African team will make it to the second round;
if the US squad deserves its #5 ranking, or;
the population of Trinidad and Tobago (who has 1/20th the people of Canada, but can still make a World Cup appearance);

... and I can provide a heady response. Or are heady responses and sport mutually exclusive?

Regardless, I will be glad when hockey is done, as the NHL playoffs should not shoulder up to the Canada Day holiday. This makes our CBC look terrible, as they drive an 'Everything Hockey' mentality to the summer (see Hockeyville, Hockey - A People's History, and the reliving of the Oiler's Playoff Dynasty for evidence), and then ride Pierre Trudeau, Anne of Green Gables, and Feature movies until the season starts again.

Still, I don't think I am out of the woods yet, as hockey is over just in time to tune into this!