aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Canadians have a special relationship with Americans and Americans have a special one with the British. As an Argentine I find myself saying often that Italians and Argentines are primos hermanos or first cousins.It would be impossible to remove th...

topics: football, granville-island, soccer, writer, writers

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

As a little boy when I accompanied my father and mother from our residential neighbourhood of Coghlan downtown we took the Bartolom Mitre train that took us past Belrgrano R to our destination of Retiro which was the end of the line. On the way, wh...

topics: downtown, park, rugby, soccer

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

It s understandable that the news of the death of Sir Bobby Robson, a legand of a footballer (soccer player) in England and a manager that ran some of the world s top football clubs in Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven and Newcastle United as well as the Engl...

topics: football, soccer

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

In July 2007 Rebecca Stewart, my granddaughter stood by the big red door of the Gothic revival structure that was the main building of my St. Ed's High School. A few weeks ago during an electrical storm I moved one of the benches there and placed it ...

aggregated from: Tourism British Columbia Blogs

Central park is nestled in between busy streets and a busy neighbourhood. Whether you are traveling by car or the Skytrain it is very easy to pass by the park without really knowing it is there. It isn't until you start to explore one of the many wel...

topics: burnaby, park, soccer, tennis

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

City of Vancouver wants homeless in emergency shelters during Olympics WTF Gregor I know you have Canucks Fever but maybe you should drink some fluids and think about this one. On the other hand...B.C. promises $17.5M toward proposed national soccer ...

topics: bc-rail, city-of-vancouver, delta, olympics, soccer

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

I'm not sure which mailing list led me to receive this email, but being ridiculously soccer-crazy myself, I feel a need - no - a duty to pass this information on. As any Vancouverite soccer fan knows, any soccer news is big news, so here we go.Zizou ...

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

Late game push by the TimbersThe Vancouver Whitecaps recorded their win of the still young 2009 United Soccer Leagues (USL) season last night with a one - nil win over the Portland Timbers. The only goal of the game coming from a 63rd minute strike...

topics: mls, soccer, strike

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

HMCS Warrior: Colossus class light carrier in service from 1946 to 1948; return to Royal Navy and sold to Argentine Navy as ARA Independencia (V-1) ARA Independencia (V-1): Colossus class light carrier in service from 1959 to 1969; scrapped 1971 NA...

topics: football, park, soccer, writer

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

If you missed it yesterday Major League Soccer is coming to Vancouver in 2011 [mbv], and you can reserve your right to be the first in line for seasons tickets starting tomorrow at the official site of Vancouver s embryo of an MLS team [vm11]. Me...

topics: mls, soccer