The first thing you must know about Gino Mäder is that he had unbelievable charisma. He had an air about him that drew everyone in. He had deep, understanding eyes and a rather serious visage mediated by an afro-like shock of curly brown hair that, when I met him for the first time in August of 2021, he had shaved off. The first thing I ever said to Gin… ncG1vNJzZmiclaeuqrjLnqyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe86nZKChnqR6rq3Dnqk%3D

One person I really miss in this world is Pierre Lacroix. I’ve written plenty about him over the years, but on a night in which he was (finally) inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder, there is always room for a few more Pierre stories. First off, it was really nice to see such a large turnout of ex-Avs greats tonight in Toronto, such as Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Patrick Roy and Ray Bourque.

I've always avoided Ingmar Bergman—I've seen lots of old movies because I was part of my university's film club and they aired weekly, including silent films like Metropolis and Dr Caligari's Cabinet with live piano music. Bergman seemed too intense, too dark. I preferred more light-hearted works like classic screwball comedy. During my convalescence, slow as it is, of major surgery to remove a malignant tumor I thought of giving his Seventh Seal a chance.

But even I know about Caitlin Clark. My interest in this groundbreaking player has been extremely limited — until I read two very different items related to her this week. The first one is a letter, published two weeks ago in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which quickly went viral. The le… ncG1vNJzZmiZna6xqq%2FKoqWsp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opqedXZy8sLCMrZ%2BippdigaJ%2F

After calling Paris home for almost a decade, I’ve accumulated a lot of little stars on my Google Maps. These favorites cover both sides of the Seine and are spread amongst Paris’s 20 arrondissements, which unfurl out from the center like an escargot. Within them are a handful of microneighborhoods—“quartiers” as they’re commonly called—that are almost like little villages. As we inch closer to the 2024 Summer Olympics, I’ll be sharing suggestions for how to best spend time in some of them.