Thursday, February 18, 2010

Very Good, Mr. Sappenfield

This is how Sappenfield starts his article on Canada's obsession with winning gold in men's hockey:

There have been some strange rumors swirling around Canada Hockey Place in Vancouver. Word is that some peculiar winter carnival is passing through town, in which people have been known to skate on ice without hockey sticks and race across the snow even when no bear was chasing them.

Bravo. That might be the best opening paragraph in a news story I've ever read.