Tammy Banfield's blog
Indebted to Us All
In these times of financial crisis and turmoil, many of our habitual comforts become expendable. This goes for the microeconomics of a household and the macroeconomics of Global markets. What does any of this have to do with sports? Well, according to one savvy banker, a lot. Here's an essay written by a Dawson Creek banker about why the world could do without the Olympics right now.
Indebted to Us All
A young child sits in a shopping cart while her mother pushes the cart into the lineup at the cash register. A chocolate bar catches the little one's attention, and the child cries out for her mother to buy it immediately. But the child's father recently lost his job and money is so tight; the mother has budgeted down to the last dollar. She could use her credit card, but that will be her family's last lifeline if something catastrophic happens, so she scolds her child for asking for something that they can't afford. The little one slumps in her seat and pouts all the way home.
Is Women's Hockey good for women's hockey?
The Battle of the Border event hit Dawson Creek, B.C. last week. It featured a game between the Calgary Oval X-treme Women’s hockey team (loaded up with Canadian Olympians) and the U.S Selects Women’s hockey team (loaded up with American Olympians). As part of the event, the players sat down with local female hockey players for the Hero’s Lunch. While eating their lasagna, ceasar salad and red and white jellybeans, the women told the young players of a time when there was no Women’s Hockey. When they had to lace-up with the boys and hold their own in the corner. How nice it is, the Olympians cheered, that today’s young players can experience Women’s Hockey right from their first T-push.
