One of my favorite times of the year

I love this time of year. Late spring / early summer still has the cool nights and hot days, but the dog days haven't arrived yet, driving us inside to the air conditioning. The nights are the longest, the road cycling is great, the Thunder and Phillies ballgames are enjoyable evenings out and pro hockey winds its season down to another Stanley Cup finale.

Tonight's Stanley Cup final game 3 is turning into a real nasty, edgy, entertaining hockey game. A seven game series starts to become entertaining when the participants (both on and off the ice) are chirping at each other and the officials. When the "game hate" gets dialed up, things get interesting.

Boston seemed to sleepwalk through their first two losses in Vancouver, but the Canucks have truly woken the bear tonight. Memo to lip readers: do not watch this game if you are easily offended. With 10 minutes left, the B's are leading 4 zip, and Tim Thomas just stoned a Canucks forward on a clean breakaway attempt. Wheeewww. I can't wait until game 4 Wednesday night.