We’re into sweating season. Hold up now, that’s not as sexy as it sounds.

Sure, all of those sport drink commercials on TV with the yoked athletes sweating all the colours of the rainbow might make you wish that you too, could sweat primary colours, but the roughly three per cent of the population willing to admit to excessive sweating is here to tell you that you can keep your blue sweat; they’re having enough trouble with the clear kind, thank you very much.

Much opinion surrounds the potential government investment in the proposed new stadium project. Winnipeg Men investigates the real financial and cultural impact of the new facility.

The ancient Romans had them. So too the ancient Egyptians, Persians, and Chinese. It’s believed the first was constructed in Greece in 776 BC for the first Olympic Games. The Mayans used theirs for ball games – and subsequent sacrifice of the losers.

There’s no denying the rush experienced in crossing a finish line – especially if the effort in getting there pushed you to your most extreme limits of endurance. No guts, no glory indeed; it’s only at race’s end that this admittedly macho slogan suddenly rings absolutely true.

They say you can learn a lot about a man from his handshake.

Chris Burke-Gaffney’s, for example, conveys a man operating in two worlds, quickly changing from a multi-stage thumb shake/finger-interlock to a more conventional business-like shake. Such a potentially awkward moment is a necessary risk for a guy operating as few others in his business do: as both artist and management.