With daytime highs of 100F and nighttime lows of 79F, what better time to head back to the rink next week in Brisbane.

For years, Amy and I have talked about building our own rink, with a restaurant where we could do food safety studies – because Manhattan, Kansas had nothing. Brisbane has a couple of rinks, but they favor public skating and figure skating; gotta pay the bills (that’s me and Chapman, 11 years ago).

So a bunch of us are seriously looking into the prospects of building our own arena and restaurant, where hockey (that’s ice hockey) would rule. Anyone with advice – or more importantly money – please e-mail directly. This will take awhile, but we are serious.

And we care about stories like this: The Ottawa Sun reports that Gatineau cops are chasing a pair of bandits currently on a breakaway with a slew of hockey sticks. Around 10 p.m. on Jan. 12, two men broke into Marc Sport Source for Sports at 455 Maloney Blvd. East and stole $28,000 worth of adult hockey sticks. Police believe the thieves will likely try to resell the sticks, so if someone on your beer league hockey team has suddenly found his scoring touch, it could be that his stick really is hot.