The Christine Sinclair Show

It's the Christine Sinclair show within Canadian sports media circles today. The star Canadian forward, who scored her country's only goal in their 2-1 loss to Germany in the Women's World Cup, made it easy for Canadian journalists in search of a story this morning (including yours truly, although I'm not a journalist).

A free-kick and a missed chance would only eat up a couple of paragraphs. Throw-in her smashed nose, and subsequent, movie-of-the-week "put me in coach, I'm good to go!" side line drama, and that's the kind of story this World Cup needs to sustain media attention in the early going.

We got strange boxing analogies (the Montreal Gazette), a gushing, highly personal moment in the press box (the CBC's Anjali Nayar), and the Globe and Mail's Stephen Brunt's predictably erudite summary of Sinclair's Canada moment. My favourite though came from squizz, who made up his own variation on a familiar bit of sporting alchemy:

Allow me to introduce the Christine Sinclair Hat Trick, in the style of the Gordie Howe Hat Trick:
1. Become injured during the course of the match (bonus points for waving off the medical staff as they attempt to attend to something that's broken)2. Chirp an opponent for what you perceive to be an exaggeration of a foul (bonus points if you have the opportunity to "shush" someone in the process)3. Score a goal (bonus points if it's a highlight-reel cracker).