Category: Sports

Call for equal pay for women for equal play falls flat

by Bruce Dowbiggin | Jul 16, 2019 | Sports | 0

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Let’s face it: women’s sports are second-tier entertainment, which even most women don’t support ($$)

Kawhi Leonard just rewrote the script for pro sports

by Bruce Dowbiggin | Jul 10, 2019 | Sports | 0

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: There’s a new sports model taking over and it’s all about best on best and relegation for the mediocre ($$)

How Gene Tunney brought down a boxing legend and an era

by Pat Murphy | Jul 10, 2019 | Sports | 0

PAT MURPHY: He beat Jack Dempsey twice to become heavyweight champion – and his staid personal style foreshadowed the end of the Roaring ’20s ($$)

Jack Dempsey and the birth of the Roaring ’20s

by Pat Murphy | Jul 3, 2019 | Lifestyle, Sports | 0

PAT MURPHY: The boxer was a prime example of the ascension of celebrity, perhaps rivalled only by baseball’s Babe Ruth ($$)

The Raptors elevated basketball to an art form and lifted us all

by Gerry Chidiac | Jun 27, 2019 | Lifestyle, Sports | 0

GERRY CHIDIAC: The most ethnically diverse team ever to win an NBA championship reflected the nation’s diversity ($$)

U.S. women’s soccer team fighting battles on and off the field

by Ken Reed | Jun 20, 2019 | Sports | 0

SPORTS: After years of being the best team in the world, they continue to fight for equal status and respect at home ($$)

Canada’s great basketball awakening

by Bruce Dowbiggin | Jun 18, 2019 | Sports | 0

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: The Raptors’ win was transformative for the league, the business of sport and for Canada in general ($$)

Baseball’s unwritten rules are stupid and archaic

by Ken Reed | Jun 10, 2019 | Sports | 0

SPORTS: It’s time for players and managers to grow up and get rid of the ego-based false machismo that ruins the game ($$)

When it comes to injuries, MLB teams remain clueless

by Ken Reed | May 23, 2019 | Health, Sports | 0

KEN REED: Injury research through analytics should be priority one, since baseball owners spent $745,769,319 on injured list players in 2018 alone ($$)

Financial illiteracy on the campaign trail won’t serve Sanders

by Bruce Dowbiggin | May 22, 2019 | Politics/Law, Sports | 0

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: The U.S. senator is using baseball to decry the inequalities that crop up in capitalism. That’s just nonsense ($$)

Tanking takes the heart out of statistical analysis in sports

by Bruce Dowbiggin | May 16, 2019 | Sports | 0

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Only the purity of competition assures that the resulting data has relevance and application in a sport ($$)

Causing a commotion based on innocent colours

by Frontier Centre for Public Policy | May 9, 2019 | Politics/Law, Sports | 0

BRIAN GIESBRECHT: What’s in a name? Apparently plenty when it comes to sports teams and imaginary slights (FREE)

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