Category: Sports

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)

U.S. college basketball title game an example of sport at its best

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

KEN REED: True competition means the pursuit of excellence in partnership with your opponent ($$)

A young hero for all to emulate

by Constantine Passaris | Mar 31, 2019 | Health, Lifestyle, Sports | 0

Jesse Canney’s performance at the recent Special Olympics has been a catalyst for breaking down the barriers of marginalization (FREE)

Shoe malfunction puts U.S. College sports under microscope

by Ken Reed | Mar 27, 2019 | Sports | 0

KEN REED: The untenable college system promotes the amateur myth and tries to suppress the fact that young athletes fill the seats ($$)

The clumsy, cataclysmic evolution of baseball

by Bruce Dowbiggin | Mar 21, 2019 | Sports | 0

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: MLB is in the throes of a sea change that promises to alter everything from parity in the sport to the running time of games ($$)

Hall of shame sports owners led by Ottawa’s Melnyk

by Bruce Dowbiggin | Mar 12, 2019 | Sports | 0

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Far too many odious owners haunt the world of professional sports, preying on ticket-buying fans ($$)

Kawhi Leonard’s slow, painful march out of Toronto

by Bruce Dowbiggin | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured Story, Sports | 0

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: It’s a good bet the transcendent NBA star will leave the Raptors after this season. In the meantime, he takes far too many nights off ($$)