I Don't Like Mondays — November 23, 2015
After just two seasons back in the league, Ottawa hits paydirt. Fortuitous for the CFL, too, having a good-news story for the Grey Cup game this week.
Read MoreCrosby Still's No Longer Young
Anyone with eyes and ears is well aware of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia's megastar, Pittsburgh Penguins captain, MVP, All-Star, Cup Champion, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (including 2010's "Golden Goal"): Sidney Crosby. Have you also heard of his sudden slip over the last 2 seasons?
Read MoreHolly Holm Teaches Ronda Rousey The Art of War
We’re dumb. That’s the message you should take from Holly Holm’s upset over Ronda Rousey on Saturday. As fans, as analysts, as journalists — we’re all dumb. Sun Tzu was smart. He wrote a book some 2500 years ago that to this day is still quoted for its depth of wisdom as it relates to combat.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — November 16, 2015
Putin probably believes he can outlast the bad headlines of a news cycle with a a few concessions to WADA and the IAAF plus a little whipping up of Russian paranoia about the world picking on them once again.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays (On Thursday) — November 12, 2015
There ain’t no party like an NHL GM party. Like the politicians at the Republican debate on Tuesday, NHL general managers have a lot of interesting ideas. The overarching issue that the GMs will discuss is how to get more shooter biscuits in the goalie basket.
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Rowdy
Very seldom does an athlete ascend beyond their sport, transcending it. When it does, the story of who they are within the public sphere begins to crystallize. These public constructs then take on a life of their own. As the sports iris narrows on 'Rowdy' Ronda Rousey’s title defence this weekend, let us explore the five public constructs of Rousey.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — November 9, 2015
It is 97 years since Armistice Day in 1918 and 70 years since VE and VJ Day. Today, we honor the men and women who abandoned their creature comforts to make a commitment that our current society can scarcely wrap its mind around.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — November 2, 2015
We started off the NHL season by introducing the Loonie League, the bracket of the seven Canadian teams in the league. We’re going to rate them throughout the season relative to each other. Here, at the end of the first month, let’s revisit our first analysis and see who’s up and who’s down.
Read MoreClimbing The McMountain
You can imagine the scenario: he shows up on an invitation from some friend who works at the gym, thinking he’d get to chat with The Notorious One. Word gets to McGregor, ‘Dis ‘er guy was de Mountain on Game e’ Trones.’ To which McGregor lifts an eyebrow, ‘Is dat roight? Big fella, you wan to go a round er what?’
Read MoreAway Goes AA: The Blue Jays General Manager Post Goes Vacant
...the end of the AA era in the Blue Jays executive suite came well before the machinations of this season. In fact, it was a 50/50 proposition that the Montreal native would stay in Toronto from the time his mentor, president Paul Beeston, announced he was finally retiring as president of the club.
Read MoreThey're Big, They're Fast, They're Dirty: The Age of Tight End
Then something even stranger happened: Tight ends became playmakers in the NFL. At first, it was deemed a curiosity rather than an evolution. But in the decade since, this change became as permanent as the United States presence in Afghanistan.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — October 26, 2015
Since re-loading at the midseason trade deadline, the Blue Jays became a massive roller brush, going over top of the opposition with their crushing offence, painting everyone blue. It got them to the playoffs for the first time since Joe Buck’s act on FOX seemed fresh.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — October 19, 2015
In the end it will likely depend on what they do today and tomorrow. Lose and you become a warm adjunct to the 1992/ 93 World Series winners— always the younger brother who could only win one playoff round when Vegas called you the best team in the game.
Read MoreThe Bitter Highs and Sweet Lows: Bears vs Lions With The Dowbboy
When I proposed to Bruce that I chronicle the Lions and Bears game as we watched it together, there was only enthusiasm. ‘Sure, great idea.’ That was Wednesday. By Friday, he has scheduled a round of golf first thing Sunday morning.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays (On Thursday) — October 15, 2015
It’s not every baseball game where the mayor of a city disses the officials online during said contest. But this is Toronto, where mayors are in the habit of playing the fool for an American audiences, and John Tory was not going to let down the visitors at such a public moment.
Read MoreThe People Versus Nick Diaz
The media are on his side. Other fighters are, as well. Hell, even Cher. There is a feeling with the Diaz situation like there has never been before. A feeling of unison.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — October 12, 2015
Reynolds apparently thinks Canadians are inert objects who’ve never seen objects in flight. Harold lives on Baseball Mars.
Read MoreI Don't Like Mondays — October 5, 2015
Players smoked cigars and engaged in some chanting about a Bush Party. There were Go Pros on heads and ski goggles to keep the brut from stinging eyes.
Read MoreThe Numbers Game
They came off of diving headers, long-range shots, cut-backs into the box, cut-backs out of the box, end-to-end counter attacks, chips, crosses, volleys, and penalties.
Read MoreIn The Shadow Of A Throne Of Bones
Daniel Cormier defends his interim light heavyweight title against Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson. Both men fight in the shadow of the one inevitability that will remain as the arena lights dim on this fight: neither man has bested Jon ‘Bones’ Jones.
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