This being Super Bowl 52 week in Minneapolis, the sports media will be saturated with nothing but. Hours of bloviation await as the strengths and weaknesses of the Patriots and Eagles are dissected by people with inexhaustible oxygen supplies. And who are we to resist the urge to analyze the upcoming tussle between Tom Brady and Nick Foles for the affections of the world’s bettors?
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As heavyweights go, Stipe Miocic is the anti-fantasy. He's big by normal standards, but he isn't a hulk. He doesn't have a terrifying, imposing physicality. He just wins. In spite of that simple measuring stick for greatness, fight fans struggle to appoint him as a star.
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There are many traditions in sport that are fading away. Fighting in hockey. The phantom tag at second base in baseball. The big slow centre in basketball.
Is media objectivity when covering sports about to become another vestige of the past?
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Maybe Edmonton NHL fans should record a song called, How Do You Solve A Problem Named The Oilers?
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In the NFL, it’s very, very hard to win. Winning a game, winning two games in a row, winning consistently over the course of a season, winning over the course of multiple seasons – it’s hard. The margins are slim. And too many NFL teams don't look ahead, thinning the margins further.
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Al Michaels was nettled. The star NBC announcer watched yet another officiating screwup at the end of Saturday’s Rams/ Falcons playoff game then asked the musical question: Why do the final two minutes of a hockey game take two minutes, but the final two minutes of a football game take 20 minutes?
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The UFC Middleweight quagmire of 2017 wasn't all that bad. It allowed to enter the conversation not only the man who would prove its top fighter but maybe pound-for-pound best fighter in the game: Robert Whitaker.
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The 2018 sports year begins with a Bowl, but the full table setting lies ahead. What courses are being prepared? Let’s look forward at some of the most challenging stories ahead.
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Now is the winter of sports discontent. NFL coaches are being primed for the chop. NHL and NBA coaches, too, are trying to stay one step ahead of the grim reaper as their team’s rosy prospects dim. We hear longtime Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis won’t come back next year. John Fox in Chicago, Bill O’Brien in Houston and Chuck Pagano in Indianapolis are all being primed for the pink slip.
Read MoreSports, as the saying goes, is the gift that keeps on giving. This past weekend was one of the most diverse and interesting in recent memory with important stories that re-wrote the sports landscape.
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It has not been a good two weeks for the Toronto Blue Jays. The most recent body blow was the news that the New York Yankees, the Jays’ bitter AL East rivals, had won the Giancarlo Stanton sweepstakes. The prodigious Florida Marlins slugger spurned deals to go to San Francisco and St. Louis to accept a trade to the Bronx. The fact that the 2017 NL MVP is owed a staggering $265 million on his contract had eliminated most MLB teams— including the Jays.
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The debate over the use of the name Edmonton Eskimos was revived again this Grey Cup week. The mayor of the city believes the name is offensive. So do some native activists. But not everyone agrees. As we wrote in this 2016 column, if many of those affected by this supposed insult don’t see it as an insult… then who is the progressive culture industry doing it for?
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Where’s Bernie Sanders when you really need him?
The socialist scold — who’s usually out of his mind about corporate perks and privilege— has been remarkably quiet about the contract negotiations going on for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
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The stunning start to the inaugural season of the expansion Vegas Golden Knights is wonderful news. If you live in Las Vegas. If you’re a fan of the sport in general? Not so much.
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A retrospective on the legacy of the greatest pitcher to ever play in Canada, Roy Halladay.
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Georges St. Pierre and Michael Bisping were supposed to show up old and slow. Joanna Jędrzejczyk was supposed to be just too much and skate passed Rose Namajunas. Cody Garbrandt and TJ Dillashaw were doing their best to make the focus everything but fighting in the lead-up to their grudge match. As they say, though, that’s why fights aren’t done on paper.
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It will be eight years this U.S. Thanksgiving since the golf shot heard around the world. Hard to believe it’s been that long since Tiger Woods’ wife Elin practiced her short game on the back of his car in response to his infidelity.
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The buck stops at the top. In MLB, however, the buck stops at the start of next season. Faced with a tough call on whether to suspend Houston’s Yuri Gurriel for making a derogatory Asian gesture to LA Dodger pitcher Yu Darvish, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred decided to split the baby.
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There are many reasons Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Blowing up the NFL was not among them. Frankly, if you listed the targets Trump was least likely to hammer in the first year of his presidency, the NFL would have been high on that list.
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There was never any doubt. As he rounded third base win Saturday, Houston Astros second baseman José Altuvé was going to be out by at least ten feet at home. The diminutive Altuvé was trying to score in the ninth inning from first base on a hit into the right-centre gap by Carlos Correa.
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