Look Out Below, Canada: Only Toronto Can Save This Clown Show Hockey Season
This has not been a vintage winter for hockey in the country that worships the game. Consider the wreckage:
Read MoreVancouver Knows That When Shaking With FIFA Count Your Fingers Afterwards
The first question anyone should ask is why in the name of Maradona’s Hand Of God would anyone want to do business with FIFA, the body governing world soccer?
Read MoreHey, NFL fans, I bet ya'll love free agency
NFL Free Agency is like getting mail! It's like Christmas morning! Mom and Dad got you that 6'4", 215 pound receiver you've been asking for! Santa gave you a linebacker with 4.4 speed and cover skills! Life is good.
Read MoreThe Cleveland Browns can make every trade, sign every free agent, and draft all the best players. They still suck.
One weekend makes no difference when you have been as terrible as the Browns. They’ve been so bad for so long that they've bridged generations. You could have been born before the new millennium and understand the Browns suck. One big weekend won't make any difference.
Read MoreReturn Of The Bad Boy
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It’s hard to find someone who doesn’t disapprove of his antics away from the office. Women, in general, can’t stand him. Despite all this, we can’t take our eyes off him.
Read MoreRoger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile
Roger Bannister, the first person to break the 4-minute mile, The Miracle Mile, died over the weekend at the age of 88. The Dowbboy was a toddler then but had the good fortune to interview Bannister and Landy at the 1996 Victoria Commonwealth Games.
Read MoreAn Olympic Bridge Too Far For Bettman?
Don’t look now but Gary Bettman may be running out of second acts. The NHL commissioner for life has spent a good deal of time pushing off the dodgy reality of his league’s lace in the broadcast universe. He’s kept a marginal attraction afloat when ESPN and others ignore the league.
Read MoreCanada's Freestylers Have The Happiness Gene For Olympic Success
I know it’s still four years till the next Winter Olympics in Japan. But when they start the planning for Canada’s next Winter Games, might I recommend that they let the freestylers run the show?
Read MoreMissing In Pyeongchang: Whatever Happened To Judging Scandals?
Call them the Missing Olympics. The Pyeongchang Winter Games are missing a few of the staples of previous Olympics. And that’s bad. And it’s also good.
Read MoreLuke Rockhold, Yoel Romero, and How Everybody Got Guns
Too often the hype for a fight is about the weapons. The hype for Luke Rockhold versus Yoel Romero was no different, with a lot of lip service paid to the things we love about Rockhold and Romero’s game – the athleticism, technical ability, and vicious finishing ability. But that hype blinded us to their shortcomings and ultiamtely the reason the fight went the way it did.
Read MoreIOC Greed Has Given Calgary Leverage In Its Bid For the 2026 Winter Games
A while back, broadcaster Bryant Gumbel groused that he never watches the Winter Olympics. Gumbel, who is black, reasoned that because there was little or no representation from Africa or other warm parts of the planet, who wanted to see a white Olympics with just half the nations of the world represented?
Read MoreIs The Current MLB Gridlock A Market Correction Or A Market Collusion?
We’re told that the sincerest form of flattery is imitation. If it’s the case that teams are imitating the Houston Astros, then it’s no surprise prominent agents for Major League Baseball players are screaming foul about the phony war going on in the baseball talent pool.
Read MoreThe UFC needs to let their freak fight fly
In July, Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic will square off for the heavyweight title. Depending on how it goes down this July, maybe the UFC should think about making this kind of matchup a regularity – all over its roster.
Read MoreThe Insider's Guide To Super Bowl 52's Biggest Stories
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?
Read MoreWhy Is Stipe Miocic The Heavyweight GOAT We Don't Want?
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.
Read MoreIs It Time Out For Athletes And Coaches Cooperating With Media They Don't Respect?
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?
Read MoreHow Long Will Connor McDavid Stay With A Loser?
Maybe Edmonton NHL fans should record a song called, How Do You Solve A Problem Named The Oilers?
Read MoreHow NFL Teams Get In Line For The Future
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.
Read MoreWhy You Cannot Shut The Pandora's Box Of Sports Video Replays
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?
Read MoreRearview Mirror: The Middleweight Plot Was the Worst - But It Wrote The Best Character Arc of 2017
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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