Rock the rinks
Road to The Roar – November 5-10, Kitchener, ON It’s the qualifying tournament of the Roar of The Rings, the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials. Twelve…
Adam Peleshaty
Set for success
At the end of the fifth and deciding rubber of the Davis Cup semifinal between Canada and Serbia on Sept. 15 in Belgrade, both players…
Olympic hopefuls
On Sept. 8, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to let wrestling back into the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, awarded to Tokyo the day before….
Whatever it takes
The Essendon Football Club (the Bombers) of the Australian Football League (AFL) is one of the most successful clubs in Australia. Since 1871, the team…
Esther Vergeer amazing win streak ends via retirement
The year 2013 has been the year of “the streak.” The Chicago Blackhawks went 24 games without losing in regulation time to start the season,…
Big changes coming to Brier format
The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) confirmed on Mar. 10 that the winner of the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier will receive an automatic berth into the…
From tragedy to triumph: Lokomotiv Yaroslavl’s return to the KHL
September 7, 2011 was the saddest day in hockey history. On that day, the plane carrying the members of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of Russia’s Kontinental Hockey…
The unlikeliest of Olympic competitors
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the first Winter Olympics held on Canadian soil. From February 13-28, 1988, 1,423 athletes descended onto Calgary for…
Scotties to take over Stonewall
The 2013 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the women’s provincial curling championship, will start Wednesday at the Veterans Memorial Sports Complex in Stonewall. The winner…
Game-saving play: Women’s hockey may be inching towards parity
While Canadian hockey fans were glued to their screens watching the 2013 World Junior Hockey Championship in Ufa, Russia, another international hockey tournament featuring another…