international sports

Hot and cold

These men and women, in all likelihood, will not win medals in Sochi. In fact, some of them don’t even rank in the top 1,000…


Monkey off, buffalo on

After years of competing under the shadow of Jennifer Jones, and losing two previous women’s provincial curling finals, Chelsea Carey’s team finally got to wear…


Is Canada golden?

Last week, Hockey Canada officially announced the Team Canada men’s hockey roster for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The group will feature 14 first-time Olympians who…



At the rim

At the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship last September, the hopes of Canada’s men’s basketball team qualifying for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup seemed to…


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…


MLB playoff preview

American League (AL): Tampa Bay Rays: The wild card winners were at one time the hottest team in baseball but have cooled off a bit….


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….


FIFA faux pas

Next July, the soccer world will turn its attention to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup.  In my mind, Brazil is to soccer what Canada…