Basketball

Steve Nash: Prime Minister in waiting

Let me just come out and say it: Steve Nash is Prime Minister material. Last week, Canadians went to the polls and gave current Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party a majority government. And while we look to the future and wonder what the next four years will look like, some will speculate who the next Prime Minister will be. My […]

Hall of Fame

Hockey community makes progress with concussions in sport

Concussions and head shots have taken over hockey at all levels. It’s something that the hockey masses think the NHL needs to deal with before someone dies. It has already ended careers (ask Eric Lindros) and is now the reason why hockey fanatics watched the Penguins in the playoffs without the game’s greatest player, Sidney Crosby. Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins have […]

Baseball

Manny Ramirez and the Baseball Hall of Fame

Dare We Hope that Manny May be Famed? Ron Washington, manager of the Texas Rangers, shares a view point that a lot of baseball’s most respected minds have had recently – all in regards to recently defamed slugger Manny Ramirez. “Until the past couple of years, I thought he was on his way to the Hall […]

Hockey

Sharks hungry to fix reputation

If the San Jose Sharks have ever had the potential to knock the playoff monkey off its back and take a legitimate shot at the Stanley Cup, Game 7 Thursday night is the time to do it. With an impressive first-round series victory over the Los Angeles Kings, the Sharks seemed to have emerged as one of […]

Football

What could an NFL lockout mean for the NCAA and TV?

A fight between millionaires and billionaires looks to be the biggest reality-show drama of the summer. With no end in sight for the bitter NFL lockout, fans of what’s arguably America’s most popular sport may have to turn elsewhere to get their football fix this fall. If the No. 1 choice for football nationally (although not […]

Hockey

Ryan Ellis: Predators prospect on tour with AHL Admirals

With his name engraved on the Memorial Cup two times over the last four years, Ryan Ellis is certainly familiar with playing top-calibre hockey in the month of May. To date, the Nashville Predators prospect has tackled virtually every on-ice challenge thrown his way, whether it has been internationally with Team Canada or with his home squad, theWindsor Spitfires. Just recently, […]

Baseball

Moneyball’s transition from book to movie

Later this year, baseball fans and movie watchers alike will be united by the film adaptation of the best-selling Michael Lewis book Moneyball. Though a fascinating read in its own right, perhaps just as intriguing as the book itself has been the path the story has taken to production. Alas, after far too many unanswered questions and changes in direction, […]

Basketball

Shareef Abdur-Rahim: Fact, myth or hoax

There’s a man with a bear on his leg that deserves your respect, not for spending his formative years as a professional athlete toiling in what was viewed by his colleagues as an NBA wasteland, not for his rapid ascent up the business side of the sport he dominated all his life immediately upon retiring […]

Basketball

Numbers Game: Jerryd Bayless flirts with stardom

Numbers, although deceiving, don’t lie. It’s an infamous cliche both comforting and disturbing for Toronto Raptors scoring point guard Jerryd Bayless. The 22-year-old, after all, has seen combinations of digits dictate the majority of his brief career, occasionally for better, but often for worse. Numbers of opportunities have limited his chance to showcase the offensive ability he […]

Hockey

Dominic Moore, NHL playoff regular

Before reaching the Eastern Conference Finals with the Montreal Canadiens last year,Dominic Moore had about as much playoff experience as a rookie. He played four games with the New York Rangers in the 2006 postseason, when they got swept by the New Jersey Devils in the first round. He had about the same impact on the score sheet as a […]