The Toronto Maple Leafs are the very definition of an “up and down” team. If they’re not running a two-game winning streak, they’re dropping three in a row. As soon as they rattle off four straight, they turn around and lose six of seven. As frustrating as this is for fans in Toronto, it has […]

Last June baseball fans from San Diego to D.C. had the privilege of watching the Major League Baseball debut of Washington Nationals stud pitcher Stephen Strasburg. The nation-wide pandemonium of his highly-anticipated first start was rewarded in kind, with 14 strikeouts and a win. The years of hype, speculation and mystery, had started to pay […]

The phrase “kick ’em when they’re down” seems tame, sadly, when applied to the New York Islanders this season. Things just aren’t going so well in Long Island. The new year, in particular, has gone poorly for the Isles, and that’s even considering that many thought they would stumble along all season and be a […]

Rating: 8/10 I work with a runner. We talk about it every once in a while. Sometimes it sounds like a lot of work. She’ll tell me the only time she can run is early in the morning, when it’s bound to be cold and freezing and she’ll be in a rush to drop her […]

It’s been just over a month since Team Russia’s heroic come-from-behind gold medal victory that took place in Buffalo at the 2011 World Junior Championships, but the moment is still fresh in the mind of Russian netminder Igor Bobkov. “There is certainly more attention [on me] right now,” said Bobkov who resides in London, Ont. […]

Ray Emery landed a spot back in the NHL this week, on a one-year, two-way contract that costs the Anaheim Ducks virtually nothing. It’s an investment, of course, an affordable risk that has the potential to turn the franchise from a good team to a great one. The Ducks don’t need Emery, they don’t need […]

JaVale McGee dunks the way that I would if I could, if one day I woke up and had the necessary lift or athleticism. He does it all the time. One part leaping ability and one part wingspan, his dunks are resolute expressions of the joy that comes from being professionally tall. McGee is listed as 7’0″, […]

Are professional sports taking away players’ rights when it comes to sexuality? In the fall of 2010, the United States military went from, “don’t ask, don’t tell” to “be gay, it’s okay.” It refers, of course, to a soldier’s sexual orientation. The Catholic Church, on the other hand, and Pope Benedict himself have denounced homosexuality. […]

Sean Couturier managed to do what no other Canadian prospect managed to do last December, and it put him in a league of his own when all of the draft eligible players from throughout the CHL met at the 2011 Home Hardware NHL Top Prospects Game in January. Though Couturier far from stole the show […]

Losing a significant number of players over the course of an offseason can have a serious impact on any franchise, especially when those players are substantial reasons why said franchise is one of the best in Major League Baseball. After losing a grand total of 16 players who played various roles with the club in […]