People who missed Game of Thrones the first time around and have decided they want to watch it before reading the books: HBO Canada is on your side, as they air the entire first season this week. Tonight you can watch the premiere episode, and then while you're cottaging this weekend you can set your PVR on Friday and Saturday evening to catch the remaining nine. Isn't that terribly convenient? That way you can watch it this weekend, then finish the first four books in the three weeks before the fifth book goes on sale. Which you will probably do, be forewarned. (10:30 p.m.)

Photo of DT Walter Curry by Louis Tam from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. “The way I’ve approached it, to make it right in my head, is you start a series off at 2nd-and-10,” Bart Andrus, the former NFL assistant hired in January to coach the Toronto Argonauts, told the National Post. “That’s my thought process.” [...]

Every Saturday morning Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Sports page from the Toronto Star on August 6, 1959. Anticipating the arrival of the NFL’s Chicago Cardinals for a pre-season exhibition game against the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts on August 5, 1959, [...]

Two months after Cito Gaston returned to the dugout for the Blue Jays, Don Matthews is back in double blue as head coach of the Argonauts. Can it be long before Pat Quinn’s back with the Leafs? Let’s hope not, but like Gaston’s return, Matthews’s third stint in Toronto will likely have a positive impact [...]

Not so many of those bright red packs would be seen at an Argonauts game nowadays due to legislation, unless one pokes out of a fan’s pocket. The 1969 edition of the Boatmen (10 wins, 4 losses) finished in second place in the East, a game behind the Ottawa Rough Riders. Four players were named [...]

Photo by John Griffiths. The CFL is a league of second chances. And, more than most teams, the Argonauts are willing to grant an opportunity to players who’ve discovered how unforgiving other leagues can be towards injuries and indiscretions of personal conduct. With the new season kicking off this evening, the Argonauts look to improve [...]

Many of you have sat behind, beside, adjacent to, or perhaps even in front of (on a particularly unlucky day) that one doofus at the ball game who will not shut up, constantly exhorting his precious “team” to “win the game.” He is only able to continue this abominable behaviour due to a combination of [...]

Stéphane Dion says that Canadians are smart enough to accept a carbon tax, and he seems willing to bet the next election on it. It’s awesome that we have an opposition leader too naïve to recognize that however revenue-neutral and environmentally beneficial his plan is, this may not be the most politically savvy time to [...]

Many of us were looking forward to welcoming the Buffalo Bills to Toronto. The eight games they’ll play here over the next five years could’ve been the perfect complement to our existing football diet of live Argonauts games and televised NFL matches. Now that the details have been announced, more than a few of us [...]

An up-close look at the Grey Cup trophy reveals countless dents and scratches attesting to the long and colourful life of probably the most disrespected and abused trophy in sports. Since being donated by Canada’s 9th Governor General, Earl Grey, the trophy has been head-butted, sat on, and snapped in half. It’s been abandoned for years at a time in bank vaults and hall closets. It’s been forgotten in empty stadiums and hotel rooms...

The Toronto Argonauts can turn this Sunday’s Eastern Final into the perfect kickoff for the upcoming Grey Cup festival. If the Argos beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to reach the championship game, it'll give a huge boost to the week-long party, also known as “Canada’s national drunk.” Brad Watters, general manager of this year's Grey Cup, says that the team winning the 95th Grey Cup at home "would really turn the town on its...

Hey, remember Nuit Blanche? You know: that all-night cultural art thing a little over a month ago that maybe wasn't all that great. That thing. While the city did a pretty spectacular clean-up job, they've missed a spot: a sign sturdily attached about ten feet up a pole outside the Isabel Bader Theatre at Queen's Park and Charles Street on U of T campus still welcomes visitors to Zone 3, and invites them to...