“Hey everyone! I am really sad to let you all know that I have left the Toronto Triumph, along with many of my teammates. It was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make thus far, however, I had to stand up for what I felt was right. Unfortunately, it cost me the greatest [...]

When the Las Vegas–based Lingerie Football League announced, in mid-April, that it would be starting up an expansion team in Toronto, the “lingerie” aspect of the thing was what immediately began to capture media attention. But when Charlotte Cameron heard the news, her take was different. The operative words, for her, were “football” and “league.” [...]

In this edition of Weekend Planner: literary funds are raised; football fans tailgate at the Drake; more Wychwood trivia; Steven Page performs Shostakovitch, Leonard Cohen, and himself with The Art of Time; and the Toronto Women's Bookstore is just Shameless.

The Buffalo Bills playing in Toronto on December 3, 2009. Photo by JoshMcConnell. The Brothers Ford got many Torontonians spluttering out their morning coffee today with the proclamation that they had hopes of bringing an NFL franchise to the city. Let us set aside—for a moment—the fact that the NFL has given us every indication [...]

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Jorge Garcia as Hurley, who is not good at the football. Illustration by Brett Lamb/Torontoist. Monday Father of the Bride is widely considered to mark Steve Martin’s [...]

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.” [...]

Source: 1985 Toronto Blue Jays Scorebook Magazine. The 1982 Grey Cup game was not a pleasurable one for Toronto football fans. The major disappointment was not that the Argonauts fell apart in the second half and lost to the Edmonton Eskimos 32 to 16—it was the bone-chilling, rainy weather. Downpours caused fans in fully exposed [...]

Riverdale Park—Senior Baseball, Opening, May 22, 1915. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 372, Subseries 52, Item 511. A spring weeknight. A fan planning to go to that night’s Blue Jays game flips on the radio to check on the traffic heading to the ballpark. Traffic and weather together on the twos…and it’s an [...]

The Buffalo Bills are back—and this time, it’s for real! That’s what Rogers’ resident revisionist historians would have us believe, anyway. The first of the eight-game “Bills Toronto Series,” a tepid preseason affair back in August, has been more-or-less dismissed as an experiment, a mere dry run in anticipation of today’s “actual” game between the [...]

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, [...]

The Varsity Blues’ forty-nine-game losing streak is officially yesterday’s news. They must’ve enjoyed their first victory since 2001, because two weeks later they won again, a notable accomplishment for a football program that hadn’t won a game in almost seven years. It was also a highly symbolic victory: as the seconds ticked away, a torch [...]

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 [...]