“If you had all this pressure to fight while you’re in the NHL, after you have the pressure to live because you don’t have any other option. All you did was fight. You don’t know what you’re going to do.” —Former Montreal Canadiens enforcer Georges Laraque talking to the Globe about the impact that being [...]

We're not sure if CTV's decision to begin airing So You Think You Can Dance Canada during the American season of So You Think You Can Dance is a good programming decision or a bad one. The argument for it being a good decision: airing it concurrently with the American season gives fans of the show a double-shot of what they enjoy at a time when there's little competition for eyeballs. The argument for it being a bad decision: overexposure of the format exhausts even the hardcore fans of the show and decreases the audience. Televisualist leans towards it being a bad idea, but we'll see. (8 p.m.)

A screengrab from SportsLogos.net showing part of the Star‘s inadvertently posted story. Come now, Vancouver fans. Why the long face? So what if Boston scored its first two goals in 40 seconds last night, scooting Luongo off the ice faster than you can shout “LUUUUU!!!”? Or if Mason Raymond, after a swift first-period hit, was [...]

Photo of the Canucks fan zone on Georgia Street in Vancouver by MikeWu. If any in this city doubted—at the outset of this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs—the direness of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 44-year championship drought, chances are they’re doubters no longer. Two short months after the Leafs’ sixth consecutive failure to qualify for the [...]

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. We were totally going to be classy and not rag on Vancouver for being a stinking den of hippies, but then we thought, “hey, why don’t we [...]

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. Brett does not like sports, so here is Howie Mandel of America’s Got Talent doing something with a rubber glove. Illustration by Brett Lamb/Torontoist. Monday National Geographic [...]

Dave Bolland brings the Stanley Cup to Mimico. Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. Late last summer, Chicago Blackhawks’ centre Dave Bolland treated Toronto to a Stanley Cup parade—of sorts. In a celebration that probably did not look quite like the one that exists in the dreams and imaginations of this city’s hockey fans (where Dion Phaneuf [...]

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 [...]

Far be it from us to conflate professional sports with Bill Shakespeare—but the Toronto Maple Leafs’ actions before, during and after Tuesday’s NHL trade deadline recall Macbeth’s famous words: full of sound and fury, yet ultimately signifying nothing. Charges of heresy will be duly acknowledged. In the end, the promised blow-up never materialized. None of [...]