The National Hockey League confirmed during a press conference this morning that the Toronto Maple Leafs will play the Detroit Red Wings in the next Winter Classic game, scheduled for January 1, 2013. As rumours over the past month have indicated, the match will be held at Michigan Stadium (aka “The Big House”) in Ann [...]

When management at Telemedia decided to switch CJCL’s phone-in sports commentary show to a magazine format in the fall of 1989, they looked to Canada’s public broadcaster for inspiration. Prime Time Sports was to be the athletic equivalent of As it Happens, a promise that Star sports media columnist Ken McKee felt placed “a large [...]

On January 12, 1928, two hockey teams composed entirely of First Nations players took to the ice at Ravina Gardens on Rowland Street for a “a very speedy and clever game of hockey,” as one newspaper described it. It was one of the earliest stops on what would be a 2,200-mile motor coach tour. Over [...]

Hell on wheels. Brawny bruisers. Fishnet warriors. Booty-short brawlers. Flat-track fighters. Sure, these terms are catchy, but when it comes to describing the women who play roller derby, there’s one word, above all others, that should be applied: athlete. And when the World Cup—the very first of its kind in the history of modern flat-track roller [...]

“The blue is back in Blue Jays.” So declared team president Paul Beeston as the Blue Jays officially unveiled their logo and uniforms for the 2012 season at a noon press conference, confirming rumours we reported two months ago. The new look revives several classic team designs: the original-style bird, split lettering, a red maple [...]

Sports coverage tends to focus on major league teams, but every day in Toronto people make fun (and sometimes wacky) activities an important part of their lives. Sporting Goods looks at some of these. It’s been a big year for Harry Potter: The final movie in the series came out (Hollywood’s most successful franchise ever). [...]

This coming Monday, five short days after the Blue Jays put the finishing touches on their season with a win in Chicago, Alex Anthopoulos will celebrate his second anniversary as the team’s general manager. If he is pleased with his performance over those two years, it is with good reason. After all, while this year’s [...]

ART: For some, these beady eyed dolls are the stuff of nightmares. For photographer Fausta Facciponte, however, they represent the human condition as a material thing. “Sleepy Eyes,” a term for dolls with movable eyes (any Goosebumps fans in the house?) is also a photography exhibition of old vinyl dolls that their owners threw away. [...]

It may be back to the future time for the Blue Jays. Based on a leaked image picked up by the “athletics aesthetics” website Uni Watch, the 2012 Blue Jays may adopt a variation of the iconic logo the team used during its first two decades. While the version making the rounds of the internet [...]

“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 [...]

Sports coverage tends to focus on major league teams, but every day in Toronto people make fun (and sometimes wacky) activities an important part of their lives. Sporting Goods looks at some of these. Remember that feeling as a kid when a chesterfield or a large appliance was delivered to a house on your street [...]

Creeping along a second-storey walkway to an open window that gives me a good view of the minivan at the end of the street, I spot an "insurgent" poking his head out from behind the vehicle. I pepper his position with rounds, and he withdraws behind his cover. That's when someone opens up on me from the first-floor window across the street, and I throw myself back against the wall, as rounds go whizzing by my head. I'm covered in sweat and splattered in paint, but I don't care—I'm completely focused on winning this battle.