If you're like us (and, God willing, you’re not), then you're utterly exasperated by the ongoing steroid scandal in Major League Baseball. You're puzzled that the United States Congress has nothing better to do than to interrogate multimillionaire athletes who might've used performance-enhancing drugs. Moreover, you're wondering why, this past Wednesday morning, no fewer than three Canadian sports networks were showing live coverage of the Roger Clemens hearing. Is it really that important? Regardless,......

A hundred and one games into the 2007 Major League Baseball season—a year in which they were widely expected to challenge the Eastern Seaboard's hegemony in the American League East—the Toronto Blue Jays are exactly one game over .500. In other words, this won't be the breakout year after all; in fact, it'll be tough for them to replicate last year's 87-75 record, which was only good enough for second place in the division.......

Photo of David Beckham by rayxhead These are halcyon days for Toronto soccer fans. Toronto FC, the city's long-overdue Major League Soccer team, is in its inaugural season. The 20,000-seat BMO Field is open for business, and doubles as Canada's new national soccer stadium. The Under-20 World Cup, which culminates this weekend in Toronto, is breaking tournament attendance records. And on August 5, David Beckham (perhaps you've heard of him?) is scheduled to make......

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! Yesterday, we featured the Toronto FC in the Daily Photoist, but we can't forget how spring also reveals our Boys of Summer. This minimalist shot of Jays centrefielder Vernon Wells was captured by dave_in_t_o, and we like how it......

If you're a red-blooded Toronto sports fan you probably already have your Toronto FC season tickets in hand, waiting for the big kick-off against the Kansas City Wizards and the day Beckham arrives. In the meantime, the most exciting news on the local football front is the unveiling of our Major League Soccer club's uniforms; especially if you're a BMO customer. The FC have decided to go all "continental" which basically means that they're putting......

Forget what “they” told you about the dearth of cheap tinfoil at Dollarama. The truth is much more insidious: now in its third year, Funkless.com is hosting a contest to judge the most innovative mind-control-beam deflecting apparatuses in the city. Hey, who says paranoia has to dampen creativity? Hostess Cynthia Gould is pleasantly surprised at the success of this and other Funkless.com parties. “The funkless philosophy began when I told a few people about......

Every couple of years, everyone outside of Europe in North America decides to become soccer fans. Can that feeling of excitement be sustained over the regular season? Well, in the middle of World-Cup Fever, our Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty gave $27-million to construct Canada's first soccer stadium. Total cost: $62-million. Expected completion date: May 1st, 2007... 10 months from now... The new stadium will be built at Exhibition Place and will be home......

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. You can protest someone at his office, sure, but when the whistle blows at the end of the day can you follow him home? D.C. has sports fans, apparently, and elephants aren't really cut out for zoos. There's this trick where you can read information from......

A quick look around our sister sites brings back some ISTeresting stories. --- After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian......

What's the connection between the freckle-faced, gangly figure at far left and the vicious thug beside him? One is that they're both baseball players. The other is that they're actually the same person. The kid is Jason Giambi, freshly drafted by the Oakland Athletics of the American League. The absurd Michelin Man-apparent is Jason Giambi, disgraced first baseman for the New York Yankees. Giambi is on record, leaked from the proceedings of a California......

The Toronto sporting community will be given an opportunity to put the Major League Baseball drug scandal on the back burner tonight, as AHL hockey comes to town. Just under 18,000 screaming hockey fans will be treated to a prolific display of second-rate talent, when the Binghamton Senators roll into the ACC to take on the St John's Baby Leafs. Spezza versus Stajan apparently has the same draw these days as Sundin against Alfredsson had......