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Tuesday, Feb 6

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Postmedia founder Paul Godfrey inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame

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Godfrey had campaigned as a municipal politician for Toronto to get a baseball team, which it finally did, back in 1977. He was also on the board of the Crown corporation that built the Toronto SkyDome

Wednesday, Jan 24

14

Broken football dreams: Canada's spectacular fumbles at schooling young prospects

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The field of elite high school programs has been cut, dimming the chances of U.S. college scholarships and a future in the game for top players

Tuesday, Aug 22

19

Sha'Carri Richardson back on top of the sprinting world after winning 100-metre world title

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Richardson posts record time of 10.65 at World Athletics Championship in Budapest

Monday, Aug 21

17

Toronto sailor Sarah Douglas qualifies for 2024 Paris Olympics

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Douglas holds the best-ever Olympic result for a Canadian woman in an individual sailing event after finishing sixth at the 2020 Tokyo Games

Thursday, Aug 17

23

Umpire loses bid to reinstate racial discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball

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Umpire Angel Hernandez alleged he was discriminated against because he had been passed over for crew chief, not worked a World Series since 2005

Friday, Jun 16

20

10/3 podcast: The tax battle between the CRA and a trio of former Blue Jays

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Thursday, Jun 8

16

Scott Stinson: Rory McIlroy still hates LIV Golf. But will he eventually have to play in something like it?

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Tuesday, Jun 6

20

French Open tennis player loses women’s doubles money for accidentally hitting ball kid

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Saturday, Jun 3

14

Scott Stinson: As the CFL kicks off with big plans, the storied league struggles for relevance

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Chief cheerleader commissioner Randy Ambrosie pitches the league as 'fun, fast and entertaining'. Big markets need convincing

Wednesday, May 31

18

Florida Panthers embrace a new hockey superstition — playoff beard rub

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And now the beard rub is headed to the Stanley Cup Final, Florida’s first trip to the title series in 27 years

Friday, May 19

20

Blue Jays fans break record by eating 61,111 hot dogs in a single game

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The baseball world has been eyeing the unrelenting rate at which Jays fans are eating hot dogs on ‘Loonie Dogs Night'

19

Kyle Dubas out as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs

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An emotional Dubas said at his end-of-season press conference Monday he wasn’t sure if he would continue on as GM, citing the stress on his young family

Monday, May 15

17

With the L.A. Lakers and Miami Heat in the final four, hockey’s playoff chaos comes to basketball

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Playoff hockey is famous for its unpredictability. When people like me are explaining the factors that create such chaos, like a low-event game that means that a random in-off-the-butt goal can swing a whole series, we often point to the…

14

Toronto trolled again as soccer fans bring back the famous ‘We want Florida’ chant

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Fans in Maple Leaf Square may have given the rest of the NHL a gift that will keep on giving for seasons to come

Friday, May 12

12

Head coach jokes he’s going to ask the NHL to make the glass in all hockey arenas a bit higher

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Here are five things to know as we head into Friday's post-season action

Thursday, May 11

14

Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid very close to making history

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The 26-year-old could become the third player to win an award at least four times, a feat previously claimed by only two players: Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux

Tuesday, May 9

20

Edmonton Oilers fan reportedly almost bit someone’s finger off during a watch party

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Edmonton Oilers fan reportedly almost bit someone's finger off during a watch party. While the Edmonton Oilers are down 2-1 in their second-round NHL playoff series with the Las Vegas Golden Knights, a few Oilers fans are reportedly down a…

Friday, May 5

21

Investigation of OHL's Niagara IceDogs leads to two players being banned, two year suspension for GM

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The team has also been fined $100,000 and will forfeit its first selection in the 2024 OHL Priority Selection draft

19

10/3 podcast: Are the Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers Canada's best hopes for a Stanley Cup?

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Tuesday, May 2

Leafs' goaltender says Toronto celebrated victory so loudly his baby kept waking up

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Saturday's celebrations were enough to wake up the newborn son of Toronto's goaltender. Round two starts Tuesday

Sunday, Apr 30

17

Hungry Maple Leafs finally get over hump, win first playoff series since 2004

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The victory sends the Maple Leafs into the Eastern Conference semifinals against Boston or Florida

Friday, Apr 28

18

Toronto Raptors looking to replace Nick Nurse eye Becky Hammon for the coveted position

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If hired, Hammon would make history as the first woman NBA head coach

17

Scott Stinson: Do the Toronto Maple Leafs need to channel their inner Giannis?

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Collective inability of the Maple Leafs to win a playoff series has been following them around like a cursed apparition for months now, if not years

Wednesday, Apr 26

16

Scott Stinson: Another Calgary Flames arena proposal that looks especially good for the Calgary Flames

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Calgary's share of the funding for the proposed Saddledome replacement has ballooned, and the province will contribute money now, too

Wednesday, Apr 19

17

Scott Stinson: Toronto Maple Leafs playoff fever turns into a familiar illness

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The Leafs had been toward this playoff opener for the whole season. It took 40 minutes for it all to go wrong

Monday, Apr 17

14

Scott Stinson: Ottawa restores scandal-hit Hockey Canada's funding, just as its women's team plays for gold

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For some reason, the government of Canada, or Hockey Canada, thought this was an event that deserved to be upstaged

Friday, Apr 14

04

Scott Stinson: Canadian women survive another late scare for overtime win over Sweden

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Sweden’s third shot of the final period came with 9.2 seconds left. And it went in. Tie game. Shots on goal to that point 48-14, Canada

Thursday, Apr 13

17

Toronto Raptors season is over and DeMar DeRozan's 9-year-old daughter helped end it

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'I kept hearing something during the game. I looked back and I was like, Damn, that’s my daughter screaming’

Tuesday, Apr 11

Scott Stinson: Chaos unfolds at the Women's World Championship

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Saturday, Mar 18

11

Scott Stinson: The strange, twisting, apparent end to the Aaron Rodgers era in Green Bay

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Rodgers is going to the Jets, a team desperate for quarterback competence and where expectations will now be huge