Dublin, 1971 MARY QUINN IS ABOUT TO WIN the national varsity women’s title. Again. She is a dominant woman on the court with dominant thighs. She has a penetrating forehand and an incredible short game. The tennis world is decades from the first graphite composite racket and therefore in the height of...
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A hat trick haiku hockey retrospective on the worst day in hockey, when Marc Crawford left hockey’s greatest player, Wayne Gretzky, on the bench during the shootout at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Alone on the bench in nagano. Your holstered gun. Your icy stare. You and I, we will Never understand his choice, Why...
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“To you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high.” — Jason Priestley Dear Ms. Wente, A fire is burning in the sports world—for you, where you are cordially invited to join our ranks in the world of sports journalism. Your riveting piece about the uselessness of French Immersion...
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IN HOCKEY, there are red lines, blue lines, and goal lines. But there is only one Green Line. The Green Line is an armistice line drawn after the Arab-Israeli war in 1949 and forms the basis of a proposed two-state solution in Israel and Palestine. It is a line between lands administered by the...
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How Hollywood, Hitler, a gay Nazi poster boy, and US OPEN tennis champion, Andy Murray, star in one of sport’s greatest grail quests. IN 1934, SHORTLY AFTER ADOLF HITLER’s rise to power, German tennis star Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm, or simply, Gottfried von Cramm, won the French Open....
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NEAR THE CONCLUSION of the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Games in London, athletes took an oath. An oath that they would not cheat, that they would respect and abide by rules which govern their sport and commit themselves to those values in the spirit of sportsmanship, glory, and honour. The world holds...
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