Author Archives: Darrell Davis

This is it -- my last Between the Lines commentary. I don't know how many years I've been writing them. How many I've written. How many responses I've received, some agreeing with me. The hard part fo...

Something may be wrong with the Winnipeg Jets. Or maybe it's just geography. One by one the big names are falling in the NHL: Marner, Point, Tkachuk. The restricted free agents are re-signing with the...

Like it or not, Auston Matthews, pro athletes are going to be judged because they're in the public eye, much like politicians and entertainers. For every athlete like Antonio Brown, the NFL receiver w...

Stuff it, Chicago Cubs fans! Summer's over and the baseball stretch drives are in their final week, but I'm still wearing my Milwaukee Brewers hat. That's because somehow, some way, the Brewers are po...

The hottest rivalry in sports right now is the Winnipeg Blue Bombers versus the Montreal Alouettes. Forget Yankees/Red Sox or Canadiens/Bruins or Bears/Packers! By outscoring the Bombers 21-0 in the f...

The NHL is headed for the abyss. The dark, time-consuming, boring, momentum- and excitement-sapping abyss of too much video. While other leagues, like the CFL, have successfully reduced the amount of ...

Eli Manning has won two Super Bowls and made more than $100 million US playing quarterback for the New York Giants, but the end of his career is still sad. Manning has become New York's backup to a fi...

Andrew Harris isn't very popular in Saskatchewan. That's not a surprise. Harris plays tailback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, so Roughriders fans immediately dislike him. Their anti-Harris sentiments ...

SJHL president Bill Chow sent a strong message to his league's players: Goalies are sacred. A 25-game suspension to the Yorkton Terriers' Greg Mulhall proves that. Mulhall barged full speed and full i...

Was that Ray Elgaard? Roger Aldag? Head coach John Gregory? For a brief, few seconds, it looked like some of the Saskatchewan Roughriders' 1989 Grey Cup-winning team appeared on the giant video board ...