Author Archives: Jamie Nye

The Regina Pats, without playing a game, could stake a claim to possibly the biggest win of the year. On Wednesday, the WHL's draft lottery awarded the Swift Current Broncos with the first overall pic...

The CFL rules committee is meeting over the next two days, which is time we get to think about how to fix the Canadian Football League. I loved it when former commissioner Mark Cohon used to reach out...

I was pondering what kind of trivial distraction we were talking about in the world of sports a month ago, before COVID-19 took over our lives and sports went black. David Ayres is the answer. I went ...

It's great to see Olympic federations from across the globe force the International Olympic Committee's hand to actually do something about the upcoming Tokyo Games. Canada and Australia are the bigge...

I can't do it. I discovered my sports withdrawal isn't bad enough yet to watch replayed sporting events. Sportsnet and TSN announced they'll replay the entire playoff run to the NBA title by the Toron...

Can we thank Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer enough for giving it to us straight? On Wednesday, as Saskatchewan declared a provincial state of emergency, Dr. Shaqib Shahab laid out exactly...

NFL teams are announcing billions of dollars worth of contracts today with the NFL free-agency day kicking off. Are they out of touch or a welcome distraction? Can they be both? In a time the world is...

It feels like the NFL and the CFL are currently immune to major delays in their seasons because, after all, these leagues don't start until later. But later will be coming faster than we know. In fact...

You won't get any complaints from me about having more football. The NFL Players Association barely passed a 10-year agreement with the league that opens the door for a 17-game regular season and two ...

The NBA and NHL shouldn't be lauded for their reaction to COVID-19. These leagues barely reacted. It was more of a forced action after Utah Jazz centre Rudy Gobert tested positive for the virus. Think...