Category Archives: *Sports

I had a terrific chat with Prince Albert Raiders coach Marc Habscheid about the start of the Raiders-Saskatoon Blades second-round WHL playoff series, which starts tonight at the Art Hauser Centre. Wh...

Thirty seconds into the Humboldt Broncos documentary on TSN, that feeling came back to the first tweet I read that the Broncos' bus was involved in an accident. It was the heart-dropping, sick, numb f...

Glen Sather was the first NHL executive I ever interviewed. He was the Edmonton Oilers' head coach/general manager when his team visited Regina for an NHL pre-season game against the St. Louis Blues. ...

As the curtain goes up on the world women's hockey championship, I want to go back to the story of the not-for-profit Canadian Women's Hockey League ceasing operations effective May 1. The 12-year-old...

Tough luck, Toronto Maple Leafs fans. The NHL playoff format you despise is going to stay in place for at least one more season. Lots of hockey fans aren't fond of the playoff format that qualifies th...

The outrage at the Alliance of American Football (AAF) is coming in fast and furious from the players and employees of the eight-weeks-and-done league. Investor Tom Dundon up and took a $70-million hi...

Eileen was not happy. (Eileen is my 96-year-old mom.) I phoned to inform her that the Jays had traded outfielder Kevin Pillar to the San Francisco Giants. She said something like, "I can't help them i...

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Well, I'd like to argue scorned fans may take it one step further. We are seeing it in New York as John Tavares has had two trips back since leaving Islander fa...

High school, college and the NFL. That's the only football Americans care about. Remember the Canadian Football League also failed in its venture into the United States during the mid-1990s. So the CF...

I had a terrific chat with Prince Albert Raiders head coach Marc Habscheid on Tuesday on his memories of the Saskatoon-Prince Albert hockey rivalry. As the two teams prepare to meet in the 2019 WHL pl...