Tag Archives: Sports

The last time Saskatchewan hosted the World Junior Hockey Championships (2009), the buzz word was "guarantee." Host centres had to prove to Hockey Canada, and to the International Ice Hockey Federatio...

Watching the CFL rally around Barron Miles reminds me why I love the league. It's a family. I found that out first-hand eight years ago when my wife died. But when Wally Buono told reporters about Bar...

People often blame the media when things are going wrong with a team. It happens everywhere with every team.   Is it fair?   Look, I get the hypothesis. The team plays bad, they get a bunch ...

Thousands of Roughrider fans have been through the doors of new Mosaic Stadium, but Darian Durant is still holding out. It's not that he hasn't had the opportunity; it's just that he's waiting for the...

Baseball fans are loving this World Series. Not Blue Jays fans. Baseball fans. Blue Jays fans don't care about baseball, they care only about their favourite team. So let's tell them the Cleveland Ind...

Here's one thing I didn't account for when analyzing the merits of the World Cup of Hockey, the jump the elite talent of the NHL gets on everyone else. Playing some big time games before the season st...

It's not every day you win a trophy on your big league debut. Saskatoon's Brett Levis made his Major League Soccer debut as a substitute in a 4-1 win for his Vancouver Whitecaps over the Portland Timb...

After Saskatchewan's 19-14 loss to Montreal on Saturday, it was tough to pick out a Riders star, so I'll go with Chris Jones. Jones said it best at game's end. "We didn't play offensively, until 11 mi...

After a horrible performance on a horrible, wet afternoon at Taylor Field, Rider fans have to again wonder about their favourite football team. Saskatchewan lost 19-14 to the Montreal Alouettes, who w...

How can you not be cheering for the Chicago Cubs in this World Series?   One hundred and eight years is a long time to wait for a team to get a championship and of course there are still four win...