Author Archives: Jamie Nye

Today was to be the day: Puck drop on the best time of the year. Round 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The round would have seen some classic series — and maybe some overtime thrillers and huge u...

Anyone upset that the UFC is actually going ahead with its 249 event in a secret location next week needs to look at the history of this bloodsport, especially under the guidance of promoter Dana Whit...

Major League Baseball is faking it when it says it actually cares about the sign-stealing saga of the Houston Astros. First off, there were no player suspensions handed down by the league because it w...

Sportsnet showed Game 7 of the 1986 Edmonton Oilers-Calgary Flames playoff series last night. You know the game if you’re 40 or over. Tie game. Steve Smith. Own goal. Yeah, that one. It may be m...

We all knew it was coming. As much as CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie was being as positive as possible last week on the Green Zone, a postponement to the season was a given. The timing didn’t m...

Oh great, another theory about what the NBA might do to complete its season — even though no one knows when a return is possible. May? June? July?? Who knows? The U.S. extending the social dista...

We are about to embark on an endeavour on the Green Zone to find out who the greatest of the greats is in the world of sports. It’ll be a 64-person bracket that will start on Monday. You’l...

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 overa...

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...

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 e...