Tag Archives: Sports

With Phil Simms evidently heading to pasture as a football broadcaster, it's fun to recall that the former NFL quarterback nearly joined the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders. Before the 1979 NFL draft, ...

Walking through the mall, it was the first time I've seen the gates up and the windows blacked out for HMV. Sad. It's where I bought my first album. Heck, my sister-in-law worked there and that friend...

The fans don't like it. The NHL players' association doesn't like it. The International Ice Hockey Federation doesn't like it. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) doesn't like it.   No...

Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews, Patrick Laine, Jack Eichel are must-see budding stars for the NHL. What better place to get worldwide exposure for these players than the Olympics. But no, the NHL doe...

NHL players are unhappy their league won't take a break in February so they can participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics. With all due respect, they shouldn't have been there anyway. The Olympic ideal ...

Some of the country's best curlers are descending on Saskatoon as the Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship gets underway this week.   Thirty-two teams, each made up of a man and a woman, are divid...

A big weekend for a Saskatoon swimmer. Shelby Newkirk set new records in the S7 50-metre and 100-metre backstroke at the Can-Am Para-Swimming Championships in Windsor, Ont. "I was really proud of how ...

The Calgary Flames need a new home. There were some intriguing developments in this story last week. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi described an $890-million stadium/arena plan as "dead." On the heels of...

It's becoming a tired trend in sports. The threat to move a team when the billionaires don't get their way to have taxpayers pay for a new palace for their sports team. Daryl Katz did it with the Edmo...

Drake, Sask. was not really named after the Canadian rapper of the same name. That was my opening joke during a sports banquet on the weekend in the village. The 230 people in attendance - 33 more tha...