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The Women’s National Team Taught Canada How to Be a Soccer Country

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 - by Harley Rustad

The men’s team has made it to the FIFA World Cup. But it was the women’s team that helped them get there

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Who Loses as Online Betting Takes Over Sports?

September 22, 2022November 8, 2022 - by Sam Konnert

Gambling on sports used to be tightly controlled. Now the floodgates have been flung open

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Athletes Are Getting Burned by Weed Rules. Is the Sports World Out of Touch?

February 3, 2022April 30, 2022 - by Alex Cyr

Cannabis attitudes have changed since Ross Rebagliati’s Olympic mishap in 1998, but pro sports remain stuck in the past

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Toronto Is Canada’s Basketball Centre, but You Can’t Always See That in Its Courts

November 17, 2021 - by Perry King

Thanks to the Raptors, basketball has never been so popular. But the lack of high-quality facilities tells a troubling story

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The Team, the Fan, and the Severed Toes

June 23, 2021February 16, 2023 - by David Swick

What’s a person to do when their team loses year after year? For one diehard fan, it meant chopping digits

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When Sports Fans Change the Game

June 16, 2021January 20, 2023 - by Shireen Ahmed

Equal pay across genders, renaming racist teams—owners are finally listening and boardrooms will never be the same

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Why Home Runs Are Bad for Baseball

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 - by Andrew Forbes

The nonstop dingers are a hit with the fans, but at what cost to the sport?

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Will There Ever Be an Openly Queer NHL Player?

January 12, 2021March 25, 2021 - by Alex Manley

In hockey culture, male aggression is valorized while any weakness, real or perceived, is weaponized

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Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture

July 28, 2020July 29, 2020 - by Cole Nowicki

Social media has democratized skateboarding by inviting in a new audience unaware of the “rules”

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Sports under Quarantine

March 30, 2020November 23, 2021 - by Benjamin Hertwig

With the closure of arenas, a sports fan laments the loss of community

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