The Women’s National Team Taught Canada How to Be a Soccer Country
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
In hockey culture, male aggression is valorized while any weakness, real or perceived, is weaponized
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Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture
Social media has democratized skateboarding by inviting in a new audience unaware of the “rules”
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Sports under Quarantine
With the closure of arenas, a sports fan laments the loss of community
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