Horse Racing Now Excluded From Bill C-218
Horse racing has officially been removed from the bill set to introduce the legal wagering on single sports events in Canada. This after a House committee on Thursday removed horse racing from Bill C-218, which is the legislation seeking ...Read More
CEBL Perplexed By Sudden OHL Funding
Funding to the value of $2.35 million extended to the Ontario Hockey League by government on Wednesday had Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) commissioner Mike Morreale scratching his head in confusion. According to Lisa McLeod, Ont...Read More
Record-Setting Raffle In Memory Of Joey Moss
An incredible $991,800 has been raised for the benefit of a memorial fund created by Edmonton’s Winnifred Stewart Association in honour of long-time Edmonton Oilers and EE Football Team locker room attendant the late Joey Moss. The ...Read More
All-Canadian Division On The NHL Table
Since the continued closure of the Canada/U.S. border is a deciding factor impacting how the NHL will have to operate in the coming season, the league is currently considering creating a competition to be played among Canadian clubs only....Read More
Greg Vanney Upset Over Supporters’ Shield Award
Toronto FC head coach Greg Vanney says the decision to not award the Supporters’ Shield to any club this year is disappointing and disgraceful. The decision referred to by Vanney was made by the group charged with overseeing the han...Read More
No WC Alpine Event In Lake Louise This Year
Canada will this season, for the first time in many years, not hold an alpine ski race on the World Cup circuit. This news followed the Thursday announcement by the Lake Louise event regarding its plans to sit the current season out due t...Read More
Cancelled 2020 Won’t Affect Edmonton Rebrand
Edmonton Football Team club president and chief executive Chris Presson says the now-confirmed cancellation of the 2020 CFL season will not have any effect either which way on the club’s intentions and plans to rebrand. After Edmon...Read More
CFL Players Offer Unique Take On Dud Season
While several CFL players will have to try and find alternative sources of income following the cancellation of the 2020 season, a cancelled season right about now is also an opportunity in disguise, say players Bo Levi Mitchell and Adam ...Read More
CFL Fails To Secure $30M In Federal Funding
The Canadian Football League’s board of directors will reportedly convene on Monday in order to come up with a viable survival plan as well as to determine how to best approach an abbreviated 2020 season given that no financial assi...Read More
Caggiula Suspended Over Ennis Head Check
Chicago forward Drake Caggiula has been ordered by the NHL to sit out on a single game of the team’s qualifying round series. This after the star forward made illegal head contact with Edmonton’s Tyler Ennis during the second ...Read More
Former Maple Leaf Eddie Shack Dies Aged 83
Former NHL veteran player and Maple Leaf Eddie Shack has died, Toronto announced on Twitter on the weekend. Shack was 83. Known for his colourful antics on and off the ice, his bruising playing style, off-beat skating gait, and huge pers...Read More
Alpine Canada To Soon Resume Training
Timing really is everything, apparently. Not only was the Alpine skiing season one of the few sports seasons largely unphased by the global outbreak of an epic health crisis, but the 2020-21 season is scheduled to get underway in Austria ...Read More
MLB To Implement Extra-Innings Rule
Traditionalists had better watch out, because arena baseball is coming to the MLB. But instead of it heading Major League Baseball’s way for sole purpose of stirring the pot, the extra runner on second base at the start of each extr...Read More
Saanich Junior Braves To Change Name & Logo
The Saanich Junior Braves, a team and division of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League, will be changing its name out of respect for local Indigenous communities. The name and logo of the Saanich Junior Braves have been in use ever s...Read More
NHL Shed Light On How The Season Will Work
It should be a relief to many that labour peace finally appears within reach within the ranks of the National Hockey League. The NHL and NHLPA (National Hockey League Players’ Association) earlier on this week announced having tenta...Read More
Vancouver Off NHL’s List Of Hub Cities
Choosing an NHL hub city at the time of a health crisis is, to say the least, precarious business. A concern over public health and safety is also the main reason behind the NHL’s decision not to include Vancouver on the list of hub...Read More
CFL Commissioner Ambrosie Reveals Pay Cut
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says he’s not expecting any more from the league’s players than what he himself is willing to do. Ambrosie on Thursday revealed that he has taken a 20 per cent pay cut – along with every o...Read More
MLS Is Back Tournament Scheduled for July
This week, the Major League Soccer announced its plans for the restarting of the 2020 season. All 26 MLS clubs will complete in a special MLS is Back Tournament at the Walt Disney World Resort Florida’s ESPN Wide World of Sports com...Read More