Canada Beats Finland To Hockey World Gold
Canada’s national men’s hockey team on Sunday secured their 27th world title when they pipped Finland to the post in a 3-2 victory to capture the gold at this year’s Hockey World Championship final in Riga, La...Read More
Sonny Bill Williams May Be Moving To Toronto
All Blacks World Championship rugby legend Sonny Bill Williams may very well be soon be headed in the direction of the Toronto Wolfpack. Rumours involving a multi-million-dollar deal and a 2-year contract with Wolfpack...Read More
Curling Canada Wants To Keep Experts At Home
Never mind the secret to success in sport and in coaching; trying to keep the expertise at home in the first place is a daunting task all of its own. But Curling Canada has a plan. And that plan involves embracing a co...Read More
Ben Affleck Spotted Playing Poker While Drunk In LA
Actor Ben Affleck is what one would call a highly functional alcoholic; or at least one in recovery, if he does stick to the plan of not allowing a recent roundabout with the bottle to completely derail his sobriety jo...Read More
Serghei Lisii Wins 2019 Battle Of Malta
The recent topless male dealer controversy aside, Poker’s Battle of Malta continues to break every conceivable popularity, number of entries, and instant money record out there; and this year for the 8th y...Read More
John Hashem Wins 2019 SIGA Poker Champs
He’s a master at his trade and would be fair to say that going up against Regina’s John Hashem would likely turn out a disaster to most players gutsy enough to challenge the player at his game of choice. The 2019 S...Read More
Louis Vuitton Designs LoL Worlds Trophy Case
There’s no denying the fact that we’re moving ever closer to a world where there will no longer be any distinction between the world of traditional sports and the world of eSports. The latest in a long line of exam...Read More
Beers Nervous & Excited About Lacrosse WC
Matt Beers has been playing National Lacrosse League for years. He is passionate about the game and describes himself as a “weekend warrior” for being able to play and practice mostly on weekends only since lacross...Read More
Mike Leah Wins 3rd WCOOP Title
Canadian Mike Leah is a king among kings of online Poker. Leah, who recently became dad to a brand new little addition to the Leah family, pulled a rabbit from the hat on September 4 when the Canadian won his third Wor...Read More
Richard Wins Bronze In Cliff Diving Series
Returning to competitive cliff diving after a prolonged recovery necessitated by an injury is a harrowing mental challenge. These are the words of Montreal professional cliff diver Lysanne Richard, after having won bronze in the women&rs...Read More
Bhuga Crowned Fortnite Solo Finals Champion
North American Fortnite champion Kyle “Bhuga” Giersdorf may only be 16 years old, but he is now a wealthy 16-year-old thanks to his having won the Fortnite World Cup Solo Finals and $3 million in prize money. The competition ...Read More
DeBues-Stafford Shatters 34-Year Record
Canadian track and field champion Gabriela DeBues-Stafford isn’t only super fast out of the staring blocks, but she also has what it takes to keep up the pace, and for all of 1,500 metres to boot. The athlete recently ran the dista...Read More
Caleb Smidt Wins Calgary Sunday Showdown
Rodeo roping champion Caleb Smidt is a man among champions following his recent performance at the Calgary stampede rodeo. Smidt positively owned Showdown Sunday when he stuck it to not one, not two, but three former c...Read More
2019 WSOP Crowns Its First Female Champion
The 2019 World Series of Poker has crowned its very first female champion and event-winner. Veteran player Sue Faber (71) not only won her first career bracelet by having been the last player to leave the Event #71 $500 No-Limit Hold&rsqu...Read More
$888 Event Won By Former Fast Food Worker
As honourable as what an honest day’s work may be, whether its flipping burgers at a local fast-food joint or performing open-heart surgery, winning a gold bracelet and a load of cash still beats it all. Especially if your name is R...Read More
Canada’s Best Prepare For Pan Am Peru
The 2015 Pan Am games in Toronto saw Canada make podium a total of 27 times, with local athletes having laid claim to 11 gold medals, 7 silver and 9 bronze. It turned out to be a year to remember. This summer’s Pan A...Read More
John Hennigan Crowned World Seven Card Champ
John Hennigan is no newcomer to the worldwide Poker scene. In fact, the latest WSOP champion is now the holder of a smashing total of 6 World Series of Poker bracelets. Oh and he also got to leave with $245,451 tucked safely into the pock...Read More
Football Legend Bart Starr Dies Aged 85
Life and health just wasn’t the same after former Green Bay Packer star quarterback Bart Starr’s life-changing strokes and heart attack back in 2014. Bart Starr, confirmed his family and former team, has passed awa...Read More
Talking Food With Dream-Team Virtue And Moir
Canadian ice-skating duo Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue know all about making magic on ice, but what about life away from the competitions and the arena? Ever since the ice dancing pair became known as Canada’s dream-team, Canadians ha...Read More
Carlo Todaro Wins Spring PlayNow Poker Champ
Carlo Todaro was the official last man sitting down at the recent 2019 Spring PlayNow Poker Championship. The event was hosted by the Farmery Estate Brewery and culminated in a very grand $400 No-Limit Hold’em Big Blind Ante event. ...Read More
WSOP Poker Room Opens At Harrah’s Philadelphia
Christmas came early this year. Just ask Harrah’s Casino Philadelphia, which has just opened its very own brand new and wonderfully grand World Series of Poker-branded room. 27 brand spanking new tables were on show at the grand ado...Read More
Team Canada The Team To Beat At Curling Champs
Canada lives to play another shot at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships thanks to star curling duo Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant’s recent stellar victory over Sweden. The pair made good work of their Swedish opposit...Read More
Negreanu Keen To Mix It Up This Season
Daniel Negreanu has an eventful time coming up. He’s marrying long-time sweetheart Amanda Leatherman on May 19, and will barely have time for a honeymoon before its time for the World Series of Poker that gets underway on May 29
WSOP Kicks Out Catherine Valdes
Social media celebrity Catherine “catrific” Valdes has expressed her deep dissatisfaction at the manner in which she was allegedly treated on the weekend by a World Series of Poker official at the World Series of Poker Bally&r...Read More
Ben Palmer Wins Venetian’s First WPT Event
The only thing better than winning a World Poker Tour main event, is winning a World Poker Tour main event at your favourite Las Vegas casino. Just ask Ben Palmer. Palmer recently won the very first WPT main event hosted by the Venetian i...Read More
R.J. Barrett USA Today’s Player Of The Year
If Canadian basketball champion R.J. Barrett knows how to do anything, then it’s how to score. And scoring in every sense of the word, both on and off the basketball court. 18-year old Barrett has just been named Basketball Player ...Read More
Vinicius Lima Wins WSOP Borgata Open Final
It’s a tournament that started out with 1,415 entries; with each player as hopeful and as determined as the next to make it to the final table. Last Wednesday, one month after the first of the cards were dealt, it was finally time f...Read More
Canada Takes 2nd and 3rd At Four Continents
If Canada’s sportsmen and sportswomen know how to do anything with absolute grace, then it’s how to make their way across a slippery icy landscape. Two Canadian ice dance duo’s finished in second and third positi...Read More
eSports Continues to Set New Records
eSports are definitely here to stay. The competitive gaming industry has boomed over the past ten years, and its reach has exploded to reach a much larger scope than even industry analysts ever could have imagined. Although organized con...Read More
Brooke Henderson Hoping for a Great Golfing Year
No matter where she goes nowadays, everybody recognizes Brooke Henderson. The 21 year old Smith Falls, Ontario native has rocketed her way up the international golf rankings over the past few years – but despite that...Read More
Ramon Colillas Takes Home $25k PSPC Win
With every level that passed in the $25,000 PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC), the stakes grew even higher for those still in the running for the grand prize. A group of 38 participants reached the second last day of action on Januar...Read More
Canadian Sports Predictions For 2019
With the start of a new year comes another twelve action-packed months for the world of Canadian sports. 2019 will no doubt be filled with new possibilities, big hopes and dreams, successes, heartbreaks, and everything...Read More
Finland’s Surprise Win Over the Canadian World Juniors
It’s a rare event for a Canadian team to be on the losing end of a hockey game. Unfortunately, however, victories are never possible one hundred percent of the time, and a broken hockey stick ended up breaking the Canadian World Ju...Read More
Lind And The Canadian Curling Conundrum
It’s all about doing what is considered to be impossible; being part of the group that finally achieves what has been out of their reach for the longest time. This, according to Canadian Curling champion J.D. Lind, is why he made th...Read More
Steve Spunt Wins 2nd WSOP Gold Ring At The Bike
There’s no stopping 58-year old Steve Spunt now. Not now that he’s won his second World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring at The Bike. And of course, lest we forget, $174,055 in prize money; the most to date for winning a main...Read More
Jennifer Jones Makes Career-Defining Shot
“Oh really? That’s kind of cool.” This was the response offered by four-time Canada Cup curling champion Jennifer Jones after having been informed that she had just made one of the best shots of her career, as we...Read More
Two-Time WSOP Master Thor Hansen Dies
Legendary Norwegian Poker player Thor Hansen was a legend in his own right. A regular on the scene, Hansen quickly acquired the honourable nickname of the “Godfather of Poker”. Sadly, after a 6-year long battle with cancer, Ha...Read More
Tony Miles Takes On Reality TV
Prop bets are all the rage right now, and Poker players have bought into the fad in a big way. To want to better and challenge one’s self is never a negative thing, and so the media is joining in on the fun by reporting on every lit...Read More
Caribbean Party Poker Rocks the Bahamas
Partypoker’s Caribbean Party Poker series is off to a great start, having kicked off on November 9. The series will run all the way until November 17 at Baha Mar in the Bahamas, which of course is the ideal setting for a few rounds ...Read More
Critics Accuse Transwoman Cyclist of Cheating
A transgender Canadian woman has recently won the Cycling World Championship in Los Angeles, bringing immense pride to local fans of the sport. However, some critics have now accused Dr Rachel McKinnon, t...Read More
Dean Walsh Wins DeepStacks Main Event
The was packed with action this year, playing out at Casino Yellowhead from September 29 all the way through to October 8. Over the course of the 10-day tourney, seven events played out,...Read More
Lefebvre Claims Top Spot at SIGA 2018
The first week of October always signifies the start of the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA) Poker Championship for Canada’s most passionate players. The premier event on SIGA’s calendar each year, ...Read More
Real Madrid Struggles Without Ronaldo
For the first time in ten years, Real Madrid has played 3 straight games without scoring a single goal. And for insiders, the reason is clear; Cristiano Ronaldo is no longer with Los Blancos, after signing with Juventus.
Real Madrid...Read More
Record Attendance at the 2018 Fall PNPC
Over the past couple of years, the PlayNow Poker Championship (PNPC) has been establishing a reputation for itself as an essential stop on the Canadian poker tourney schedule. The bi-annual event takes place once in sprin...Read More
Canadians Scoop $800k at WCOOP Tourneys
Fans of already know that in September, the iconic World Championship of Online Poker (or WCOOP) swings around. Players are offered a chance to scoop humongous guarantees and ultimate gaming glory while battling it out a...Read More
Poker Masters Pros Talk Top Amateur Leaks