Topic: Canadian Things

May 1, 2013

Home Court: Filipino Hoops in Canada's Frozen North

Sam Riches

Canada's Yukon Territory is 30,000 miles larger than California, and populated by all of 35,000 souls. Whitehorse, the province's remote capital, has become home to thousands of Filipinos in recent years, and one very popular and important basketball league. It's a tough place to call home, but the hoops help.

April 2, 2013

Sportsflicks: The Great Alan Thicke/Werner Herzog Ski Movie Double Bill

Tom Keiser

In which Alan Thicke and Werner Herzog, two of the great film artists of their generation, tackle the filmic possiblilities of skiing. Not in the same film, sadly.

February 28, 2013

Sportsflicks: Bon Cop Bad Cop, or Call the Hockey Cops

Tom Keiser

Finally, buddy-cop movie that's secretly a long satirical skit about the NHL, in which a mismatched pair of francophone and anglophone Canadian cops team up to solve a murder and realize, in the process, that they both really hate Gary Bettman.

December 3, 2012

The Man Who Could've Saved Toronto

Shaun Roncken

It was never Steve Nash's job to save pro sports in Canada's biggest city. This doesn't mean that Toronto sports fans aren't haunted by his failure to do so.

August 17, 2012

The Disabled List: The Todd Bertuzzi Knock-Out Club

Jesse Ruddock

Todd Bertuzzi is famous for harming people as a hockey player. But credit where it's due: one of the NHL's baddest did come up with a very good way to nearly kill a (female) 11-year-old goalie back when he was just a minor league star/budding sociopath.

July 16, 2012

Theo Fleury's Pure Country

Eric Nusbaum

What is Theo Fleury doing singing a bunch of hokey-ish country songs on stage in the same arena he used to light up as a NHL star? Finding his voice, refusing to be quiet, and other admirable things, it turns out.

April 30, 2012

Yakkin' About Hockey: More Sun O))) in the Monitors, Please

Chris Collision
December 15, 2011

Baltimore's Greatest Canadian Sports Team: A Brief History of the CFL Colts

Ben Jacobs

They weren't the Colts, and they weren't yet the Ravens. But the Baltimore Football Club, originally the Baltimore CFL Colts and eventually the Baltimore Stallions, brought football hope—and a Canadian Football League championship—to Charm City during their brief time in town.