ThisAbility #43: Olympic Accessibility
Inside the new Canada Line SkyTrain cars.This week, I’m coming to you live and on location from Canada’s Olympic city and the place of my birth. I’m fortunate enough to be staying at my father’s...
View ArticleThis.org will be a 100% Olympics-free zone for the next two weeks
The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games open tonight with much fanfare, pomp, jollity, glee, grandeur, ceremony, flourish, and setting things on fire. We’ve spent, oh, about the last six weeks moaning...
View ArticleGame Theory #2: Focus on the Family really won the Super Bowl
Stills from Tim Tebow's Focus on the Family ad that aired during the Super Bowl.In all the hoopla following the New Orleans Saints’ momentous victory over the Indianapolis Colts in last week’s Super...
View ArticleFor a "national sport," hockey has become too expensive and elitist
Hockey players at McGill University, Montreal, 1901.I grew up in the Greater Toronto Area, home to the most diverse region in all of Canada, perhaps the world, in a Hong Kong immigrant household...
View ArticleGame Theory #3: It's not perfect, but hockey's still the national game
Canada's women's Olympic hockey team pose with their gold medals after the winning game.Guest blogger Canice Leung recently wrote in this space that Canada’s “national sport,” our beloved ice hockey,...
View ArticleThisAbility #44: The "Parallel" Olympics
Brian McKeever qualified for the Paralympics and the Olympics, too bad his team started someone else.Most people think that the ‘para’ in Paralympics means paraplegic, but it actually means parallel....
View ArticleGame Theory #4: Dismal graduation rate for black NCAA players is the real...
The madness of March is upon us. And in the sporting world that means all college basketball, all the time. The Final Four tournament opened last week, where 64 teams (well, technically, 65—there’s a...
View ArticleInterview: Dave Zirin, The Nation sports editor and "Edge of Sports" host
Today in Verbatim, This contributing editor Andrew Wallace interviews Dave Zirin, sports editor of U.S. progressive weekly The Nation and host of Edgeofsports.com, a blog and radio show that examines...
View ArticleGame Theory #5: The myth of the major-league sports economic boost
Toronto's Rogers Centre (formerly Skydome), built with public funds and later sold off to private business for a pittance. A major league sports team is often assumed to be more economically...
View ArticleGame Theory #6: A remembrance of baseball's relevance past
I miss you, Roy Halladay.I remember when you did what you’re doing right now for the Phillies for the Jays. It was just last year. How could I forget? You were the reason—perhaps the only one—local...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: The NBA and the Racist Boys’ Club
This past Saturday, an important clip was made public on TMZ. The audio captured Los Angeles Clipper’s owner Donald Sterling telling his sweetheart, V. Stiviano, that he does not want her...
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