Canadian Football, Eh? The Dowbboy Joins Sirius XM 'Inside the CFL'
The Dowbboy joined the crew of 'Inside the CFL' on Sirius XM to talk about about Canadian Football, specifically the current Stampeders era of dominance.
Read MoreCan Rugby Save The NFL's Extreme Violence Issues?
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The news last week that the NFL’s TV ratings are dropping— down 11 percent from the previous season— was greeted with all sorts of interpretations from the media that makes it their business to know what the NFL does.
Read MoreThe UFC Problem Is Like Oxygen - It's Everywhere
In the depths of UFC 215, somewhere between rounds three and five of Amanda Nunes and Valentina Schevchenko's dance-off headliner, I caught myself on a rant. In less than a week, I found my mind going from one delighted by the UFC product to one frustrated by it.
Read MoreTrump Blitzes The NFL's Racial Divide
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Like nature, Donald Trump abhors a vacuum. And as the NFL has discovered to its regret, the president has filled the vacuum created by the league’s policy on players protesting during the national anthem.
Read MoreThe Calgary Arena Conundrum: the Dowbboy joins Terry Haig on CBC RCI
A controversy riling a lot of people in the prairie city of Calgary, Alberta involves hockey and for those who might have missed it, hockey is a very serious subject in this part of the world’s woods.
Bruce joins Terry Haig of CBC RCI about the topic.
Read MoreCFL Safety Rules Are Welcome But Does The Public Care About Concussions?
Football has a problem. Okay, a couple of problems.
Foremost among them is the the game is now being perceived as too violent for people— particularly young people— to play. The revelations about the apparent effect of playing the sport upon the brain combined with its other attendant miseries to knees, ankles, shoulders and backs is threatening to turn parents against the sport.
Read MoreBlack NFL Activist Lied And Libelled Vegas Cops-- But He's The Victim, Okay?
Are you a millionaire athlete in a scrape with the police? Caught in a place where you shouldn’t be? Running from the law when ordered to stay still? Then dial 1-800- CRY-RACISM. You’ll experience a soft landing from a forgiving media.
Read MoreStuck In The Middle With You: Women's MMA Has a Middle Class Problem
In Women’s MMA, Mount Rushmore is still being carved. Cris Justino, Ronda Rousey, and Joanna Jedrzejczyk are there. However, the fighters trying to ascend there dance dangerously close to a steep cliff, a long drop, fifty feet of crap and everyone else.
Read MoreToo Soon, Too Soon, Too Soon-- Except For The Tiger Cats
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When people you know do curious things, it’s always hard to reconcile the act with the person. I was thinking of that last week as the Hamilton Tiger Cats publicly lost touch with their senses, hiring a toxic former Baylor University coach to come repair their imploding team.
Read MoreThey Talked, They Fought, They Got Rich - We Bought It
Some two years ago, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather must have decided to play a game, a zero sum game. They would fight. One man would get credit for doing better than expected and the other would get credit for not being in a boring fight. They would both get rich doing it. They knew this would work, because they knew we would buy it.
Read MoreThe Scolds Of Silicon Valley Have Scared Pro Sports To Distraction
History, as Karl Marx observed, repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
For those playing along at home, we are knee-deep into an Oscar Wildean farce of professional sports. Saturday night, the Connor McGregor/ Floyd Mayweather bout was deemed a resounding success— mostly because it didn’t suck as badly as the pundits had predicted.
Read MoreShh! Quit The Talk, It's Time To Speculate
When it comes to the biggest boxing match (er, spectacle) of all time, the devil is in the details. Just where the hell are those details, anyways? How we can't possibly begin to predict how Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will match up until the ring of the bell on Saturday night.
Read MoreThere’s only one Conor McGregor, but a million opinions
How do you feel about Conor McGregor? Love him? Hate him? As the saying goes, the truth is somewhere in between. It’s finding that middle that McGregor has kept us guessing at.
Read MoreWhy Is CFL Using Trudeau Political Slogans To Make Itself Relevant?
Readers of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, might have been unsettled by the appearance this week of CFL coaches and players sporting t-shirts that declared Diversity Is Strength. Apparently, the CFL has adopted Justin Trudeau’s catch-all immigration slogan to celebrate the varied races, ethnicities and languages spoken by the players, officials and administrators of the league.
Read MoreIs Shapo The New Baseline In Canadian Tennis? Easy Now, Milos Is Still Tops
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We have seen the future, and his name is Denis Shapovalov. Okay, that might be an exaggeration, but the emergence of the 18-year-old tennis player on the national consciousness over a few steamy nights in August was enough to get the imaginations of Canadians racing.
Read MoreRookie Quarterbacks Are Delicate Things. Best Leave Them Alone.
The shine may have been the glare of light off his helmet, but Chicago Bears rookie Quarterback Mitch Trubisky shone nonetheless. With the ease begetting a top-five draft pick, he led the Bears offence to a touchdown on his first drive then didn’t miss a pass until his eighth attempts. How Chicago handles him now is the problem too many NFL teams have faced and failed.
Read MoreHe Was Bolt For Speed
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Usain Bolt did not die on Saturday on London. It just felt like it. The greatest sprinter the world has even seen finished a straining third in his final race, the 100-metre final of the 2017 World Track & Field Championships. Two other guys whom history will forget made sure his swan song ended on a minor key.
Read MoreVirtual TV Technology Has Called Out The Umpires' Wandering Strike Zone
These are the dog days of the baseball season. Which was probably appropriate as the Toronto Blue Jays howled like scalded hounds all week— umpire-wise.
Read MoreWild Things: Robbie Lawler vs Donald Cerrone
"I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself." If you are the kind of human being that can step into a cage knowing your consciousness (or a limb) will be the likely consequence, you have little time for self-pity. No two fighters embody that trait better than Donald Cerrone and Robbie Lawler.
Read MoreThe Irresistible Move Toward Super Teams Accelerates
Mid-July is not what we commonly refer to as basketball season. But the re-working of the NBA’s power dynamic seems to be encroaching on the turf of MLB and the NFL camps opening this week.
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