Reading Time: 4 minutes Getting to the bottom is the only way to get to the top when it comes to securing quality prospects
Author: Bruce Dowbiggin
Bruce Dowbiggin's career includes successful stints in television, radio and print. He is a two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster
Slim pickings for next great Quebec NHL hockey star
Reading Time: 4 minutes Few French Canadians are prominent in modern professional hockey. What happened to the legacy of Rocket Richard?
Who needs spring when you have playoffs?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Plenty of talking points as the NHL and NBA start their marathons in search of champions
Baseball’s season of creative destruction
Reading Time: 4 minutes With 12 teams racing to the bottom and bonafide stars waiting for contracts, this looks to be a season of fan despair. Will the Blue Jays join the club?
On thin ice: the NHL’s Canadian teams are mostly a mess
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s plenty of blame to go around but only one certainty: the nation will rally around the Toronto Maple Leafs – right?
Tiger Woods and golf’s moral dilemma
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tiger Woods is back and the crowds are gathering to show their appreciation, in spite of his checkered personal past
Skipping Olympics a bridge too far for Bettman?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The NHL commissioner has kept the wolves at bay for years, but this season finds Bettman with nothing new to offer and much to lose
For Olympic success emulate the freestylers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Based on the results in South Korea, Canada’s formula for future Olympic success is obvious
Missing in action, missing the action in Pyeongchang
Reading Time: 4 minutes NHL players aren’t at the Olympics, nor is Russia (although Russian athletes are). And we’re missing plenty of sleep to keep an eye on the action
Baseball’s big free-agent balk
Reading Time: 4 minutes Baseball’s new success formula: Get out of the middle class for a while, sell the house, live in a trailer, accumulate credits and then buy a fabulous mansion