Reading Time: 4 minutes Charlotte Observer reporter Jourdan Rodrique was treated like almost all reporters are treated by most athletes. With disdain
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
The brutal truth about football’s waning popularity
Reading Time: 4 minutes As devastating hits and debilitating injuries rise, football faces a diminished audience. Can the sport curb its most violent tendencies and survive?
NFL star’s racism narrative falling apart
Reading Time: 4 minutes Seattle Seahawks’ Michael Bennett’s claims that Vegas cops took him down because of his colour refuted by video evidence
Can Shapovalov court lasting success?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s emerging tennis star showed plenty of dynamism at the Rogers Cup, but greatness will be only be conferred if he can repeat that success
A Bolt of lightning seared into our memories
Reading Time: 4 minutes Usain Bolt, the greatest sprinter the world has ever seen, has retired but his legacy will endure. He defined great in every sense of the word
Target practice: finding the right golf rangefinder
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hand-held laser units and wrist watches that give distances dominate the market. We tested both technologies to see which best serves the needs of golfers
The Blue Jay way: to sell or persevere?
Reading Time: 4 minutes If a post-season berth is unlikely for Toronto, it may be time to dump aging, costly players and begin building for the future
Pitchers’ careers balance on a thin ligament
Reading Time: 4 minutes Baseball teams and their medical people have reduced workloads, refined mechanics and changed diets to get the most out of their pitchers. To no avail
CFL: The Dark League Rises (again)
Reading Time: 4 minutes The three-down football league seems to move from one episode of crisis to another. But every spring it emerges again, despite its critics – and itself
Multi-millionaire LeBron James embraces victimhood
Reading Time: 3 minutes The absurdity of a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars playing the race card is truly dismaying