Reading Time: 3 minutes Playing before empty stadiums, moving teams to centralized locations with revised schedules, virtual drafts – everything is on the table
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
Play ball! The COVID-19 sports conundrum
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can see the appeal for Trump to use sports to help restore normalcy as he heads for the November presidential election
How do we shake China’s firm grasp after COVID-19?
Reading Time: 3 minutes We have surrendered far too much control of the economy to the Chinese, from sports equipment to broader supply chains
Sports is the canary in the COVID-19 coal mine
Reading Time: 4 minutes So when will sports be resumed and how can they play a role in transitioning to normalcy again?
Don’t expect a pandemic to slow down the NFL
Reading Time: 4 minutes The league has a new deal with players, free-agency frenzy begins this week and big-time bargaining for TV rights is on the horizon
Blowing coronavirus all out of proportion
Reading Time: 3 minutes Politicians and sports officials, wary of a negative media broadside, are taking no chances about infection. If they have to hobble the economy, then so be it
Dissecting Canada’s NHL underachievers
Reading Time: 4 minutes We could see as many as five Canadians teams in the playoffs – but more likely we’ll see two or three at this pace
Can Bronfman bring baseball back to Montreal?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sharing the Rays with Tampa Bay may be more than a pipe dream for the city, which for more than a decade has sought to bring MLB back
Corporate raiders are at the gates of pro sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes The future of franchise-based leagues and pro tours may hang in the balance as big-money investors look to strip out superstars
Baseball being buried by a tsunami of cheat
Reading Time: 4 minutes As baseball struggles with the implications of a team cheating to win a World Series, there are more questions than answers