Sporting Life
Apr 8th, 2022 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. APRIL 8, 2022.O the Joy of Opening Day 2022. Games provide distraction. In a world where one delicately navigates the atrocities and reckless tyranny in Ukraine, the continual struggle to cope with the ongoing complications and uncertainty of COVID-19, every little bit of joy matters. Baseball aficionados always […]
Tags: Baseball in Toronto, Blue Jays and pitching, Jays World Series?, new sports gambling in Ontario, Sports Toronto, Toronto Blue Jays 2022 Posted in Sporting Life |
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Apr 1st, 2021 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. APRIL 1, 2021. Life for the Toronto Blue Jays, like everyone else for that matter, was and continues to be upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. A year ago, Canadian government border restrictions forced them to be baseball’s version of the nomadic warriors playing all of their games south […]
Tags: Baseball in Canada, Canadian sports, Charlie Montoyo, good season for Jays 2021?, TB Ballpark, Toronto Blue Jays 2021 Posted in Sporting Life |
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Jul 25th, 2020 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. JULY 24, 2020. The sporting world, like most everything else, stopped earlier this year on March 11 when Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz became the first athlete to test positive for COVID-19. In many ways the shut down of the NBA, and the other sports leagues that […]
Tags: Dr. Bill Schaffner, Dr. Rachel Levine, Major League Baseball, Marco Mendicino, MLB and coronavirus, Sahlen Field in Buffalo, Sports 2020, Toronto Blue Jays Posted in Sporting Life |
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Jun 14th, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Sporting Life
“GREATER ONTARIO”. FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019. As rarely enough in Toronto these days, there is sun in the sky (along with intermittent foreboding clouds for tomorrow). According to our latest reports from the streets, it’s almost warmer than lately too. It is impossible not to be affected in some happy way as well by the […]
Tags: global NBA, Jamaal Magloire, Jurassic Parks Canada, Kyle Lowry, NBA championship 2019, Toronto Raptors Posted in Sporting Life |
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Mar 28th, 2019 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
And then there were none … With the firing of John Gibbons at season’ end, and the off-season release of Troy Tulowitzki and trading of Russell Martin, the last vestiges of the best Blue Jays team in a quarter century are gone. Slowly it seemed and then suddenly, the faces on the famous September 2015 […]
Tags: Aaron Sanchez, Anthony Alford, Bill James, Blue Jays 2019, Bo Bichette, Cluster Luck Pythagorean model, Du Sean, Elvis Luciano, Joe Peta, Marcus Stroman, Sabermetrics, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Posted in Sporting Life |
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Nov 24th, 2018 |
By Dominic Berry |
Category: Sporting Life
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2018. GANATSEKWYAGON,ON. Both Donald Trump in the neighbouring USA today, and his wily colleague Doug Ford right here in the new Old Ontario, have become so appalling lately that I have sought refuge in thoughts about the 2018 Grey Cup – annual championship of the Canadian Football League, held for the 106th […]
Tags: Calgary Stampeders, Canadian Football League, Chelsea Drake, Edmonton as Grey Cup host, Grey Cup 2018, Ottawas Redblacks, Quick Six, Yardbird Suite in Edmonton Posted in Sporting Life |
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Mar 29th, 2018 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
From the outset of 2017 something was amiss. The day before the first full-squad workout in the spring, all-star Josh Donaldson suffered a tear in his right calf and did not find his stride until late July. Then Canadian Blue Jay prospect Dalton Pompey suffered a concussion at the World Baseball Classic and spent the […]
Tags: Aaron Sanchez, Baseball in Canada, Blue Jays 2018, Gregg Zaun, Halladay, John Axford, Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldson, Lenny Frejlich, Rob Sparrow, Roberto Osuna, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Posted in Sporting Life |
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Apr 10th, 2017 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
Baseball is back in the great white north, signaling spring revival, while also commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Blue Jays’ inaugural game (April 7, 1977) at snowy Exhibition Stadium on the north shore of Lake Ontario. While it was an entertaining 2016 down at the ballpark known previously as the Skydome, last year once […]
Tags: Blue Jays 2017, J.A. Happ, Jose Bautista's late career, Josh Donaldson, Marcus Stroman, Russell Martin, Toronto baseball 2017, Troy Tulowitzki Posted in Sporting Life |
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Apr 8th, 2016 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
There is symmetry in numbers…200 of them to be exact. Â For that was how many days the Blue Jays had in 2015. Â A mercurial season that began in early April and ended on the 200th day in heart breaking fashion, eliminated on a cold and rainy Kauffman Field in Game 6 of the AL Championship […]
Tags: Blue Jays 2016, Jose Bautista, Marcus Stroman, Rob Sparrow on Blue Jays Posted in Sporting Life |
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Mar 5th, 2016 |
By Dominic Berry |
Category: Sporting Life
MARCH 5, 2016. TORONTO, ON. For several days my morning TV news has been harshly reminding me that the Toronto Maple Leafs (in my hometown, I will quietly confess at the start) are the worst team in the entire National Hockey League/Ligue nationale de hockey. The NHL/LNH is now a much bigger operation than it […]
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