The “Curse of the Bambino” is less the legacy of an unlucky baseball team, and more the result of a 1988 book by then-Boston Globe writer Dan Shaughnessy. Even so, “the curse” is a term that better sums up the history of heartbreaking losses and playoff futility endured by the Red Sox Nation and witnessed by all other baseball fans, and rolls incalculably quicker off of tongues than the name of the man who coined the phrase.

At the library last week, my friend Sarah climbed four flights of stairs and nearly passed out from panting so hard. It’s amazing how the activities least intended to be exerting can become exercise before your very eyes.

Queen’s University lost one of its most dedicated and passionate teachers and coaches earlier this month when Professor W.E. (Bill) Miklas passed away.
Miklas, former associate dean of the School of Business and longest-serving coach in the history of Queen’s athletics, died after a courageous struggle with cancer. He was 60.

Despite Barry Bonds’ home run chase, and Ichiro Suzuki’s amazing rookie season, I have lost all emotional attachment to pro baseball this year. I don’t know when I realized that I didn’t care, but it has hit me.

They’re smaller, they’re slower and they’re less experienced. So what do women bring to the world’s most popular sport? The typical Premier League fan may not welcome a women’s professional soccer league with open arms but based on its popularity thus far, everyone should be investing in shares. The Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA), founded by John Hendricks, kicked off its inaugural season in April of this year and has been turning heads ever since.

A wise man once told me that teams do not win games without strong defence. Not only did this man coach a team of six-year old soccer dynamos to an undefeated season but he also delved into the foundation of team sports for all ages and skill levels.

Just like they did their entire careers, Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield connected on their first swing, landing themselves in the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday.
It was the first time either player was eligible for induction, much to the chagrin of the other nominees, as the pair and former teammates with the Minnesota Twins, garnered the majority of votes—Winfield with 84.5 per cent of the ballots, and Puckett 82.1.

Trying to behave like the esteemed business professionals that they are, general managers around the hockey world are conveying, as the trade deadline approaches, an outward appearance that they are in complete control of their team’s fate, and their own nerves in negotiation.

The Gaels track and field team has started their season in top shape, with a national sixth-place ranking heading into the McGill Team Challenge this weekend.

I stayed up until 3:30 am Thursday to watch Canada play basketball.
Not the Raptors or the Lakers. Not Duke, North Carolina or even Kentucky. I stayed up to watch Canada, of all teams, lose to France in the Olympic quarter-finals and eliminate themselves from medal contention.

Just wanted to give you an update on how your Olympic Games have evolved since you created them way back in 1896. You would barely recognize them. You would disapprove of what they have become. You would struggle to find elements of the original Olympic spirit and ideals.