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Beer Of The Week: Cerveza Cucapa's Chupacabras Pale Ale
The weather is dimming, the days shrinking, and the bottle of Mexican-made English-style pale ale starts looking more seductive. It's called Chupacabras, by a craft brewer in Baja California called Cerveza Cucapa. (Twitter bio: "The only Mexican Beer that Doesn't need a lime to taste better, The Bes...
Jockey Chantal Sutherland Failed A Breathalyzer Test Before Her Race
Chantal Sutherland is not unattractive. But the Canadian rider, with more than 10 years of experience, has headed off any Danica-style criticism by actually being quite good at her job. Thankfully for her, that body of work will also prevent her from being known chiefly as the jockey who nearly rode...
Beer Of The Week: Blue Buck, In Time For Canadian Thanksgiving
Monday marks a holiday that in Canada is known as Thanksgiving. Any American will recognize the basic outlines of the day: Get together with friends and family and eat until you can compare stretchmarks and then succumb to naps. That doesn't mean it's the same holiday. Care to (U) guess (S) which (A...
Canadian Junior-Hockey Players Break Into Teammate's House With Fake Guns And Ski Masks, Get Busted By The Mounties
Players from the Peterborough Petes, an Ontario Hockey League team, thought it would be a good idea to sneak into a teammate's house at night while wearing masks and holding fake guns. You know, just as a harmless prank. They didn't consider what their practical joke might look like to the rest of t...
This Is What It Looks Like To Win A Golf Tournament By One Stroke, With An Eagle On The 72nd Hole
Eugene Wong stepped to the last tee of the Canadian Tour Championship at Scarboro down a shot, staring a par-four in the face. He drove solidly into the middle of the fairway, 133 yards away. He'd need to get up and down just to go to a playoff. He put it up and in....
Adorable Canadian Child Sends Medal To DQ'd Relay Team, Accurately Describes Canada As "Cold"
Well isn't this fricking precious? Ten-year-old Elijah Porter was heartbroken when the Canadian 4x100 team appeared to take bronze, only to be disqualified for running outside the lane. So Elijah sent a letter to Justyn Warner, Gavin Smellie, Jared Connaughton, and Oluseyi Smith, and included his me...
North Korea And Australia Are Now At War: Foreign Olympics News NBC Didn't Like Enough To Tape-Delay
Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics. ...
Columnist Who Says Canadian Soccer Should Stop Whining Admits He Turned Off The Game After 35 Minutes
Tuesday's Olympic semifinal between the U.S. and Canada was one of the most thrilling, dramatic games you'll ever see. It also had some damn curious refereeing....
Olympians Are Using A Record Number Of Condoms: Foreign Olympics News NBC Couldn't Fit Between Commercials
Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics. ...
Hours After Defeat, An Australian Rower Was Smashing Store Windows: Foreign Olympics News That Couldn't Fit On The Desk Of Bob Costas
Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics. ...
A Ugandan Hero Is Trapped In London: Foreign Olympics News That Wasn't Big Enough For Bob Costas
Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics. ...
Nigeria Is Changing The Channel: Foreign Olympics News That Did Not Move Bob Costas
With Zooming In, Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics. ...
Rogers SportsNet Has Some Curious Suggestions About How To Spend A Day Without Sports
The day following the MLB All-Star Game is one of the worst for sports fans—and sportswriters—due to a lack of major sporting events. (Don't ask for help from MLS; they only had one match yesterday and none tonight.) Since baseball extended the break by a day, we're in the same sports vacuum today ...
Torontometrics: <em>SportsCentre</em> Is Just Like <em>SportsCenter</em>, But With More Hockey And Less Yelling
Inspired by our Bristolmetrics series, commenter Carrie Hunt and the Spoonerisms did some Torontometrics in last night's DUAN, and it sounds like our neighbors to the north are pretty into this "hockey" thing. What, no clamorous blowhards trolling easily agitated morons? How can you tell the clowns ...
Metta World Peace Does The Weather
Somewhere, in a parallel universe, the Lakers won the Western Conference last night in a final hurrah for an aging team. Here in this universe, the Lakers are out, the Thunder are moving on, and Metta World Peace is a weatherman in Vancouver....
Soccer Player Has Cheek Touched, Fakes Own Death, Provokes Red Card
Last night Toronto FC won the Canadian Championship with an aggregate victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps, and it was not without some ridiculous floppery. In the midst of some heated talk, Toronto's Julian de Guzman lightly brushed the cheek of Jun Marques Davidson, as you would a lover or a bab...
Canadian Lacrosse Brawl Is Best Lacrosse Brawl
An emailer tells us we're looking at the Intermediate A teams (so, 16-to-18-year-olds) of the Coquitlam Adanacs and Nanaimo Timbermen fighting it out at a game on Saturday. We love it, and not just because it features so many punchable faces getting punched. Presumably lacrosse has penalties for l...
Stay Sober Around Gary Bettman
We missed this when it ran Tuesday, but we'd like to bring to your attention the memoirs of Richard Stursberg, former head of CBC. The excerpt that ran in Maclean's concerns his 2006 negotiations with Gary Bettman over the league's television contract. We pick things up at a chi-chi Italian restaura...
Arrested Drunk Man Sings "Bohemian Rhapsody" In Its Entirety In Back Of Police Car [UPDATE]
Dude in the video above wasn't happy about being picked up by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for being intoxicated. The best excuse he can muster is something about "brotherhood of men on the planet earth" before he segues right into singing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." In its entirety. He even...