canada Page 7 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Joey Votto "Terribly Ashamed" Of Saying Semi-Rude Things About Canada
Reds first baseman Joey Votto is a fantastic baseball player, a charmingly prickly dude, and a Canadian. Those last two things converged recently to produce one of his more memorable quotes, in which he explained that he really doesn’t give a shit about Canada....
Dwane Casey Thanks Raptors Fans For Being Canadian
It sucks that the Raptors fired Dwane Casey. They probably had to do it—they’ve lost like a hundred straight playoff games to LeBron James, and the systemic and cultural changes Casey engineered this past season made not even the slightest dent in James’s dominance, and they can’t any longer credibl...
Here's What Connor McDavid Would Look Like On A Good Team
With his NHL season ended before the playoffs even began, Connor McDavid gets the dubious honor of leading the Canadian national team through the IIHF World Championships. And damn, is it a beautiful (if tragic) sight to behold....
Canadian Senator Gives Official Speech About How Americans Are Ruining Hockey Broadcasts
Canadian Senator David Adams Richards, a relative newbie in the upper house, took the time on Tuesday to give an official, on-the-record speech to his colleagues featuring a pretty spicy sports take: American announcers are ruining hockey....
14 Dead In Canadian Junior Hockey Team Bus Accident
Friday night the Humboldt Broncos, a Canadian junior league hockey team, were on their way to a semi-final game in Western Canada when the team bus was involved in a highway collision that caused 14 fatalities, the bulk of which may have come from among the players and coaches of the team....
Not Even A Laser Can Solve This Curling Conundrum
In Elite 10 curling action on Friday night, two opposing stones ended up so close to the center of the rings that the teams needed increasingly sophisticated technology to measure any difference in distance—and even then, it couldn’t solve their problem. And if what Canada’s Sportsnet calls “the mos...
Someone Stole World Championship Rings From The Hockey Hall Of Fame
A dastardly thief walked into the Hockey Hall of Fame and stole two rings donated by recent Hall of Fame inductee Paul Kariya, the CBC reports. Was this the work of the Canadian villain the Puckburgler? Perhaps!...
Canada Loses In Hockey Again
Doesn’t some language have a word for feeling joy at others’ failure?...
America's Lamoureux Twins Take Down The Canadian Hockey Dynasty<em></em>
In the third straight edition of USA vs. Canada in the women’s Olympic hockey gold medal game, the Americans flipped the script. Team USA rode a Jocelyne Lamoureux winner in a six-frame shootout to break a dramatic 80-minute 2-2 deadlock and earn a gold medal for the first time since 1998. Shootouts...
The Most Star-Studded Shootout In Olympic Hockey History, 20 Years Later
Even if you’ve never watched a hockey game from beginning to end, you’ve heard of the Miracle on Ice. In 1980, at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the underdog Americans beat the heavily-favored Soviet team 4-3 during the men’s hockey semifinal. It happened despite the Americans being o...
For Deep Insight Into The True Nature Of The Virtue-Moir Relationship, Watch Them Be Forced To Watch A Montage Of Their Life Together<em></em>
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the greatest ice dancers of all-time, spent the Olympics erotically wiggling together on the ice and winning the gold medal with a world-record score before denying that any sort of fucking was going on. There’s a certain, um, electricity to their interactions, even if t...
Oh, Canada
For exclusive videos, pictures, and more, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Send us your confidential tips at [email protected], call our confidential tips hotline at (347) 746-8471, contact our writers directly, or use our anonymous SecureDrop system....
Sorry, But Russia Is Awesome: An Olympic Men's Hockey Preview
The Olympics are when the greatest athletes from all over the world gather to compete in their respective sports. Except for men’s hockey this year....
Canadian Lacrosse Team Bans Fan Who Dresses As Incredible Hulk<em></em>
Put on your finest denim jacket and pour yourself a big glass of maple syrup, because we’ve got a fine Canadian controversy. It involves a man named Rush Hulk—not his real name—who is a fan of the Saskatchewan Rush box lacrosse team....
Lucas Nogueira Loves Nickelback And Can't Understand Why Canada Doesn't
Raptors center Lucas “Bebê” Nogueira lives in Toronto, where “everywhere you go, it’s Drake, Drake, Drake,” as he explained to CBS Sports’ James Herbert. But Bebê’s tastes are different....
Canada Wins World Juniors; Swedish Captain Hurls Silver Medal Away
Canada claimed the world junior hockey championship tonight with a 3-1 win over Sweden, and a distraught Swedish captain Lias Andersson wanted nothing to do with his silver medal—first attempting to not even have it placed around his neck, before immediately chucking it over the glass where a happy ...
SNOWHOCKEY
For exclusive videos, pictures, and more, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Send us your confidential tips at [email protected], call our confidential tips hotline at (347) 746-8471, contact our writers directly, or use our anonymous SecureDrop system....
Director Of Canada's National <em></em>Women's Gymnastics Team Charged With Sexually Abusing A Minor
The director of Canada’s national women’s gymnastics team, David Brubaker, was charged last Friday with 10 counts of sexual offenses spanning eight years, all concerning a gymnast who was younger than 16 for part of that time period. According to the Sarnia Observer, Brubaker faces one charge of inv...
Leafs Troll Calgary By Honoring Grey Cup Champs Before Game Against Flames
The Toronto Argonauts handed the Calgary Stampeders their second successive Grey Cup loss last week in heartbreaking fashion, returning a Calgary fumble 109 yards for a game-tying touchdown with five minutes remaining, then clinching with a late winning field goal. It was the kind of win that will f...
Shania Twain Should Do Every Halftime Show
Sled dogs. Snowy conditions. A Mountie escort. A 110-yard football field. The greatest country crossover artist in the world. Last night’s halftime show at the 2017 Grey Cup was not just the most Canadian thing ever, but also, simply, the best thing ever. While the Argonauts and Stampeders took shel...