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England v Australia is the oldest continuous international cricket fixture, dating back to the first meeting at Melbourne in March 1877. Australia won then by 45 runs and, going into this winter’s series, they now hold an advantage of 125 wins to England’s 95, with the other 86 of the 301 matches drawn.
The early years […]

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TTC Subway Mechanic Rick Ball has just posted the fastest time in world marathon history for a single leg amputee. Finishing in the top six percent of all runners in the 113th Boston Marathon, Ball beat the previous 3:04:00 record for a single amputee set by Australian Amy Winters at the 2007 Chicago Marathon. Ball’s […]

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Familiarity breed’s contempt but the British and Irish Lions will also hope that it breeds success. In the professional era, tours are shorter and the intensity is ratcheted up from the opening match. This summer the Lions enter the South African rugby cauldron for six short weeks. From the end of May until the first […]

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Things are not good at cricket Canada with a group of concerned fans demonstrating in Markham against the policies and conduct of the Canadian Executive board outside of the AGM.
They feel the leadership of the game is in question with recent regressive policies that have seen many resignations during the year as a result.
Last July […]

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Can you afford the ticket to watch your Professional Sports team in these economic times?
Do you think our professions teams should reduce prices to attract more fans?
English Premier Soccer Clubs are reducing prices to help their fans out in this economic downturn. Now that makes sense to me.
Will we see this happen with the […]

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Norma Bastidas amazing journey to fight blindness by running 7 ultra marathons on 7 continents in 7 months to raise funds for the blind and the visually impaired.
Inspired by a teenage son suffering from a rare eye disease, Norma Bastidas is preparing to take up the challenge by running some of the world’s most gruelling […]

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It’s that time of the year when we all take stock of the past 12 months, measure the accomplishments, the great moments in sports.
Please find some of the international moments that I have selected.
Nadal vs Federer Wimbledon final.
Federer’s five years of dominance at Wimbledon came to the end of the road in one of the […]

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Strong defense and a new era of accountability characterized the recent National Senior Men’s Tour rugby tour of Europe. One of the toughest tour schedules in recent history is now in the books for the National Senior Men’s Team of Rugby Canada.
The return of one win from four fixtures was the minimum requirement for the […]

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Lewis Hamilton has become the youngest ever Formula One World Champion after an incredible climax to the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix, which was won by his title rival Felipe Massa. 
Hamilton becomes the youngest world champion in the history of Formula One and is well on the road to becoming a $1 billion sportsman. 
Hamilton was named after the American […]

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The FA is to investigate claims of match-fixing after receiving information about ‘extraordinary betting patterns’ during a recent English game.  
The Sunday Telegraph of England  claims there was ‘a massive movement around half-time’ in the Asian betting market during a recent Championship game. That kind of activity would typically follow a major on-field incident, but […]

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