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Majority of NHL fans think the Stanley Cup is still the Stanley Cup, despite COVID-19 format: poll
BY JONATHAN BRADLEY The majority of NHL-watchers and ardent hockey fans believe despite the season being reconfigured because of COVID-19, this year’s Stanley Cup will carry the same hono...
Scott Stinson: As CFL scrambles to save a 2020 season, the uncertainty of its business has been exposed
At the Grey Cup in Calgary last November, Randy Ambrosie described the Canadian Football League as the “biggest global football league in the world.” There were a couple of adjectives doi...
Scott Stinson: Major League Baseball's really bad idea continues to get worse
Rarely does a bad idea get proven to be so with this much haste. But then, Major League Baseball’s plan for a 2020 season was an exceptionally bad idea. Manfred, in an interview on the frie...
Scott Stinson: Will there be sex in the sports bubbles? Not for a while, at least
Like just about everyone who has found themselves on a lot more conference calls in recent months, I can find myself occasionally losing focus. So it was that on a call with Mark Tatum, the d...
Scott Stinson: Miami Marlins COVID-19 outbreak shows MLB's astonishing lack of foresight
From the moment that sports leagues were shuttered more than four months ago, a single question has hovered over all the return-to-play scenarios, and their bubbles and testing strategies and re...
Scott Stinson: Pro sports is coming back with games that count. But will they matter?
As Major League Baseball began on Thursday night, with actual games that count in actual standings for a little stump of a regular season, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts took a knee...
Boxing greats Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr. announce September L.A. fight
Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is making his comeback to the ring in an eight-round fight against former world champion Roy Jones Jr. in September. Tyson, 54, is set to fight J...
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Scott Stinson: As Washington's NFL team changes its offensive nickname, will it be the start of a trend?
There should be no gold stars for Daniel Snyder or Roger Goodell. It was just seven years ago that the owner of Washington’s NFL team and the league commissioner mounted an aggressive defen...
Scott Stinson: The Toronto Blue Jays are back, but for how long?
At 7:07 on Thursday evening, Matt Shoemaker threw the first pitch in a reasonable facsimile of competitive baseball game at the Rogers Centre. The pitch, a ball high and tight to his teammate...
http://nationalpost.com/sports/scott-stinson-the-toronto-blue-jays-are-back-but-for-how-long
Scott Stinson: The NHL is back, almost, and it looks a lot different
Hockey is back, almost, and the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks could meet in the Stanley Cup Final in a couple of months and, honestly, it has not suddenly turned into 2015. If you...
http://nationalpost.com/sports/scott-stinson-the-nhl-is-back-almost-and-it-looks-a-lot-different
Scott Stinson: The MLB could have come out on top of COVID-19. Instead, it's descending into chaos
As Major League Baseball tries to ramp up toward a weird pseudo-season, bad news has smacked it in the face like a sharp grounder that took a funny hop. Several teams — four at last count ...
Scott Stinson: Changing the name of Washington's NFL team is low-hanging fruit, but it's also a start
In the television series Master of None, there is an episode in which the character played by Aziz Ansari visits an anti-racism organization. One of the employees has a white board by his desk, ...
Scott Stinson: Raptors say 'everyone is geared up to play,' but Florida's COVID crisis looms large
Masai Ujiri said all the things that you would expect him to say, as the Toronto Raptors and the National Basketball Association sputter back to life and try to finish their seasons amid a pande...
COVID-19 is 'the biggest battle we face today,' says MLSE's Larry Tanenbaum
Larry Tanenbaum is the chairman of a sports empire that was in pretty good shape in February. The Toronto Raptors were mounting a robust defence of their NBA title in the first year After Kawhi,...
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Scott Stinson: After a three-month pause, the Premier League is back for a whirlwind finish
The Bundesliga did the job there for a couple of weeks for the sports-starved, but now we can all go back to not caring about German soccer. The drama in that league, such as it was, is over,...
Scott Stinson: NBA and MLS make plans to set up shop in Florida, but what if the state isn't ready?
Over the many weeks of preparation and consideration as professional sports leagues worked on ways to get back to action, they have confronted two main challenges: the health and safety protocol...
Scott Stinson: MLB wants to solve its boring-game problem. By having no games at all
I covered the last World Series, so it’s starting to feel like I might have witnessed the last Major League Baseball that will be played for quite some time. It was, broadly, a compelling s...
Scott Stinson: The sports world gets serious about combatting racism. At least for now
If last week was when sports organizations lined up to say that they were committed to ending racism, this week was when they started to do something about it. Are these the green shoots of some...
Scott Stinson: Baseball's wealthy owners, and their long tradition of looking for money from elsewhere
Should Major League Baseball ever complete its slow meander toward a return, the Texas Rangers are scheduled to play in Globe Life Field, the shiny new ballpark built with at least US$500-millio...
Scott Stinson: Amid a push for equality, the NFL's lack of black coaches remains a glaring problem
The National Football League altered its hiring policies last month in a bid to increase the number of non-white coaches and executives in its ranks. The changes to the Rooney Rule, which was...
Canadians seem OK with possibly being benched as playoff venue: survey
OTTAWA — It looks like hockey fans will be able to cheer on their favourite NHL team this summer but Canadians have issued a collective shrug about whether the Stanley Cup is hoisted on their ...
Having a ball: Tennis players and golfers return to their sports in droves
You can sign your own ball, keep space around you and get outside. These are some of the reasons golf and tennis are set to be among the most popular sports of the season. Thousands of tennis...
Scott Stinson: 'What's one more year?' Olympians still running on the long, and now longer, road to Tokyo
Lanni Marchant can at least be grateful that she has recent experience being sidelined. The Canadian marathoner was hospitalized last year after abdominal surgery, which came a year after hip...
Scott Stinson: A big soccer match, and a suggestion that pro sports in a pandemic can still look familiar
When the final whistle trilled to mark the end of the match on Tuesday evening, Joshua Kimmich extended both arms, clenched both fists, and roared. And then he roared again. To all the specul...
Scott Stinson on COVID-19: After years of declining interest, golf is suddenly hot again
I saw some friends amid lovely verdant space on the weekend. There were beers involved. And I wasn’t even breaking any lockdown rules. I played golf. For the first time in my life, a round ...
Scott Stinson: As the CFL lobbies for federal cash, it needs to show it's in financial peril. But not too much peril
The Canadian Football League’s request for tens of millions of dollars of federal cash was met last week with everything from support to skepticism to outright disdain. But a near-universal...
Scott Stinson: Major League Baseball players are about to embark on a PR battle that they can't win
It is one of the strange truths of professional sports that the rich people involved tend to garner less public sympathy than the extremely rich people. That is, when an athlete declines to pl...
Scott Stinson: Emergency funds allow Team Canada to prepare for 2021, but long-term questions remain
Before he joined the Canadian Olympic Committee as chief executive at the end of 2018, David Shoemaker ran the NBA’s business in China for seven years. When he started that job, basketbal...
Canadian Olympic athletes describe rollercoaster of going from highest intensity training to biding their time
From the highest intensity to biding their time, Olympic athletes were nearing the end of a four-year cycle of qualifying and training to reach Tokyo 2020 when the coronovirus pandemic put th...
Behind the COVID-19 mask, an Olympian helping people have a baby during a pandemic
With everything from haircuts to pub visits to elective surgeries put on hold for months now, there is one particular job that has marched on. Heather MacLean knows it well. “Babies don’t...
Doug Ford says Maple Leafs' parent company in talks to turn Toronto into a 'hockey pod'
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the Toronto Maple Leafs’ parent company has been in contact with the province about the possibility of Canada’s biggest city serving as a so-called...
Scott Stinson on COVID-19: The CFL nears a financial crisis, but forgive the public skepticism
Pity the die-hard Canadian Football League fan who tuned into Justin Trudeau’s press conference on Wednesday morning. With the CFL having let slip late Tuesday that it was asking the federa...
Scott Stinson: The Last Dance director on underdogs and the challenge of interviewing Dennis Rodman
By the time he joined the Chicago Bulls in 1995, Dennis Rodman was a bizarre incongruity. Off the court, he wore strange outfits, dyed his hair all manner of colours, partied with celebrities an...
Scott Stinson: From setting records to being stranded in Florida, Christine Sinclair reflects on a 'wild year'
The coronavirus pandemic has forced so many of us to adjust to new realities quickly, but few people went from full speed to a dead stop like Christine Sinclair. Sinclair and her Canadian nat...
Scott Stinson: As sports leagues consider a return to action, the waiting game is the only one they can play
Adam Silver held a conference call with the media late on Friday that was notable only for all the things the commissioner of the National Basketball Association did not say. He didn’t p...
Scott Stinson: TSN's Michael Landsberg takes mental-health talk to a wider audience amid pandemic
Michael Landsberg calls me at the appointed time, and asks if we can delay our interview by a few minutes. He has a promo to shoot for his new show, and he wants his dog to be in it. The dog, Wr...
Edmonton Oilers player Colby Cave dies in hospital after suffering brain bleed
Edmonton Oilers player Colby Cave died on Saturday, his family confirmed, days after being put in a medically induced coma at a Toronto hospital. In a statement posted on the NHL website, Cav...
Scott Stinson: With sports on hold, leagues are floating strange (and dangerous) trial balloons
There is no sign of professional sports returning anytime soon, but that hasn’t stopped trial-balloon season from proceeding in full swing. Reports from The Associated Press and ESPN hav...
Scott Stinson: Soccer players in England were just asked to take a big pay cut. Will athletes here be next?
Even at a time where it seems like every day brings new surprises delivered from someone at a podium, it would be quite something to see federal Health Minister Patty Hadju stand up and say that...
Scott Stinson on COVID-19: If Canadian governments want better public buy-in, then give us better data
Before the coronavirus shut down sports, I spent a lot of time most days looking at numbers. And now, I spend a lot of time most days looking at numbers. Instead of points per possessio...
Scott Stinson on COVID-19: The Olympics have finally been postponed. Will they ever be the same?
The International Olympic Committee did the inevitable on Tuesday, postponing the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics that were supposed to begin in late July until sometime beyond this year “bu...
Scott Stinson: With Tokyo Olympics call, Team Canada may have shamed IOC into doing the right thing
It is difficult to describe in words what an Olympic medal means to an amateur athlete. Instead, there are scenes. On the side of a mountain in Korea in 2018, four Canadian lugers won a ...
Scott Stinson: The Raptors' title run is being rebroadcast during COVID-19. Here are the key games to watch
The Toronto Raptors were supposed to play the Boston Celtics on Friday night. It would have been one of those Statement Games, and a chance for the defending champions to put a tight hold on the...
Scott Stinson: The International Olympic Committee is playing a dangerous waiting game
It is hard to extend the benefit of the doubt to the International Olympic Committee. This is an organization that took a competition that celebrated amateur athleticism and grew it into s...
Scott Stinson: Tom Brady is leaving New England, and finally there is an actual sports story
Now that we are about to see the end of Tom Brady’s impossibly successful two decades in New England, we can admit what we are all thinking. Brady will play somewhere else in an awkward and...
Scott Stinson: The return of sports will be welcome, but it can't come too early
The distance from unthinkable to routine has proven to be remarkably short in recent days. Five days ago, North America’s sports leagues had only applied social-distancing measures to the m...
Scott Stinson: In this time without sports due to COVID-19, there is an important lesson that sports can teach
Driving my daughter to a house-league playoff game a couple of weeks back, I noted that we were a little late and that she might still be getting her skates on when the coaches came into the roo...
Scott Stinson: The NHL had no other choice but to suspend its season over COVID-19
From the moment the National Basketball Association quickly and urgently suspended its season on Wednesday night, it seemed inevitable that the National Hockey League would have to do the sam...
Scott Stinson: Olympian Alysha Newman has a new side gig on the road to Tokyo. She's modelling lingerie
There was a specific question that entered Alysha Newman’s mind as she considered whether to participate in an advertising campaign alongside three other Olympians. “I definitely thought,...
Ottawa Senators say CEO’s firing tied to ex-wife’s allegations
The surprise firing of Ottawa Senators chief executive officer Jim Little followed an investigation by the NHL franchise that uncovered several allegations of harsh or abusive behaviour, includi...