Down by a seemingly insurmountable three goals with less than 11 minutes remaining in the final frame -- hell, still down by two goals with less than 90 ticks left on the clock -- the Boston Bruins capped an improbable, huge and historic comeback last night in Boston in an...

And now we wait and see.

In a story appearing in Sports Illustrated's May 6th issue, and that is now available on SI's website, a professional athlete publicly acknowledges that he is gay. The riveting, first-person story by the thoughtful and sincere Jason Collins opens, remarkably enough: "I'm...

I'm scheduled to golf tomorrow. First round of the season. So, you may want to put your snow tires back on.

Seriously: the last time I was set to dust off and break out the clubs for the first time this season, we had a regular wrath-of-god ice storm --...

At some point during Major League Baseball's Opening Week -- in the fog of having watched more games than I can clearly recall, or care to admit -- I became wildly jealous of the denizens of the diamond's dugouts, and not solely because they're placed on a pedestal, pampered and...

It's Opening Day in Toronto. Or, as it's been rechristened by tradition-trouncing bean-counters in cahoots with television executives who probably think a full count is a European nobleman after a really big meal: Opening Day, er, night.

All of which is to say that as of around 7 p.m., when...

It's an unspeakable tragedy about which we must, well, speak. It's abomination -- shameful and unjust. It's the world failing to unfold as it has (unfailingly) for so many years.

With Major League Baseball's Opening Day only six sleeps away, the polls are in, predictions have been posted, the sport's...

It's time to jump into the (office) pool. Time to prep your picks and get your brackets in order. Time to say goodbye to reality and to enter a parallel universe.

Yes kids, the 2013 National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball Championship, a.k.a. March Madness, tips-off Tuesday, March 19 in...

It seems that March Madness has come early this year. Honestly, less than a week into the month -- and still two weeks shy of the U.S. college basketball tourney that brandishes the March Madness moniker -- and it's already beginning to seem as though March may be a month...

It is the embodiment of all that is off-kilter and absurd with sports -- from the misguided, misplaced adulation over all things athletic to the inane, overblown fanaticism of fans who really should have better things to do with their time. And money.

At a live auction in New York...

As Dwyane Wade explained, in what seems to some to be an utterance of unfathomable understatement: LeBron James is "off the planet right now. He's not even the best basketball player on the planet. He's surpassed the planet. He's somewhere else..."

Wade was making the case for his teammate's extraterrestrial-ness...

For National Football League fans, it is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

And if you're wondering what the dickens that means, consider: Super Bowl Sunday is indeed the best of times. At the culmination of a superb season of football, after a riveting regular...

To football fanatics -- to people with team logos tattooed on their backsides, favorite team underpants and face-paint pallets stashed in their drawers -- the two-week time lag between Conference Championship Sunday and Super Bowl Sunday is more than a little dry spell sans their pigskin pastime -- it's a...

One day when our eldest son was but a little gaffer, he was in the family room watching Sesame Street, a peanut butter and jam sandwich in hand. I was sitting nearby, half keeping an eye on him, half reading a newspaper, when I became aware that the half-pint was...

Come Saturday morning it should be confirmed that the majority of the National Hockey League's 700-plus players has accepted the new 10-year labour deal brokered last Sunday morning in New York, and that the world's premier puck league is officially back in business. That is, taken off ice, and put...

It's altogether unlike the perpetually poised, polished and professional National Football League to fumble the ball and miss such a golden opportunity. Marketing, publicity and promotion -- incessant self-promotion (or, Kardashian-ism, as it's known) -- are what make this league larger than life, and by far bigger than baseball, basketball,...

In an irony as ripe as weird Uncle Willard's bedside denture jar and nuttier than old Auntie Jean's inedible fruitcake, there are whispers that the National Hockey League and its players union are inching toward an agreement to truncate their age-old lockout, and allow a new season to finally begin......

I believe it was Austin (Danger) Powers -- Renaissance Man, International Man of Mystery, Aging Hipster -- who once addressed the unspoken code that guys are always speaking about when he eloquently intoned: "You don't kick a man in the pills. It's just not cricket."

It's true in the real...

In an age where The Big F (ah, that's Fun) is seemingly being siphoned out of sports by avarice and idiocy and egos, it's nice to hear the down-home story of the Hembry and Babbitt boys of Emerson, Iowa (population 430), young (and not-so-young) men determined to put The Big...

In the absence of our national sport -- and in the very real presence of ongoing (and, some would suggest, idiotic) National Hockey League labour woes that are threatening to put an entire season on ice (or, er, off ice) -- Canadians are at a loss.

We're at a loss...

Last night, the landscape shifted. The Earth moved. According to early breathless reports on Sports Talk Radio in Toronto, the shifting was seismic, the movement monumental -- naturally resulting in overdue joy in Mudville. And mirth in Muddy York.

Stuck in my car, I listened as the drama unfolded over...