Sporting Madness

The Olympics have suffered countless calamities over the past week, including the mechanical failure at the conclusion of the Opening Ceremo...

The horrific death of 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in an Olympic training run today was horrible to hear about. Sports ...

Another tragedy has struck a promising hockey prospect with a great future in front of him. Not even four months after the death of Calgary ...

Just saw this update from the Globe's David Shoalts. Apparently, Sean Avery was rushed to a New York hospital this morning in cardiac a...

Just a week after I wrote this piece about heart failure and athletes dying young, another student-athlete has died. Neate has more on the...

Much ink has been spilled this week on the death of J.I. Albrecht by such worthies as Neate , Stephen Brunt , and Earl McRae . One of the pr...

Note: this is another piece on the Sonics that was originally earmarked for my Journal blog, but got pulled from there due to an upcoming co...

The recent death of Windsor Spitfires captain Mickey Renaud hit pretty close to home for me : when an apparently-healthy young athlete inexp...

In Truro, NS, for a few days, which is why updates have been a bit sporadic (also, covering three different games Saturday didn't help, ...