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  • Blue Jays Beat Mariners 6–2 to Force Game Seven
    October 20, 2025

    Blue Jays Beat Mariners 6–2 to Force Game Seven

    After defeating the Seattle Mariners 6–2 in Game Six of the American League Championship Series, Toronto stands one win away from its first World Series appearance in decades.

    Read more: Blue Jays Beat Mariners 6–2 to Force Game Seven
  • Blue Jays Flip ALCS Script on Seattle in Game 3
    October 16, 2025

    Blue Jays Flip ALCS Script on Seattle in Game 3

    In Seattle’s loudest cathedral, the Blue Jays didn’t just win a baseball game — they rewrote their playoff story.

    Read more: Blue Jays Flip ALCS Script on Seattle in Game 3
  • Toronto’s Dream Starts Fast, Fades Even Faster in ALCS Opener
    October 13, 2025

    Toronto’s Dream Starts Fast, Fades Even Faster in ALCS Opener

    A roaring start, a quiet collapse, and a nation’s October hopes slipping away as the Blue Jays fall 3–1 in a Game 1 that revealed more than the scoreline.

    Read more: Toronto’s Dream Starts Fast, Fades Even Faster in ALCS Opener
  • Decolonizing Hockey and Canada’s National Story
    October 9, 2025

    Decolonizing Hockey and Canada’s National Story

    How confronting racism, restoring Indigenous history, and reshaping power in hockey challenges the myths at the heart of Canadian national identity.

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  • Here’s Why Ontario Blocks CHL Betting
    October 1, 2025

    Here’s Why Ontario Blocks CHL Betting

    Ontario treats the CHL as a prohibited minor league, enforcing the ban through fines and integrity rules that keep junior-hockey wagering off legal sportsbooks.

    Read more: Here’s Why Ontario Blocks CHL Betting
  • Sports as the Cultural Grammar of Our Time
    August 24, 2025

    Sports as the Cultural Grammar of Our Time

    On the duplicity of sports: escapism, battleground, and the theater of empire.

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  • Canada’s Unity by Vibes: The Oilers as National Myth Machine
    June 4, 2025

    Canada’s Unity by Vibes: The Oilers as National Myth Machine

    How the Oilers’ playoff run has become a national myth machine, turning political failure into feel-good spectacle, one goal and anthem at a time.

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  • How Sports Became the Ultimate Tool of Statecraft
    May 26, 2025

    How Sports Became the Ultimate Tool of Statecraft

    We’re told sports are the great equalizer where politics doesn’t matter. But it never was, and in the last 25 years that myth has only become harder to defend.

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  • Leafs Fandom: How Misery Became a Profitable Spectacle
    May 26, 2025

    Leafs Fandom: How Misery Became a Profitable Spectacle

    Steve Dangle’s annual meltdowns reveal how Toronto Maple Leafs fandom monetizes failure, conditioning generations into accepting disappointment as identity.

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  • The Myth of Neutral Sport: Exile for Russia, Impunity for Israel
    May 24, 2025

    The Myth of Neutral Sport: Exile for Russia, Impunity for Israel

    Global sport claims neutrality, yet Russia is exiled while Israel plays on. The double standard reveals sport as statecraft, not unity.

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