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Game 7 in Toronto: Chaos, Catharsis, and the Long Wait Ends
Read more: Game 7 in Toronto: Chaos, Catharsis, and the Long Wait EndsThirty-two years of heartbreak, hope, and hysteria finally end as the Blue Jays punch their ticket back to the World Series.
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Blue Jays Beat Mariners 6–2 to Force Game Seven
Read more: Blue Jays Beat Mariners 6–2 to Force Game SevenAfter 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.
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Blue Jays Flip ALCS Script on Seattle in Game 3
Read more: Blue Jays Flip ALCS Script on Seattle in Game 3In Seattle’s loudest cathedral, the Blue Jays didn’t just win a baseball game — they rewrote their playoff story.
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Toronto’s Dream Starts Fast, Fades Even Faster in ALCS Opener
Read more: Toronto’s Dream Starts Fast, Fades Even Faster in ALCS OpenerA 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.
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Decolonizing Hockey and Canada’s National Story
Read more: Decolonizing Hockey and Canada’s National StoryHow 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
Read more: Here’s Why Ontario Blocks CHL BettingOntario treats the CHL as a prohibited minor league, enforcing the ban through fines and integrity rules that keep junior-hockey wagering off legal sportsbooks.
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Sports as the Cultural Grammar of Our Time
Read more: Sports as the Cultural Grammar of Our TimeOn 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
Read more: Canada’s Unity by Vibes: The Oilers as National Myth MachineHow 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
Read more: How Sports Became the Ultimate Tool of StatecraftWe’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
Read more: Leafs Fandom: How Misery Became a Profitable SpectacleSteve Dangle’s annual meltdowns reveal how Toronto Maple Leafs fandom monetizes failure, conditioning generations into accepting disappointment as identity.
Sparked sports
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How Olympic Neutrality Silences Dissent and Protects Power
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show and Empire’s New Strategy
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Amber Glenn and the Limits of Visibility Politics
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How Super Bowl LX Amplifies Zionist Political Messaging
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The Olympics and the Collapse of Neutrality
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British Olympian Posts Anti-ICE Message on Olympic Opening Day
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Team Israel, World Baseball, and the Politics of Silence
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Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and America’s Halftime Split
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Sports as Infrastructure: How Games Power Capital and State