Author: Alex MacMillan
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Capitals Promote Wellar After Love’s Suspension Fallout
Washington stabilizes its coaching staff by elevating Patrick Wellar to a full-time NHL role following Mitch Love’s season-long suspension and dismissal.
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Ron MacLean Repeats Columbus Myth on Hockey Night
Ron MacLean’s Columbus remark repeats a colonial myth disproven by UNESCO, historians, and the TRC, revealing how national media still distort Indigenous history.
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Baseball as Power: Emotion, Ritual, and State Control
Baseball isn’t just a game—it’s a system of emotional management, civic identity, and state power that shapes how cities gather, feel, and understand themselves.
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Toronto Baseball and the City’s Ritual of Power and Emotion
How the 2025 Blue Jays run exposed Toronto’s emotional life, state power, colonial narratives, and the machinery that turns sports into civic governance.
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The Dodgers as a Blueprint for State Power
How the Dodgers’ money, development machine, and World Series run expose MLB’s class system and show why structure, not vibes, decides who actually wins.
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The 9-Run Inning and What We Lose When Sports Become a Market
Toronto’s historic 9-run inning showed the magic of shared fandom, even as gambling culture threatens to turn every emotional moment into monetized content.
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Doug Ford’s Ring of Fire Ads Backfire on Blue Jays Playoff Stage
Ontario’s pricey mining ads flooded Jays broadcasts, sparking backlash from fans, Indigenous nations, and reporters who say the project isn’t real or ready.
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Why the Blue Jays Felt Magical but Weren’t Destined or Cursed
Toronto’s 2025 World Series loss wasn’t just a game. It revealed the myths, structures, and civic psychology that shaped the run and deepened the city’s grief.
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Dodgers Win Game 7 Thriller as Jays’ Late Lead Evaporates
Toronto led nearly all night, only to watch a single impossible catch flip destiny, shatter belief, and expose the structural gulf that defined the 2025 World Series.
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The Game 6 Lodged Ball Loss That Stunned Toronto
A perfect swing, a trapped baseball, and a vanished run turned Game 6 into a surreal lesson in how rules, architecture, and chaos can upend an entire city’s hopes.
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Blue Jays Tilt Baseball’s Ritual North with Game 5 Victory
The Jays didn’t just win a baseball game. They performed a ritual, rewrote a prophecy, and tilted the empire’s diamond to face north.
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