Sports, Health & Self-help

Playing Hard: A Life and Death in Games, Sports, and Play

During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a stroke, he told stories about “the buffoonery of men, brave but foolish men ... Read More »

January 29, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Seconds Out: Women and Fighting

By Alison Dean

Shortly after finishing her PhD, finding herself “burnt out and restless,” Alison Dean convinced a friend to go to a kickboxing class with her at a neighbourhood gym. Both were new to the practice – ... Read More »

June 21, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

We the North: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors

By Doug Smith

With a very unusual follow-up season now in the books, there is something even more nostalgic and moving about reliving the Toronto Raptors’ unlikely path to championship glory. In We the North, the Toronto Star’s ... Read More »

January 28, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Role I Played: Canada’s Greatest Olympic Hockey Team

By Sami Jo Small

Men’s hockey gets the majority of attention in this country, but it’s our national women’s team that is one of the most successful organizations in all of sports history. Since 1990, Team Canada has won ... Read More »

August 10, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

Major Misconduct: The Human Cost of Fighting in Hockey

By Jeremy Allingham

Don Cherry, every hockey fan’s favourite bombastic promoter of on-ice fisticuffs, will undoubtedly dislike the thesis of CBC journalist Jeremy Allingham’s new book: to protect players’ brains and to focus more on skills, fighting can ... Read More »

October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

Hockey Fight in Canada: The Big Media Faceoff Over the NHL

By David Shoalts

The formula for producing a Hockey Night in Canada ratings bonanza is relatively simple. In the best-case scenario, all six of Canada’s National Hockey League franchises make the Stanley Cup playoffs, capped by a seven-game ... Read More »

August 20, 2018 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Muscle on Wheels: Louise Armaindo and the High-Wheel Racers of Nineteenth-Century America

By M. Ann Hall

A language algorithm developed in 2016 by three Cornell University professors proved there’s a gender bias in sports journalism, which will come as no shock to anyone who has followed the careers of Serena Williams ... Read More »

July 30, 2018 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters

By Mark Kingwell

When Roger Angell started writing baseball essays for The New Yorker in the 1960s, he knew he’d need a fresh angle on the beloved game. He found it right where he was sitting: in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game That Saved Me

By Stacey May Fowles

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard

By John Branch

The sudden death in 2011 of National Hockey League enforcer Derek Boogaard shocked the hockey world in ways that continue to resonate today. Just 28 at the time of his death, Boogaard was the NHL’s ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Sports, Health & Self-help

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