Sports, Health & Self-help

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

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

Playing It Forward: 50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada

By Guylaine Demers; Lorraine Greaves; Marion Lay; Sandra Kirby; eds.

Since February 2008, The Feminist History Society has made it their mission to rigorously document the Canadian feminist movement between the years 1960 and 2010. The goal is that, each year, society members receive a ... Read More »

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

Mr. Hockey: My Story

By Gordie Howe

Hockey great Gordie Howe had long since established himself as an elite NHL talent by the time his wife, Colleen, gave birth to the couple’s first child, Marty, in 1954. Arguably the game’s best player, ... Read More »

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Sports, Health & Self-help