When most athletes get any love it is usually after they ball their asses off. If you are reading this because you want that feel good gushy mushy stuff you may as well stop now. This is a story about Faith and Patience. To make this story sweeter I know Kyven but I dont KNOW [...]

Four years ago, he was sleeping on a Toronto park bench. Today, driven by faith and hard work, the Russian-born Olympian dreams of gold …

Bret “The Hitman” Hart judged a Catch-23 improv show at Comedy Bar.

In many ways, Bret “The Hitman” Hart is the last of his kind. When professional wrestling ushered in a new era of in-your-face attitude and increasingly grey morality in the 2000s, he was the dyed-in-the-wool hero who refused to sacrifice the integrity of his character in the face of a shifting culture. And for his [...]

In today’s UP: sit on the titular chair at the Game of Thrones exhibit; watch the (literal) giants of wrestling at the WWE Raw:Road to Wrestlemania; catch closing theatre productions like Seeds, Night of the Iguana, and The Paprika Festival; and watch comedians lock joke horns at the White Rhino Spectacular!

EXHIBIT: HBO Canada opens its Game of Thrones exhibition (titled, appropriately, “Game of Thrones: The Exhibition”) officially today at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, with lots of costumes and props from the hit fantasy show on display. The whole thing will run daily for 10 days over the March Break, as a promotion for the show’s [...]

Shoppers join sermons, Shakespeare, singers, and skaters as part of the eclectic history of Maple Leaf Gardens.

Where pucks once flew 15 feet or more on the ice, shoppers will stare at a 15-foot wall of cheese. Today’s grand opening of the new flagship Loblaws store at Maple Leaf Gardens is a long-awaited step in the repurposing of a Toronto landmark. Along with Ryerson University’s Peter Gilgan Athletic Centre at the Gardens, [...]

By TSM Here’s your drive lineup for your listening enjoyment this am: On 590 with Greg Brady and Jim Lang: TBA On TSN radio with Mike Richards 6:45 Scott Cullen 7:00 Chris Schultz 7:15 Jonas Siegel 7:30 Pierre McGuire 8:00 Darren Dreger & Steve Simmons 8:15 Dave Naylor 8:30 Washington [...]

Even though Canada has had 71 medals at the Pan American Games to date (third overall behind the United States and Brazil), it has been a little quiet on the Gold medal front over the last three days.
Since Saturday, Canada has only recorded four gold …

This maybe be surprising to most, but when I was a kid, wrestling was my THING. I was obsessed. I never missed a minute, I had every second on VHS and I dreamed of someday meeting, who at the time, were the greatest athletes I could ever imagine existing. Since then, I’ve grown up a [...]

Ben Cohen, Hudson Taylor, Michael Irvin, Mike Chabala, and Nick YoungquestSource: Out MagazineIn its July 2011 issue, Out Magazine salutes five top sportsmen “who have stood up for fairness and tolerance, shoulder-to-shoulder with their LGBT peers.” Th…