Sports

With pucks flying and balls soaring, ‘tis the season to find a big screen and get the beers pouring. Watching the games at home is cozy and all but everyone knows how exciting it can be to drop the gloves and pick up some pints in a bustling sea of big screens. So what’s your favourite place to get your game on in Toronto?

This week marks the official opening of the NHL regular season, and for many Canadian young professionals (YPs), that means at some point over the next eight months you’ll be heading to your city’s biggest arena to talk hockey. If this is a daunting thought, fear not; we’ve got you covered

Imagine a world where sports figures keep their issues on the field, court, or rink – how would CNN manage to fill airtime? More importantly, though, is that through players’ actions and tribulations we’re learning about some of the world’s most pressing issues. From domestic abuse and homosexuality to racism and murder, here are 7 stories this year that were too big to be called ‘sports stories’

For anyone not working for FiveThirtyEight, the Jays’ playoff hopes are all but over. That doesn’t mean, however, that the last weeks off their season aren’t offering some good news to fans – and future fans – alike. Here’s everything you need to know about the best damn (and only) ball club north of the border

Especially when fellow young professionals (YPs) seem more active than ever, from running dates to baseball beer leagues, being athletically challenged isn’t always ideal. But it’s something that can be worked on, or at least embraced. Here are 13 signs you’re negative athletic

Eugenie Bouchard isn't just the next big thing in women's tennis - she's already the next biggest thing in Canada. And here's everything you need to know about the tenacious Wimbledon finalist...

Don't lie – you've been streaming almost every match of this year's World Cup on a small window in the corner of your screen at work. Alternatively, you've flat-out left the office and went to the bar and are now counting down your final vacation days of 2014 already. Not quite? Well here's what you might have missed after one week of the World Cup

What Barcelona's Dani Alves did over the weekend was about as good a response we've seen to banana throwing, a popular (though still very rare) sign of aggression towards black players in the beautiful game

So, climbing high into the darkness (seriously, the Barclay’s centre is the darkest arena we’ve ever been to), we settled in to watch our boys start off like they were on the playground playing against a bunch of fifth graders. This was the start dreams are made of.