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NFL to CFL fandom equivalencies | A Football Post

A guide to how to adapt NFL hate-watching to the quirkier Canadian equivalent. This is wobbly and out-of-bounds, but at least the balls are slightly…

Aug 29 • 

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Quotable Sports on King of the Hill | Fun Center Fun Center Fun Center Post

Bwah gaud, that is Hank Hill's music! An incomplete appreciation of the original series' sports adventures, now that it is back for a revival on a…

Aug 6 • 

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July 2025

Jake Powell's bigoted folly, from Steve Wulf | Rereading Sport (Déjà vu audio)

When a Yankee made a racist remark live on radio in 1938, it was the beginning of the end of baseball's racist line, and a timeless warning for sports…

Jul 29 • 

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Tom Boswell, on anxiety and grief via béisbol | Rereading Sport (Déjà vu audio)

Toronto and Detroit both being in first place in their respective MLB divisions evokes a lesson from the before times (before wild cards, anyway) and…

Jul 27 • 

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An MLB reälignment that serves climate adaptation, competitiveness, and clarity | Baseball Post

Greed will not allow it to happen, that goes without saying. But a geographically balanced 28-team MLB is the way to go. Enjoy the All-Star Game.

Jul 15 • 

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Déjà vu audio again: Craig Ferguson on living the American 'dream of justice' | Rereading Sport

Apropos reading for July 4! As the U.S. barrels past constitutional failure to concentration camps, the Scottish-born comic's memoir reads like an…

Jul 4 • 

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June 2025

When George Bell kicked off a lifelong fandom | Baseball Raconteur-ing

On this date 40 years ago, this athletics supporter got a taste for baseball with bloodlust, and became a Blue Jays fan for life. The brawl might have…

Jun 23 • 

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Déjà vu audio again: Richard Wagamese, on humility | Rereading Sport

The late great Ojibwe Canadian author left many messages, including one about an ideal and a promise that true Canadian leaders must honour. Promise…

Jun 20 • 

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Déjà vu audio again: 'The Olympic Army,' by Westbrook Pegler | Rereading Sport

90 years ago, a journalist saw the Nazis making sport about 'absolute authority in government.' Recognizing parallels with the MAGA Maladministration…

Jun 13 • 

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May 2025

'Yes' to Shoeless Joe; Pete Rose is a firm 'no' | A Baseball Post

When put into context, the sins don't stack up the same.

May 14 • 

Nathan Sager

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April 2025

Canada election: Cool heads will prevail; the rage farmers and the damage done

In hockey terms, Canadians have a couple parties that offer a game plan vis-à-vis a bunch of goons who perpetrated a disgrace at the debates in…

Apr 18 • 

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March 2025

‘The Office’ Greatest Sports Moments (Fun Post)

On the 20th anniversary of the début of the best comedy series set in a midlevel paper goods company, here is an appreciation of its humour in a…

Mar 24 • 

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