François Cauchon has had a lot on his plate recently — all of it good. He just graduated from McGill University with a degree in finance. He also just found out that he’ll be headed to Paris this summer for the 2024 Olympic Games. Oh, and today’s his birthday. “It was a surreal feeling honestly,” said Cauchon,…
Around two weeks ago, Gardiner McDougall, head coach of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Reds men’s hockey team, received a phone call from Scott Salmon, senior vice president of high performance and hockey operations at Hockey Canada. The Bedeque, P.E.I., native began coaching UNB in the 2000-01 season, helping build a winning culture founded…
A little more than two weeks into the season, PWHL Toronto sat last in the league. The team lost four of its first five games, including an emotional inaugural game on home ice. The team that should have had the most familiarity early on looked disjointed. Three months later, Toronto became the first team in…
Auston Matthews scored the winner in the third period and added two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs topped the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Monday to even their first-round playoff series 1-1. The star centre took a lob pass from Max Domi and moved in alone on Linus Ullmark before making a move to the…
Two years after they first exploded onto television screens, ads for sports betting platforms only regulated in Ontario continue to bombard Canadians in markets where the websites are not regulated. A coalition of lottery and gaming corporations from eight provinces across the country wants that changed. “We are in a fight with people that are…
The Toronto Maple Leafs fired four shots on Jeremy Swayman inside the first 90 seconds Saturday. The club was fishing the puck out of its net moments later after the Bruins capitalized on a mistake. Toronto got a 4-on-3 power play early in the second period that failed to connect before superstar Auston Matthews beat…
Well-paid athletes shouldn’t be likely to run into trouble with gambling, right? Tell that to Shohei Ohtani, the MLB superstar with a $700-million US contract, whose former interpreter stands accused of illicitly taking over $16 million US from the ballplayer’s bank account — allegedly to pay off his own gambling debts. U.S. authorities say Ohtani didn’t know about the activities….
There’s that old adage, never meet your heroes. Except when Canadian middle-distance runner Marco Arop actually did, it was everything he could have imagined. And maybe more. Last August in Budapest, after Arop’s breakthrough performance to become the first Canadian to win world championship 800-metre gold, the Edmonton runner was getting ready for the medal ceremony. …
For the first time since 1997, no one from three generations of the Dunaway family group attended the Arizona Coyotes’ fan appreciation night — the final game of the regular season — amid reports Wednesday’s game against the Edmonton Oilers was the last one before the team is relocated. Greg Dunaway gave away his season tickets because…
The life of a high performance athlete is always filled with unknowns. It is part of the gig, trying to navigate daily training, always searching for that extra edge to peak for competitions. And in a many cases, it rarely ever goes as planned. To be an athlete who has any level of success requires an immense…
