SportsLit

<p>As one of the greatest NBA players of all-time, Larry Bird’s life has been covered extensively.</p> <p>Out of common roots in midwestern basketball and out of a passion for regional history, Randy Mills (Retd. Prof...

<p>Don Cherry’s Coach's Corner segment on Hockey Night in Canada ended abruptly in 2019. Was it ever going to happen any other way?</p> <p>Controversial and entertaining, Cherry spoke his mind to the country for 37...

<p>There is an unending well of culture to draw from when it comes to hockey in Canada.<br> <br> Ronnie Shuker's bucket is full after driving across the country, 30,000 miles (or roughly 50,000 kilometres for you...

<p>The business of women’s sports has never had this much momentum. So what is it building on?</p> <p>Jane McManus provides a real-time snapshot of where we currently are and how we got here in Fast Track: The Surging...

<p>The story, and history of Maple Leaf Gardens is well documented.</p> <p>It has been described as having religious significance, there is reverence and well earned-lore. A loathsome thread exists too. </p> <p>Without...

<p>Hakeem Olajuwon left Lagos, Nigeria in 1980 and barely a year after taking up basketball, he blossomed into the game’s first international star in Houston, first collegiately with the Cougars and then with the NBA’s...

<p >Every hockey fan knows how it always ends for the Vancouver Canucks — no Stanley Cup — but Ed Willes digs in the corners to poke at the why, with a wry perspective.</p> <p >The veteran journalist (Regina...

<p>Atiba Hutchinson finally has space to contemplate the inner strength it takes to chase goals that were often, and understandably, hard to define.</p> <p>In “The Beautiful Dream,” the retired captain of the Canadian...

<p>In his début novel, sports journalist Jason Kirk gives readers a rigorous and referentially tight portrait of growing up in an evangelical world.</p> <p>“Hell Is a World Without You” plunges readers into the world of...

<p>Mike Keenan is a madman.</p> <p>Mike Keenan has a method.</p> <p>All things considered, both descriptions are part and parcel of a coaching career in which he angered many, and accomplished a great deal.</p> <p>30...

<p>Relying on a near half-century of deep research and reflection, Melissa Ludtke recounts her landmark federal case in “Locker Room Talk.”</p> <p>In 1977 and ’78, as a Sports Illustrated reporter, Ludtke was the...

<p>Michael Cochrane found an artifact of early Canadian golf great George S. Lyon hiding in plain sight one day — and set to bring him to life on the page, and on the links.</p> <p>In “Olympic Lyon: The Untold Story of...

<p>Johnny Mize, a top home-run hitter in a turbulent time for baseball and North America, never got a complete biography in his lifetime. </p> <p>Author Jerry Grillo, who lives in the same region of rural Georgia where...

<p >New investment and enthusiasm are pouring into women’s sports.</p> <p >In “The Price She Pays: Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women’s Sports— from the Schoolyard to the Stadium,” lead authors Dr...

<p>Sport ecologist Dr. Madeleine Orr is pitching a ‘green game plan’ for sports fans.</p> <p>In “Warming Up,” Orr pairs her academic curiosity and storytelling to stir optimism (or “hopeium”) about using the power of...