Bruce Penton

To say the National Hockey League draft of 18-year-old players is an inexact science is stating the obvious. It's more like a crapshoot.

The four-year effort to create a rival golf league to the PGA Tour appears to be on its deathbed. The Saudi Arabia-based LIV golf league will be kept alive until the end of the 2026 season and after that, all bets are off.

The four-year effort to create a rival golf league to the PGA Tour appears to be on its deathbed.

It was not a great start for the new management regime for the Toronto Maple Leafs, with a disappointing announcement featuring John Chayka as GM and Mats Sundin as senior advisor.

Canadian sports fans will have a tough time avoiding news about the World Cup, which kicks off June 12 in Toronto. Just don't call it soccer -- it's 'football' everywhere in the world.

Whether the Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series or miss the playoffs altogether, the 2026 season will be remembered for the significance of the team celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Sports has its stars and its superstars but only a handful throughout the 21st century could be deemed megastars.

Canadian hockey fans don't have to be reminded that it has been 33 years since a team from one of our provinces has claimed the Stanley Cup, but the way things are going, it could be another 33 -- or more -- before the cup returns north of the 49th parallel.

There are hundreds of millions of rabid soccer fans in the world -- as evidenced by the nearly non-stop television coverage of the FIFA World Cup centred in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico -- but I'm not one of them.