Sporting Life
Mar 28th, 2024 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. MARCH 28, 2024. When the Toronto Blue Jays finished their 2022 season, they made a determination that the status quo wasn’t acceptable. To that end, both a strategic and cultural shift for the Blue Jays in 2023 featured a vastly different style compared to many of the teams […]
Tags: Alek Manoah, Baseball in Canada, Bo Bichette, Daulton Varsho, Edwin Encarnacion, George Springer, Jordan Romano, Jose Bautista, José Berríos, Josh Donaldson, Kevin Kiermaier, Ross Atkins, Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Blue Jays fans in Seattle, Troy Tulowitzki, Vladimir Guerrero Jr, World Series 2024??, Yusei Kikuchi Posted in Sporting Life |
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Mar 30th, 2023 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. MARCH 30, 2023. 4:15 PM EDT. [NOTE FROM CW EDS : The Sparrow’s much awaited review of “Canada’s MLB Team” at the start of the fateful year of 2023 has arrived just in time for the Jays’ season opener in St. Louis today. And it is divided into […]
Tags: Alejandro Kirk, bigger bases, Bo Bichette, Brandon Belt, Charlie Montoyo, Chris Bassitt, Danny Jansen, Daulton Varsho, Erik Swanson, George Springer, John Schneider, Kevin Kiermaier, Lordes Gurriel Jr., Major League Baseball, Matt Chapman, pickoffs, pitch clock, Retrofitted Rogers Centre, Rob Manfred, shift in baseball, Teoscar Hernandez, Theo Epstein, Toronto Blue Jays, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., “Barrio” Home Run jacket Posted in Sporting Life |
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Apr 8th, 2022 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. APRIL 8, 2022.O the Joy of Opening Day 2022. Games provide distraction. In a world where one delicately navigates the atrocities and reckless tyranny in Ukraine, the continual struggle to cope with the ongoing complications and uncertainty of COVID-19, every little bit of joy matters. Baseball aficionados always […]
Tags: Baseball in Toronto, Blue Jays and pitching, Jays World Series?, new sports gambling in Ontario, Sports Toronto, Toronto Blue Jays 2022 Posted in Sporting Life |
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Apr 1st, 2021 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. APRIL 1, 2021. Life for the Toronto Blue Jays, like everyone else for that matter, was and continues to be upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. A year ago, Canadian government border restrictions forced them to be baseball’s version of the nomadic warriors playing all of their games south […]
Tags: Baseball in Canada, Canadian sports, Charlie Montoyo, good season for Jays 2021?, TB Ballpark, Toronto Blue Jays 2021 Posted in Sporting Life |
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Jul 25th, 2020 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. JULY 24, 2020. The sporting world, like most everything else, stopped earlier this year on March 11 when Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz became the first athlete to test positive for COVID-19. In many ways the shut down of the NBA, and the other sports leagues that […]
Tags: Dr. Bill Schaffner, Dr. Rachel Levine, Major League Baseball, Marco Mendicino, MLB and coronavirus, Sahlen Field in Buffalo, Sports 2020, Toronto Blue Jays Posted in Sporting Life |
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Jun 14th, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Sporting Life
“GREATER ONTARIO”. FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019. As rarely enough in Toronto these days, there is sun in the sky (along with intermittent foreboding clouds for tomorrow). According to our latest reports from the streets, it’s almost warmer than lately too. It is impossible not to be affected in some happy way as well by the […]
Tags: global NBA, Jamaal Magloire, Jurassic Parks Canada, Kyle Lowry, NBA championship 2019, Toronto Raptors Posted in Sporting Life |
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Mar 28th, 2019 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
And then there were none … With the firing of John Gibbons at season’ end, and the off-season release of Troy Tulowitzki and trading of Russell Martin, the last vestiges of the best Blue Jays team in a quarter century are gone. Slowly it seemed and then suddenly, the faces on the famous September 2015 […]
Tags: Aaron Sanchez, Anthony Alford, Bill James, Blue Jays 2019, Bo Bichette, Cluster Luck Pythagorean model, Du Sean, Elvis Luciano, Joe Peta, Marcus Stroman, Sabermetrics, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Posted in Sporting Life |
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Nov 24th, 2018 |
By Dominic Berry |
Category: Sporting Life
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2018. GANATSEKWYAGON,ON. Both Donald Trump in the neighbouring USA today, and his wily colleague Doug Ford right here in the new Old Ontario, have become so appalling lately that I have sought refuge in thoughts about the 2018 Grey Cup – annual championship of the Canadian Football League, held for the 106th […]
Tags: Calgary Stampeders, Canadian Football League, Chelsea Drake, Edmonton as Grey Cup host, Grey Cup 2018, Ottawas Redblacks, Quick Six, Yardbird Suite in Edmonton Posted in Sporting Life |
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Mar 29th, 2018 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
From the outset of 2017 something was amiss. The day before the first full-squad workout in the spring, all-star Josh Donaldson suffered a tear in his right calf and did not find his stride until late July. Then Canadian Blue Jay prospect Dalton Pompey suffered a concussion at the World Baseball Classic and spent the […]
Tags: Aaron Sanchez, Baseball in Canada, Blue Jays 2018, Gregg Zaun, Halladay, John Axford, Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldson, Lenny Frejlich, Rob Sparrow, Roberto Osuna, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Posted in Sporting Life |
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Apr 10th, 2017 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
Baseball is back in the great white north, signaling spring revival, while also commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Blue Jays’ inaugural game (April 7, 1977) at snowy Exhibition Stadium on the north shore of Lake Ontario. While it was an entertaining 2016 down at the ballpark known previously as the Skydome, last year once […]
Tags: Blue Jays 2017, J.A. Happ, Jose Bautista's late career, Josh Donaldson, Marcus Stroman, Russell Martin, Toronto baseball 2017, Troy Tulowitzki Posted in Sporting Life |
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