In The Golden Generation: How Canada Became a Basketball Powerhouse, basketball journalist Oren Weisfeld looks past the highlights and toward the hard, often uncomfortable work of building a national basketball ecosystem – one shaped by immigration, resistance from governing bodies, U.S. prep schools, grassroots rebels, and decades of tension.
What makes a sports team more than just athletes? For the Montreal Canadiens, it’s a rich tapestry of cultural significance and national pride, deeply interwoven with Quebec’s history.
This is going to be a key text in the history of hockey.
From Sportsnet Central host and broadcaster Ken Reid comes an inspiring and entertaining new collection of hockey stories about local legends who define the game and its values.
A captivating and candid memoir from one of the most beloved and colorful figures in Toronto Blue Jays history.
Bawdy and brawling, comical and crude, The Closer offers a gritty, uncensored glimpse into the grind of professional baseball.
Before Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis, before Sugar Ray Robinson and Jack Johnson, before Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, before all the great Black boxing champions of every age and every weight class, there was George Dixon. He was the first. He was the greatest. And this is his story.
The legacy of the greatest hockey series ever played, fifty years later, with stories from the players that shed new light on those incredible games and times.
No Girls Allowed, by Natalie Corbett Sampson, follows ten-year-old Tina Marie Forbes and her family as they fight for her right to play hockey. The Forbes family moves from Toronto to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and are excited to get settled in the town. Early on, Tina reflects, “all you need to do to make friends is play sports. Join a team and there’s a bunch of them ready to meet . . . That’s been true wherever we’ve lived.” Sport is an essential part of who Tina is, and forms the basis from which she builds community.
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