It’s U Sports season and time to regain the momentum

By DOUG SMITH

Remember a month or two ago when the Duke Blue Devils came to Toronto and Montreal for an exhibition basketball series and we all went ga-ga over RJ Barrett and Zion Williamson and Coach K?

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European football economics: Transfer fees go crazy

Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has apparently discovered who is to blame for the recent surge in prices on the football transfer market. “If prices are inflated then the fault lies with Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain,” he told German magazine Merkur.

Football For a Buck: How Donald Trump quarterbacked the USFL into a collapse

Doug Flutie poses with New Jersey Generals head coach Walt Michaels, left, and the Generals’ owner, Donald Trump. Trump tried to get other USFL owners to help cover Flutie’s salary | MARTY LEDERHANDLER / AP

By MORGAN CAMPBELL*

(October 24) – Earlier this week, U.S. president Donald Trump invented a story about passing a 10 per cent tax cut for middle class Americans within the next week, even though Congress, which would have to approve the move, is out of session. He and his spokesperson also implied terrorists from the Middle East were infiltrating a caravan of Honduran migrants walking north through Mexico, toward the U.S.

Golden women

Only 40 countries have won more than 10 gold medals in the Olympics, and Cuban women have won 12 |  Oscar Sánchez Serra

Driulis González | Ricardo López Hevia

We the ESPN, We the Scotiabank

The start time of Friday night’s match between the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors held in Toronto was moved back to 8.00 p.m. at the dictate of the US ESPN sports cable TV network. [1] No one complained: Toronto made the big time in the US market. Toronto even won this game of the leading contenders in the NBA East and is 2-0 to start the season. “[Kawhi] Leonard, the team’s superstar newcomer,” reports the Globe and Mail, “was serenaded on a couple of occasions with chants of ’MVP, MVP’ by an adoring hometown crowd.”

This day. The Black Power salute

October 16 marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Black Power protest at the 1968 Olympics 200m medal ceremony by African American athletes Tommie Smith (centre) and John Carlos (right), the gold and bronze medalists. Peter Norman (left), the silver medalist from Australia and an opponent of the White Australia policy, displayed the badge of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). This was – and is – a powerful example of defiance in the face of racist oppression, in particular, and for human rights for all, in general.

The fight for women’s hockey

The University of New Brunswick women’s varsity hockey team played its first game on October 13 against Mount Allison after being resurrected following a lengthy battle lasting a decade.