Chicago Tribune
Your 5-year-old is begging to play soccer, but you’re not sure he’s ready for a team sport. Are there signs to watch for? Here is some advice from others who’ve...
Michael Deeds
Bogus Basin ski school director Jamie Zolber has seen it all before—this past Monday, actually.
Robert Cribb
A culture of secrecy in youth hockey is keeping important – and potentially life-altering – problems from being confronted, some parents allege.
Leslie Scrivener
She twirls with dizzying speed. She skates with grace and moves intuitively to music. Thirteen-year-old Samantha Tsui hopes discipline, crack-of-dawn figure skating...
Robert Cribb
Boxing matches between teens staged in minor hockey locker rooms are widespread, say hockey coaches and parents.
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Robert Cribb
Young hockey players in Toronto are engaging in a uniquely dangerous pre-game workout: Locker-room boxing.
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Rita Zekas
"Give me crispy chicken wings, ladies and gentleman," instructs Kari Drue Abraham.
Leslie Scrivener
Annika Engholm spots a younger girl of about 8 wobbling on the ice at Harbourfront's teeming skating rink. Annika, who is 11 and a competitive speed skater, takes...
Even before she won an Olympic gold medal four years ago, Chandra Crawford wanted to teach girls to excel – at sports, in particular, but also in life.
LAUREN PRUNER: One of the premier volleyball players in the Toronto District School Board league.
MANNY SAHOTA: A 6-foot-6 forward with the top senior boys' high school basketball team in Peel Region.
Paul Watson
Cynics who think the Olympic spirit has been lost in the racket of corporate sponsorships, protests, flag waving and drug scandals need only look north.
Robyn Doolittle
In a long and at some points heated debate over how Toronto rinks dole out ice times, the loudest and angriest voice of all belonged to a figure skating mom.
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