Sophie Courville Sophie Courville, a physiology senior and Cross Country runner, was voted Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year, led the team with a fifth-place finish at the U SPORTS National Championships, and earned all-star honours for the third time. While this[Read More…]
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As the 2026 World Cup expands, access to it narrows
Last July, a father and asylum-seeker took his two children to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Club World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. He was cited for a minor drone ordinance violation in a nearby parking lot. Instead of releasing him, officers handed him to[Read More…]
Varsity Report Card: Winter 2026
Martlets Artistic Swimming: A+ The Martlets delivered a historic 2025–2026 campaign, establishing themselves as the undisputed top program in the country. They swept every event they entered at the Canadian University Artistic Swimming League (CUASL) National Championships, finishing first among 16 teams and capturing all six gold medals across both[Read More…]
McGill artistic swimming stays in perfect sync to sweep CUASL nationals
Martlets Artistic Swimming left the University of Laval’s Aquatic Centre on March 22 as the undisputed 2026 champions of the Canadian University Artistic Swimming League (CUASL), sweeping every event they entered across three days of competition. This marked the program’s eighth championship in the past 12 seasons, and its 18th[Read More…]
A new era for women’s sports: The historic WNBA collective bargaining agreement
This week, Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) players voted unanimously to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), with over 90 per cent of the league’s athletes participating in the vote. The seven-year agreement will begin with the 2026 season and run through 2032, with an opt-out after the sixth[Read More…]
Know Your Athlete: Loïc Courville-Fortin
At the U SPORTS National Swimming Championships, held from March 12 through 14, Loïc Courville-Fortin, U2 Science, won one gold, one silver, and three bronze medals, rewriting his personal bests and breaking McGill and Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) records. This is only the beginning. Courville-Fortin has his[Read More…]
Shame as a market inefficiency: The rise of prediction markets
Prediction markets began in the 1980s as an academic research tool at the University of Iowa. The aim was to see if collective wisdom could predict political outcomes more accurately than traditional polling. This idea appears to have merit: While polls viewed the 2024 U.S. election as a coin toss,[Read More…]
Athletic excellence—and persistent media gaps—at 2026 Paralympic Games
The 2026 Paralympic Winter Games took place in Milan and Cortina, Italy, from March 6 to March 15, marking the 50th anniversary of the Winter Paralympics. Taking place just one week after the 2026 Winter Olympics, the event showcased the talent of 611 athletes from 55 nations. The competition was[Read More…]
Militarism in American sports: What Team USA’s approach to baseball says about sports culture
The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is one of the most captivating tournaments in international sport—a stage where national identity shines not just through competition but also through energy and celebration. Teams played with joy and spirit just as much as athleticism throughout the ups and downs of every game. Players[Read More…]
March Madness 2026 features a freshman phenom, a defending dynasty, and 64 reasons to believe
At this year’s March Madness basketball bonanza, 68 men’s teams and 68 women’s teams will tip off their pursuit of a national championship. The men’s tournament features the Duke University Blue Devils as the clear frontrunner, anchored by arguably the most dominant freshman college basketball has seen in years. The[Read More…]