Tennis is full of exciting young superstars, from Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz to the U.S.’s Ben Shelton; however, nobody may be as talented or as dominant as Jannik Sinner. The 23-year-old from the South Tyrol region of Italy has racked up three Grand Slam wins and over $56 million CAD in[Read More…]
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How elite coaches navigate adversity and sustain success
What does it take to win consistently at the highest level of Olympic and professional sports? While a growing body of research is examining serial winning coaches—those who have led teams and athletes to gold medals and championships over extended periods—most studies have focused exclusively on their triumphs, leaving a[Read More…]
Redbirds jumper reflects on track’s successful UOttawa Winter Classic
“We’re really breaking it down to the essence of what makes an athlete,” is how Robbie Gertsner, a first-year Masters student in Physics, describes his sport of track and field. Through the wide variety of events offered in track and field, these demonstrations of human strength and skill are all[Read More…]
Video games can drive passion for women’s sports
Five weeks into the Premier League season, the league rankings are beginning to display preliminary trends: Manchester City and Liverpool have started an early battle for the top spot, Chelsea has been fighting its way into the top four despite a rough start, and struggling Everton has found itself sitting[Read More…]
Transphobia in women’s sports is a danger to all women
Content Warning: Mentions of transphobia, racism, and misogyny In the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Italian boxer Angela Carini abandoned her 66-kilogram Round of 16 match on Aug. 1 after 46 seconds, following her failure to properly block two hard hits to the face by Algerian opponent Imane Khelif. Rather than[Read More…]
Moments of celebration
A MUPPS x Tribune collaboration: For the past two years, I have been given the opportunity to cover McGill’s varsity games and, as a farewell to my time at McGill, this is what I will leave behind: photos of people enjoying their sports and celebrating their wins with their friends and teammates.
To all the sports I’ve loved before: McGill athletes and sports fans share love letters to the sports they love most
Tillie Burlock, Managing Editor Dear baseball, My bat mitzvah was a week away. As my soft spoken tutor, Aaron, desperately tried to get me to focus on my D’var Torah, the speech I would be delivering before an audience of family members and bored preteens, Jose Bautista stepped up to[Read More…]
Why do we refuse to protect our athletes?
In the Feature of the week: The truth of the harsh coaching environment faced by varsity athletes.
Finding myself underwater
When I was three years old, my parents signed me up for my first non-parented swim class at my local recreation centre. They would drag me out of bed, dress me in a pink frilly swimsuit, and sit on the water’s edge watching my class for what felt like hours.[Read More…]
Derek Silva calls for a National Inquiry into abuse in Canadian Sport in the Fall ’23 Eakin lecture
On Nov. 22, Western University Associate Professor of Sociology and visiting Eakin Fellow scholar Derek Silva delivered the biannual Eakin lecture. The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) awarded the Eakin Visiting Fellowship, which recognizes a PhD-level scholar whose area of study is related to Canada, to Silva[Read More…]
