Chris O’Leary @olearychris

Masai Ujiri gave Toronto its best years in basketball With strategic trades and securing Toronto’s first and only NBA title, Ujiri proved he could do the impossible time and time again

27.06.2025 15:29 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

Chet Holmgren probably sweat his way under the 200-pound mark tonight. An inspiration for all the skinny players.

14.06.2025 03:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Football, Father’s Day and the fleeting moments of parental joy we all dream of Less corporate than other Toronto teams, the CFL’s Argonauts have helped forge a bond over shared pigskin passion

A beautiful story from @aradwanski.bsky.social, just in time for Father’s Day, about connecting with your kid through sport and what it can mean for a dad. I’ve been on the kid side of it (a long time ago) and can say it means just as much to them.

14.06.2025 02:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Against this logo? Few stand a chance. Don’t feel too bad, Canada.

11.06.2025 03:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Cool Athlete Is No Longer In Production | Defector It’s 1994. Nike, whose golden goose has put down the basketball and picked up the baseball bat, is trying to figure out what to do with one of the brightest young talents in the NBA. His name is…

"Nobody actually wants to know about their favorite celebrities as people; they want to know them as an idea that actually reflects themselves in some way." defector.com/the-cool-ath...

07.06.2025 17:05 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

For years, he texted vulnerable women. Then they found out who he was A Regina officer is accused of using police resources to prey on women. Seven of them told us their stories

06.06.2025 09:05 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 2

Pacers season in a nutshell. That was perfect.

06.06.2025 03:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is the Oilers bandwagon a vehicle for national unity? It depends on who gets aboard Edmonton’s NHL team could bring the country together, even as separatism simmers in their home province – as long as fans can truly set aside their regional differences

03.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

The Oilers and Panthers are facing off for the Stanley Cup again. Here’s everything you need to know As Edmonton and Florida prepare for Game 1 on Wednesday, a look at the heroes, villains and storylines

03.06.2025 18:31 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The heroes are great, but the villains of the Stanley Cup final are must-see Marchand, Tkachuk and Bennett put the grit in Florida’s grind, while Kane and Perry supply Edmonton’s sandpaper

04.06.2025 01:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

One of many great pieces this morning to take you into Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.

04.06.2025 12:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The endless hunt for your next, maybe first, great golf shot For everything it can throw at you – and it will try to throw it all – golf is a game of hope

31.05.2025 18:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Walkerton, Ont., shattered after teen athletes, teacher killed in crash on way home from softball tournament Family and friends are in disbelief as they prepare to memorialize the four girls, ages 16 and 17, and their 33-year-old teacher

“It means something to a little kid when the coach smiles at them or tells them they’re doing a good job. She was very good at that.”

31.05.2025 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Anxious Edmonton Oilers fans flock to crocheted chickens to survive the playoffs Ashley Sinclair is busy crocheting the orange-and-blue birds for fans watching the third round matchup against the Dallas Stars

23.05.2025 22:22 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1

An oral history of the iconic 1980s documentary that captured the Edmonton Oilers at the peak of their glory days The Boys on the Bus spawned the genre of behind-the-scenes filmmaking which now floods sports cable channels and streaming services, not that many Canadian hockey fans know it

24.05.2025 01:08 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The making of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the NBA’s most valuable player Oklahoma Thunder guard and Hamilton native is the second Canadian to win the award after Steve Nash

21.05.2025 23:20 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It.

Vile.

16.05.2025 23:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Have the Leafs…done just about everything right in this series?

09.05.2025 23:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jalen Brunson and the shot that may have saved the Knicks as we know them

Jalen Brunson’s shot wasn’t just another game-winner. It was Captain Clutch’s greatest heroics yet.

It might have saved jobs. It might have saved the Knicks as we know them.

The brilliance of such beauty, tho, is that we’ll never actually know.

Column:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/632...

02.05.2025 06:43 — 👍 56 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 1

An all time Norm dunk.

02.05.2025 03:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A difficult story to share (and I imagine) a difficult one to write. Will be thinking about this one for a long time. Very well done by @janapruden.bsky.social.

30.04.2025 03:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Never occurred to me until now that maybe Reggie (the worst) is paired with Kevin Harlan just to remind us all how great Kevin Harlan is.

27.04.2025 00:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That Kings failed challenge/penalty/tie turning into a deficit sequence is astonishingly bad decision making from the Kings bench.

26.04.2025 04:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0