I'm no detective, but this feels like one of them clue things

This. "Albert Camus reminds us that it is possible to embrace our lives’ absurdity and use that as the starting point for both a new connection with the rest of humanity and a bold experiment in living." bigthink.com/thinking/cam...

In fairness to other boxers, the championship organizations really need to get back to stripping belts after a year of inactivity. #boxing

Hope Fabio Wardley is OK

Ah yes, the prestigious WBA gold continental title...not to be confused with the WBA continental Europe title which is totally different even though this bout is being contested in the continent of *** checks notes *** Europe. Silliness. This is boxing.

Some mornings the bar is low. Just this morning I was thinking "I've published far worse stuff than this" as I read over a piece I've been struggling with and caught myself smiling. Here's a celebratory Willem Dafoe for everyone.

With the province cutting so much from sport, recreation, and physical activity in Nova Scotia, municipalities are scrambling. Hopefully this new initiative by the #Halifax Regional Municipality will help stabilize the situation for some ppl. halifax.citynews.ca/2026/04/28/h...

"How's grading going, Mac?" Mac:

Probably time to tell folks I found the Oak Island treasure when I was out fishing with my Nana in 1992. Didn't realize everyone was still looking. Guess that's my bad.

More #FIFA shenanigans. "On social media this week, soccer fans have voiced their frustration with FIFA’s ticket play. With some claiming that FIFA’s phased approach to ticket sales is creating an artificial scarcity, to drive up ticket prices." www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...

Apparently thunder DOES NOT only happen when its raining. If Stevie Nicks lied about this, how can be certain that players only love you when they're playing? Does truth exist?

Straight shot from here to Ireland. Not a bad spot to catch the bus to @smuarts.bsky.social. Morning chat with the sea birds is essential.

Newfoundland volleyball coach and referee Markus Hicks just received a lengthy prison sentence for dozens of sex crimes against minors. Hopefully there is also education, review, and reform to help prevent another Hicks from exploiting the same weak points in the system. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The FIFA FanFest in Toronto was meant to be free. The city tried to abruptly change course and charge between $10 and $300. They've now switched gears again, after criticism, and are trying to provide some of the tickets for free. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

1/3 One more quick thought about the crowd violence in youth basketball. When we inflict harm on someone like this, we often lose sight of the other person's humanity. We're viewing them as an object, something to be overcome. We don't see them as a person anymore. www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...

1/3 Adult violence at youth sports really drives home the culture problem we face. Losing, and learning from the loss, is important. Arguably more important than winning. We need to fail. www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...

Finally a couple consecutive days of spring weather. View from the the Woodsode ferry terminal. A perk of working at @smuarts.bsky.social

FIFA doing #FIFA stuff. Unfortunate that 🇨🇦 is co-hosting this circus. We get to be complicit in all the #FIFA2026 shenanigans because we've already committed millions upon millions to partner with one of the most notoriously corrupt organizations in sport. www.nytimes.com/athletic/718...

The igloo is overflowing for the mainland senior hockey final. Truro leads East Hants 3-1 in the third. This is the best senior hockey there's been in NS for decades.

Chatted with the Canadian Press about FIFA, ICE, and Canadian anxieties about the USA. www.cbc.ca/sports/socce...

"We are 10 weeks out from the biggest World Cup in history & we don’t know if every country will be there, if supporters from every country will be allowed in, how they will be treated when they get there...It would be weirder if we weren’t fearful," writes @danielstorey85.bsky.social

I would say #FIFA risks "remaining" a stage for repression, rather than "becoming" one. Not good either way. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Had too many drumsticks. Big stew. Soda bread too

1/4 There's been some debate over whether the UFC camera operator should have showed Maycee Barber unconscious last night. She was knocked out by Alexa Grasso. In general, showing the consequences of combat sport is essential to experiencing such events as fully as possible.

Just got cited as "Ross MacIntosh." That b'y is from Pictou. Sort yourself out. Just kidding, call me whatever. I also answer to Toots Winchester.

1/4 Minor #hockey coach Rane Carnegie, grandson of Herb Carnegie, had a fictitious complaint submitted against him, by a fictitious parent, to the Ontario Hockey Federation's Independent Third Party (ITP). www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

1/5 Re: Adam van Koeverden and change in sport As a community of allied survivors, journalists, scholars, and Canadians who generally want sport be a site that supports health, education, and social cohesion going forward, we're going to have to hold van Koeverden accountable every step of the way.

Our new Australian grassroots sport and safeguarding study: To what extent do sport volunteers (the cornerstone of sport) have the skills, support and motivations to recognise and respond to abuse against young people in sport? Link to study below 👇🏻 #safeguarding #safesport

I hope something positive comes out of the Future of Sport in Canada Commission's report. It was not an easy process for many people to engage in. Survivors once again provided their stories. This time, I hope the nation listens and acts.

UQTR won the gold 3-2 in OT over SMU. So much fun following these students through the tournament. There were even a couple on Windsor that I taught last year! Fun seeing folks from the classroom on the ice.

Overtime for the national USports men's hockey championship between SMU and UQTR. 2-2 after three periods. 😬 I'm stressed. Wicked stressed.

A privatized Mount Allison? St. Thomas merging with UNB? Closing down Université de Moncton campuses in the only officially bilingual province? Doesn't feel like the NB government sees robust, public university options as a priority which...is not a good sign. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The documentary about Aaron Kinch, titled "Bodysnatcher," is now available on Bell Fibe. It traces his ring career through the amateurs, pros, and ultimately a workplace injury that saw him champion paraboxing in Canada. Rumble, Aaron, rumble. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9uh...

Rumble, Vladyslav Heraskevych, rumble. Leaves the Olympics with his integrity intact. www.bbc.com/sport/articl...

Haiti had to change their uniforms to meet IOC political neutrality protocol, while USA gets to bring ICE. Haiti's uniforms celebrated the toppling of a colonial regime. The USA's thugs uphold such a regime. The IOC is always so disappointing.

"Academia is the fifth circle of hell. It goes babies, musicals, magic, kale, academia." - Harrison Ford (as Paul in Shrinking)

NS youth hockey players charged with sexual assault with a weapon. "There’s direct and indirect effects. If you look at the entire hockey team and the community... so we’re just trying to help whoever we can here." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Human rights and mega events don't mix.

We've known about Wasserman's connection to Epstein for years now. Maybe now folks will ask some hard questions regarding that relationship. www.sportandpolitics.de/the-epstein-...

"First Nations leaders are warning members to take extra precautions when travelling to the U.S. amid reports of ICE detentions and increased immigration enforcement, with some communities advising against non-essential travel altogether." globalnews.ca/news/1164410...

A 1906 film of George Dixon boxing with a fellow named Chester Leon for the mutoscope. Dixon of Halifax, NS, was the first Black champion of the world. How much of this bout is staged for the camera is difficult to say. What do you think of this knockdown?

ICE is on its way to the Olympics. In Italy. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Canada can't co-host FIFA 2026 with the USA and pretend that the event is in any way a boon to human rights. Our involvement was ill considered from the outset. At what point do we, as a nation, admit that these mega events are harmful and cease our complicity in those harms?

1/2 Really sad to hear about the passing of Kirsty Duncan. Considered her a friend. She didn't just help me understand the sport system, she was an important pillar of support when I was going through some tough times as an academic.

Didn't see that coming www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"Advocates say Coss's experience reflects a broader problem: Those who abuse the system are leaving people who actually need the seats shut out and, and nobody — including venues, ticketsellers or the government — is stepping up to solve the problem." www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

"As of Saturday evening, the family said they had still not heard from anyone at a federal law enforcement agency about their son’s death."

Exactly this. “First and foremost, post-secondary education has been chronically and increasingly underfunded over the past several decades, forcing universities to rely on increased tuition and other forms of revenue to make up for decreased public funding.”

"There are renewed calls in New Brunswick for an Indigenous-led inquiry into systemic racism in the justice system after the death of a Neqotkuk First Nation man who was shot by RCMP." globalnews.ca/news/1162104...