Joey Votto is an artist. Or maybe he’s a scientist. For the purpose of this discussion, let us say that the job of standing at the plate in a baseball game and trying to help your team score runs is more art than science. The act of squaring a round bat to a round ball…

Christopher Spring has been clocked at 154.5 km/h, driving straight downhill on glare ice. Not in his van, you understand. In a bobsled. It’s his job, and the combination of ice and speed scares the Canadian Olympian just enough to make him one of the best pilots in the world. And there are other winter…

There can be a heavy cost of chasing greatness, as Andy Murray is discovering. The wanderlust he embraced in those dark winter days of 2016, harvesting ranking points everywhere from Beijing to Vienna in his quest to topple Novak Djokovic as world No 1, has played havoc with his hip. What looked at first like…

Tiger Woods is embarking on his latest comeback without a swing coach. Woods said Friday on Twitter that since fusion surgery on his lower back in April, he has been relearning his body and his golf swing by relying on feel and the previous three years of work with Dallas-based Chris Como. “For now, I…

In terms of hype, this one is getting a bit out of hand. It’s one thing to be called the next Nicklas Lidstrom or to get compared to Erik Karlsson, Victor Hedman or Oliver Ekman-Larsson. It’s quite another for scouts to flat out say that Rasmus Dahlin is going to be even better than those…

CALGARY — The Canadian women’s hockey team released three players and unveiled its roster for February’s Winter Olympics on Friday. Head coach Laura Schuler named three goaltenders, six defencemen and 14 forwards to the team that will attempt to defend gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Canada has won four consecutive gold medals in women’s hockey.…