Deadline: Shane Bieber Steps Up at the Right Time

This afternoon, the Blue Jays faced off against the Rays. The Toronto team was trying to avoid a sweep after Tampa Bay had won the first three games of the series.
And for this game, Shane Bieber took the mound. The starter had been solid in his last outing, pitching six scoreless innings against the White Sox.
So the question was whether he'd be able to do it all over again… and in the end, Bieber was once again very, very solid.
Facing the powerful Rays, Bieber pitched seven innings, al

The big name to watch on the trade market will clearly be Tarik Skubal of the Tigers.
After all, if he were to actually leave, no other player (whether on loan or with remaining years of control) traded would hold a candle to him.
Major League Baseball insiders are watching to see how this plays out. Which players from World Series-contending teams might be headed to Detroit in exchange for Skubal?
We know the Tigers will be targeting pitchers with remaining years of control as well as top prosp

On a TV show, Martin St-Louis was asked how he managed to unwind after a big game.
He replied that he liked to watch Jerry Seinfeld's work—one of his favorite comedians. It helped him unwind at a time when that probably wasn't easy to do.
The clip sparked quite a bit of buzz on social media.“For me, Seinfeld helps me unwind.”
Martin St. Louis watches Seinfeld after big games to help him fall asleeppic.twitter.com/trIVZdYtdj
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) April 25, 2026But last night

Nearly ten months after suffering a major knee injury, Tyreek Hill continues to work tirelessly to regain the form that made him one of the NFL's most explosive wide receivers.However, his return to the field does not appear to be imminent.
In a recent video posted on his YouTube channel, the 32-year-old veteran provided an update on his physical condition. Hill acknowledged that he is still experiencing significant difficulties with his left leg, admitting that he has not yet regained the stren

With Patrick Kane deciding to return to Chicago, the unrestricted free-agent market has dried up even further. There aren't (really) many quality names left… but there are still some players who, in a supporting role, could help a team.
Vladimir Tarasenko is probably the best player still available right now. But there are others.
Michael Bunting is precisely one of those players. While not a star, he's still a winger capable of racking up around 40 points and who plays with grit. And at

In the 2025 playoffs, the Canadiens faced the Capitals in the first round. Martin St-Louis's team, which made the playoffs at the very last minute, ultimately lost the series in five games.
The team wasn't quite up to par… but it gained valuable experience.
But what stands out from that series is just how much the Capitals dominated the Habs physically. Things got pretty rough… but the Habs were often on the receiving end of that rough play.
Tom Wilson, in particular, had a field d

Over the past two seasons, the Canadiens have been the youngest team in the entire NHL. They were denied that title at the last trade deadline when the Blackhawks rejuvenated their roster by trading Nick Foligno, but they still held the title for most of the season.
And despite all that, they made it to the conference finals.
And once again this summer, the team has gotten a little younger. The core group from last year—nearly all of whom are back this season—has aged by a year&helli

In May, the Vancouver Youth Choir won the Fleischmann International Trophy at the Cork International Choral Festival.Local audiences may have to wait awhile to see these talented youth perform.“The Vancouver Youth Choir is the best in the world,” said Suzanne Anton, chair of the Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society. “Their Christmas concert could sell out the Orpheum twice. But they can’t get into the venue.”Anton was one of the speakers at a news conference

This morning, we learned that Patrick Kane has decided to return to Chicago. The forward, who has spent most of his career with the Blackhawks, signed a two-year contract (worth $8 million per year) to rejoin his former team.
Connor Bedard got what he wanted, in the end.
And of course, when you think of Kane in a Blackhawks uniform, you immediately think of Jonathan Toews. The two are inextricably linked to the Blackhawks' glory days in the early 2010s, and we know just how close they were to on

To be a good National League player, you need talent.
We all know it's not rocket science.
But it's not just that, either. It also takes confidence: a guy who doesn't believe in himself will never be able to reach his full potential. That's true in hockey, but it's also true in life in general.
That said, Nick Suzuki shared a story that demonstrates Lane Hutson's tremendous confidence.
In an Instagram video posted on Bauer's account (featuring Hutson and Cole Caufield), the captain recounts that

The Odyssey star Matt Damon recently appeared on a podcast where he sang the praises of a Vancouverstunt double he worked with on the Christopher Nolan epic film.Damon, who plays Odysseus, the legendary Greek King of Ithaca, said on an episode of Joshua Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused that his body double for the scene when Odysseus and his crew fight the massive, heavily armed giant warriors the Laestrygonians “had the greatest arms I’ve ever seen.”Those arms belong to Va

Donald Trump and the Mets
He took a jab at the team that always loses.
“The Mets have the highest payroll in baseball, and they lose all the time!”President Donald Trump took a jab at the Mets during a rally in Georgia pic.twitter.com/9pNWgpLDiG
— New York Post Sports (@nypostsports) July 23, 2026
The Phillies and the Rotation
Are they looking for more than just a No. 5 starter?
The Phillies might be looking for more than just a No. 5 starter for their rotation: https://t.co/wh

Tracee Ellis Ross is having the best summer. For her 40th birthday in 2012, she performed a one-woman show that she arranged herself, booking out stages in NYC and LA for her friends – that’s how much she wanted to be in a one-woman show. And now she’s on Broadway, in Every Brilliant Thing, a one-woman show. It’s her Broadway debut, she’s the final of three performers in this production, after Daniel Radcliffe and Mariska Hargitay.Tracee is doing 40 shows in five we

We'd all love to see David Reinbacher succeed in becoming a key defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens.
He was selected fifth overall in 2023 because he has potential, and the Habs wanted to take a chance on him even though there were some risks involved.
But we're still waiting to see the right-hander break out. 
He made progress last season playing with the Rocket. He still played more than sixty games when you combine the regular season and the playoffs, which is good news.
But where does

Will Max Scherzer's final start in the majors be in Toronto? Let's just say it's likely, yes.
After all, it's becoming increasingly clear that time has caught up with the pitcher, who will be welcomed into the Hall of Fame as soon as he becomes eligible for induction.
But there's still a scenario in which he could be traded by the Blue Jays by August 3.
Obviously, for that to happen, he'll have to prove he can still make an impact. And let's just say his performance in 2026 makes us seriously&md

Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat were out for dinner at Giorgio Baldi last night. Their movie, The Wrong Girls, directed by KStew’s wife, Dylan Meyer, is coming out August 14 so we should be getting seeing a promotional push for that soon.
Here’s some unofficial promotion though – a video of Kristen working out, posted by her trainer. Our site manager, Emily, sent this to me yesterday because it made her horny. The Wrong Girls is like The Odyssey for lesbians, Emily’s bee

The sudden passing of Vancouver-based composer and teacher Jocelyn Morlock in 2023 was mourned across Canadian and international classical music circles.With the posthumous release of her work Artemis Sleeps, close collaborator and flautist Mark Takeshi McGregor further expands the recorded legacy of his late friend and former roommate’s musical genius.A UBC sessional instructor and former Vancouver Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence celebrated for works such as the Juno-winning sym

The mockumentary comedy series The Dressing Room pulls back the curtain on the behind-the-scenes world of a musical theatre troupe.Created by Vancouver theatre artists and couple Paul Almeida and Makayla Moore and filmed in Vancouver , The Dressing Room is essentially a workplace comedy that follows the cast and crew of a fictional touring musical as they navigate all manner of meltdowns, mayhem, romantic connections and ambition. The first season is streaming now on OUTtv, with season 2 set to

The Carolina Panthers got off to a rough start to training camp on Thursday when outside linebacker Nic Scourton had to be carried off the field on a stretcher due to a right knee injury.
The incident occurred on the first day of the team's preseason activities. Scourton collapsed on a soggy surface during a team drill, causing practice to be halted immediately. His teammates quickly gathered around him, visibly concerned.
Before being taken to the training room, the young defensive player recei

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Fourteen years ago this summer, the scandal that had the gossip ecosystem in a chokehold was the Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise divorce. It was a bombshell – not just on the public but, reportedly, on him too, because she exited herself out his life with the stealth of a ninja; and in the weeks that followed there was incessant rumouring about how she pulled it off, with burner phones and sh-t, and there was talk that she actually used the paparazzi, made herself visible, so that she could be

The British Columbia Lions made a major change to their offensive line on Thursday when they announced the release of American blocker Dejon Allen.
Allen, 32, had served as the team's right guard for the past two seasons. He started five games this year and appeared in a total of 10 games with the Lions since joining the team.
His time in British Columbia, however, was marked by physical challenges. In 2025, the veteran notably missed a long stretch of action due to injury.
Allen had joined the

Things are still happening in Toronto.
The Blue Jays announced that they have recalled Davis Schneider and Adam Macko from Buffalo in Triple-A.
Schneider is taking over for Sean Keys, who hasn't been making much of an impact in the majors lately and wasn't getting much playing time. Sending him back down was the right move for his own good.
Macko, meanwhile, is taking the place of Patrick Corbin, who is out with a sprain. He hasn't been injured in years, and this happens just when we were wonder

Every year, Dom Luszczyszyn uses his mathematical model to rank the best and worst contracts in the NHL.
Basically, he takes the remaining value of the contracts (and the remaining years on the contract) and projects the value a player would need to provide for a team to get its money's worth.
It really is a mathematical model.
Every year, it sparks a lot of discussion. A few years ago, Nick Suzuki's contract was ranked among the worst in the NHL because his model didn't project such a meteoric

It’s been known for a while that Netflix is doing a remake of 13 Going on 30 with Emily Bader and Logan Lerman in the lead roles originally played by Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo.
Yesterday however they made additional casting confirmations. I haven’t watched the movie in a while but I don’t remember this many characters?View this post on InstagramA post shared by Netflix Film (@netflixfilm)
For fans of The Pitt, this is great news for Supriya Ganesh, that she’s signi

Today is July 23, 2026.
Exactly one year ago today, CF Montréal published a letter in which Gabriel Gervais and the Saputo brothers admitted to sharing a sense of dissatisfaction with the club's results and expressed their desire to bring ambition and pride back to the forefront.A Letter to the Fans from Gabriel, Luca, and Simone. #CFMTL pic.twitter.com/eke41GbIzu
— CF Montréal (@cfmontreal) July 23, 2025They acknowledged that “trust is earned through actions,” pr

Comic-Con begins today. I knew it was coming but at the same time, it took me a little bit by surprise, in part because it seems like July has just flown by, but also because the run up to Comic-Con feels…muted, compared to what it was a decade ago. I would like to talk about that, because Comic-Con used to be a big red circle on the calendar.Some of it could be just plain getting older and losing interest in things that entertained me 20 years ago. Which is fair and how it should be! Som

About three weeks ago, the Boston Red Sox were well on their way to becoming sellers ahead of the MLB trade deadline. Rumors were swirling everywhere about which players might leave Massachusetts and which teams might acquire their services.
In fact, according to longtime Chicago-based reporter George Ofman, the Red Sox and the White Sox came within a hair's breadth of finalizing a trade that would have sent Aroldis Chapman to the Windy City.I was told that the White Sox were very close to acqui

Dear Gossips,Hudson Williams has been on holiday in Greece with a group of friends and his girlfriend, Katelyn Rose Larson, living his best life.
As we’ve seen since he became famous, not even a year ago, Hudson loves to party, and there are all kinds of videos that have been shared of him at the club, on the beach, as outside as ever and having a great time, young and wild and free.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Hudson Williams & Connor Storrie Updates | Fan Page (@hudson