by Matt Miskulin | Feb 12, 2015 | Sports, Sports | Lifestyle
Welcome to the first edition of the Martlet Sports Roundtable. Each week, this will be a space to chat about broad issues in Canadian sport and we will feature guests from the Martlet community of writers. We are joined this week by Martlet writers Matt Miskulin and...
by Matt Miskulin | Feb 5, 2015 | Sports, Sports | Lifestyle
Tennis has an issue with double standards, and this became quite evident at the Australian Open in what is regrettably being called ‘Twirlgate.’ On-court reporter Ian Cohen asked Eugenie Bouchard to “give us a twirl and tell us about your outfit.” Caught off-guard,...
by Matt Miskulin | Nov 20, 2014 | Sports, Sports | Lifestyle
Canada has not been known as a hotbed of tennis but after a spate of successes on the men’s and women’s professional tours, that may be changing. On the women’s side, 2014 saw the meteoric rise of singles player Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que. She entered the...
by Matt Miskulin | Oct 30, 2014 | Sports, Sports | Lifestyle
At the quarter-mark of last season, the Toronto Raptors looked like a team going nowhere. They sat six games under .500 and had just traded away Rudy Gay, their best and highest paid player. The Raptors had every appearance of a team willing to tank the entire season...