Here’s a small selection of recent stories I’ve written. (For the most up-to-date sports writing, visit my Sportsnet author page.)
Journalism
- Crush their bones and folk dance in the dust: The skinny kid is gone. We have reached prime Valanciunas, Sportsnet magazine
- The $500 million man: Bryce Harper wants to play ball and have fun. He also wants to be paid like no athlete has before. Will it happen? Should it? Sportsnet magazine
- Youngster Alphonso Davies impresses in MLS debut for Whitecaps, Sportsnet.ca
- Canada not a second choice for midfielder Arfield, Sportsnet.ca
- UBC-Ryerson a showcase of drama in CIS basketball, Sportsnet.ca
- Penn State transfer Michael O’Connor making big impact at UBC, Sportsnet.ca
- Raptors rookie Norman Powell could be ‘steal of the draft’, Sportsnet.ca
- What’s it like to be the third member of the Sedins’ line? We asked 13 of their brothers (from other mothers) to tell us, Sportsnet magazine
- How did they do it? Nobody outside of Calgary expected the Flames to earn a playoff spot in the brutal Western Conference, let alone in a season fraught with injury and turmoil. But that’s exactly what they did, Sportsnet magazine
- Rudy, an oral history: Twenty years later, remembering the film that still makes grown men cry (with Shannon Proudfoot), Sportsnet.ca
- Canada’s Matheson insists she’ll play at World Cup, Sportsnet.ca
- Matheson still a question mark for Canada, Sportsnet.ca
- Spurs move caps Yedlin’s whirlwind summer, Sportsnet.ca
- Best yet to come for D.C. United’s Hamid, Sportsnet.ca
- Netherlands’ Blind comes of age in Brazil, Sportsnet.ca
- Germany’s Muller destined for greatness, Sportsnet.ca
- 8 fitness tips from a top NHL trainer, Chatelaine
- Street spirit: A skateboard whiz pushed off flat ground and gave his sport new life (PDF), Sportsnet magazine
- Let your backbone slide: People laughed at a gangly kid’s weird way of jumping. Then they copied him. (PDF), Sportsnet magazine
- A whole new spin: With a flick of his wrist, a young bowler sent the game on a wicked trajectory (PDF), Sportsnet magazine
- Science of sport – ACL tear: Alisha Tatham, shooting guard for the Canadian women’s basketball team, on the shock and the pain. Why more women than men shred their ACLs. (PDF), Sportsnet magazine
- Vicente Padilla: Badass (PDF), Sportsnet magazine
- London 2012 Olympic preview (PDF), Sportsnet magazine
Book & Film Reviews
- Richard Menkis and Harold Troper’s More Than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics, reviewed for the Literary Review of Canada
- Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire, reviewed for Maclean’s
- Aleksandar Hemon’s The Making of Zombie Wars, reviewed for Maclean’s
- Stephen Smith’s Puckstruck, reviewed for the Literary Review of Canada
- Emily Gould’s Friendship, reviewed for Maclean’s
- Alexi Zentner’s The Lobster Kings, reviewed for Maclean’s
- Aleksandar Hemon’s The Book of My Lives, reviewed for Maclean’s
- Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light, reviewed for Maclean’s
- Mary Swan’s My Ghosts, reviewed for Maclean’s
- Gabe Polsky’s Red Army, reviewed for Sportsnet.ca