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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Mary Ormsby

Mary Ormsby covered sports for 25 years at the Toronto Star. She is now a member of the Star’s Investigations Team.

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How the NHL Grew Up

From fractious near-insolvency to profitable peace March 2014
Gary Bettman and I were comparing fitness notes one day in Toronto in the early 1990s, just after he had been picked as the National Hockey League’s first commissioner. I told him I ran about an hour a day, maybe four times a week. “With hills?” he asked, eyes alight, hoping for the correct answer.…