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Italy’s Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium, which is hosting events for the 2026 Winter Olympics, needed snowmaking machines for the Italian National Championship Open on Dec. 23, 2025. Mattia Ozbot/Getty Images

Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ future – and even snowmaking has limits for saving the Games

Innovations have made recent Winter Games possible, but the future climate will have a big impact on where the Olympics can be held and winter sports themselves.
The lion is the mascot of the Olympique Lyonnais football club. Here, in 2012, striker Bafetimbi Gomis celebrates a goal wearing a mask bearing the lion’s image.

From stadium to the wild: Sports clubs as new champions of biodiversity

Animals feature in sports club logos and become mascots, but their actual populations are declining. What if we turned this sporting attachment into concrete action?
Nick Kyrgios’ showdown with Aryna Sabalenka may be entertaining. But for women’s sports, it seems like a lose-lose. Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images

Tennis is set for a ‘Battle of the Sexes’ sequel – with no movement behind it

Billie Jean King’s 1973 match was about social change. The upcoming Sabalenka-Kyrgios event – with its rules tweaks and its participants’ questionable politics – may leave women’s tennis worse off.
Baseball fans watch World Series Game 6 between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers during a watch party at the University of Toronto on Oct. 31, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn

Baseball in Canada is thriving — but not on campus

Baseball’s exclusion from the varsity system in Ontario and its absence from university athletics bodies in the rest of the country doesn’t square with fan interest and cross-Canada baseball participation.
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman throws against the Tampa Bay Rays during the first inning of a baseball game in September 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

How the physics of baseball explains Blue Jay Kevin Gausman’s signature pitch

With the Toronto Blue Jays on the cusp of a World Series title, pitcher Kevin Gausman’s mastery of the splitter is not just athletic skill, it’s a brilliant application of physics.
In a 2024 exhibition game at Manzanar, players – many of them descendants of internment camp detainees – donned custom 1940s-style uniforms. Aaron Rapoport

Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic ball field was restored

80 years after Japanese Americans were imprisoned at the Manzanar Relocation Center, descendants are returning to play the sport that gave prisoners hope and a sense of normalcy.
Toronto Blue Jays’ George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. celebrate after the final out of Game 7 of baseball’s American League Championship Series on Oct. 20, 2025, in Toronto. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP) (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)

Toronto Blue Jays: Amid Canada‑U.S. tensions, ‘Canada’s team’ is excelling at America’s pastime

The Blue Jays’ post-season run as Donald Trump continues to threaten Canada gives the team perhaps its best opportunity ever to fulfil its role as Canada’s team.

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