Chris Young

    Chris Young is a writer and editor with more than 30 years of experience covering a wide range of sports and news for the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, including seven World Cup finals and one glorious Euro 2004.

  • 'Not a good day': Wayne Bennett's gaffe in frosty press exchange

    Wayne Bennett wasn't willing to give any hints about his coaching future after Sunday's grand final loss - at the expense of one innocent reporter. Read more here.

  • 'Grow the f*** up': NBA fan's 'dehumanising' act condemned

    The spate of unruly fan behaviour in the NBA has continued, with Kyrie Irving on the receiving end of a Boston Celtics fan's petulant behaviour. Read more here.

  • Team USA taking shape as NBA stars prepare for Aussie trip

    Want to know more about James Harden, Anthony Davis, Kemba Walker and the rest of Team USA? Look no further.

  • Why the second last day of the NBA season was so dramatic

    The NBA world was left shocked, repeatedly on Wednesday. So what exactly went down, and why was everyone freaking out about it?

  • Year in Review 2016: A golden collage of sporting moments for Canada

    In a digital age, picking a single iconic moment out of a year’s worth of Canadian sports is almost an impossible task.

  • Raptors' Terrence Ross crying foul after buzzer-beater ruled no good

    The Raptors had another one. “That was just a bad call,” said Terrence Ross, after his two-dribbles-and-shoot heave appeared to beat the buzzer force overtime in Sacramento, then was ruled no good after a long replay review. Referee Mike Callahan ruled that Kings’ Demarcus Cousins had deflected the Raptors’ inbounds pass to Ross with 2.4 seconds left on the clock.

  • Blue Jays' 'sustainability' mantra faces test with Bautista, Encarnacion on way out

    Mind you, with the window shutting late Monday afternoon on the possibility that Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion might accept the club’s qualifying offers – a formal exercise that never was going to conclude any differently – they’re not quite ex-Jays but certainly un-Jays, out there on baseball’s free agent catwalk and posing for offers to roll in matching their own estimations (and therein, at least in Bautista’s case, may lie the only meager sliver of hope of this being something other than a g’bye). All this was foreseeable, perhaps even unavoidable a year ago, when the turnover of the Toronto front office brought in baseball boss Ross Atkins and club president Mark Shapiro.

  • Remarkable Heather Moyse goes into World Rugby Hall of Fame

    Heather Moyse of Canada scores a try during the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2010 Pool C Match between Canada and Scotland at Surrey Sports Park on August 20, 2010 in Guildford, England. Add another accolade to the remarkable sports resume of multi-talented Heather Moyse. A double gold medalist at the Winter Olympics in bobsled and a national team cyclist, the 38-year-old Prince Edward Islander’s first international sporting love was rugby – so it seems somewhat fitting that she’s among this year’s 12 inductees to the World Rugby Hall of Fame, the sports governing body World Rugby announced Monday morning.

  • Plenty of motivation for TFC's Giovinco, snubbed on two continents

    At this point, Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney maybe should consider sending his Italian counterpart Gian Piero Ventura a thank-you note. Not that Sebastian Giovinco needs any more fuel to his considerable fire, but he’s certainly getting it. Ventura, the Azzurri head coach, squirted lighter fluid all over it on Monday in Florence, when he said that in effect, MLS just isn’t a league he takes seriously enough to include Giovinco in his squad for this international break – and seemingly, any international breaks to come.

  • A whole new Game Plan as COC partners with Smith School of Business

    It should come as no surprise that para-swimmer Benoit Huot was among the first in Canadian sports to apply for a brand-new program that partners the Canadian Olympic Committee and Queen’s University’s Smith School of Business.

  • Christine Sinclair & soccer mates score with venture aimed at youth, business

    Christine Sinclair and Diana Matheson of Canada celebrate after defeating Brazil in Rio. For four key members who between them cover the rise of Canada’s women’s soccer program to national prominence, it’s a brand new game – but one they’re quite used to. The foursome of Christine Sinclair, Diana Matheson, Rhian Wilkinson and retired goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc have partnered up in a venture called iS4 – as in “I Strive Four” – including the support of Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart program.

  • Pinball Clemons: Head of the 2016 Canada's Sports Hall of Fame class

    On induction day into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, it seemed only fitting that Michael Clemons - Pinball, to the world - would serve as unofficial valedictorian.

  • Toronto FC head into MLS playoffs with a little more than just winning at stake

    Having toiled in the shadows of the Blue Jays and now the Raptors, TFC has a chance this fall to carve out something that's been hard to come by: respect.

  • Toronto Maple Leafs' centennial season-ticket packaging catches the eye

    Each one covering a piece of history from the days of the St. Pats and King Clancy up to Auston Matthews, the very thought of tearing these tickets, old-school style, seems almost sacrilege.

  • Gretzky: 'I don't know if a guy like Paul Coffey or myself could play in this era'

    Today's NHL is bigger and faster than the league he dominated a generation ago, but it's also more systems-oriented, even "robotic," says Wayne Gretzky.

  • The secret behind Team Canada's dominance

    Is this Canada the country’s best-ever men’s hockey side? Or are they simply too much of a match for opposition that's collectively on the decline?

  • James Corden plays Wenger for a day, takes over at Arsenal

    Chat show host James Corden sings, drills and celebrates along with Arsenal FC on the Late Late Show.

  • Oh baby! Bob Cole gets his Order of Canada

    At 83, Cole is English Canada’s answer to Vin Scully, both of them having gone from heirs to a tradition to gold standards

  • That's cold: Iceland left out of FIFA 17 reboot

    The Iceland FA and game developers EA Sports couldn't come to an agreement over image rights.

  • Team North America wins a classic, if not the chance to go on

    If this was indeed the last act of hockey’s North America team this week, they couldn’t have gone out in more rousing fashion.