Sports
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Canada and the World Write Four Numbers for a Hockey Rink. None of the Four Match.
The international hockey federation and Hockey Canada both publish a rule for how big a rink should be. Put the…
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Two Legal Curling Stones Can Differ by Six Pounds. Canada Just Adopted the Wider Number.
The rulebook that governs curling in Canada changed on 1 September 2026, and two of its numbers moved. A stone…
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World Athletics Allows 40mm of Foam on the Road and 20mm on the Track
The rulebook that decides which running shoes are legal sets one ceiling of 40 millimetres for road races and another…
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Canada’s Olympic Gold Bonus Is Worth 8.7 Months of Carding. Bronze Is Worth 4.3.
Canada pays its top carded athletes a monthly living and training allowance, and it pays a separate cash award for…
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FIFA Quality Pro Allows a Football 3.2 Millimetres of Slack. FIFA Quality Allows 6.4.
Every ball used in a FIFA or confederation match has to carry one of three quality marks, and the marks…
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Canada Has More Than 800 Curling Clubs. Their Stones Come From Two Quarries.
Every curling stone in serious competition is cut from rock taken out of two places on earth: an uninhabited Scottish…
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Curaçao Has One MLB Player for Every 39,000 People. Mexico Has One for Every 18.7 Million.
Major League Baseball counted 247 players born outside the 50 United States on its 2026 Opening Day rosters, and published…
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Canada’s National Summer Sport Barred Its Inventors for 110 Years
Lacrosse has been legally recognised as Canada’s national summer sport since 1994, but it existed for centuries before any government…
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What Is Futsal? Uruguay’s Small-Sided Game Now Has 232 Teams Playing in Canada
Futsal began as a five-a-side experiment in a Montevideo gym in 1930, and it ended up shaping the Brazilian players…
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The 2026 World Cup Legacy That Is Not a Stadium: Networks, Ticketing and Who Owns the Expertise
Spain beat Argentina on 19 July. The tournament also left three countries a digital infrastructure inheritance, and an unanswered question…