Sports Intro for February 19, 2026 Dear Gossips, It’s truly a clash of the titans tonight at the Olympics. The gold medal game in hockey, Canada vs the United States. This is the date many of us had circled on the calendar going in, the marquee matchup in the sport. Or, as Hailey Salvian noted By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 10:13 am
Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton: Supportive, confident, and teased Formula 1 is in Bahrain for pre-season testing this week and we’ll get back to that in a minute but first let’s talk about Lewis Hamilton and his most recent social media activity. It was sports related, but not his own sport. Instead Lewis’s mind was on By Lainey • Feb 18, 2026 12:19 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 13, 2026 At the Olympics, just a few days ahead of Lunar New Year, it was an Asian sweep in women’s snowboard halfpipe yesterday and, perhaps, a passing of the torch. Chloe Kim, as we know, has been the queen of the halfpipe since Pyeongchang in 2018, repeating four years later By Lainey • Feb 13, 2026 02:38 pm
Sports Intro for February 11, 2026 Dear Gossips, If you were to have asked me ahead of the Olympics to predict which sport would give us the messiest romance gossip, I would have said figure skating – pretty sure many if not most others would say the same. Biathlon though? A mega longshot, not on the bingo By Lainey • Feb 11, 2026 09:44 am
Style Intro for January 20, 2026 Dear Gossips, The mood today is how Naomi Osaka walked onto the court today for her first match at the Australian Open. It's a tennis tournament… but it can also be a fashion show. This is what happened when Naomi arrived for her match. Naomi Osaka makes a By Lainey • Jan 20, 2026 09:45 am
Maple Leaf Hollanov Supreme Heated Rivalry is basically Everybody Wants Some because… well… everybody does. It is by far the most popular and most viral series of the moment, arguably even more than the final installment of the final season of Stranger Things. Which is why award season wants a piece of it. Of By Lainey • Jan 07, 2026 11:03 am
Sports Taylor plus two in the suite Taylor Swift was back in the suite at Arrowhead yesterday for the Kansas City game against Houston. My algorithm has been different since I’ve been in Brazil – it’s not serving me the usual, which means I was late on this news about Taylor and what actually showed up By Lainey • Dec 08, 2025 10:15 am
Sports Intro for November 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, If there was one celebrity who eclipsed the race this weekend, it was Beyoncé. She pulled up to the paddock in Las Vegas with Jay-Z, in a Louis Vuitton jumpsuit, to hang out with Lewis Hamilton, and all hell broke loose on social media. The best, for me By Lainey • Nov 24, 2025 09:59 am
Sports Intro for November 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, Anyone in Canada who’s been following the Toronto Blue Jays this season will tell you that it wasn’t just their play on the diamond that made them so popular. It was also the way they played in the dugout, in the locker room, during interviews… Of By Lainey • Nov 03, 2025 10:05 am
Sports Prince Harry actually doesn’t know her It’s been almost two weeks since Just Andrew and Buckingham Palace announced that he can keep his titles but has agreed not to use them which… is that kinda like owning a car but promising not to drive it? You still own the f-cking car – it’s the most By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 12:43 pm
Sports Intro for October 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, According to the ratings report, an average of 14% of Canadians watched Game 3 of the World Series when the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays went 18 innings. For so many of us in Canada right now, supporting the Jays is a full-time job, LOL. By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 10:05 am
Sports Romantic…or horny? There is a line from the film Moneyball that comes up a lot, duh, when we’re talking about baseball: “How can you not be romantic about baseball?” Moneyball is (in part) about using data to build a baseball team, relying on analytics to find unvalued and overlooked players by By Lainey • Oct 29, 2025 12:43 pm
Sports Intro for October 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, The New York Times/Athletic yesterday published an article about World Series viewership in Canada. The Toronto Blue Jays are setting records this post season. “In a country of 41 million people, here is an astonishing statistic that highlights a shared viewing experience: Game 1 of the 2025 By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 09:05 am
Sports JB is not at home The World Series starts tonight as the Toronto Blue Jays, with the better record, are hosting game one against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Fall Classic is a sports spectacle, so before the show, there’s going to be a show. But it’s now obvious that Major League Baseball By Lainey • Oct 24, 2025 11:34 am
Sports The Jays and the Stays You didn’t think I could go a whole day without mentioning the Toronto Blue Jays, did you? The World Series is starting in 24 hours, basically two blocks away from where I’m writing this post. My home team is in it - as the heavy underdogs, which is By Lainey • Oct 23, 2025 04:02 pm
Sports Intro for October 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, The jokes about Drake and Kendrick Lamar started the minute the Jays won game 7 of the ALCS on Monday night. Drake, of course, is from Toronto and Kendrick is from LA and their feud has, at this point, become monoculture. If we’re talking about musicians and By Lainey • Oct 22, 2025 10:25 am
