Sports Intro for July 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, Maggie MacNeil! Maggie MacNeil is Canada’s first gold medallist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, her second medal of these games after Canada took silver in the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay on Sunday. So even though we’ve barely just cleared the first weekend of these By Lainey • Jul 26, 2021 09:12 am
Sports Intro for July 23, 2021 Dear Gossips, As of the time of this writing, the Olympics Opening Ceremony is underway. For those of us who live in different time zones, the event will be rebroadcast on primetime tonight. Competition in some sports has already started and of course most athletes have arrived in Tokyo and By Lainey • Jul 23, 2021 08:50 am
Equality Issues Tom Cruise’s Need for Speed It was a sporty weekend for the second weekend in a row for Tom Cruise. Last week he was at Wimbledon and the Euro final, this weekend he was at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix, the home for Formula 1. Which of course those of us who are now By Lainey • Jul 19, 2021 10:10 am
Equality Issues Intro for July 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, No matter who you’re rooting for, the only decent reaction (and decent is the bare minimum) to seeing a 19-year-old player miss his penalty shot, the biggest shot so far of his career, is to feel for the kid. Bukayo Saka has a promising future ahead of By Lainey • Jul 12, 2021 09:02 am
Sports Prince William and Adele: England to the Finals As I’ve been saying all week, royal drama is not the headline this week in England, not when Three Lions are the top story. England advanced to the semis a few days ago and yesterday won their match against Denmark which, before we get into the celebrity angle here, By Lainey • Jul 08, 2021 11:38 am
Sports Intro for June 23, 2021 Dear Gossips, In some parts of Canada, there are a lot of people who have a lot of feelings today about the Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion. The NHL playoffs are happening. The Montreal Canadiens are in the Conference Finals against the Vegas Golden Knights. Celine is from just By Lainey • Jun 23, 2021 09:30 am
Top Reads Drake and MBJ: BFFs at the High School Game You’re looking at these shots of 2021 BFFs Drake and Michael B Jordan courtside at a basketball game and I think most of us might assume they’re watching professional players, right? Drake and MBJ were actually at a high school basketball game. I mean, the two high schoolers By Lainey • Jun 18, 2021 11:32 am
Maple Leaf Blake, Ryan, Boots, and Hats Now that New York is opening up, there have been more and more celebrity sightings. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were seen a couple of times last week out with their kids and the dog and here they are, on their own, out for a coffee run this weekend. I By Lainey • May 03, 2021 11:10 am
TV Updates Ted Lasso returns One of the (few) joys of 2020 was Ted Lasso, the Apple TV+ series co-created by Jason Sudeikis and Scrubs’ creator Bill Lawrence. They took a jokey character Sudeikis did for a series of sports commercials and turned him into the heart and soul of one of the kindest shows By Sarah • Apr 21, 2021 02:09 pm
Sports Intro for April 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, Before this weekend, Hideki Matsuyama was already a big deal in Japan, already a legend, the best male golfer the nation, which is golf-obsessed, has ever produced. Last week Tsubasa Kajitani won the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. And yesterday Hideki became the first Japanese man to ever By Lainey • Apr 12, 2021 08:50 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Intro for April 6, 2021 Dear Gossips, Do you think it’s at all possible that Aaron Rodgers will end up being the permanent host of Jeopardy? He started his two-week residency yesterday and already there’s been a viral moment (which he predicted). During Final Jeopardy, the champion Scott Shewfelt didn’t know the By Lainey • Apr 06, 2021 09:47 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, History was made last night on TSN in Canada during the Toronto Raptors game as the broadcast featured an all-female crew: Kayla Grey, Meghan McPeak, Kia Nurse, Kate Beirness, and Amy Audibert. And the Raptors ended a nine-game losing streak. It was a joy to watch, obviously for By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 09:07 am
Equality Issues Will Tiger Put Us To The Test? There are so many benefits to diversity. One benefit is that when we’re hearing from a wider and more representative range of people, we begin to process situations through different perspectives. Which is why over the last few years, many of us have been interrogating our own lenses, revisiting By Lainey • Feb 24, 2021 10:31 am
Top Reads Prince Williams denounces racism If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you may have read a post or two about how I am married to an English Premier League fanatic. Jacek is Canadian and hockey is not his favourite sport. Over the last decade or so, football or soccer (depending on where By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 01:36 pm
TV Updates Selena Gomez and Jimmy Butler? Selena Gomez has been in New York recently shooting a Hulu comedy series called Only Murders in the Building with Steve Martin and Martin Short. She’s also an executive producer, alongside Dan Fogelman, Jess Rosenthal who created a little show called This Is Us. It’s about three people By Lainey • Dec 03, 2020 10:52 am
Sports Intro for September 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting our site over the years, you probably know by now that I am a birthday whore. Some people go about their birthdays low-key. I am not those people. I treat my birthday like it’s a public service announcement. Tomorrow is my birthday. By Lainey • Sep 25, 2020 08:57 am
