Sports & Entertainment

FIFA's 64-Team World Cup Is Going to Be a Mess — Unless It Looks Like This

A bold proposal for what the 64-team World Cup should look like

Aug 3 • Jacob Citron

Canada Soccer's Coming Out Party: What the World Cup Meant for the Great White North

Canada exited the 2026 World Cup in the Round of 16 and it was their greatest soccer achievement ever. A look at what this tournament meant for the…

Jul 14 • Jacob Citron

100% Canadian: What One World Cup Match Revealed About Our National Identity

Attending the first and only World Cup knockout game to ever be played in Toronto, with the game reaching a fever pitch, in the 90th minute I tried…

Jul 3 • Jacob Citron

The World Cup is Unimpeachable. The Group Stage Isn't.

What's working, what isn't, and why the best football FIFA can offer is still to come.

Jun 24 • Jacob Citron

10 Things Every Canadian Bandwagoner Needs to Know Before the World Cup

We canvassed diehard Canada Soccer fans and summarized the ten things you need to know ahead of the World Cup. Did it sneak up on you? Well, it’s here…

Jun 10 • Jacob Citron

Here's What This World Cup Actually Means For Canada and Toronto

Sorry to bother you World Cup fans, but just in case you needed a primer, I wrote this piece.

Jun 7 • Jacob Citron

Italy Deserved the World Cup. FIFA's Format Robbed a Nation.

Italy went 7-1-2 in the toughest confederation in the world and still missed the World Cup. The problem isn't Italy. It's FIFA's broken format.

Apr 3 • Jacob Citron

A stream of consciousness while watching the Blue Jays home opener.

Mar 28 • Jacob Citron

You Can Do This

There is a sentence that appears on screen near the very beginning of Celeste — before the first level, before the music swells, before you have died…

Mar 23 • Jeff Greenberg

The Wild History of Fantasy Baseball

With fantasy baseball drafts just around the corner, Jeff Greenberg takes us through the history of the game.

Mar 10 • Jeff Greenberg

Resident Evil’s Bioweapons Aren’t Fiction. They’re Just Classified.

Jeff Greenberg on how Resident Evil holds up a mirror to the real world

Mar 4 • Jeff Greenberg

Fourteen, Ten, Ten.

Feb 16 • Jacob Citron

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