Soccer
Why Luis Suarez is strong candidate for Golden Ball
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez makes his return to the pitch this week, and despite a history of questionable behaviour, the forward has plenty of factors working in his favour in his quest for the Golden Ball award.
What Milos Raonic can learn from U.S. Open loss
Canadian Milos Raonic was taught a lesson by Richard Gasquet on Monday night in their fourth-round match at the U.S. Open in New York and will need to improve in three key areas if he wants to succeed in the upcoming Davis Cup semifinals against Serbia.
Celebrating Canadian sport on Canada Day
I've often wondered why Canada Day is not celebrated in winter instead of summer. From a sporting perspective Canada Day in winter makes sense. Thoughts of winter athletic-achievements-past litter our national folklore.
FIFA Confederations Cup
Tahiti doesn't belong at Confederations Cup
It's a feel-good story, but the reality is that Tahiti shouldn't be in the Confederations Cup in Brazil.The tiny island nation just hasn't played enough competition in the lead-up to the tournament.
Soccer
Sydney Leroux's antics stoke Canada-U.S. rivalry
Sydney Leroux's gesture to the fans in Toronto during Sunday's Canada-U.S. women's soccer friendly made front-page headlines on national newspapers, led sportscasts across
the country and generally ticked off anyone who holds a passport with a
maple leaf on it.
MLS
Soccer's Canadian Championship still has bite
With the Canadian Championship set to be determined Wednesday night in
Vancouver, here's a reminder about why this event matters to the sport's importance in this country.
Soccer
Tiny Gibraltar hopes for UEFA admittance
On Friday, Gibraltar hopes to become an official member of UEFA. Right now it has only provisional membership. The barricade to its admittance has been Spain.
MLS
Man City, Yankees partnership a home run for MLS
The financial resources of New York City FC, the new MLS expansion team, will be vast. Plus the team will benefit from Manchester
City's new youth academy and the New York Yankees' marketing expertise.
Olympics2012
London is a most eclectic Olympic host
Happily, my day off during the London Olympics was Super Sunday, part of a weekend when 48 gold medals were doled out, and it was my goal to see as much of the city as possible while not missing any key athletic events.
Olympics2012
Visiting Olympic venues no walk in park
Getting to every venue during the London Games will be an Olympian task. They are just too spread out and, in most cases, too sold out.
Olympics2012
Mood changes as Olympic torch arrives in London
The talk of London, whether in the papers or the pubs, is shifting.
Outside the pub which has quickly become my local here in the Kensington
neighborhood, I heard one elderly patron ask the bartender "Do you
think (cyclist Mark) Cavendish can win gold on day one?" I'd heard that
same man talking earlier in the week only about what could go wrong at
the Games. There was no talk of sports.
Scott Regehr
Scott Regehr can be heard weekday mornings across the country as CBC's national sports host. Since 1999, Scott has been a reporter, host and associate producer for CBC Radio and Television in Vancouver, Yellowknife and Whitehorse (where he was born). He has hosted CBC radio's coverage of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the 2007 U-20 World Cup in Canada and the Women's World Cup in China.
