Recently by Teddy Katz
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CBC Sports
Is Athletics Canada's Olympic selection process fair?
The Canadian Track and Field Trials in Calgary last weekend ended with
questions about how Canada selects its Olympic team and whether this
country is hurting its own chances for success.
Some around the sport say having high standards and picking the top
three finishers in each event at the national trials makes sense if
you're a track power like Jamaica or the United States. But does it work for Canada?
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CBC Sports
International athletes demand inquiry into crash that killed Nik Zoricic
A CBC News investigation has discovered a surprising rate of injury in the sport of ski cross, and a call by some international athletes supporting demands for an independent inquiry into a fatal crash that killed Canadian Nik Zoricic.
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CBC Sports
Athletic women beating the guys or 'getting chicked'
A funny thing happened on the way to London. Some of Canada's top female athletes were racing the guys, and beating them. It's what they call in sport, "guys getting chicked."
When I first decided to do an Olympic special for CBC Radio about this phenomenon I didn't know where to start.
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Hockey
'Toronto model' not winning over Leaf fans
On Tuesday, I found myself in the middle of the media circus surrounding Brian Burke and the failures of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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CBC Sports
Who is Dr. Anthony Galea?
Toronto sports doctor Anthony Galea fancies himself a healer on the cutting edge of sports science.
Over the past couple of decades, athletes considered him the go-to-guy
for injuries because of the innovative techniques he used to help them
get back on their feet at his clinic in Etobicoke Ont., near Toronto's
Pearson airport.
But authorities in the U.S. now consider him a convicted felon who won't
be able to travel so freely south of the border anymore.
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CBC Sports
Lifting veil of secrecy on the Waterloo football scandal
Almost one year after the worst doping scandals in Canadian
university sport, officials are trying to figure out how to lift the
veil of secrecy surrounding the illegal use of performance enhancement
drugs.
CBC has learned one of the recommendations from a task force that
was studying how to prevent scandals like this will be in place soon.
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CBC Sports
Lopez hopeful of CFL career after nightmarish journey
As Canadian Football League training camps open this week, one rookie trying to make the Edmonton Eskimos is more excited than most
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CBC Sports
NHL ignoring concussion protocol: former players
Several former players are giving the NHL barely a passing grade for its new concussion protocol and how it's working so far in the playoffs.
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CBC Sports
Athlete with typhoid fever gets back on track
An up-and-coming Canadian pole vaulter is trying to get back on her feet after returning from the Commonwealth Games in India with typhoid fever.Twenty-two-year-old Gabriella Duclos-Lasnier told CBC she was the unnamed track athlete who it was reported a couple of weeks ago got seriously sick at the Games.
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CBC Sports
Saluting the original pioneers of women's hockey
Two women who over the years fought very public battles for equality in Canada's national pastime say that Monday marks an important milestone.
That's when the Hockey Hall of Fame is inducting its first two females.
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CBC Sports
Golf champion never stopped believing
Rod Spittle's story is an inspiration to anybody going through a mid-life crisis.
Last weekend, the 55-year-old former insurance salesman from Niagara Falls, Ont., beat Jeff Sluman in a one hole playoff to win his first ever Champions Tour golf tournament, a competition for the best golfers in the world aged 50 and up.
- CBC Sports Canadian alpine skiers face pressure to win Inside a theatre in Toronto, the Canadian alpine ski team struts out some of the big names it's hoping will lead the team to the World Cup podium this season.
- CBC Sports No easy answers to eliminating concussions Picture a lecture hall full of doctors, scientists, equipment manufacturers from Canada and the United States with all kinds of initials beside their names that scream: "I know what I am talking about!"
- CBC Sports Great Iceland hockey bailout While many recreational hockey players are getting their skates sharpened looking forward to another year on the ice, a group of players in Toronto who range in age from 20 to their late 50s are getting set for something special.
- CBC Sports Steroid picture in CIS to become clearer It is the elephant in the room nobody talks about. Steroid abuse in Canadian university football.
- CBC Sports Getting Canada back to the World Cup If Canada is going to qualify for another World Cup, it's going to need to do something radical like the Own the Podium program from the Olympics. But it won't be easy.
- CBC Sports Knockout rounds or bust for Americans Princeton, N.J. -- It doesn't matter what the sport, confidence is something not many U.S. athletes I've met over the years lack. So perhaps it's not surprising that as the 30 members of the provisional U.S. World Cup team have assembled here on the campus of Princeton University, some of the team's stars are talking and walking around with a bit of swagger. Maybe it's the kind academic excellence and world renown this Ivy League school is known for rubbing off on the soccer pitch.
- CBC Sports The passing of The Lord of the Rings Juan Antonio Samaranch was born into a wealthy family and probably would have enjoyed people calling him the Lord of the Rings.
- CBC Sports Phoenix Rising It would be easy to pick the NHL's hottest team since the Olympic break to steamroll past the Phoenix Coyotes. After all, the Stanley Cup finalists, the Detroit Red Wings, look to be a formidable foe.
- CBC Sports A test of Tiger's mental strength A top Canadian golf coach says he expects Tiger Woods to dominate in his return to the sport this week.
About the Author
Teddy Katz
Over the past two decades, Teddy Katz has covered most of the top international sports events for CBC including The World Cup and various Olympic Games. His stories, that are regularly heard on the World at Six and World Report, always provide insight and analysis, that are of interest to people who love or may not be fans of sport at all. Teddy has won several awards for his sports journalism and documentaries.
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