Bruce Arthur

On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee lifted Russia's provisional suspension, and effectively ended the three-year ban on almost all Russian athletes in international competition.

FIFA president genuflects to Trump, betting there is more money to be made plundering the U.S. than in the strip-mined hills of Europe.

Hamstrung by a hamstring injury, Davies played just 17 minutes at the World Cup. He said it was his decision to miss the Morocco game.

World Cup run feels like a turning point and great nations chant and sing. Canada, broadly, does not. Or not enough.

Sunday’s winning goal against South Africa came out of a kind of nowhere in the match, but not in the sport, not in the country.

Every game is a must-win game now, which means Canada's best player must be more than the coach's decoy/

Canada’s best player is now more than six weeks removed from a hamstring injury and has been deemed available, but he is surely not fit.

The Group B match against Qatar in Vancouver on Thursday will be massive, and anything short of a win would be a huge Canadian disappointment.

This was a true World Cup match — beset by geopolitics, placed in a hideous context, and still it managed to be so human and thrilling and real.

Bringing the World Cup to North America was always going to be a collision between two entities that cannot actually understand one another, Bruce Arthur writes.