Scott Stinson

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STINSON: Is Montoyo the right person to guide Blue Jays to the promised land? We'll see

The Blue Jays accomplished an unusual feat in 2021: They managed to both overachieve and underachieve.

October 5, 2021 Toronto Blue Jays

Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo led his team to 91 wins this season, but they still missed the playoffs.

Blue Jays do their part, don't get any help from Yankees or Red Sox

The biggest problem for the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 162 of their season was unlikely to be the team that took the field at the Rogers Centre to face them.

October 4, 2021 Toronto Blue Jays

George Springer of the Blue Jays salutes the crowd after defeating the Baltimore Orioles in at the Rogers Centre on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021 in Toronto.

Jays fans biting their nails for Wild Card spot

The largest crowd in more than two years was at the Rogers Centre on Wednesday night, and it was receiving a lesson in the existential dread of playoff baseball.

October 1, 2021 Toronto Blue Jays

New York Yankee Gleyber Torres #25 of the New York Yankees misses the tag on the Jays' Corey Dickerson at Rogers Centre on Thursday. Getty Images

STINSON: Raptors facing a year of stark change

How strange was it to be back in the Scotiabank Arena for press conferences to open a Toronto Raptors training camp?

September 28, 2021 Toronto Raptors

What does a post-Kyle Lowry Raptors team look like for the upcoming season? His production should be replaceable with some combination of Fred VanVleet (pictured), Goran Dragic and Malachi Flynn. Jack Boland/Toronto Sun

Relaxed De Grasse focused on more success and helping kids

Andre De Grasse came for a visit to his hometown in the Toronto suburbs, the place where he was first discovered at an elementary-school track meet, where he began to take sprinting seriously, where his journey to becoming an Olympic champion and six-time medallist began.

September 23, 2021 Olympics

Canada's Andre De Grasse celebrates after winning the men's 200m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Lululemon to outfit Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes

Goodbye red mittens, hello yoga pants.

September 23, 2021 Olympics

Team Canada x Lululemon's Future Legacy Bag is pictured in this handout photo

What Ohtani is doing separates himself from all other MVP contenders

I cared far too much about the American League MVP race in 1987. It was, as a teenage fan of the Toronto Blue Jays, all we had left.

September 22, 2021 Baseball

Los Angeles Angels Shohei Ohtani has been one of the top pitchers and hitters in the American League this season.

STINSON: Raducanu ends Fernandez's remarkable U.S. Open run

There could not be two Cinderellas in the end.

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September 11, 2021 Tennis

Emma Raducanu of Great Britain celebrates with the championship trophy after her match against Leylah Fernandez of Canada (not pictured) in the women's singles final on day thirteen of the 2021 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

STINSON: No final for Felix after straight-set loss

It did not take a great deal of research to figure out if two Canadians had ever been in the singles semifinals of a Grand Slam tennis tournament before.

September 10, 2021 Tennis

Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime hits a return to Russia's Daniil Medvedev during their 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's semifinal match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Sept. 10, 2021.

GIANT SLAYER: Canadian Leylah Fernandez beats Sabalenka to reach U.S. Open final

There has been much talk at the U.S. Open over the Cinderella run of Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez.