Mike Matheny: Weeding Out Selfishness Requires Confrontation

Success leaves clues and we all know that certain values like grit, optimism, discipline, and selflessness serve as the foundation for all winning programs. We know that history’s greatest coaches—from John Wooden to Dean Smith to Tom Osborne to Nick Saban—all preached the importance of teamwork and trusting “the process.”

Mike Matheny, a four-time Gold Glove winner as a player and the first person to guide his team to the playoffs in each of his first four seasons as an MLB manager, answers an important question: If everyone knows the formula for building a winning program, why doesn’t everyone follow it?

Canada's Globally Top-Ranked University Programs, According to QS

The country is still an education powerhouse, but others are catching up.

University College at the University of Toronto. U of T has the world's second-best nursing program, according to a new academic ranking.

Ever wonder how Canada's university programs compare to others in the world? A report has evaluated just that, and found that the country is fourth in the world when it comes to reputable post-secondary programs.

Sprott Gold Report: Gold Resilient Despite Market Volatility

By Shree Kargutkar

The calm of equity markets across the world was rudely interrupted in February by a sudden spike in volatility which impacted virtually every asset class. Volatility across equities, bonds, currencies and commodities rose sharply during the month and remained elevated into March. For the month of February gold equities declined 10.10%, while gold bullion fell a modest 2.08%, as measured by GLD.[1]  The metal’s lack of volatility merits further discussion which we touch on below.

WAKE-UP CALL FOR MARKETS?

Trump's goal of 'energy dominance' could change the global balance of power

The United States is on track to become the world's biggest oil producer and it has big plans for the future

U.S. President Donald Trump has shifted the conversation from energy self-sufficiency to "energy dominance." (CBC News)

Fuelled by technological breakthroughs and cuts to taxes and regulation, the United States is on target to become the world's biggest producer of crude oil in the next five years.

Let that sink in. The U.S will be bigger than Russia and Saudi Arabia.

It would be a remarkable feat and significant, too. It could clear the way for America to redefine its relationship with the world, minus a reliance on overseas oil.

'I needed one more time': Former Spuds hockey player skates final college hockey shift with broken leg

Moorhead High School graduate Bryant Christian finished his hockey career at American International College. Photo by RJB Sports / Courtesy of AIC Athletics

Bryant Christian, seen here going against Hill-Murray during Minnesota Hockey Day, played his final shift at American International College on Sunday with a broken leg. Forum file photo

Moorhead High School graduate Bryant Christian finished his hockey career at American International College. Photo by RJB Sports / Courtesy of AIC Athletics

BUFFALO, N.Y.—Bryant Christian's tibia in his right leg was broken.The former Moorhead Spuds hockey standout looked at the scoreboard Sunday at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y. He knew his hockey career was coming to an end, as a whistle stopped play in the Canisius zone.

Conrad Black: Mr. Trudeau, if he can, should get serious about running this country

Forsake the selfies and 'victims.' It’s not too late to produce some real and not pretended leadership in a desirable rather than merely trendy direction

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the Jama Masjid Mosque in New Delhi on Feb. 22, 2018.Sean Kilpatrick/CP

It is too early to judge how profoundly Justin Trudeau and his government have been undermined by the debacle of the visit to India, which cannot be laid off by scapegoating Indian and Canadian officials. Coming on the heels of the “peoplekind” fiasco, it has created a worldwide credibility problem for this government, which was compounded by the prime minister’s unintelligible babbling over the U.S. steel and aluminum tariff issue. (Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, on the other hand, was admirably sensible and balanced in her response.) These embarrassments usually blow over, but sometimes, as with former president George W. Bush’s inane frat-boy talk in New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005, a leader can be mortally discredited. Complaints had been audible for a long time that the prime minister specializes in selfies and pandering to identified victim groups, which include practically everyone except white, straight, ostensibly Christian able-bodied and sane adult males. Everyone else, as at a children’s prize day, could claim an award-winning level of competition, in this case, for victimhood, real or imagined.

A Letter to NFL GMs | By Shaquem Griffin

PHOTO BY MATT STAMEY/USA TODAY SPORTS

Dear NFL GMs,

Everything you need to know about me you can learn by going back to when I was eight years old.

So let me take you there.

It was a Friday night in St. Petersburg, Florida, and I was sleeping — or at least I was trying to. My mind was going crazy because my twin brother, Shaquill, and I had a football game the next morning. He was in the room with me, and he couldn’t sleep either, because if we won the next day, we’d be in the playoffs. I had my covers pulled up over my royal blue home jersey — that’s right, I was sleeping in it. When I was a kid, I always slept in my football jersey the night before a game. That’s how ready I was to play every Saturday.

The Ten Qualities of a Playoff Difference Maker! - Tips and Drills

“Momentum favours those with intention” - Walter Aguilar

During the hockey playoffs, the games become more intense as the stakes get higher. However, there are certain players who can and do rise up to the challenge. They are the difference makers; the game finishers, game savers etc.! Their ability to score that timely goal, make that crucial safe or make a play that captures momentum for their team, are how you notice them. They are in the zone and can not be deterred by any type of adversity. They know who they are and have resolved to be difference makers. The following are the ten attributes that allow them to stand out from the rest:

This Week in Atlantic Hockey: American International seeing ‘there’s a difference between being good and thinking you’re good’

AIC senior forward Johno May has played in 31 of the team’s 34 games this season, picking up five points along the way (photo: Omar Phillips).At American International College, a strong character team has always been built on sportsmanship and academic progress.

Unfortunately for the players in uniform, though, that didn’t translate to winning percentage.

So when Eric Lang returned to Springfield, he knew he had to help build a hidden hockey culture started by generations of players who dedicated their souls to the Yellow Jacket black and gold.

This season, those foundational stones finally found a footing.

Hockey supremacy back in Canada

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Canada's Games were always about Canada's game.

In a country where hockey defines its national identity, the 14th and record-breaking gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics was the one that really allowed the party to start. It also allowed the country to exhale.

"Being in Canada, that's an opportunity of a lifetime to play in the Olympics here and try to win a gold medal," said Sidney Crosby. "You dream of that moment a thousand times growing up."

Sidney Crosby's overtime winner gave Canada its first Olympic gold medal on home soil. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

Who else, of course, would deliver a goal of this magnitude, capping a thrill-a-minute 3-2 overtime win over an equally deserving Team USA squad to wrap up arguably the greatest hockey tournament ever played?