Canadians are sports-mad - ice hockey, baseball and Canadian football matches are all extremely popular, both the professional games, and the intercollegiate competitions, the intensity of whose rivalries are notorious. Interestingly, lacrosse is the "official" national sport but, unsurprisingly, the unofficial one is ice hockey
Ice hockey
The sport that really ignites the passions of all Canadians is
ice hockey
. With players hurtling around at nearly 50kph and the puck clocking speeds of over 160kph, this would be a high-adrenaline sport even without its relaxed attitude to...
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Canadian football
Professional
Canadian football
, played under the aegis of the
Canadian Football League (CFL)
, is largely overshadowed by the National Football League in the US, chiefly because the best home-grown talent moves south in search of...
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Baseball
Baseball
, with its relaxed summertime pace and byzantine rules, is generally considered an exclusively American sport - despite the first recorded game taking place in Beachville, Ontario. The
Montréal Expos
and the
Toronto Blue...
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Basketball
Basketball
was invented by a Canadian, Dr James A. Naismith, in 1891. What began with a bunch of his students and a peach basket suspended in the air has become a fast-paced exciting sport with the world's tallest athletes. After a 48-year absence...
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