From ordinary poker players to big-league pros
Jeffrey Pollack’s newly created poker league aims to turn players into pampered sports celebrities
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Jonathon Gatehouse
Senior correspondent Jonathon Gatehouse has covered wars, natural disasters, politics, sports, entertainment, business and everything in-between for Maclean’s. He is also the author of The Instigator: How Gary Bettman Remade the League and Changed the Game Forever.
Rupert Murdoch’s day of reckoning
For Murdoch, the benefits of being highly successful outweighed the costs of being deeply unloved
In conversation: Gary Bettman
What he thinks of future franchise relocation, the Aaron Rome hit and the culture of the game
The return of NHL hockey to Winnipeg
It took a new arena, US$170 million, and Mark Chipman’s persistence
Can you fight a flood by creating one?
This Manitoba man is gambling that he can
Ultimate ticket
How extreme fighting captured a generation—and its money
Joey Votto: baseball’s anonymous superstar
He won the National League’s MVP and led the Cincinnati Reds to the playoffs. Still, he’s working even harder on his game.
Dust-up in the Phoenix desert
Death threats, hate mail, conspiracy theories. Welcome to hockey night in Phoenix.
In conversation: Gail Asper
On overcoming indifference, why it isn’t a museum of genocide, and Winnipeg’s windfall
Kathy Dunderdale: the one to beat
Dunderdale has Danny Williams’s old job. And she’s as feisty as he was.