I’m Australian - my brother-in-law went over to teach in Winnipeg for a year. His school was full of Pakistani and Bangladeshi kids just mad keen for him to start running cricket games in phys ed or gym class or whatever you call it there.

This MLC league should 100% have had a Toronto team. There’s like 7mil South Asian Canadians, and 1.5 in Greater Toronto alone.

Yeah I just can’t get emotionally invested in the NBA. The amount of player movement just blows my mind - losing your two best players, mid-season! Just absurd.

And then combine that with the huge amount of regular season games that means any individual game doesn’t matter all that much…

It’s a very different experience if you’re coming across as a fan of most other sports

Iga Swiatek looks to be on the verge of dominating, tbh.

(Barty was relatively consistent but retired last year because she didn’t enjoy the tour)

Fwiw, outside of Djokovic and the declining Nadal, men’s tennis is looking just as unpredictable these days - the assumption is Carlos Alcaraz is about to get to that level, but he’s still only won the one major. But most of the other players coming through are very inconsistent. Even a guy like Medvedev (who reached #1) still hasn’t managed to reach the semi-final stages of 2 of the grand slams.

Whatever is coming next, it’s not gonna look like that absurd 15 year period from 2004 where at any one time you basically had 2-4 of the best players in history dominating the tour.

Edit: since writing this post this morning, the 2nd, 8th and 12th* mens seeds were all knocked out by unseeded players.

• and 23rd, 24th and 30th

lol absolute deadbeat areas on this post

Yep it’s a reference to the “succulent chinese meal” of Rugba Leeg commentary