As a sportswriter, you aren't supposed to have allegiances. Ian Harrison has successfully managed to shelve any bias for teams he covers (it helps to be in Toronto where there's little to cheer about). But there is one club for which he will always remain true, Tottenham Hotspur FC.

Fewer than 40,000 people showed up in Toronto to watch the Buffalo Bills beat Peyton Manning’s Indianapolis Colts 34-21 last night. With four games down and four to go, you’d be hard-pressed to call the Bills Toronto Series anything other than a business failure.

Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston weighs in on the latest round of Toronto bashing in sports circles that is painting the city as foreign and, more diplomatically, "just different." Do African-American athletes have a legitimate beef about life in the T-Dot?

While cyclist Ryder Hesjedal didn’t zip down the Champs Elysees clad in the race leader’s famous maillot jaune, he placed seventh in one of the toughest tests in sport. For Canada, from here on in, he'll be carrying the weight of the nation.

To look at him now, with the long list of trophies and honours he has accumulated in 24 years as manager of Manchester United (and at Aberdeen before that), it’s hard to imagine it happening any other way. But Sir Alex Ferguson’s career in soccer was nearly nipped in the bud by, of all things, the prospect of a job in Canada.

He softened some in his later years and stepped a few degrees away from his empire. But until the day he died George Steinbrenner was always, quite simply, The Boss. Mr. Steinbrenner, as he would have no doubt preferred, the tough-talking, cigar-chomping, born-on-the-Fourth-of-July owner of the New York Yankees, suffered a heart attack on the morning of the 2010 All-Star game.

FIFA is in the hot seat over instant replay and its insistence on keeping the beautiful game squeaky clean from high-tech gadgetry. Ian Harrison argues that it's time to get it right in this edition of Egos & Icons that's complete with videos of four major blown calls.

What in the world are the French up to? Ian Harrison knows all the details about their spectacular exit from the World Cup in South Africa, complete with the reaction of former star Zinedine Zidane and President Nicolas Sarkozy.