Track records keep falling in fast Tokyo Games

Sweden’s Madelene Sagstrom grabbed the first-round lead with a five-under-par round of 66, the conversation mostly revolved around the 42 C conditions in Tokyo.

Another embarrassing loss: Arniel

RALEIGH — No sticks were smashed. No walls punched. And nary a naughty word was uttered.

Instead, the Winnipeg Jets filed off the ice here at Lenovo Center on Sunday afternoon much like they’d just played the preceding game against the Carolina Hurricanes — with no emotion, no passion, no urgency.

You’d have thought yet another loss, this one in truly humiliating fashion and a ninth consecutive overall, might have triggered something.

Anything.

TV that makes the cut

Ambition is a great motivator in fields as diverse as professional boxing, high-school dance team, photography, animal wrangling and even — stay with me here — bank robbery and alien-summoning?

Sure, some of these are more relatable than others, but the solutions, and the series and movie that contain them, are intriguing. Press play to become a better you.

● The Greatest (docudrama series premières Wednesday, Nov. 4 on Prime Video)

This dramatization of the life of acclaimed boxer and activist Muhammad Ali is billed as the first authorized scripted series on the subject. Its executive producers include his widow, Lonnie Ali, as well as serious name brands Jay-Z and Michael B. Jordan. Newcomer Jaalen Best plays the title role, supported by Giovanni Ribisi (American Hostage) playing Angelo Dundee and Michael Ealy (The Following) as Malcolm X.

Gilles, Poirier hope winding road leads to podium

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New artistic director ready to get to work at Sick + Twisted

After a months-long national search for its next artistic director, Winnipeg’s Sick + Twisted Theatre has found who it’s been looking for in Mandy E. MacLean.

A Maritimer who studied theatre and performance at the University of New Brunswick and at Toronto’s Humber College, MacLean has served in recent years as the artistic and access producer for Toronto’s Crossroads Theatre — a low-barrier, youth-focused company — and as accessibility producer for Ontario’s renowned SummerWorks Festival.

MacLean, who arrived in Winnipeg last month, has long appreciated Sick + Twisted’s core philosophy, developed by former artistic director Debbie Patterson and a strong community of advisers and fellow artists. The company’s overarching goals include changing the way we think about disability in society and to create safe, supportive environments for artists to bring their “full selves” to the work.

MacLean, who was chosen by Sick + Twisted’s selection committee from a field of over 30 applicants, says the new position was intriguing, especially since she worked as an assistant director on the company’s 2025 production of Neither Here nor There, a personal, group-devised exploration of ability and difference that blended mythology, fantasy and reality.