Canada Sports Power Rankings

Hello and welcome to the Canadian Sports Power Rankings!

The goal here will be to (semi-seriously) rank Canadian athletes - both those born in Canada and occasionally those playing for teams located in Canada - in order of percieved "power" in the Canadian sports landscape. Since we are in the midst of Peak Sports Season (NFL, NHL, NCAAFB and MLB (and CFL, I guess) are all still playing games, NBA and NCAABB are just days away from tip-off) there's no better time to start then now!

Like most sports power rankings columns, this will consist of a completely arbitrary rating not based on any actual standings or statistics. Since we'll be spanning the entire sporting world and not just focusing on one particular league, these rankings will be even MORE arbitrary than any other power ranking you'll have seen before. In fact, the main factors in these rankings will be a combination of popularity, media hype, and on-field/court/ice performance.

So without any more up-front BS, lets start the rankings:

Canada Basketball got screwed by FIBA, Finland, and... Angry Birds?

A re-enactment of  the Rovio-FIBA "sponsorship".

It's a boring Saturday afternoon. I'm sitting here watching Team USA destroy Team Finland on the opening day of the FIBA World Cup, and I'm wondering "how the heck did this Finland team even qualify for this tournament?" Because they are getting absolutely pummeled. 

My next thought was "I wonder what group Canada is in?" 

Well, I must not have been paying much attention in the spring, when the qualifiers were announced, because Canada did not qualify for the tournament. That's right; Canada, Land of the First Overall Picks, did not qualify. Shameful, I thought. We should be watching Wiggins & Co. get pummeled by Team USA, not those blond-haired, blue-shirted Finns! How could this happen?