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Who's playing against Pia this week, you ask? Well, first, he's covered the Olympics, the Canadian Elite Basketball League for CBC.

He is a regular contributor to the new CBC Sports primetime show which launched last night.

Fresh off the launch, he joins us in Toronto studio.

It's Donnovan Bennett.

It's crazy

... being on CBC Sports Primetime, um, privilege and an honor, and I hope one day we look back at this and be extremely proud of what we've done.

I wanna call it behind, but w- before I, uh, call it behind, I wanna give you a stat before we, before we end this and then we end on this.

There's been, I believe, 12 or 13 India-Pakistan finals in tournaments, including like ICC tournaments, Kidman Cup, uh, Austral-Asia Cups, you know, Sharjah Cups, all these cups, Asia Cups.

And then one day, soon after graduating from McMaster University in 2025, Mackenzie got the call of a lifetime.

Still in 2025, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, specifically CBC Sports, offered Mackenzie an opportunity of grand proportions.

That opportunity was to be a sports broadcaster with CBC Sports.

Soon after, in February of 2026, McKenzie would debut in her first Olympics as a broadcaster at the Milano Cortina Olympics.

Just five months later, in July of 2026, McKenzie's one soccer opportunity leveled up, and she reported on the World Cup.

You have just watched or listened to the living legend of Mackenzie Barwell.

You can follow her on Instagram at Mackenzie Barwell.

Tune into CBC Sports and tune into One Soccer to watch or listen to her cover top-level soccer and top-level sport across the country here in Canada.

He began as an actor in film and television, but quickly became more interested in what was happening behind the scenes.

At CBC Sports, he pursued an opportunity by waiting outside an executive's office until he got a meeting.

He arrived prepared with ideas and eventually landed a job.

At 28, he became the youngest ever head of CBC Sports.

Smith later wrote an unsolicited letter to television legend Dick Clark.

They had never met, but Smith had studied Clark's career and business.

Hockey night in Canada will be back this season, but with the PWHL instead of the NHL.

CBC Sports Executive Director Chris Wilson says things are going to be different, but very exciting.

Hockey is more than NHL now.

And so for us to take the brand and spread it right now onto the PWHL for this coming season and maybe to other areas down the road, we're really optimistic that it will work.

I tried that, and then magazines kind of went the way of the dodo.

Then I was doing online work for CBC Sports, and then I got the opportunity to work for the National Post, and I had to turn myself into a newspaper writer, and that was fun for the year I got to do that.

And then I got the opportunity to come to TSN, and for a while, For the first five, six years, I simply was so focused on trying to do the best job I could in front of camera and the best job I could, especially on the live events, because I never knew it was something that I would love, but it became something I really enjoyed, especially... uh you know the opportunity to do that first great cup in 2016. but covet as we were just talking about off the top you know presented a real challenge for me because the cfl didn't play that

year

After months of anticipation, the deal is done, according to multiple reports.

Leonard's agent has confirmed with CBC Sports that the required forward has signed a two-year, one hundred and fifty million dollar contract extension.

And that is The World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.

After months of anticipation, the deal is done.

According to multiple reports, Leonard's agent has confirmed with CBC Sports that the reacquired forward has signed a two-year, $150 million contract extension.

And that is The World Is Our.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.