2024: The sports year in pictures

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Every Dec. 31, I like to scroll through my photos to remember some of the good times I had that year. So, today I figured I'd do something similar for our final newsletter of 2024.

Here are 12 pictures — one from each month — showing some of the best moments in sports this year from the perspective of a Canadian fan. Enjoy!

After years of struggling to get one off the ground, the world's best women's hockey players finally launched a single, unified professional league when the PWHL debuted on New Year's Day in Toronto. After shattering attendance records in the regular season, the league crowned Minnesota as the inaugural Walter Cup champion in the spring.

Taylor Swift took a break from her record-setting Eras Tour to witness her boyfriend Travis Kelce help Kansas City to an overtime victory over San Francisco in the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. It was Kelce and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes' second straight NFL championship and third in five years.

The 7-foot-4 Canadian centre Zach Edey threw down this dunk for two of his 27 points in Purdue's victory over Gonzaga in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Edey won his second consecutive NCAA player of the year award and led the Boilermakers to the national championship game, where they fell to repeat winner UConn. He was then picked ninth overall in the NBA draft by Memphis.

Iowa sensation Caitlin Clark drained nine three-pointers and finished with 41 points and 12 assists to defeat her rival Angel Reese's defending champion LSU in the Elite Eight of the NCAA women's basketball tournament.