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The man who never gave up on the Winnipeg Jets - Sports - Macleans.ca

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EBSCOhost: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS ON THE PRAIRIE

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Chad Ochocinco Tops Most Influential Athletes In Social Media List - CNBC

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Sports—Which Sports Do More Americans Participate In? - CNBC

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TheStar Competitive yoga might be a stretch, but it’s for real

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Chris Zelkovich thestar.com If you happen to confuse Wednesday’s Canadian debut of the Onion SportsDome with real sports highlights, then the creators of the new comedy show have done their job. It’s the latest project from the satirical news outlet The Onion and aims to entertain, satirize and confuse.“What we’re trying to accomplish is what The Onion is always trying to accomplish, which is

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Damien Cox thestar.com You can deplore the hit Tom Kostopoulos laid on Brad Stuart, breaking the veteran Detroit defenceman’s jaw, as a totally unnecessary bit of hockey violence. At the same time, however, you can also understand the stance taken by the Calgary Flames, Kostopoulos’s employers, who have vehemently argued that the veteran winger did nothing wrong under the rules of the NHL to

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QMI AgencyTorontosun.com The governing body for minor hockey in Ontario needs to have the guts to take a stand against racism, says a local house league coach who was suspended for the rest of the season for pulling his team from a game after a racial slur was hurled at one of his players.Greg Walsh learned on Thursday that the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) had suspended him until April

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STEVE LAMBERT Canadian Press Should sports stadiums be required to curb beer sales and improve safety features to protect fans in the stands? Those are two of the questions being considered by a Manitoba judge following a wide-ranging inquest into the death of a spectator at a Canadian Football League game in Winnipeg in August 2006. The inquest concluded Friday after hearing from 50 witnesses

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Cam Cole Vancouversun.com There are few absolutes in life, but one is that if you are involved in the quaint sport of ice hockey and have somehow attracted the attention of the Huffington Post, you are about to cross the line from non-entity to laughingstock, if not pariah. Otherwise, why would the giant U.S. online news blog waste valuable web space on you? So it was when, in the middle of a

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Bruce Arthur Nationalpost.com Between Wikileaks and Don Cherry’s noble quest to shame the world’s bicycle-riding, bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping, pinko left-wing kooks, it has been quite the week for freedom of speech. And hey, it’s part of what makes modern democracy great, along with the nachos. That being said, it can be both exhausting, and exhausted. Take Baltimore Orioles outfielder Luke

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Canadian Press tsn.caHow big is UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre worldwide? Just ask UFC president Dana White."Georges St-Pierre is the most famous athlete to ever, ever -- in the history of the world -- come out of Canada," said White, throwing in an F-bomb for emphasis.Called on the assertion, White readies for the debate. Bring on the names, he says.How about The Great One?"Let's

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Amy Dempsey thestar.comDozens of people cheered and chanted Friday outside Northern Secondary School in Toronto to support a student suspended for criticizing the school.“Commended, not suspended,” the group of mostly students shouted.Loud cheers broke out when the suspended student, Emil Cohen, read a speech he had been stopped from delivering at the school on Nov. 22.“This is an issue of free

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Grant Wahl cnnsi.com ZURICH -- The Baur au Lac hotel, a five-star palace on the banks of Lake Zurich, was the epicenter of The Game here this week: the final lobbying of the nine bids vying to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. As the official hotel of the FIFA Executive Committee, the 22 men who choose the World Cup hosts, the opulent Baur au Lac welcomed all manner of dignitaries this week,

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Randy Starkman thestar.com Some of the chief architects of the Own the Podium program that helped put Canada over the top at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics have a new boss: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.The Russians, in an effort to replicate at the 2014 Sochi Olympics the success Canada had in Vancouver, have hired many of the people who headed the creation of OTP, including Cathy

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Alex Horkay thestar.com It’s 5 p.m. and a dozen children have hit the mat at a Toronto club, training to be fierce combatants in one of the most brutal sports around — mixed martial arts.But nobody’s getting their head jammed through the floor. To Tally Bodenstein-Kales, a child psychologist watching her 8-year-old son, Noah, learn the sport, it’s all good.“What they see on TV is certainly the

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Kevin Blackistonefanhouse.com A hospital pronounced Nathan dead at 4 a.m. Friday. Dr. Ann McKee, the Boston University School of Medicine expert on football and brain injuries, said Monday on a radio program I participated in that medical science suspects of concussions on the football field what most of us are certain of intuitively: "Is it more dangerous for a 13-year-old to experience these

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The Canadian Press globeandmail.ca A retired NHLer claims the league discriminates against players who aren't English-speaking Canadians and he alleges in a new book that teams systematically shut the door on others.Bob Sirois writes in his book, Discrimination in the NHL: Quebec Hockey Players Sidelined, that Quebecers, Europeans, and Americans all face systemic bias in the league.He says the

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Daniel Girard thestar.com More than just the line-up on the floor is new at Raptors games this season.Tickets for about 1,300 seats to every home game will be part of a trial of so-called dynamic pricing, which is bringing the laws of supply and demand to an increasing number of arenas and stadiums across North America.Under the scheme, casual fans looking for seats to individual games — as

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Rita Trichur thestar.com A soccer rivalry is brewing between two of Canada’s biggest banks.Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced Tuesday that it has signed a new sponsorship agreement with Visa for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.Bank of Montreal, meanwhile, is gearing up to make a significant soccer-related announcement later this week, sources say.Recognizing that soccer is

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Associated Press tsn.caACAPULCO, Mexico -- Women's ski jumping and new events in snowboarding, Alpine skiing, figure skating, biathlon and luge are being considered for inclusion at the next Winter Olympics.The International Olympic Committee will decide on additions to the program for the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, at a three-day executive board meeting opening here Sunday.In an incongruous

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Paul Friesen slam.canoe.ca Much of the debate about whether or not Winnipeg could support an NHL franchise has been guess work. Economic experts saying this, the man on the street saying that and people believing what they want. For example, would a team here have enough corporate support? Instead of guessing, we decided to find out. The results, like a rising slapshot from the unknown rookie

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Canadian Press tsn.ca A $6-million boost from the federal government is aimed at changing Canada's history of poor performances in team sports at the Summer Olympics.Basketball, volleyball, field hockey, water polo and recent Games addition rugby sevens will benefit from the new funding, part of a five-year commitment confirmed Tuesday by Minister of State Gary Lunn during the Team Sport

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Kevin Barrett Telegraph-Journal SAINT JOHN - The manager of the Saint John Little League All-Stars says he was never contacted by anyone during an investigation into a wild brawl during the Canadian Senior championship at Memorial Field in August. And Tom Galbraith plans to appeal his indefinite suspension handed down by a Little League International Tournament Committee that also suspended

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Stephen Brunt Globeandmail.com Some day, it will be fascinating to look back and consider just how it is we got here. Within living memory, professional athletes were wrapped in mythic armour stronger even than that which protected movie stars. The Hollywood crowd, famous musicians, even in more wide-eyed days, could be dragged down by scandal sheets, their embarrassing personal peccadilloes

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Bob MackenzieTsn.ca Based entirely on the premise that it's never too early in the season to be called a pussy(cat), can someone please explain to me the purpose/meaning/significance of the Steve MacIntyre smackdown of Raitis Ivanans last night in Edmonton?  Now, I get that Oiler fans were almost as (maybe more?) titillated by MacIntyre's knockout punch on Ivanans with 2:40 left in the third

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David BidermanWallStreetJournal.com As Major League Baseball's postseason begins Wednesday, the sport's fans are prepping for what they'd call the most drama-packed month of the year—a time when families huddle around the television to see upsets pulled, heroes born and a World Series won.But let's face it, they're also liable to spend lots of time watching guys standing around during pitching

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Terry Jones Sunmedia.caMONCTON, N.B. — Until Thursday Ian Fowler wasn’t present to watch over the birth of a football franchise due to the death of his father.But the visionary, who is credited for being the man who inspired the creation of Touchdown Atlantic — not to mention the largest Rolling Stones concert in history here at Magnetic Hill, another similar success with AC/DC, the acquisition

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Dave RitchieDailygleaner.ca Arliss Wilson remembers early on his point of reference for the quality of talent in the Canadian Football League.The first-year president of Football New Brunswick was playing at the high school level in his native Saint John when he would see a running back go zipping by would-be tacklers, of which he was one.The running back in question was Chris Skinner, who would

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KIN 6300 Essay question?: What would Marx have to say about this?

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Lois Kalchman thestar.com Two sets of parents who sued the Greater Toronto Hockey League, one of its clubs and four team officials for $25,000 each when their sons were cut during spring tryouts have reached a settlement.

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Steve Simmons Canoe.ca "Winning is everything in Sports and it's what we believe in. It's our vision It's what we do and why we're here It's in our DNA and it drives us every day It's at the heart of our objectives and strategies Our four core values are rock solid and and how we play to win There rules of the game don't change There are no time outs" -- motto of Maple Leaf Sports and

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Don Banks Cnnsi.com There's a widespread belief within the NFL that the 2010 draft represents one of the deepest and most promising pools of collegiate talent in years. But in addition to the vast potential of this year's draft class, numerous NFL personnel evaluators told SI.com they are concerned about the increased number of prospects who have a history of marijuana use in their background,

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Darren Rovell cnbc.com 15 Mar 2010 The brackets were just released last night and you’ve seen about every tale of the tape you can possibly absorb.But we have one you haven’t seen.Here are some of the more interesting numbers behind the tournament.$0: Money Duke's junior forward Kyle Singler gets from sales of No. 12 jerseys$17.52: Approximate cost, in gas, to drive in a car that gets 25 miles a

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March 1, 2010 The Olympic hockey gold medal thriller on Sunday pulled in a record television audience in Canada.  A total of 16.6 million viewers watched Canada’s 3-2 overtime win against the United States, the largest viewership ever for a telecast on Canadian television.  That audience figure represents the combined total of viewers on nine channels, including the main CTV network, where the

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By STEVE BUFFERY steve.buffery@sunmedia.ca VANCOUVER — Members of the Australian Olympic contingent believe their moguls skier, the Vancouver born Dale Begg-Smith, got shafted by the judges Sunday night and that the historic winner, Montreal’s Alex Bilodeau, may have been undeserving of the gold.“I thought Dale won,” Australian coach Steve Desovich told the Aussie media after Sunday’s moguls race

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By Rick Reilly ESPN The Magazine It's always so cute when Canada hosts an Olympics. Canadians try so hard. This comes from living next to America and having an inferiority complex worse than Tito Jackson's. For instance, it's rained every day I've been in Vancouver, athletes are starting to withdrawal because of pruny fingers, and Canadians feel terrible. They're always saying "Gee, sore-ee

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By BILL HUNT Fredericton Daily Gleaner University of New Brunswick athletic director Kevin Dickie said the operating budget for the school's athletic program has been reduced for 2010-11 in keeping with the school's plan to cut expenses in Fredericton by $2.5 million, beginning in April."But it's manageable, and it's fair," said Dickie. "I'm comfortable with the budget that we received."The

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Helmet use among skiers and snowboarders is growing, according to officials."I think they're a great idea," said Jason Crawford, the manager of Crabbe Mountain. "That's one of the biggest things we work on from a safety point of view is encouraging the use of helmets. They're warm, they're comfortable and, probably most importantly, they protect you in the chance of an accident." The latest issue

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Randy Starkman February 02, 2010 Roger Jackson, who heads Own The Podium, the organization designed to help Canada win the medals race at the 2010 Winter Olympics, is holding a teleconference today to talk about the team's prospects on the eve of the Vancouver Games. But there's an even more important question at the moment: What happens after the show is over? There is a lot of uncertainty

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As Olympics near, people in Vancouver are dreading GamesDave Zirin Edge of Sports When I arrived in Vancouver, the first thing I noticed was the frowns. The International Olympic Committee has leased every sign and billboard in town to broadcast Olympic joy, but they can't purchase people's faces. It's clear that the 2010 Winter Games has made the mood in the bucolic coastal city decidedly

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The Morning Skate: Will Hockey Heed the Message of Cormier’s Ban?By STU HACKELNew York TimesJANUARY 26, 2010 If the suspension of Patrice Cormier for the balance of the Q.M.J.H.L. season by the league commissioner Gilles Courteau is supposed to send a message to players in all three Canadian major junior leagues that head shots must stop, the columnist Wayne Scanlan of the Ottawa Citizen, for

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DANTON PASSES FIRST TEST WITH HALIFAX MEDIA A.J. Walling tsn.ca Mike Dantaon made an impression, a very big one, especially on me and as they say, I've been around a bit. I did my first'  press conference in Quebec City in 1965 and estimating 40 news conferences a year for the past 45 years in this business, that's more than 1,000 of these things with easily around 100 involving Saint Mary's

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Basketball league for white Americans targets Augusta By Billy Byler The Augusta Chronicle Tuesday, January 19, 2010 A new professional basketball league boasting rosters made up exclusively of white Americans has its eyes set on Augusta, but the team isn't receiving a warm welcome. The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its

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A Danton Dilemma By Roy MacGregor January 12, 2010 Globe and Mail Canadian Interuniversity Sport needs to use common sense about allowing 29-year-old former pro to play at Saint Mary's University in Halifax The only one missing was Tiger Woods. On Second Chance Monday for Fallen Athletes, there was Mark McGwire finally admitting to 20 years of steroid abuse, including the 1998 season he

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Published Tuesday January 12th, 2010 By MICHAEL STAPLES staples.michael@dailygleaner.com A fatal weekend snowmobile accident near Miramichi is an unfortunate reminder of the importance of staying on trails, says the general manager of the New Brunswick Federation of Snowmobile Clubs Inc.Ross Antworth said snowmobiling not only comes with a great amount of fun, but also with a lot of risk.“If

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World Juniors thriller delivers all-time audience recordTSN.ca Staff1/6/2010 6:18:24 PMIt was an epic game with an epic audience to match. Tuesday night's thrilling IIHF World Junior Championship gold medal game made television history for TSN. Preliminary overnight data from BBM Canada confirms that TSN's average audience for the game was an outstanding 5.3 million viewers - an all-time record

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FIFA to consider adding officialsJOHANNESBURG — The Associated PressPublished on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 10:28AM ESTFIFA will consider having extra match officials on the field to help referees at next year's World Cup in South Africa.FIFA president Sepp Blatter says Thierry Henry's hand ball, which led to the goal that sent France to the World Cup at the expense of Ireland, showed that referees

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Reilly: The culture of athlete tats Posted using ShareThis

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N.S. judge rules 'Happy Gilmore' golf shot illegal - thestar.com

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Top ESPN searches of 2008 Posted using ShareThis

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Flames' flu vaccine saga 'not acceptable': Alberta health superboard

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'Colbert Report' to sponsor U.S. speedskating Posted using ShareThis

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Cleveland Browns fans plan late-arrival protest in Week 10 - NFL - SI.com

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For boys, sugar and spice aren't nice : It's time to accept that males and females don't necessarily have the same learning patterns Lysiane Gagnon Globeandmail.com The Toronto District School Board is contemplating establishing a boys-only public elementary school. This wouldn't be a panacea, but anything that could help reduce the alarming dropout rate among boys – an acute problem in Quebec

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WWE's wrestlers grapple with change - thestar.com Shared via AddThis

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Premier confirms regular season game will be played in Moncton next year By Brent Mazerolle Times & Transcript StaffIt's not just talk anymore, it's official. The Canadian Football League will hold one of next year's regular season games at the City of Moncton's Stade Moncton 2010 Stadium on the Université de Moncton campus. Premier Shawn Graham and Moncton East MLA Chris Collins confirmed

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Lakers' Lamar Odom's curious marriage to Khloe Kardashian - Jeff Pearlman - SI.com Shared via AddThis

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Forbes: Tiger Woods is first athlete to reach $1 billion - Press Tent Shared via AddThis

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Defending the grunt: Purists hate it, but what’s a guttural outburst (or several) in a great tennis game? by John Intini McClean's.ca When Serena Williams stopped by The Late Show last month after winning a third Wimbledon title, the conversation, like many about tennis these days, turned to grunting rather than groundstrokes. Williams joked that she grunts playing golf and said Monica Seles,

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Source: NBA to unveil policy this week By Marc Stein ESPN.com The NBA will this week introduce what it considers "minimal" guidelines for players, coaches and team officials when using Twitter and other social networking sites, according to sources with knowledge of the policy. The primary restriction of the policy is expected to prevent various team representatives from tweeting during games

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Hey, coach, can you spare a dime? Shared via AddThis

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Blowing the whistle on soccer theatricsBy James Christie From Thursday's Globe and Mail  The theatrics and ruses used by soccer stars "diving" to draw a penalty are being exposed by a British professor who specializes in the study of people's intentions and deceit.  Psychologist Paul Morris, of the University of Portsmouth, and co-author David Lewis say in an article published in the Springer

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FAN590 - Blogs - Nothing But Leafs � Blog Archive � Exhibition Ticket Prices Incomprehensible Shared via AddThis

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Athletes say Canada playing nasty ahead of Olympics Shared via AddThis

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Carleton suspends entire women's soccer team over 'rookie initiation' Shared via AddThis

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Healthy Habitant: Laraque happy to veg out Sean Gordon Globeandmail.com September 15, 2009 First, the eyebrows arch quizzically, then the legend’s nose crinkles in disapproval. “Ferguson never would have accepted it,” huffs Henri Richard, 11-time Stanley Cup champion, uber-competitor, the Pocket Rocket himself, speaking of John Ferguson, the former Montreal Canadiens tough guy. It’s a

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NFL replay review system sucks life out of game September 14, 2009 CHRIS ZELKOVICH thestar.com When it comes to creating a compelling television product, most pro sports leagues look to the NFL for inspiration. After all, the league that used television to become the success it is today usually gets it right. So why is it that the great NFL can't figure out a replay review system that doesn't

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Premier pledges stadium funds; Politics Graham makes commitment at Liberal dinner, mayor and MLA say, but details still being worked out New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal Sat Sep 5 2009 Premier Shawn Graham is on board when it comes to funding for the Canada Games Stadium refurbishment, say politicians who attended a Liberal dinner Thursday.They say Graham pledged the funds for long-awaited

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Hysteria reaches Critical Mass in Vancouver ahead of 2010 Olympics | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com Shared via AddThis

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Champion a hermaphrodite, report says September 11, 2009thestar.comASSOCIATED PRESSSYDNEY, Australia–World 800-metre champion Caster Semenya of South Africa has male and female sexual organs, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported. The finding poses an ethical and political quandary for world track and field's ruling body.The Herald said extensive examinations of the 18-year-old runner ordered by

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Smoking casts its carcinogenic cloud over golfMike BianchiMarch 23, 2008Remember the old rock 'n' roll song Smokin' In The Boys Room about the teenage juvenile delinquents who used to sneak into the school bathroom and puff away on cancer sticks?"Smokin' in the boys' roomSmokin' in the boys' room. Now, teacher, I am fully aware of your rules,But everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in

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Road hockey feud has forever altered Kingston neighbourhood Jordan Press Kingston Whig-Standard Longwood Terrace, a short cul-de-sac nestled away between Collins Bay and Woodbine roads, is the centre of the debate about whether to legalize street hockey. City council couldn't come to a decision and instead has delayed concluding the matter until the spring at the earliest. For now, playing

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Enough with the pro sports handoutsDave PerkinsThestar.comDon't envy Peter Fonseca his job in the coming stuttering economy. As Ontario's tourism minister, he juggles the reeling U.S. dollar, $4-a-gallon gas down below and necessity to run ads reminding the locals to be nice to visitors. When you need to tell people that, you're in tough long before the first $9.50 glass of beer is sold to a

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Are Bills the thin edge of the wedge?: CFL fans fret that plan for Toronto to host 8 NFL games will hurt Canada's leagueJim Byers TheStar.comCanadian Football League fans look at the plan to bring eight Buffalo Bills games to Toronto over the next five years and get nervous. The folks in charge of boosting Toronto's stagnant tourism numbers look at the plan and see a glittering sports entity that

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Auto dealer: scrap deal for Marlins ballparkAssociated PressMIAMI — Norman Braman, a former owner of the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, opposes a giant $3-billion (U.S.) public works deal that includes a long-sought stadium for baseball's Florida Marlins.Braman is suing to stop Miami's so-called "global agreement" in its tracks, contending it was illegally hatched in secret and improperly uses money

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Oklahoma City approves proposal: Voters hope tax will lure NBA team to OklahomaAssociated PressOKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma City voters approved a sales tax extension Tuesday to fund $121.6 million in improvements to a downtown arena and build a practice facility in hopes of luring an NBA team.The proposal received support from 44,849 voters, or 62 percent of those who cast ballots, according to

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TSN clear winner on NHL trade deadline dayWILLIAM HOUSTONGlobe and MailTSN won the battle for NHL trade deadline viewers on Tuesday by a wide margin, drawing more than triple the audience of Rogers Sportsnet and almost 14 times as many viewers as The Score.TSN's audience of 166,000 jumped 11 per cent from last year's trade deadline day. Sportsnet's 54,000 was flat. And the Score's 12,000

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Ontario's Ultimate stalemate: Against a tide of popularity and precedent, province stands firm in its reluctance to join the mixed martial arts boomSteve BufferySun MediaThe Montreal Canadiens are one the hottest teams in the NHL and a sense of optimism is growing in Quebec that Les Glorieux could go deep in the playoffs this season.But the hottest ticket in Montreal these days is not for a

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No country for old jerseysBRIAN MILNERGlobe and MailDoug Wilson wasn't the only San Jose Sharks executive who had a hectic trade-deadline day.While the Sharks' general manager was making a big splash with his acquisition of all-star defenceman Brian Campbell from the Buffalo Sabres, Malcolm Bordelon, the executive vice-president of business operations, was working behind the scenes to set in

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Crist promotes Florida as Arizona lures teams for springAssociated PressST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians are leaving Florida's Grapefruit League for Arizona next year, and the Cincinnati Reds may not be far behind.No wonder Gov. Charlie Crist decided to show Major League Baseball a little love Tuesday by reviving the annual governor's dinner celebrating the

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Courtesy of Dr. CFL Asper’s deal for Bombers nearly done: Franchise will soon become private businessScott TaylorNational PostDavid Asper can now see the light at the end of a 14-month-long tunnel, a light that will result in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ending 75 years of community ownership."Yes, I will soon take over sole ownership of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers," Asper said late last week. "But I

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Toronto tourism takes $50M hit with loss of race: Layoffs predicted as city loses Grand PrixJim Byers & Rick MatsumotoThestar.comToronto's hospitality industry will take a $50 million hit this summer with the cancellation of the Toronto Grand Prix.The annual summer racing extravaganza, which began in 1986 as the Molson Indy, attracted tens of thousands of visitors from across the continent.But

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A Turnkey Sports Poll asked more than 800 sports executives: "Which event is the most prestigious?"SportsBusiness JournalMasters..........41.8%Super Bowl..........34.84%World Series..........6.15%Final Four..........4.92%Kentucky Derby..........4.51%Stanley Cup Finals..........2.46%Indianapolis 500..........1.64%Daytona 500..........0.82%NBA Finals..........0.82%U.S. Open tennis..........0.41%

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More Americans Are Giving Up GolfPaul VitelloNytimes.com HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — The men gathered in a new golf clubhouse here a couple of weeks ago circled the problem from every angle, like caddies lining up a shot out of the rough.“We have to change our mentality,” said Richard Rocchio, a public relations consultant.“The problem is time,” offered Walter Hurney, a real estate developer. “There just

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No way to gild a golden economy: Economists say B.C.'s boom means the Olympics won't provide much of a financial boost PATRICK BRETHOURGlobe and MailVANCOUVER — The 2010 Winter Games don't start for another two years, but Chris Gardner already has his Olympic gold - in the unlikely form of manufactured steel buildings.Mr. Gardner and his company, Britco Structures, have won a $32-million contract

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Buffalo wing and a prayer -- hold the blue cheese. Don't bet on fans buying chunk of BillsGarth WoolseyThestar.comIf community ownership works so well for the Green Bay Packers, why not the Buffalo Bills?Well, for one thing the National Football League prohibits the masses from owning and operating its franchises. The Packers are the lone exception to the rule, and their special status was

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Naming rights deal for Giants, Jets stadium could set recordAssociated PressEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — All sports teams want bragging rights, but with the cost of a new stadium now more than $1 billion, it's naming rights they're after.As several of the most storied franchises in sports replace their stadiums, sports marketing experts expect corporations to pay record amounts for the right to name

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I thought only Torontonians ravenously consumed mediocrity....? Packed to the rafters … 200 times in a rowMATTHEW SEKERESGlobe and MailVANCOUVER — Chris Zimmerman inherited a good situation.Unlike his predecessors, the Vancouver Canucks president stepped into a string of full houses at General Motors Place when he joined the NHL franchise in October of 2006. Tonight, the Canucks will face the

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Played a sport lately?Canadian Press OTTAWA — A new study says that when it comes to sports, at least, Canadians like to watch.The Statistics Canada study found that barely three in 10 Canadians aged 15 and over participated regularly in at least one sport in 2005, down dramatically from nearly half in the early 1990s.The report estimates that 7.3 million people – about 28 per cent of the adult

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"In New York it's not whether you win or lose--it's how you lay the blame."- Fran Lebowitz Cost of new Yankee Stadium up to $1.3BCanadian Press NEW YORK - The new Yankee Stadium will have party suites, a members-only restaurant, a martini bar and a price tag to match all the luxury - US$1.3 billion, up from the original estimate of $1 billion."We tried to reflect a five-star hotel and put a

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Travelling 'circuit girls' flock to Super Bowl in search of clients CHRIS KAHN Associated PressPhoenix - Every year before the Super Bowl, Tammie Miller would gather her chinchilla coat and hop in a limo with her pimp. The host city, wherever it was, always offered a better supply of men than the lonesome highway in Long Beach, Calif., where she usually worked.Miller was what's known as a "

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Super Bowl clobbers the Grey CupMARINA STRAUSSGlobe and MailAmong Canadian football fans, broadcasts of the Super Bowl have gained a slight lead over the Grey Cup in popularity, but among advertisers the American gridiron extravaganza is the champion, hands down.Both games are among the biggest television draws in the country, and the Super Bowl has just begun to overtake the Canadian Football

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