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Bison Briefs: Awards and recruits

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Marc Lagace
Bison Sports have announced Rachel Cockrell and Blair Macaulay as the 2012-13 Bison Sports Athletes of the Year. After struggling with injuries through last year, Cockrell bounced back with an impressive sophomore season in which...
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Esther Vergeer amazing win streak ends via retirement

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Adam Peleshaty
The year 2013 has been the year of “the streak.” The Chicago Blackhawks went 24 games without losing in regulation time to start the season, the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League had an...
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Student-athletes and social media: How concerned should universities be with what...

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Marc Lagace
Social media and the sports world have endured a somewhat rocky co-existence, ever since phrases like “tweets” and “status updates” became socially accepted parts of modern speech. The rise in popularity of social media outlets...
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Big changes coming to Brier format

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Adam Peleshaty
The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) confirmed on Mar. 10 that the winner of the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier will receive an automatic berth into the 2015 event as Team Canada, just like the Scotties...
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U of M Climbing Club pushes it to the limit!

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Marc Lagace
If you’re looking to push your workouts to new heights, you should head down to the Frank Kennedy Centre climbing wall and check out the University of Manitoba Climbing Club. Despite having just wrapped their...
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Former Bison goalie Jesse Deckert goes pro in Florida

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Derek Gagnon
As the Bison men’s hockey season was winding down in late January, the Manitoban got in touch with goalie Jesse Deckert for an interview. Deckert was asked if he had considered turning pro when...
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The 2013 Manitoban Hockey Pool brought to you by Source for...

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Marc Lagace
We’re more than halfway through the NHL season (and into the last month of the hockey pool) and things are certainly heating up in both the league and pool standings. I was interested in seeing...

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