Sports
Paralympics receive less fanfare
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Following the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver hosted the tenth edition of the Paralympic Winter Games. From March 12-21, approximately 600 athletes from 44 countries stormed Vancouver and Whistler to compete in five sports: alpine...
Let’s go back to basics
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The act of eating has become something more than nourishing our body; it is a bad habit which promotes excessive intake of food. In 1998, the World Health Organization classified obesity as a...
Riding with pride
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The Olympics have come and gone. And now the Paralympics are over as well. Amid all of the controversy, calamity and triumph, there is a legacy from the 2010 winter games that is just...
Hips don’t lie
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Belly dancing classes can be found nearly everywhere these days, at almost every recreation centre or dance studio in cities across North America. Even my hometown of Russell Man., at a population of 1,500...
Bison briefs
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Football
Last week the Bisons announced two new additions to the football club as high school prospects Evan Gill and Thomas Miles have committed to play in the upcoming 2010 season. Both players were part...
Will these shoes ever get old?
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I recently met a kid wearing Reebok Pumps. Nostalgic images of Michael Jordan in his prime flashed in my mind as I recalled the days when the Pumps were the most cutting-edge basketball shoes...
Formula One: The soap opera of sports
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Every second Sunday morning between March and October I get up at the crack of 5 a.m., turn on the coffee maker, and watch cars go around in a circle for 90 minutes, while...
