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A hero’s welcome

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Marc Lagace
For most NHL regular season games, hockey fans are solely focused on cheering their team on to a win, securing the two points in the standings and calculating how the game affects their team’s...
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A Christmas Day buzzer beater

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Matt Bedard
The “nuclear winter of basketball” has been averted. The owners and the players’ association ratified a new collective bargaining agreement in early December with the 2011-12 NBA season officially tipping-off on Christmas day. With...
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Five-minute major

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Adam Peleshaty
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the release of probably the greatest hockey movie of all-time, Slap Shot. For the uninitiated, the film stars Paul Newman as the captain/coach of the Charlestown Chiefs,...
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Handling life’s hurdles

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David Krause
John Akii-Bua likely never intended to become a hurdle runner. Born in 1949, he arrived in Kampala, Uganda to join the police force at age 16. Uganda was still under British colonial rule at...
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Winning in a winter wonderland

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Marc Lagace
At this point in the season I’m not going to predict that the Winnipeg Jets will make the playoffs. But with the way this team has been playing — putting in solid efforts more often...
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Playing political games

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David Krause
A few weeks ago I sat down for an interview with Russell Field, a professor in the University of Manitoba’s kinesiology department, to talk about an academic paper he had been writing on the...
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Rivalry renewed

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Marc Lagace
The cross town athletic rivalry between the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg was renewed Dec. 1, as the basketball portion of the 2011 Duckworth Challenge took place at the Investors Group...

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