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A new hope

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Matt Bedard
With the convoluted details of the new collective bargaining agreement and the condensed free agency frenzy dealt with, we, as a small segment of NBA fans, can finally shift our focus to the most...
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Jets fly high in December

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Marc Lagace
December was a good month for the Winnipeg Jets. They managed to shoot up the standings in the Eastern Conference, from No. 13 on Dec. 1 to being tied for sixth spot on Dec....
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Bison briefs

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Marc Lagace
Hockey The Bison hockey teams get right back to work on Jan. 6 and 7, as they continue to pursue the post-season down the stretch. The Bison men’s team currently sits in third place in Canada...
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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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