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Weekend Sports Preview–March 23-24–Women’s World Curling Championship, March Madness & NHL

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

After a respectable week, Team Canada finished the round robin in the Women’s World Curling Championship with a respectable 8-3 record. However, the three teams they lost to in the round robin (the United States, Scotland and Sweden) will be the three teams they will need to beat to win their first Women’s World Curling Championship since 2008.

Ontario’s Rachel Homan’s first test will be the United States (Saturday, 6:00 a.m.). If they win that game, they will have to play Scotland in the semi-final (Saturday, 11:00 a.m.) and then Sweden in the final (Sunday, 6:00 a.m.).

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Posted in Amateur Sports, Curling, NHL, University Sports |

Weekend Sport Preview–November 24 & 25–Grey Cup, NFL, NBA, NCAA & Skiing

Saturday, November 24th, 2012

Grey Cup (Roland Tanglao, Wikimedia Commons)

In one of the biggest sporting events of the year, the 100th Grey Cup takes place Sunday in Toronto. The 12-6 Calgary Stampeders face the 9-9 Toronto Argonauts.

The game will have the two finalists for the 2012 Canadian Football League’s most outstanding player award. On Thursday we learned that Argonauts’ wide receiver Chad Owens, who set a CFL record for most all-purpose yards in one season, had more votes than Calgary Stampeder running back Jon Cornish.

This is the third time the Stampeders are facing the Argonauts for the Grey Cup, and 2012 is drastically different compared to 1971 and 1991 when the Argonauts entered the game as the heavy favourite and entered the game as a team the rest of the Canadian Football League were adamantly not pulling for. That tendency isn’t here this time around, and if you go by one Calgary player’s undisciplined actions prior to the Western Final, many football fans nationwide are tempted to cheer for Ricky Ray, Jim Barker and the Argonauts.

The Grey Cup will take place Sunday at 4pm on TSN.

Here are the other events I’ll be watching this weekend:

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Tags: aksel lund svindal, Calgary Stampeders, chad owens, chicago bulls, denver broncos, Derrick Rose, didier cuche, erik guay, everett golson, jim barker, jon cornish, kansas city chiefs, klaus kroell, luol deng, max franz, miami dolphins, michigan wolverines, milwaukee bucks, notre dame fighting irish, ohio state buckeyes, Ricky Ray, russell wilson, seattle seahawks, theo riddick, toronto argonauts, university of southern california
Posted in Amateur Sports, CFL, NBA, NFL, University Sports |

Kerrzy’s Notebook: Around the Rinks

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Grand Theft Composite

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, Anaheim Ducks forward Bobby Ryan scored one of the strangest goals of the year on Sunday night in a 6-2 win over the Minnesota Wild.

In the final minutes of the second period with the Ducks leading 4-2, Wild captain Mikko Koivu loses his stick in the corner, skates past Ryan, rips the stick out of his hand and then starts playing with it! Since the refs didn’t see what had happened, play continued and about 20 seconds later Ryan decides to pick Koivu’s stick up off the ice – before realizing it’s the wrong hand… (more…)

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