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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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Tags: arizona wildcats, butler bulldogs, calgary flames, Edmonton Oilers, gonzaga bulldgs, harvard crimson, iowa state cyclones, junior cadougan, Kelly Olynyk, kevin pangos, laurent rivard, March Madness, marquette golden eagles, melvin ejim, michigan wolverines, nik stauskas, ohio state buckeyes, rachel homan, st. louis blues, virginia commonwealth university rams, wichita state shockers, women's world curling championship
Posted in Amateur Sports, Curling, NHL, University Sports |
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 |
Friday, November 16th, 2012
Once again this weekend I’ll be watching four kinds of football from both side of the border.
Th most interesting matchup will be the Western Final on Sunday afternoon between the Calgary Stampeders (12-6) and the British Columbia Lions (13-5) (2:30pm, TSN). This week there has been more drama in the Stampeders’ dressing room than an entire week of the Young and the Restless, and for that I give the Lions the advantage.
Travis Lulay is expected to be at the top of his game and the Lions are well rested. My only concern however is that it has been a while since they played a very meaningful game, so it will be interesting to see how they come out mentally.
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Tags: anthony calvillo, baltimore ravens, boston celtics, brett blaszko, british columbia lions, Calgary Stampeders, chad kackert, chad owens, cleveland browns, dallas cowboys, deMar deRozan, denver broncos, guillaume bourassa, houston rockets, james harden, kenyon barber, Kobe Bryant, kyle quinlan, los angeles lakers, maxime boutin, mike d'antoni, montreal alouettes, ohio state buckeyes, peyton manning, pittsburgh steelers, san diego chargers, toronto argonauts, Toronto Raptors, travis lulay, university of acadia axemen, university of calgary dinos, university of laval rouge et or, university of mcmaster mauraders, university of oregon ducks, university of stanford cardinal, urban meyer, wisconsin badgers
Posted in Amateur Sports, CFL, Home, NBA, NFL, University Sports |
Friday, March 30th, 2012
Patrick Chan (David Carmichael, Wikimedia Commons)
2011 Lionel Conacher Award winner Patrick Chan of Ottawa, Ontario is one step closer to defending his title at the World Figure Skating Championships in Nice, France.
Today, Chan put down a solid short program, and leads the Czech Republic’s Michal Brezina by 1.74 points. Due to the fact the television coverage on CBC is absolutely lousy, the event can be seen live on www.cbcsports.ca or if you have Bold. The final flight of skaters in the men’s event is at 8am and the final flight of skaters in the women’s event is at 1:30pm on Saturday with Alena Leonova of Russia in the lead. In the pairs competition today, Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov hammered the strong German pair of Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy by 8.04 points, but only hung onto the silver medal behind the Germans after a poor short program.
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Tags: agnieszka radwanska, alena leonova, anaheim ducks, andy murray, bryan cochrane, buffalo sabres, calgary flames, Edmonton Oilers, erik karlsson, final four, glenn howard, heath mccormick, jarome iginla, john calipari, kansas jayhawks, kentucky wildcats, louisville cardinals, maria sharapova, marion bartoli, maxim trankov, michal brezina, new orleans hornets, novak djokovic, ohio state buckeyes, Ottawa Senators, patrick chan, Philadelphia Flyers, phonix suns, rick pitino, ryan miller, shannon kleibrink, tatiana volosozhar, thomas dufour, toronto maple leafs, Vancouver Canucks, victoria azarenka, world figure skating championships, world men's curling championship
Posted in Amateur Sports, ATP World Tour, Curling, Home, More, NBA, NHL, Soccer, University Sports |
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin is three victories away from winning the Women’s World Curling Championship in Lethbridge.
Yesterday afternoon, Nedohin got things back on track with a 9-8 victory over the United States in the fourth place tie-breaker.
Nedohin’s team got off to a commanding 4-0 lead after the second end before hanging on for the narrow victory. They now will have to face Korea’s Ji-Sun Kim in the 3-4 game this afternoon (1pm, TSN). With a win, they will then face Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott, the two-time Olympic silver medallist in the semi-final (6pm, TSN) and then if they win that, they will have to face Sweden’s Margaretha Sigfridsson in the final (Sunday, 4:30pm).
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Tags: 2012 olympic games, 2012 women's world curling championship, anthony davis, billy donovan, brent sutter, calgary flames, colorado avalanche, columbus blue jackets, dallas stars, Edmonton Oilers, florida gators, harrison barnes, heather nedohin, jay feaster, ji-sun kim, kansas jayhawks, kris joseph, louisville cardinals, margaretha sigfridsson, michal misewicz, mirjam ott, north carolina tar heels, ohio state buckeyes, rick pitino, soccer olympic qualifier, syracuse orangemen, thomas robinson, tyler zeller, tyshawn taylor, Vancouver Canucks
Posted in Amateur Sports, Curling, NHL, Soccer, University Sports |
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Mike Vrabel (Bing Images)
One of the most intimidating defensive players over the last decade in the National Football League retired on Monday.
Linebacker Mike Vrabel of the Kansas City Chiefs retired at the age of 35. Vrabel, was the cornerstone of the New England Patriots’ defense that won three Super Bowls over the St. Louis Rams, Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles over the last decade. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Vrabel was highly thought of by Patriots’ head coach Bill Belichick in his prime, as he would play the tight end position in key situations. In 2005, he became the first player in NFL history to have two touchdown catches and a sack in the same game.
But it is where Vrabel is going that is a little bit of a surprise. He is going back to his alma mater at Ohio State as the Buckeyes’ linebacker coach.
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Tags: bill belichick, kansas city chiefs, luke fickell, mike vrabel, new england patriots, ohio state buckeyes, pittsburgh steelers
Posted in NFL |
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.
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