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Okay.  Get past the first thought many of you will have that I have finally and completely gone around the bend.  Look past the fact that it would take a perfect storm of incidents and events and be built on the shoulders of a friendship that exists between multi-million dollar athletes.  But once you start […]

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It may have been born more from arrogance but Canada’s Own the Podium mantra showed the country the confidence the Olympic Committee had in its amateur athletes.  Every home country strives to Own the Podium at its home Olympic games and after the disastrous results from its previous home showing—no gold and a paltry five […]

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The world press seems to be taking great joy in condemning the Vancouver Organizing Committee (and the Canadian Olympic Committee) for creating an atmosphere designed to increase its financial return while at the same instance formulating a system aimed at producing the best possible results for the home country.
I agree…
 
So?
Imagine such crude behaviour exhibited by […]

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There is a great deal of excitement brewing in Toronto as the local basketball team takes aim at the NBA elite.   This is a deep and talented group that has found its rhythm with each other and plays each game with the aggressiveness and the confidence needed to be a winning professional team.  The Raptors […]

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After having been described as a man who can turn gold into dust in this column earlier in the season the shock must have cut too deep for Brian Burke when, last week, his team was lumped in with Toronto’s other legion of professional sports team losers.  How else to explain the flurry of moves […]

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Let me begin, Brett, by stating that I have all the respect in the world for you as an athlete and a quarterback.  You are doubtlessly and unequivocally one of the better players to ever step foot onto an NFL field, and you will forever be part of any conversation about the great quarterbacks in […]

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Let me say right up front that I think Gilbert Arenas is as stupid as they come.  Arenas is obviously wholly involved in his own world and has little notion that there is actually a larger one going on that doesn’t include him.  How else to explain not only the stupidity of bringing his guns […]

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At some time in the past year Mark McGwire decided it was time to end his hibernation and publicly admit his steroid usage.  Accepting the position as Cardinal hitting coach gave him the impetus and the reason to come forward but he needed to meet with lawyers and friends and representatives, anybody who had an […]

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I am so tired of hearing the Leaf coach bray on about something that is wrong with his supposedly perfect life.  Get off your arrogant couch and go out and meet the real world.  I really hate it when athletes and entertainers moan about constantly being in the public eye and bemoaning the fact that […]

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There are all types of end of year lists and best ofs when the calendar flips.  This is not necessarily a list—these are the sports stories of 2009 I believe to have been, in no particular order, the most prominent of the year.   The top nine in ’09.
…This was definitely a year where superstar athletes […]

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