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[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 36 views]

By Connie Burton
Five local athletes at the midget level were invited to join Team Southwest for the Saskatchewan Winter Games held at Moose Jaw from Feb. 14-20, 2010, simultaneous to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games Feb. 12-28, 2010.

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[26 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 172 views]

Canada’s gold medal win and after-party over USA
VANCOUVER – If I’ve learned one thing from covering the Olympics in Vancouver it’s that a scribble pad makes an impeccable umbrella.
And on Feb. 26, a day after Canada’s women’s hockey team achieved golden status, I dodged rain drops with my note pad as I rushed with anticipation towards Team Canada’s drizzly downtown press conference.
Since a hockey roster is a large entity, only four Canadian women’s hockey players were in attendance and they included Jennifer Botterill, Jayna Hefford, Caroline Oulette and the …

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[17 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 138 views]
Up close and personal with the torch-bearing Great One

By Dorian Geiger
If TSN’s Off the Record and CTV’s political broadcast Powerplay were ever to be combined into one show and Stephen Harper named the host, it would be eerily similar to the 50th Annual Kinsmen Sports Celebrity Dinner that took place in Saskatoon on Feb. 5.

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[17 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 128 views]
Guy Murphy honoured as guest NHL celebrity

By Sheri Monk
He thought he was going to lace up to play hockey against the NHL alumni attending the April 10 Maple Creek 4-on-4 Celebrity Hockey Tournament.

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[17 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 108 views]
Vancouver

By Dorian Geiger
WHISTLER, B.C. – The Olympics are here. The seven-plus years of planning and organizing have finally culminated in a two week party for Vancouver and all of Canada. With all the negativity and protest cries surrounding the Olympics, one has to wonder what is really happening on ground zero in Vancouver and Whistler.

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[2 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 58 views]

By Sheri Monk
Lindsay Carson will be making his debut appearance at the Maple Creek 2010 4 on 4 Celebrity Tournament, but he’s looking forward to it.

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[19 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 103 views]
Someone roars “Smitty scores!” at the good ole hockey game

By Sheri Monk
Saturday Night means Hockey Night in Canada, an honoured tradition upheld for generations.

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[12 Jan 2010 | 3 Comments | 167 views]
Zack Smith answers NHL’s call to duty, gets lost en route

By Sheri Monk
The call came late at night, after the Ottawa Senator’s 5-2 loss to the Capitals in Washington Jan. 7, which saw the team’s leading goal scorer, Milan Michalek injured and out with a possible concussion.

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[12 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 49 views]

By Sheri Monk
Colin Patterson may be a Stanley Cup-winning hockey player, but when he was in college, all he really wanted was his degree.

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[12 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 46 views]

By Dorian Geiger
An exclusive interview with Canadian gold medal Olympian Joan McCusker.
Joan McCusker is possibly best known for her role as the second on the late Sandra Schmirler’s dynamic Canadian Olympic gold medal curling team of 1998 and their dominance of the Scott Tournament of Hearts in the early-mid ‘90s. McCusker has also racked up three Worlds Women’s Curling Championships.