Dez 31 2009
Canada looking for gold from Chan (AP)
AP – No skater has a more daunting challenge at the Vancouver Olympics than Patrick Chan.
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Dez 31 2009
Olympic cross-country champion retires after ban
VIENNA (AP) — Former Olympic cross-country ski champion Christian Hoffmann retired on Thursday after Austria’s national anti-doping agency provisionally suspended him for his alleged involvement in blood doping.
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Dez 31 2009
Dynamo Minsk wins Spengler Cup
DAVOS, Switzerland – And the winner of the 83rd Spengler Cup is… Dynamo Minsk. Participating for the first time, the Belarusian KHL team won the traditional event between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve with a 3-1 victory over the hosts, HC Davos. Dynamo Minsk prevailed in a tournament that features four top European club teams and a Team Canada roster consisting mostly of Canadians from the Swiss league
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Dez 31 2009
Five UBC frat houses to rent students’ rooms over Games
More than 200 students at the University of B.C. are being forced out of their rooms by their own fraternities — which have decided to cash in by renting out to 2010 Games visitors.
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Dez 31 2009
Canada women top U.S. 2-1 in hockey exhibition
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — United States coach Mark Johnson isn’t a big believer in momentum carrying from the exhibition season into the Vancouver Games.
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Dez 31 2009
Hats off to the Pats
REGINA – The Regina Pats are the world’s oldest junior hockey team, operating since 1917. This Western Hockey League franchise is also well-connected in international junior hockey. According to the Edmonton Sun, the Pats have put more players on Team Canada’s World Junior entries (20) than any other Canadian junior club. Currently, fans in the snowy provincial capital (pop. 180,000) are avidly tracking the exploits of Pats stars Jordan Eberle and Colten Teubert in Saskatoon. After winning gold at the 2009 tournament in Ottawa, the two 19-year-olds are back to bolster Canada’s bid for a sixth straight title.
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Dez 31 2009
Rosters for Olympic Hockey Tournament Take Shape
A number of N.H.L. stars will be on the rosters for the top medal contending teams in Vancouver.
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Dez 31 2009
Wrestling’s ‘Dr. Death’ Steve Williams dies at 49
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former coach says Steve Williams, who wrestled professionally as “Dr. Death” after a successful college wrestling and football career, has died. He was 49.
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Dez 31 2009
Fiji rugby reinstates war dance in pre-game ritual
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fiji will perform the cibi, or war dance, before all future rugby internationals after briefly discarding the pre-match ritual on religious grounds.
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Dez 31 2009
Canadian forwards will play uptempo game at Olympics
It isn’t every Canadian roster that has a superstar on every line.
