Search

Focuses on Montreal Canadiens hockey team fans' wearing of paper bags during the team's games to show their views regarding the team's poor performance. Win-loss record by the Canadiens; Background on the antics by the fans; Prospects for the team.

The article discusses the Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football's qualifying competition in which Canada is predicted to enter the World Cup for the first time in 36 years after defeating the U.S. in January 2022. Canada has won the bid to co-host the FIFA World Cup in 2026 with the U.S. and Mexico.

The article discusses the life and career of retired Canadian-born National Hockey League (NHL) star Theo Fleury, and it mentions how Fleury transitioned from a Stanley Cup championship-winning hockey player into country music singer. Fleury's music release "I Am Who I Am" is addressed, along with his battles with alcohol and cocaine abuse over the years. Fleury's autobiography "Playing With Fire" is examined, along with his path to a sober recovery and his efforts to help other people.

The article provides information about Canadian hockey player Sidney Crosby. Crosby won a gold medal with the Canadian Olympic hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Biographical information about him is provided, such as playing hockey when he was a boy, his relationship with his parents, and his competitiveness.

This article discusses the efforts of the hockey Stanley Cup champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning. Posters and T-shirts proclaiming STANLEY NEEDS A TAN were everywhere in Tampa during the playoffs, but until Martin St. Louis's goal 33 seconds into the second overtime of Game 6 last Saturday, it seemed the hometown Lightning would be the ones who emerged from the Stanley Cup finals looking red-faced. After being outworked and outplayed in four of the first five games--and falling behind the Calgary Flames three games to two--Tampa Bay engineered a stunning comeback, putting together its first back-to-back victories in more than a month and winning its first championship with a 2-1 triumph in Game 7 on Monday night. With Calgary pressing frantically after center Craig Conroy's goal midway through the third, Lightning goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin made a series of Cup-worthy stops, ensuring Fedotenko of his third game-winning goal of the playoffs, second to Richards's NHL-record seven. If the upstart Flames had no business being in the Cup finals--the league's 12th playoff seed, they were the first team to get there by beating three division winners--Tampa Bay often looked as if it had no business winning them, especially after Game 5. While Canadians rallied around their Flames--Game 6, which drew 4.7 million viewers, was the most watched hockey broadcast on CBC in 10 years--the series fell flatter than "Gigli" in the U.S. Games 3 through 5 on ABC drew an average rating of less than 2.1, the lowest for a Cup finals on network TV.

This article focuses on the lives of Francois and Benoit Allaire and their influence on modern goal-tending in hockey. About 10% of the 700 or so players in the NHL last season were Quebecois, but almost 40% of the No. 1 goalies in 2002-03 were born or trained in Quebec (11 of 30). All told, 18 netminders with Quebec roots played in at least eight games last season, including a Caron (Sebastien), a Garon (Mathieu), a Biron (Martin) and an icon (recently retired Patrick Roy). Quebec has also produced the two most influential coaches of hockey's most influential position, Francois and Benoit Allaire, brothers who share a commitment if no longer a vision. Francois, 48, who worked with Roy in Montreal and is now the goalie consultant of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, and Benoit, 41, the Phoenix Coyotes' goalie coach, turned boyhood dreams into big-time saves, redefining what now is informally known as the Quebec Position. In a French-speaking province that prides itself on distinctiveness, the position changed from thankless to cool as children rushed to don the tools of influence. INSET: Bienvenue, Monsieur Fleury!.

The storm has passed, leaving Hudson Bay--at least that portion surrounding the little town of Rankin Inlet--as flat and gray as milled slate. If he sticks with the big club after training camp, Jordin Tootoo, already the most famous citizen in Rankin Inlet will become the first Inuk and first resident of Nunavut to play in the National Hockey League (NHL). Eighty-five percent of those residents are Inuit--Eskimos to Barney's generation--people who have traditionally lived off the land by fishing for cod and arctic char, and hunting caribou, seals, whales, geese, ducks and even polar bears. Since the mid-1980s Rankin Inlet has had a covered outdoor hockey arena that seats 1,500, but there is no refrigeration system to keep the ice frozen.

Discusses the success of the Canadian men's hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. How the team handpicked by Wayne Gretzky won the gold medal, after defeating the United States in the championship game; High television rating for the game on NBC in the U.S.; Thoughts of the players involved in the game.

The article discusses how coach George Allen plans to bring back credibility to the Montreal Alouettes and clean up the financial mess that made the team and its owner Nelson Skalbania the biggest one-season money loser in the history of Canadian Football League. It cites paying the team's debt as Allen's primary concern as he trimmed down the front-office salaries and gave up its high-priced American imports. It narrates his stint with the National Football League where he was accused of ruining the Redskins' franchise despite his doubling its worth.

Reports on the victory of Canadian track athlete Donovan Bailey at the world track and field championships in Goteborg, Sweden. Competitors; Background on bailey; Bailey's recollection of his victorious performance at the track; Other developments during the championships.

The article discusses the hockey game between Canada's All-Star hockey players and the Russian team in September 1972. It states that the teams played in 8 games, half in Vancouver, British Columbia, and half at the Luzhiniki Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia. The Canadian team also played against Sweden. It is noted that though the Canadians won the series overall, their victory was not overwhelming, and the skill of various members of the Russian team impressed them.

This section offers sports news briefs in the U.S. as of July 1972. The National Hockey League (NHL) made stipulations before Bobby Hull can play in the World Hockey Association for Team Canada. The Clearwater Chamber of Commerce in Florida yearly sponsors a trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to support the Philadelphia Phillies because the Phillies hold their spring training in Clearwater. Victor Ruiz continued to play golf at the Rocky Point course in Tampa, Florida despite chest pains and was later rushed to a hospital.

The article covers issues related to sports as of September 27, 1965. A conference on the management of polar-bear hunting was attended by the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Norway and the Soviet Union. Peter Koller Nielsen, an exchange student from Denmark, played football for Louisville High School in Ohio in a game against Canton Glenwood. A girl was reprimanded by her brother for taking pictures of an Andorran hitting a horse with a cane.

The author offers opinions on various sports issues. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) convention held in Chicago, Illinois focused on a revision to the rules concerning financial arrangements with athletes' pay for playing football. Hockey coach Ralph Weiland has found a way to stop the entry of Canadian-trained hockey players into the U.S. college teams by changing playing rules. The Churchill Downs race track in Louisville, Kentucky is undergoing architectural renovation without destroying its integrity.

The article reports on bear and other wild animal sightings and attacks in the U.S. and Canada in 1963. Bear sightings have been reported in the towns of West Nyack and Spring Valley in New York, in Burke, Idaho, and in the Swan Hills of Alberta. The article highlights the poor record of humans in such emergencies as bear attacks due to their skepticism that such things happen. According to the author, misplaced animal behavior is attributed to the confusion of animals on how to act around people.

The article discusses Canada's victory over Russia in the 1958 world amateur hockey championships in Oslo, Norway. Canada had previously lost in the 1954 world finals and in the 1956 Winter Olympics. The author reports that the Canadians used physical play not allowed by the International Federation to harass the Russians at the cost of many penalties. Led by Connie Broden and Bobby Attersley, Canada eventually overcame the Russians, 4-2.

The article features football quarterback Chuck Ealey, who helped the Hamilton Tiger-Cats win the 1972 Grey Cup by beating the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. The other players of the Tiger-Cats include Angelo Mosca and Garney Henley. The Hamilton team is coached by Jerry Williams. It examines the reasons why Ealey was not drafted in the National Football League (NFL), prompting him to go to Canada and signed up by the Tiger-Cats.

The article reports on the victory of the Canadian hockey team Penticton V over the Soviet team in the 21st World Amateur Ice Hockey Championships at Westfalenhalle arena in Dortmund, Germany. The Canadian, which represents Penticton, British Columbia, is coached by Grant Warwick who had played with the New York Rangers and the 1941-1942 rookie-of-the-year of the National Hockey League (NHL). The rules followed in the game is crafted by the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace.

Focuses on the Vancouver Grizzlies basketball team, ranked number 11 in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1999 by `Sports Illustrated' magazine. History of team difficulties in the 1998 season, including the injuries of player Bryant Reeves; Details of the off-season training of Reeves and his anticipated role on the team in the 1999 season; Possible future relocation of the team with its purchase by businessman Bill Laurie and his wife Nancy, heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune; Comments from players; Outlook.

This section offers news briefs on sports events as of October 1972. Several players of Team Canada have walked out of the team, including Vic Hadfield, Rick Martin and Jocelyn Guevremont, complaining that they are not allowed to play enough games. Adolph Rupp, retired coach of the University of Kentucky, became president of the Memphis Tarns in the American Basketball Association (ABA). The University of Houston has a tradition of shaving the heads of all of its freshmen football players.

The article highlights the first North American Rowing Championships held in Canada in 1967. It reports on the top favorites to win the championships, which include the Harvard and German Ratzeburg rowing club and the Australian-New Zealand team called Anzacs. Canadian officials had expected as many as 25 nations to participate in the event, but rowing crews from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay decided to back out from the race without a word to the regatta committee.

The article focuses on Montreal, Quebec, which is considered the biggest French-speaking city outside Paris. The place is an inland seaport 1,000 miles from the sea and is a part of a group of islands straddling the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers. Montreal's population is 1.5 million with its English-speaking population of about 250,000 living at the west end of the city. The city will host the Expo '67, a world exposition involving pavilions and exhibits of 70 countries, at Saint Helen's in April.

This article focuses on quarterback Ben Olson and discusses the religious mission he undertook for the Mormon church in Canada. After 22 months of knocking on doors in Canada, Ben Olson now has everyone knocking on his. The last time Olson was this hotly pursued--by colleges, not canines--he was a senior at Thousand Oaks (Calif.) High, where he was named the best high school prospect of 2001 by SuperPrep magazine. Olson didn't realize when he left BYU that the mission would make him a sort of intercollegiate free agent. During his mission, Olson didn't have much time to toss a football. By 10, Olson, in black suit and white shirt, would start his rounds, knocking on doors, talking to people on the streets, instructing whoever would listen about his church.

Presents humorous thoughts on several sports-related news briefs, as of July 2003. Victory of Serena Williams over her sister Venus at the Wimbledon tennis tournament; Selection of Vancouver, British Columbia as host of the 2010 Winter Olympics; Changes made to the Major League Baseball All-Star game; Thoughts on the so-called slump of golfer Tiger Woods; Efforts of goalkeeper Dominik Hasek to return from retirement to rejoin the Detroit Red Wings; Others.

Presents several news briefs related to sports, as of July 2003. How Gregory M. Jones was fired as sports editor of the 'Roswell Daily Record' for plagiarizing the motion picture 'Caddyshack' in a column; Reasons why the 2010 Winter Olympics were awarded to Vancouver, British Columbia; Arrest of Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant for allegedly sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in Vail, Colorado; Death of former Time Inc. chief executive Andrew Heiskell; Others.

Offers the author's thoughts on the city of Ottawa, Ontario, the final major league city in North American he had never visited. There is not a surplus of nightlife in Ottawa, whose name derives from the Algonquin otta ("open") and wa ("till 6 p.m."). Or so I'd heard. But it has a reputation--even by Canadian standards--as subdued. Last spring the mayor of Torontoused the common description of Ottawa as "the Town That Fun Forgot," a clear instance of the pot calling the kettle beige.More insulting still, the New Jersey Devils declined to stay in Ottawa between Games 1 and 2 of their Stanley Cup semifinal series against the Senators last week, flying home to spend 48 hours in the relative Babylon of East Rutherford. In spite of this--or rather because of it--I have long indulged a strange fascination with Ottawa, rekindled by each new Senators highlight on "SportsCenter."

Presents sports-related news briefs as of May 27, 2002. Lawsuit involving former tennis player Lisa Bonder, Kirk Kerkorian, and producer Steve Bing; Disappointment of some Montreal, Quebec, residents that Olympic Stadium was not blown up during filming of the motion picture 'The Sum of All Fears'; Marriage between Washington Redskins cornerback Champ Bailey and Hanady Aboneaaj.

The article discusses the results of the World Three-Day Event held at Lexington, Kentucky in 1978. In the individual event, equestrian Bruce Davidson of the U.S. won his second consecutive Individual World Championship with his 7-year-old horse Might Tango, which was a last-minute replacement for Irish Cap. In the team event, the Canadian team led by coach B. K. Ishoy took the gold medal with the U.S. team finishing third.

The article focuses on the case of the stolen mare named Fanfreluche owned by Jean-Louis Levesque from a paddock at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky on June 25, 1977. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has suspected Vietnam veteran William Michael McCandless of stealing the mare. The horse is known for winning the Horse of the Year award in Canada in 1970 as well as 11 races and producing four foals which became race winners. Also noted is the death of three mares at Claiborne in 1977 due to lightning.

This section offers sports news briefs. Team Canada was defeated by Russia 11-1 in the World Hockey Championship in Vienna, Austria in what observers think is due to the team's resorting to high sticking and other forms of thuggery. Computers of shoe company Converse Co. has predicted that Lou Brock of the Cardinals will steal his 893rd base on July 21, 1977. Nineteen year old Joe Buenrostro is one of 32 amateurs chosen to win an all-expense paid trip and to play for the 1977 Bowling Spectacular in San Antonio, Texas.

The article focuses on the criticisms raised by Canadian swimming expert Howard Firby against the freestyle swimming technique developed by Australian swimming coach Forbes Carlile. The Australian coach has emphasized that freestyle is not a stroke by a swimming category in why any stroke is allowed. It cites the implications of the increased number of freestyle titles won by the Australian team over the Canadians in the 1975 Commonwealth Games.