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Wimbledon: Vancouver’s Filip Peliwo into the quarterfinals
Filip Peliwo continues to rock this season’s tennis majors. The 18-year-old Vancouverite, who’s reached a career-high fourth in the world in the junior rankings, beat Italy’s Pietro Licciardi 6-2, 6-2...
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Milos Raonic victorious in French Open first-round
Canada’s Milos Raonic won his first-round match at the French Open, defeating Xavier Malisse of Belgium on Sunday. The 14th-seeded Raonic, 22, took just under two hours to finish Malisse, 32, winning...
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The 10 O’Clock: Will Torts’ inspirational messages reach willing ears in the...
I had a most interesting weekend. But in the interest of getting the 10 O’Clock published as close as possible to 10 o’clock, let’s just cut to the chase and share some of the more interesting stories...
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The 10 O’Clock: Why, Genie, why? Of all the guys you could have named! Plus …...
There are so many interesting stories this morning that there’s no need for any introduction. So, on with the 10 O’Clock. YOU COULD HAVE SAID “DRAKE!” OR “MICHAEL CERA!” OR “RYAN GOSLING!” WHY, GENIE,...
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The 10 O’Clock: Can over-the-hill Roger Federer become the world’s best...
Now before you go pointing a finger at me, and telling me it’s all my fault, can I please just tell you how much I hate computers? Look, here’s my habit. I come into the office in the morning and sit...
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The 2 O’Clock: Weise, quite simply, a monster. Might not have worked for the...
Eugenie Bouchard won her second-round match Wednesday morning at the French Open, beating Belgium’s Julia Goerges in three sets. Court 7, where the match took place, is a lovely mini-stadium, with a...
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Weekend Warmup: Watch French Open, NBA playoffs, Whitecaps, Mariners and...
On the way into the office this morning, I heard them talking about life expectancy on The Peak (102.7 FM on your dial — does anyone have a dial any more?). The female host, Sonia, was quite delighted...
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The 2 O’Clock: Why did Dwyane Wade have to spell his name that way? Pretty...
If you’re a journalist, there are certain things you should probably be able to do fairly well. Like, interview. Have a conversation. Keep your ears open for interesting stories and be able to ask...
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Weekend Warmup: Come on, CFL and TSN, create a Football Day in Canada!
Hockey Day in Canada has, well, become part of the Canadian fabric. It’s not flawless. It’s a bit exhausting. But there’s no doubt about what it is: an all-day celebration of Canadians’ most commonly...
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Getting exercised about Lulay’s shoulder
Travis Lulay normally answers the questions but appeared from a distance as if he had a few of his own during a pre-walkthrough session in Montreal Thursday (File) Maybe the best way to describe the...
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Editorial: Being a fan is nuts but fun nonetheless
Being a sports fan is almost entirely irrational. To feel better or worse, depending on how your team or an individual player you support is doing, is pretty weird, when you think about it. Taken to...
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Weekend Warmup: Genie, World Cup quarterfinals … and everything else
It’s hard to believe that it was just three-and-a-half years ago that a 20-year-old named Milos Raonic appeared virtually out of nowhere and got to the fourth round of the Australian Open. For Canadian...
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Weekend Warmup: Can B.C. Lions shake off last week’s disaster? Plus a little...
Uh, are we ready for some football? Sort of. Sort of not. Yes, I know it’s been six months since the Seattle Seahawks won their first Super Bowl. (Side note: Considering the insane anticipation...
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12 Bells: Canadian tennis keeps our head spinning. And where Genie, Milos and...
If you’re a Canadian tennis fan, the 2014 season has been spent trying hard not to keep your head from spinning. We’ve had success before. The emergence of Milos Raonic at the 2012 Australian Open led...
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Weekend Warmup: Check out the Broncos, Wozniacki, Lions and Lulay,...
I learned how to surf a couple of weeks ago. Don’t get me wrong. I’m no surfer now, just because I had a three-hour lesson during a Tofino holiday. (There are many, many operations there that provide...
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Love the Stealth’s new Johnny Powless video, but could lacrosse, as a whole,...
Johnny Powless going through the paces at Stealth training camp at the Langley Events Centre. Home opener is Jan. 10. (Vancouver Stealth photo.) Colour me a fan of the Vancouver Stealth’s marketing...
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The Morning Skate, Jan. 28: Kesler baiting, Luongo, Super Bowl Shuffle and...
Well, that all-star break certainly offered up some fresh legs, huh? Not only were the Canucks dominated at home, they offered little in terms of excitement, energy or hope. On Twitter the game was...
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Letters: Martin Mars, forest fires, confederate flag, movie rudeness, Eugenie...
Air force should have several water-bomber squadrons In the early 1990s, Canadair in Montreal built the CL 415, an amphibious plane that can skim over a lake and scoop up more than 6,000 litres of...
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The Morning Skate: Caps collapse, Lions implosion, Canucks best ever,...
Well, the good news is, the Canucks didn’t trade anyone away for a 7th round pick this weekend. Oooof. Not a great couple of days for local sports fans with the Whitecaps blowing a two goal lead twice...
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The Morning Skate, Sept. 4: The trouble with Travis, San Marino footy, and...
Remember summer? Hot temperatures? Sunny skies? Toes in the beach sand? Cold drinks? Not ringing a bell? Didn’t think so (he says, sipping on a hot chocolate, shivering). Truth is, we’ll never be...
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The Morning Skate, Sept. 28: The end for Jensen, dugout dustup and a crazy...
Hunter Shinkaruk didn’t have a great preseason. Yes, he was making things happen on Friday night when the Canucks played in Calgary, but for much of the two weeks preceding that, if you happened to...
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The Morning Skate, Oct. 15: The bat flip, the goal songs, the Arizona Coyotes...
The Internet, being the Internet, was more excited Wednesday about Jose Bautista’s bat flip than it was about his game-winning home run. That said, it was a pretty great bat flip. You will never ever...
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The Afternoon Skate, Jan. 19: Prust meets former, former team; and the return...
So, this was yesterday: H. Sedin done for trip, heading back to Van. Prust out, Virtanen in vs NYR. #Canucks — Ben Kuzma (@benkuzma) January 18, 2016 And this is today: Expect WD to play motivation...
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