From: MediaScrape on Fri, Oct 16 2009 11:33 AM

A controversial exhibit has opened in Vancouver, depicting the Canadian team at one of the most controversial Olympics ever — the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, staged by the German Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.

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The exhibit of photographs, documents and artifacts, which opened Thursday a...

From: MediaScrape on Sun, Aug 16 2009 11:57 PM

Usain Bolt yucked it up for the television cameras and then turned on his game face, shattering his own world record in the men’s 100 metres in a time of 9.58 seconds at the world track and field championships in Berlin on Sunday.

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Running full-out in ideal conditions and against the t...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Aug 14 2009 12:19 PM

Police in southern Ontario have launched an investigation after about 60 young hockey players said they paid thousands to attend a European tournament that never took place.

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The players, who are mostly from southern Ontario and in their late teens, paid roughly $3,000 each to travel t...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Jul 31 2009 1:17 AM

Brazilian police have concluded that former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti committed suicide and ordered that his wife be released.

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Lead investigator Paulo Alberes told The Associated Press that Gatti, 37, killed himself on July 11 in a seaside resort in northeastern Brazil. He of...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Jul 27 2009 2:32 AM

Charles Starmer-Smith enters the Round the Island Race on board the world’s fastest luxury yacht.

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Jul 21 2009 10:09 AM

Hundreds of Arturo Gatti’s fans cheered his name as the late boxer's casket was carried out of a church in Montreal's Little Italy on Monday.

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Friends and family paid their respects as questions continue to be raised as to how the former world champion boxer died.

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A...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Jun 22 2009 8:54 AM

The Montreal Canadiens are returning to familiar hands.

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George Gillett has reached an agreement in principle to sell the storied hockey franchise and the Bell Centre to the Molson family, the National Hockey League team announced Saturday.

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The NHL board of governors is to m...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, May 29 2009 10:05 AM

A teenage rugby player who slammed an Ontario high school opponent to the ground during a match two years ago was convicted on Thursday of manslaughter.

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In handing down his ruling in a Brampton, Ont., courtroom, Justice Bruce Duncan said the laws of Canada apply equally, on and off th...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, May 18 2009 9:45 AM

A new study suggests marathon runners may be able to breathe a little easier about the gruelling sport’s effect on their hearts.

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Research at Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital and the University of Manitoba shows that long-distance runs can cause short-term injury to the heart, but...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Apr 30 2009 1:46 PM

This week the two Jonnies have the mother of rows as they discuss their choices for the Premier League team of the season.

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Apr 14 2009 5:46 PM

Formula One’s international court of appeal met on Tuesday (April 14) to decide the legality of the Brawn GP car that took Jenson Button to victory in the first two races of the season. Champions Ferrari, Red Bull, Renault and BMW-Sauber have appealed against stewards' decision...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Mar 30 2009 6:38 PM

It was business as usual for the top ranked men with Roger Federer, Andy Roddick and Novak Djokovic all cruising with wins Sunday (March 29) at the Sony Ericsson Open.. American Roddick survived a gruelling first set tiebreak against Russian Dmitry Tursunov, which he won 11-9, befo...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Mar 27 2009 12:54 PM

Five-times champion Tiger Woods embarked on a sizzling run of four consecutive birdies after the turn to storm into contention at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando on Thursday (March 29) . Playing only his third event of the year after being sidelined by knee injury for eigh...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Mar 12 2009 1:47 PM

Frenchman Sébastien Loeb will be aiming to enter the history books by becoming the first individual to win 50 rounds of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), when he lines up alongside 34 other drivers at the start of the FX Pro Cyprus Rally on Friday morning. The Mediterranean is...

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Mar 03 2009 1:36 PM

Honda Motor is reportedly close to a sale of its Formula One team, just weeks before the start of the racing season. The Yomiuri newspaper said Japan’s No.2 automaker is close to a deal in which driver Jenson Button and team principal Ross Brawn would stay in place. The size of the sal...

From: MediaScrape on Wed, Feb 18 2009 1:23 PM

Alex Rodriguez initially believed using performance-enhancing drugs would give him an energy boost, the scandal-scarred New York Yankees slugger said on Tuesday (February 17). Rodriguez told a packed news conference at the Yankees training facility that he and his cousin began taking...

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Feb 17 2009 4:09 PM

The final round of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am has been postponed until Monday after no play was possible on Sunday (February 15) because of strong winds and heavy rain. Weather permitting, the 68-man field will tee off from 0730 local (1530 GMT), split into threesomes off bot...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Feb 12 2009 10:11 AM

On the day to mark the one-year countdown to the 2010 Winter Olympics, organizers said the sporting event will represent not only an inspiration for all but also a much-needed stimulus package for the host.

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John Furlong, president of the Vancouver Olympics organizing committee, known ...

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Feb 10 2009 11:44 AM

New York Yankees star third baseman Alex Rodriguez came clean Monday, admitting he used performance-enhancing drugs between 2001 and 2003.

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During an interview with U.S. cable sports station ESPN, he responded to Sports Illustrated’s report that he tested positive for steroids in 2003...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Feb 09 2009 12:30 PM

Alinghi notched a fourth win from four starts in the second round robin phase of the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series at the expense of Italy’s Luna Rossa on Monday (February 9). After the start of day ten was again delayed by lack of wind, Luna Rossa skipper Peter Holmberg steered the ...