2008 Woodie Awards
McGill moves within one point of first place with victory over Toronto
HOCKEY - REDMEN 3, TORONTO 2 While it wasn't quite Habs-Leafs Saturday night at McConnell Arena, nostalgia filled the air as the Redmen hockey team squared off against the Toronto Varsity Blues, and as the possibility of an NHL season is on its last legs, the 200th lifetime clash between these 106-year-old rivals could not possibly have come at a better time.
Hype has always been a commanding presence in the sports world. Names like Sidney Crosby are known to fans long before they make it to the pros. But lately, the spotlight cast by the sports nation has been getting increasingly bright, and is uncovering talent earlier and earlier.
Martlets' centre a star on the ice and in the classroom
Not every student at McGill is able to maintain a 3.87 GPA, make the Dean's List, and win the Tim Dunn award for leadership and academic excellence. And most varsity athletes don't end up as conference all-stars or Canadian Interuniversity Sport academic All-Canadians, not to mention on the Principal's Student-Athlete honour roll.
Athletes rely on an assortment of odd rituals
It's always been a bit of a mystery as to just what exactly makes all the best athletes in the world so good. Let's consider Wayne Gretzky, for example. What is it that made the Great One so great? The obvious answer is his God-given talent, hard work, discipline, and Canada's most famous father, who moulded him into the NHL's all-time leading scorer.
Following disappointing loss, McGill needs a win in one of its final three games to have a shot at the postseason
BASKETBALL - Laval 75, Redmen 58 Michael Soles, David Burgess, and Vicky Tessier had better make some room at the top of the McGill sports pyramid-Denburk Reid has cemented his spot among the best to ever to play at McGill. Reid, a fifth-year guard from Montreal, scored 24 points in Friday night's road victory over the Bishop's Gaiters, becoming McGill's all-time scoring leader in the process.
Is learning the story behind the story
ELISHA SIEGEL and JAMES SCARFONE discuss the merits of sports' three-ring media circus As far as I'm concerned, sports and entertainment are interchangeable in this day and age, so why shouldn't broadcasters and pundits accept that and make sports coverage as entertaining as Thursday night in Orange County? These athletes aren't robots, so why treat them that way? We know so much more about them than we did a generation ago.
HOCKEY (M) W L T OTL PTS OUA FAR EAST UQTR 12 4 3 1 28 McGILL 13 5 1 0 27 CONCORDIA 12 6 1 1 26 OTTAWA 10 6 2 1 23 OUA MID EAST TORONTO 10 9 1 0 2 RMC 7 8 0 5 19 QUEEN'S 7 13 0 0 14 RYERSON 0 20 0 0 0 HOCKEY
REDMEN HOCKEY-McGill @ Concordia, Wednesday, 8pm at Ed Meagher Arena; 7200 rue Sherbrooke O. The Redmen battle the Stingers for Montreal hockey supremacy in the Corey Cup. You can also listen to the game on the Team 990. REDMEN HOCKEY-McGill @ Queen's, Saturday, 7:30pm at Kingston's Jock Harty Arena Two-and-a-half hours isn't that long to travel to see McGill and the Golden Gaels renew the oldest rivalry in amateur sports; the Redmen also head into the week just one point out of first in the Far East, and hope to propel themselves up the standings against a weaker Queen's team.
McGill Martlets 4, Ottawa Gee-Gees 1 Sunday, February 6 @ McConnell Arena SCORING SUMMARY First Period 1. McGill: Kristin Leuszler (S. Denis, C. Hartnoll), 7:07 (PP) PENALTIES: Ottawa: D. Gosbeck (bodycheck), 5:29 Ottawa: M. Phillion (interfere), 18:38 Second Period 2.
Anthony Evans - U2 Managment - Pairs figure skater
Q: When did you decide that you wanted to be a figure skater? A: I never really made the decision. When I was six years old, my parents and I agreed that since I was not yet playing a winter sport, I would take skating lessons, so I did through the local figure skating club.
In this Super Bowl edition, we heap praise on a couple of diminutive wide receivers who came up big on Sunday, and admonish the tough-guy safeties they burned in the process. Deion Branch had himself a fine night, hauling in a record-tying 11 catches on his way to being named the game's MVP.
Martlets win streak reaches six Kristin Leuszler and Valerie Paquette each scored twice as the sixth-ranked Martlets beat up on the eight-ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees Sunday at McConnell Arena. The win moved the Martlets into sole possession of second place in the Quebec conference, two points ahead of Ottawa with just two games to go in the season.
Basketball Results Men's Division A Scrubs 49, Wheels 32 Resident Evil 44, A Team 38 Medmen 47, Balls 41 Men's Division B Shaolin Basketball 58, Cassius Clay 39 Alpha Epsilon Pi 36, Maximum Vorticity 25 Manaba 52, Basket Robbins 24
