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    Gill, Coombs set to take on top NCAA recruits

    The Canada West football season wrapped up months ago, but two freshman standouts from the U of M Bison football team have earned the opportunity to strap on their pads alongside the best football athletes under the age of 19 from around the world. Bison’s running back Anthony Coombs and defensive end Evan Gill are [...]

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    Bison player profile

    Yigit Ozsayiner, nicknamed “Yogi,” had never dreamt of visiting — or even heard of — Winnipeg, M.B before journeying from Istanbul, Turkey to the University of Manitoba to play men’s basketball. Ozsayiner is entering the winter semester as a University One student. The Manitoban had an opportunity to talk with Ozsayiner to ask him about [...]

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    Faith and football

    Earlier this week, we sat down with Leisha Strachan, assistant professor of sports psychology at the University of Manitoba, to hear her views on the value of religion in Tim Tebow’s football performance. Strachan is very upfront about the Tebow phenomenon: “It isn’t anything really new that’s happened in sports. It’s happened throughout history and [...]

  • With glowing Hearts

    The 2012 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the women’s provincial curling championships, begins Jan. 25 at the Portage Credit Union Centre in Portage la Prairie. Sixteen teams will be competing for the chance to represent Manitoba at the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer next month. Curling fans will be paying closer attention [...]

  • The quarterback exchange

    A mere two months after the BC Lions hoisted the Grey Cup, the rest of the league managed to make headlines with a few off kilter trades that have already shaped the 2012 CFL landscape. On Dec. 12th the Edmonton Eskimos traded longtime starter Ricky Ray to the Toronto Argonauts for quarterback Steven Jyles, plus a [...]

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    Deep blue-line

    Okay Winnipeg fans, reality check: we’re overreacting. Bad things happen in hockey land. The specific things happening to the Jets are hardly of the sort we should be concerned with. A month of poor performance cannot come as a surprise to anyone monitoring the injury lists. None of the injuries appear to be career threatening. [...]

  • Ten great things

    A good veggie burger is crucial to the survival of any non-meat-eater. It can also be a delicious alternative to the repetitive “I would like a burger n’ fries please” for those of us who usually prefer beef. There are killer vegetarian burgers all across Winnipeg, for almost every suppertime scenario. By no means exhaustive, the [...]

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    listening in

    The latest from the critically lauded Gorillaz — a collection of singles spanning the group’s career, dating from 2001 to 2011 — provides a set of self-confident songs from the band’s rich catalogue. After the breakup of the successful Brit-pop band Blur (most notable for their hit “Song 2”), lead singer Damon Albarn, with the [...]

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    Puppets gone blue

    From Feb. 2 – 5, Winnipeggers will have the chance to meet the cuddly cast of Avenue Q when the much-anticipated smash hit Broadway musical comes to the Gas Station Arts Centre here in Peg City. For those of us who’ve grown up watching shows like Sesame Street, Avenue Q is surely to strike a [...]

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    Steven Soderbergh’s retirement from film

    Steven Soderbergh is on a roll. His epidemic-thriller film Contagion was released a few months ago to both critical and commercial success and Haywire was released Jan. 20. Judging from the preliminary reviews, he might have another hit on his hands. And yet, Soderbergh seems content to walk away from it all. Soderbergh recently announced [...]

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