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Friday May 09, 2008

Columnist Stephen Brunt

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With the U.S. economy tanking, things looking up for Balsillie's dream of owning NHL team

Like a bad penny, he just keeps turning up.At least that's the way Gary Bettman must see it, though for most Canadians, billionaire businessman Jim Balsillie remains a bit of a hero, despite the best attempts by the NHL brass to paint him as some kind of reckless kook.


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With the U.S. economy tanking, things looking up for billionaire businessman's dream of owning NHL team


Sweet science is dying at amateur level in Canada

Twenty years ago at the Olympic Games in Seoul, a good-news Canadian sports story was largely lost in the Ben Johnson shuffle.Our boxing team, led by super heavyweight gold medalist Lennox Lewis, was the best in the country's history. Egerton Marcus claimed silver, Raymond Downey bronze.


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Canada will be represented by just one boxer in Beijing


Better days ahead for Habs, 20-year-old Price

It has been all about the goaltender.Since he arrived here and played so well, they couldn't send him down, since the town got a feel for his technical brilliance and his nearly mystical calm. Since they prematurely began comparing him to Ken Dryden and Patrick Roy, since the midseason crisis of confidence that left him in tears and earned him a ticket back to Hamilton.


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Habs goalie wasn't good enough to steal the Cup


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Despite falling to the Flyers in the second round, in terms of Montreal's greater gameplan, there was nothing but good news


NFL happily follows the money

Follow the money and find the truth.The Buffalo Bills expect to earn $78-million for the eight games they'll play at the Rogers Centre in Toronto over the next five years. That's about $4-million a game more than they bring in at Ralph Wilson Stadium, which holds about 20,000 more spectators.


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Canadian invasion will be a bonanza for Bills owner Ralph Wilson


Leafs, Tottenham a match maker's delight

From this perch, it is the kind of development one prays for: the parent organization of the Toronto Maple Leafs sticking its nose into the hurly-burly business of English soccer.


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