Joe Callaghan
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Roving sportswriter | Journalism instructor @UL | Now: Ottawa/Toronto. Then: Sligo/Dublin/Melbourne/Rio/Glasgow | Lover of Sligo Rovers + dogs.
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Suicide found the PGA Tour this week but it wasn’t its first time finding Shane Lowry. He’s lost three Clara schoolmates to it. Lowry stopped and reflected on “the lowest place in the world” and plenty more, in typically raw fashion. For
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Croatia's Andrej Kramaric here at his man of the match press conference: "I want to thank the Canada coach for the motivation. In the end, Croatia demonstrated who F’d whom."
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This answer from Lowry on Grayson Murray was 400ish words long but felt important to run in its entirety. Felt almost like a bit of processing, as so many Irishmen Lowry’s age particularly have had to process.
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Described the Rory Best situation to newsroom colleagues here in Toronto. Jaws were on the floor.
It’s beyond a mere awful personal or group decision. It borders on sinister.
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s Euros career could come to an end tomorrow. No pre-eulogies because he’ll likely be at WC22 (whether it’s good for Portugal or not). But looking at his impact here at 36, hard not to think it says something about the international game.
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ESPN essentially putting a gag on its own reporters writing about Dana White hitting his wife is a hell of a look for journalism. The conflict of interest in the UFC-Disney deal is grotesque.
We've been told to not write anything incendiary on social media about the Dana White situation, and I understand why and have abided by that. I just ask y'all to understand that some of us at ESPN do not have as soft a take as this on domestic violence.
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On this day in 1966 Muhammad Ali’s Canadian debut became an instant classic as his war with George Chuvalo went 15 rounds. A week earlier, Ali spoke in front of Ontario’s Human Rights Code. How the background came back into the foreground, for
@TorontoStar
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Gentle reminder of just how little it costs to buy position from which you can turn a national education system into your for-profit empire.
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Full quote from Kramaric: "These are words that have motivated the whole of Croatia. I want to thank the coach of Canada for the motivation. He could have chosen better words. He could have formulated it a bit differently. In the end Croatia demonstrated who F’d whom."
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The Buffalo Bills’ 24-year wait for a home playoff game finally comes to an end tomorrow. But thousands of Bills Mafia season ticket holders in Canada are stuck on the wrong side of a closed border. A look at how they're adapting, for
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Ronaldo’s (relative) success hasn’t stood alone: Modric today; Bonucci and Chiellini stoic and steady. One third of the captains at Euro 2020 are 35+, double the Euro 2016 figure. Tournament's youngest team, Turkey, were also the first home.
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Stephanie Barrett only took up her sport — “for fun” — within weeks of the last Olympics. Now she’s going to Tokyo adamant she can bring a medal home. A Joan of Arc wannabe who’s addicted to fantasy, Barrett’s reality is a hell of a tale. For
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So, so many points being made sloppily. Especially so given how long you've had to weigh all of this up.
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In a little over a year Eli Ankou had been waived five times, released three times and traded once. Then he landed in Buffalo and something clicked. “It’s probably the funnest football has been for me…ever. I love this place.” For
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@StarSports
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Ronaldo is unsurprisingly monetizing his longevity. If you haven't seen the Theragun ad...don't worry. But the six meals (no soft drinks) and five naps (of 90mins!!) a day are clearly working.
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So…did John O’Shea send out Ireland to get steamrolled by Portugal and thus leave them undercooked for Georgia, in the process handing Willy Sagnol his grandest night which then put him beyond FAI’s reach, leaving the job to O’Shea? Or am I just Gelsenkirchened?
"Was it a total failure?" one of the first questions asked to Portugal manager Roberto Martinez in post-match presser. He fudges but then reveals the Ireland friendly was his strategic preparation for this match vs Georgia. Fair to say Sagnol's boys fared better.
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Maggie Mac Neil’s Instagram Stories were a wonder Monday night. All of the gold medal love — friends, rivals, Ryan Reynolds, her opticians. Mac Neil squinted in Tokyo and saw history. Back home, her mam shared a text with the optician. For
@TorontoStar
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This all comes at a time when the international and club game drift ever further apart. Club game is becoming no country for old men. Liverpool wouldn't commit (enough) to Wijnaldum because he hit 30. He's arguably been Euro 2020's best performer.
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A look at what Ryan Reynolds has signed up for in Wrexham. He and Rob McElhenney haven't just taken stewardship of a club but a community too.
The place seems smitten. Three wins (and a fair few bottles of gin) in just a week. Now the real work starts.
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Mac Neil sees clearest under water. At the turn, specifically. Craven says her ‘swimming IQ’ is unmatched. She's always been a water baby though. Her mother Susan first brought her to the pool at 9-months-old and had a hell of a time getting Maggie out.
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Now we wait to see if Ikea will be getting a bill from him for a cut of their new reusable drinking bottles (for water only).
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Subtle differences between Canada and Ireland: No.27983
Canada: Legalises cannabis overnight and everything is chill and bright and breezy this a.m.
Ireland: Opens 1 (one) Krispy Kreme outlet and the place turns into 28 Days Later.
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“Nothing is growing its audience on TV like F1,” sports marketing expert
@AHBSeaborn
said. F1’s Canadian audience is up 100+% this season. As baseball, hockey and other sports try desperately to retain young viewers, F1 is bringing them in in droves.
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Rapoport got her foot in the NFL door in 2003 by taping her resumé to a football with a note asking “What other quarterback could accurately deliver a ball 386 miles?” and sending it to HQ. Now
@samrap10
wants to ensure such lengths aren't needed in 2021
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In 2014, a speeding taxi driver struck Brianna Hennessy in downtown Toronto. The impact fractured her vertebrae and severed a primary artery to her brain. She "was ready to pull the plug". Sports and her 'Hennessy spirit' saved her. For
@TorontoStar
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In January the FAI told Derry that the Brandywell pitch was ‘unlikely to be fit for elite-level soccer' beyond 2023. Absolutely clear that it presents a serious danger right now (and has for some time). FAI/LOI are putting players' careers on the line by allowing it to be used.
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Bit O' Red players Johan Brannefalk and Karl O' Sullivan have both gone through a series of tests, X-Rays and scans to determine the extend of their injuries sustained in last Friday's 1-1 draw against Derry City at The Brandywell.
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A year out from the Beijing Games, Cynthia Appiah is an athlete in a hurry. In a hurry to fulfill dreams and banish an Olympic nightmare. And in a hurry to prove a lot of preconceptions wrong. Caught up with
@thecynapps
for
@TorontoStar
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Paul Burdon has been a
#BillsMafia
member since the 1980s, and hadn’t missed a home game since 2002. After so many losing seasons, he’s spent this one watching a historically good Bills team from the
@BillsHelmetBar
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How
@RachelBonnetta
went from stealing toilet paper from her local Toronto sushi place to helping the NFL finally learn to take the piss out of itself. For
@TorontoStar
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@StarSports
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Looks like being one hell of an expensive can of energy drink McGregor threw. Potential fine now at $300k and rising.
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Finished up at the Toronto Star today. Helping build and support the incredible digital team there has been one of the coolest/most rewarding things I’ve done. Gonna miss the absolute hell out of them.
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Today is the 55th anniversary of Toronto’s most iconic bout. It’s also the 60th anniversary of
@OntHumanRights
Rather than mere coincidence, this — and the stirring visual of Ali affirming his name change in front of the code — was a confluence, some say.
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Wow. In her opening statement Christine Sinclair recounts a meeting with Nick Bontis: "I’ve never been more insulted than I was by Nick Bontis last year when we met to discuss our concerns. [Bontis] said later in the meeting 'what was it Christine was bitching about earlier?'"
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@TheBlackHoof
@JohnTory
@fordnation
Sat for two hours at Rhum last Saturday night and your staff were fucking incredible. (Even more so than usual.) Cops’ only move seemed to be approaching diners and asking us not to react.
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Kayla Grey has been shifting the plates in Canadian sports and media for some time. Next week she gets a show and a space to call her own. Privilege to listen to
@Kayla_Grey
talk about her journey to here and vision for all that’s to come. For
@TorontoStar
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Canadian WNT (going to WC as Olympic champs): no send-off game
Canadian MNT (first WC in 36 years): no send-off game
Pitiful stuff from Canada Soccer.
Reminder: since becoming Olympic🥇 Canada WNT have played just 5 of 25 games at home. In same time USWNT played 20 of 31 home
“When you’re about to go off to the biggest world tournament in the universe, and you’re coming out of the Olympics as the reigning world champions & we don’t have that game (send-off) it’s hard not to take that personally”
Beckie told
@itsmeglinehan
on no send-off game for 🇨🇦
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@ESPNPublicEd
Somehow, I get the feeling that 'Many of you misunderstood' will be your main takeaway from this utterly disastrous foray.
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Of all the monstrously out-of-touch things I've heard a pro athlete say, Rory McIlroy on Trump's policies is the worst. What a huge asshole.
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Google, Gatorade, Lululemon. Big brands are banking on Leylah Fernandez. In her return to the Grand Slam stage, Fernandez is banking on herself.
A look at how she can possibly live up to the hype and history of that magical U.S. Open run. For
@TorontoStar
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In a city of newcomers, Kyle Lowry was the beating heart of the place for entire Toronto lifetimes. And that meant something. It meant a hell of a lot.
On his impact, what it meant to be represented by him and what he leaves behind, for
@TorontoStar
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As the Toronto Maple Leafs sit pretty atop the NHL standings, there’s not one but two Coach Keefes watching intently, tracking every tactical tweak, every off-season change bearing fruit. A chat with the other Coach Keefe,
@Adam27Keefe
, for
@TorontoStar
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It was hard not to look at Sam Adekugbe in front of Canadian flags dancing in delight and not think of the flags we saw in Ottawa Saturday. On how this team present a very different vision of the country than the rancid scenes yesterday, for
@TorontoStar
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Canada are here to warm up at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium. DJ plays Started From The Bottom to greet them. Canadian fans getting loud early.
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Rory McIlroy and PGA Tour chief Jay Monahan in deep conversation for the past 10 minutes here during Wednesday morning Pro Am at the RBC Canadian Open in Hamilton. Plenty to chew on.
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I will reiterate this quite a bit in the next few days: Sweden have already accounted for Holland, Italy and Germany in terms of this WC. But, yeah, sure, once Colombia are outta the way....bring them Swedes on.
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In a sport that is still so white, she's also determined to prove that Black bobsledders have a place at the front of the sled. "Change doesn’t happen unless people are confronted by it. Unless people are forced to change, it won’t happen."
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Every athlete in Tokyo has put their body through some form of hell to get there. Vincent De Haître though has put his through a very special kinda hell. That’s just the price of his wild dream — competing at two Olympics 180 days apart. For
@TorontoStar
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A financial implication to tonight: Sagnol guiding Georgia to victory and the last 16 earned the Georgian FA an additional €2.5m in prizemoney. This on top of the €9.25m they earned for qualifying and the €500k for the draw with Czechs. That's €12.25m total already.
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Daniel Kinahan is one of boxing's biggest power brokers. He’s also been named in courts as head of one of Europe's most ruthless drugs cartels. With the spotlight now on him like never before, the firm he founded has expanded to Canada. For
@TorontoStar
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For a sport that was mired in negativity here during the Kaillie Humphries saga, Appiah wants to be part of a positive next chapter. “We’re working towards being that team we've always wanted to be and not just a singular person.”
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The maple leaf is unfurled on a men’s World Cup field for the first time in a long time and we’re just about ready to go here.
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Hennessy was a champion boxer, hockey and rugby player before the accident. Competing and defying the odds is a lifelong habit. This week in Tokyo, she’ll represent Team Canada in paracanoe and parakayak — just 12 months after first getting into a boat.
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Childhood coach Andrew Craven says Mac Neil often made fun of her own short-sightedness as she grew up at London Aquatic Club. When she turned 16 and got her license she'd tell friends ‘Oh you guys don’t want to be on the road with me. Not with my vision.’
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All of the steps on the road to the NFL Draft seem designed to tick, tick, tick up the tension on prospects, often in ridiculous ways. Yet five days out, Josh Palmer is an oasis of calm. His family though? That’s another story, for
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She describes the boats as mustangs that needed to be tamed. “Running with feral horses, wild and free. It became therapeutic.” Her family have a wild streak of their own. Before leaving for Tokyo, her father told her to "go show the world your Hennessy".
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Got lost in the Argie meltdown but my other main takeaway from last night is that Vedran Corluka must be very close to breaking the world record for 'number of years someone has been 32 years old'. Remarkable consistency.
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F1 harnesses the Hamilton-Verstappen drama and its drivers’ personalities relentlessly and brilliantly across digital and social. How big can it go here? TSN’s
@timhauraney
says the return of the Canadian GP in 2022 will be “a massive moment. Next level.”
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Zlatko Tripic just too good for Rovers. Scored the opener, set up the other two, pretty sure he was the one who skinned Buckley when Buckley got injured too. We’ve done a lot of things well but haven’t been able to live with him.
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'Every relay is a team event in the true sense...but, in essence, the story of this gold was that one Irishwoman made the race and another won it.' Cracking breakdown of last night's gold (and how Adeleke dragged the Dutch down) by
@Cathal_Dennehy
here:
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The Rugby World Cup official ticket resale platform is the second circle of hell. Want tickets? Here they are. Now they're gone. They're over here instead. Now they're gone too. Tickets? What are tickets? Having fun yet?
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Still a little stunned by Evan Dunfee sashaying on to our screens in that brilliant late burst for bronze? You're not alone. The best way to make sense of it all may be his best friend's timeline. (It's safe.
@alyssa_jayne
's heart rate has finally calmed!)
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Now there’s a golden homecoming to look forward to. But also...a promise to be kept. Susan told a younger Maggie the only way she’d ever get a tattoo was if she made it to the Olympics, thinking it would never happen. “I guess there is a tattoo coming!”
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Spoke with former Olympic gymnasts Gael Mackie and Kate Richardson, Canadian teammates in Athens, on Simone Biles and the terror of the twisties. "Not trusting your brain to take you where it needs to take you can be utterly terrifying.” For
@TorontoStar
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Rapoport, though, isn't in it for the firsts. She's all about the seconds, thirds and fourths. Normalisation of women across NFL sidelines, front offices is the mantra. And the pace of her success has been striking.
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Louisa Brown will be among hundreds of thousands of Canadians glued to the Abu Dhabi GP early tomorrow AM. She wasn’t born when this season began. Such is F1’s unprecedented growth this year, it’s winning over even the youngest Canadians. For
@TorontoStar
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Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have just confirmed their takeover of Wrexham is finally formally complete. (They've rebranded as Wryan and Wrob to mark the occasion.) My look for
@TorontoStar
/
@StarSports
at what it meant for the town as much as the team:
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"Andre has arrived. It’s going to be a hot market." Took a look at the impact of Olympic gold for Andre De Grasse, on his profitability and his platform, and why the latter takes precedence for him. For
@TorontoStar
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@StarSports
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This season it, and the Parnhams, have been a godsend for Burdon, a place to still be around
#BillsMafia
and watch from a distance.
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A morning spent inside the tramlines of the National Tennis Centre in Montreal. A look at how Canada got here, with four gifted young players gatecrashing the world’s elite. And what happens next. For
@TorontoStar
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For years Ciara McCormack battled abuse and cover-up in Canadian soccer. Now she's crossed the Atlantic to channel that energy into building the kinda club she dreamed of. And improbably Treaty United are flying. From Limerick for
@TorontoStar
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@StarSports
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Ankou is also fiercely proud of his Indigenous heritage. In this harrowing past year he's reflected on how close his own mam came to being taken from her family into the residential school system. “I would maybe never have existed.”
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What an incredible moment...incredible team. Spent the best part of the last month helping out with this
@TorontoStar
feature. And tonight just rams it all home again. Why this team connects this city like none before:
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Phenomenal final run just now from Cynthia Appiah and Erica Voss means Appiah will finish top Canadian and Top 10 in her first World Championships as a pilot. A look at her remarkable journey for
@TorontoStar
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The fact that the Motherwell TV commentator thinks his name is Blaney Shane and he’s going with ‘Blaney’ on the back of his shirt is just glorious. Imagine how long you’d get away with such notions in the LOI.
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Five days later, FIFA and the IOC found their red line underneath the rubble of carpet-bombed Kharkiv. Why it's much too late and why, in this most sportswashed year bookended by Beijing and Qatar, it's not nearly enough. For
@TorontoStar
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@StarSports
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@joeneville2010
@MickFoley76
From a distance that's kinda what it feels like. Irish Times deserve credit for the full front page picture today. And yes, it absolutely should be called out — it's borderline morally corrupt.
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Aide bursts into Boris's office.
"A coup underway in Turkey, Sir."
Blank stares.
"Turkey, sir."
Nothing.
"The Ottoman Empire."
'Ahh. Right.'
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Phonzie!! There's your history man. What a moment for him. What a moment for Canada.
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Janine Beckie picked up the mantle from Sinclair and took dead aim at Canada Soccer's deal with CSB deal, saying Canada Soccer agreeing to it was "our own association blatantly betting against the success of its national teams". MPs listening intently, some visibly wincing.
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Appiah almost walked away from the sport after being an alternate in Pyeongchang. Instead she transitioned from brakewoman to pilot and is on a serious upward curve. Another solid run in Altenberg this morning.
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Canada WNT’s World Cup group rivals Ireland now have 3 pre-WC warm-ups confirmed. Canada currently have 0 matches publicly scheduled before tournament. In the two years since becoming Olympic champions Canada have played just 5 of 21 games at home and none since last June.
Ireland’s final warm-up game for the World Cup confirmed: Colombia behind closed doors in Brisbane on 14 July.
Tallaght Stadium friendlies against Zambia and France on 22 June and 6 July. General sale tomorrow 10am, pre-sale and WNT season tickets available now.
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Being away in the wilds of Ontario did give me a chance to (finally, very belatedly!!) devour this. Incredible work by
@marktigheST
and
@paulrowantree
. Lived thru so much of it...and yet the way they tie it together with brilliant reporting just makes it all the more galling.
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The little wolf liked the place too. And she’s a pretty good judge.
Wish nothing but the absolute best to my awesome Star digital family. On to the next adventure.
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To the dude who shouted “c’mon da Rovers” as I wheezed past on Queen St. about 30mins ago: sorry chief, I tried to respond...but all breath/willpower was being put into keeping one foot in front of the other.
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For Tommie indeed. Christ he’d have enjoyed that. Absolutely beautiful. ❤️🤍
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Barrett grew up a bit of a track prodigy so “the Olympics dream was always there” but in 2016, aged 37, the dream seemed further away than ever. Then she joined a friend at an archery lesson. Something clicked — “it's that medieval warrior thing.”
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Hennessy is truly one of the most relentlessly positive people you’ll meet. “Paralympics is about having all the reasons in the world to give up, and choosing not to,” she says. “Choosing freedom instead, to fight. I feel like I’ve found myself again.”
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The
@BillsHelmetBar
? A wild ride all of its own. In the 1980s the helmet was the checkout counter of a sports store in Barrie, before being put in storage on the mall roof. It blew off, almost killing a passerby and was rescued by the Parnham family
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Leah Davidson watches on from even closer, across the Niagara in Fort Erie. A longtime season ticket holder, she endured the hard years. "I said, ‘I'm not giving up these tickets until we get a home playoff’. Now here we are. And I can’t get over there."
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Identity and rights were front and centre during Ali's time here. He came to Toronto because he was being vilified in the US and couldn't get a license. But a fight that some boycotted because it was seen as such a mismatch became a Canadian classic.
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Very proud of this great MA in Sports Journalism
@UL
gang, getting to grips with deadline match reporting from Treaty Utd vs. Athlone Town tonight. Great work.
@journalismatUL
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“When they play, it’s like this bit of Brampton in them — pride, good anger, something to prove.” Canada’s 9th biggest city will provide ~25% of its World Cup squad. Took a look at how that happened and what it means to them. For
@TorontoStar
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@StarSports
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At 15, Mackie broke her back six months before the Athens Games after landing on her head in training. She's a stuntwoman now and still uses the same anti-twisties routine she used as a gymnast. Said Richardson, "Seeing Simone, it frankly made me sweat."
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Sam Rapoport is helping change the face of the NFL. Super Bowl LV marks the biggest milestone in her mission to date — two female coaches on the sideline as part of the most diverse staff in Super Bowl history; a first female SB referee. For
@TorontoStar
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Imagine it was a prominent ex-Ireland soccer player turned pundit who gave character reference for someone guilty of defilement of a child.
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We’re 30mins in at Al Thumama Stadium and there are still banks and rows of empty seats. This is arguably the best game of the first week, in joint-smallest venue. If they can’t sell this one out…
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