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For the Love of the Game

The Team, the Fan, and the Severed Toes

June 23, 2021October 18, 2021 - by David Swick

What’s a person to do when their team loses year after year? For one diehard fan, it meant chopping digits

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Feature / September 2017

Inside the Controversial Concussion Lab That Could Save Football

August 16, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Brett Popplewell

Why Toronto researchers are questioning the link between the sport and long-term brain damage

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Sports

Canada Will Never Beat Iceland

June 28, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Richard Poplak

We have the population of 100 Icelands, and we still can’t field a decent soccer team

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Sports

Don’t Watch the Super Bowl

February 3, 2016July 9, 2021 - by Jonathan Kay

Many NFL players won’t be able to recognize their grandchildren because of brain damage. Does that sound like wholesome entertainment?

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Photograph courtesy of the Montreal Alouettes
Sports

When Baltimore Gelded Calgary

November 25, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Paul Taunton

Twenty years ago, an American football team won Canada’s Grey Cup

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Arts & Culture

Not So Super

January 30, 2015June 17, 2020 - by Sasha Chapman

The ugly truth about the millions of Mexican avocados that will be consumed during Sunday’s big football game

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September 2014 / Sports

Skin in the Game

September 3, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Will Di Novi

A conflicted fan comes to grips with the violence of football

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December 2012 / Sports

What’s Green and White and Loved All Over?

November 19, 2012August 17, 2017 - by Robert Calder

The mystique of the Saskatchewan Roughriders

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Photograph by Craig Chandler, University Communications/UNL
January/February 2012 / Sports

Pipeline Offence

January 12, 2012June 15, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

How TransCanada Corporation changed the game for football fans in Nebraska

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September 2009 / Sports

The Boys of Autumn

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

A Tiger-Cat childhood

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