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Edmonton Oilers send centre Leon Draisaitl to WHL’s Kelowna Rockets to help...
Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl met the local media with a smile on his face and an uncommonly mature attitude Tuesday about being sent from the NHL club to Kelowna of the WHL for another half-season, or...
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Edmonton Oilers do the ol’ tighten up against the Blues, still lose 2-1 on...
Rexall Place can seem like hockey’s back of the beyond, the NHL’s forlorn gulag when it’s late in the season and the games are more meaningful when they’re losses, some believe, than when they’re...
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Steve Nash was Canadian hoops version of baseball’s Ferguson Jenkins – star...
When Steve Nash announced his retirement from basketball last weekend, commentators almost immediately began fussing over where to situate the best basketball player this country has so far produced in...
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Edmonton Oilers Taylor Hall raises ire of Benn, plays it cool and helps club...
It was one of those hockey moments that fans can see coming, a collision easy to triangulate, delicious in the anticipation. The hitter was Taylor Hall, who crouched low to put a classic mid-ice hit on...
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Depleted Edmonton Oilers lose to opportunistic Calgary Flames 4-0 in final...
The Oilers games have become little more than a backdrop for larger questions about this franchise. Questions whose answers remain obscure to all but the most optimistic true believers. The same...
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Canada Soccer looks to Edmonton to help Team Canada ramp up Women’s World Cup...
The occasion was the unveiling of a Canada Post commemorative stamp featuring Canadian soccer icon Christine Sinclair and emerging star Kadeisha Buchanan, but ticket sales were as much on the mind of...
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Tom Brady 4-game suspension by NFL generates wide range of responses, from...
Brady gets it from @NYDailyNews pic.twitter.com/XMs3bQAGXv — John MacKinnon (@rjmackinnon) May 12, 2015 Depending on your point of view, the NFL’s suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom...
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Edmonton a major summer sport destination in 2015, even National Geographic...
Thu Jan 8 2015 Page: D3 Section: Sports Byline: John Mackinnon Column: Commentary Source: Edmonton Journal (Put this together back in January. Given National Geographic’s inclusion of Alberta and...
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Richards-Ross, Merritt, Carter win big at Track Town Classic at U of A’s...
The headliners delivered as advertised at the Track Town Classic on Sunday at the U of A’s Foote Field. For starters, U.S. sprint stars Sanya Richards-Ross and Lashawn Merrit won the women’s and men’s...
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Edmonton’s Saville Community Sports Centre wows a couple of visiting sports...
Canada’s National Women’s basketball team put on a magnificent show in winning the FIBA Americas Women’s Championship, capped by their 82-66 victory over Cuba in the gold-medal game on Sunday that...
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