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Chequered Pasts
Based on extensive research into the CASC's records and dozens of interviews with former competitors and officials,The Chequered Pastopens a window into the rich but virtually unknown history of the auto sport, and claims for it a place in Canadian sports history.
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Bobby : my story in pictures
Bobby Orr rarely speaks of his accomplishments as a hockey player. He doesn't have to--his play did all his talking for him during his storied career. His was a style of seemingly effortless grace, a style that helped reinvent the sport of hockey. Now, Bobby Orr shares his story through a personal collection of photos, inviting readers into different seasons of his life while introducing some of the people that filled these moments in time. We see him at home and in the dressing room. We are there the day the Boston Bruins first scouted him, at rinkside when he celebrated his first Stanley Cup with his father, and back in Boston the day his famous number four was retired. Yet behind all the statistics, trophies, and public persona, is the man himself. There were losses to go along with the victories, disappointments alongside the accomplishments. Without the people around him, and without the many challenges he faced along the way, the triumphs would have meant much less. Capturing not only a legendary career and incredible person, Bobby: My Story in Pictures also brings into focus a different era. These photos chronicle not only the changing of the game, but also mark many significant milestones of his life. Personal, thoughtful, and full of never-before-seen images of Bobby Orr and those close to him, Bobby shows the varied sides of a player who rewrote the record book. It is a public journey into a world of a very private man.
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Win Friends or Make Enemies: Team Canada’s 1978 Diplomatic Mission to Czechoslovakia
The Canadian government’s role in funding and managing amateur sports increased dramatically as part of the expansion of the postwar social welfare state. A case study of the government’s involvement in Team Canada’s participation at the 1978 World Hockey Championship reveals the deliberate attempt by Canadian hockey players, government officials, diplomats, and embassies, to improve Canada’s image abroad after it had been damaged by the team’s unsportsmanlike behaviour at the same championship the previous year. Ottawa’s portrayal of this 1978 “charm offensive” as successful helped it justify its role in operating the Canadian national team. This article situates the government’s role in the 1978 World Championship in the context of trends that began in the 1960s, when the government became more involved in sports, and charts a growing awareness of the potential for sport — and especially hockey in the case of Canada — to function not only as an important component of collective identity, but also as an integral part of the nation’s foreign relations strategy.
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Inside the Sports Pages
Inside the Sports Pages explores the working world of contemporary sports journalism through the eyes of the reporters, editors, athletes and media-relations people who inhabit it.
In this first comprehensive study of the work routines and professional ideologies involved in the manufacture of sports news, Mark Douglas Lowes presents a detailed and richly textured ethnographic account of life on the sports desk at a major Canadian daily newspaper. His wide-ranging analysis considers the role of the 'audience commodity' in sports news production, the dynamics of the newsroom, and the complex relations between reporters and their routine sources on the sports beat. The book concludes with an assessment of the ideological nature of sports news, and argues that sports coverage functions primarily as a promotional vehicle for the North American 'major league' sports industry. It will be of interest to anyone concerned about how the media report sports news- and the way they leave some of it unreported.
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Which Canadian Is Credited with Introducing the Slide Delivery to
Prior to the twentieth century, curlers would simply throw their rocks from a standing position...The modern slide delivery got its start at the St. John's Curling Club in Winnipeg in 1930.\" (GREAT CANADIAN TRIVIA BOOK) Learn who developed the slide delivery in curling and how this controversial style changed the game.
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