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The Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves left this morning for the Canadian bantam AAA boys’ baseball championships in Vaughan, Ont., in the perfect frame of mind.Anything the Braves can bring home from the nationals will be icing on the cake to a bit of a surprise season.

PHILADELPHIA — Here’s a scenario that must have defensive co-ordinators scrambling to their chalkboards: Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick on the field together.

VANCOUVER — It’s a jersey designed for Canada’s hockey teams at the 2010 Winter Olympics, but John Furlong believes they could become a fashion statement Canadians will proudly wear long after the Games are gone.

BERLIN — Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva lost her five-year stranglehold on the pole vault Monday, failing to clear any height at the world championships.

WOODRIDGE, Ill. — Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane made a public apology Monday for an incident in which he and a cousin reportedly assaulted a Buffalo, N.Y., taxi driver, but said he cannot discuss the incident because it’s still before the courts.

WOODRIDGE, Ill. — After the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy, it looked like Mike Modano had burned his bridges with the U.S. Olympic hockey team with some searing comments about USA Hockey after a 4-3 loss to Finland in the quarter-finals.

JEJU, South Korea — Eyes glued to the TV, Y.E. Yang’s family on the island of Jeju stayed up all night to watch the South Korean face off against world No. 1 Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship.

The Red Deer Renegades captured gold at the U18 Tier II boys’ provincial soccer championships for the second year in a row Sunday.

The Red Deer Renegades may have finished last in the Alberta Women’s Major Soccer League, but they finished off in style.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders had been here before. This time they were happy to show what they had learned.