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The Red Deer Riot won a pair of home games in the Rocky Mountain Junior Girls’ Lacrosse League during the weekend.

Standing on the 18th tee, Sean O’Hair asked his caddie where he stood in the Quail Hollow Championship and got word that he had a one-shot lead.“Over who?” O’Hair replied.

The third overtime was only about a minute old when Anaheim’s Todd Marchant flicked a wrist shot through traffic toward the net.

The “desperate” Boston Bruins kept firing shots at Cam Ward. The “rock” of the Carolina Hurricanes kept stopping them.

When Diarmuid Kelly scored in double overtime to give the Bentley Generals a 4-3 win over the South East Prairie Thunder in this year’s Allan Cup final at Steinbach, Man., team president Wes Gyori admitted he had envisioned the championship goal “a thousand times”, with no particular names and/or conditions attached.

Lindy Ruff thinks his Canadian team might have too much of a good thing at the IIHF World Hockey Championship.

In a series featuring several of the NHL’s most notable stars, a couple of role players and a rookie goaltender made the difference for the Washington Capitals in Game 1 of their showdown against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Blackhawks are making comebacks a winning habit in the playoffs.

Calvin Borel was in a familiar place, along the rail and urging Canadian champion Mine That Bird to fly through the mud. Trainer Bennie Woolley Jr. was someplace he never imagined — the Kentucky Derby, with his horse in the lead.Together they pulled off one of the greatest upsets in the Derby’s 135 year history.

Nicklas Lidstrom usually plays a subtle style of hockey appreciated most by coaches, players and die-hard fans.