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Straight from the hip

After about a six-week hiatus I’m back and here are my 2014-15 National Hockey League picks.Eight teams from each conference will challenge for Lord Stanley’s Cup, so here it comes (not in any particular order):Eastern ConferenceAtlantic: Tampa Bay, Boston, Montreal, TorontoMetropolitan: Pittsburgh, N.Y. Rangers, Columbus,

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Straight from the hip

Hockey has the Stanley Cup, the NFL the Super Bowl, baseball’s got the World Series.Well, golf’s Ryder Cup takes place at the end of this month and both the defending champion Europeans and challenging Americans have picked their 12 players to represent their respective countries in

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Straight from the hip

There were two big hockey stories last week: the out-of-court settlement between Steve Moore and Todd Bertuzzi, 10 years after the famous on-ice attack; and Toronto’s new wonder boy Tim Leiweke saying he’s leaving after only 18 months or so heading Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment!The Moore/Bertuzzi saga

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Straight from the hip

Shame on some of those sports reporters covering the men’s and women’s Canadian tennis championships (especially from our own country) that to me threw both of our Canadian tennis stars under the bus in Montreal and Toronto after they were eliminated in their events by better players on that

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