DORCHESTER Town Reserves begin their Wyvern Challenge Cup campaign with tonight’s visit of Wimborne Town.
The Avenue Stadium clash kicks off at 7.45pm.
Winnipeg Jets fans cheer as their team plays the Montreal Canadiens during the first period of their NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 9, 2011. Some Jets fans have altered the words of Oh Canada.
LONDON (AP) – Organizers of the 2012 London Olympics said Tuesday they would consider options for new mothers who want to bring their babies into venues, after some parents complained that they have to buy full price tickets for their infants.
The London Organizing Committee made the statement after complaints flooded the British parenting website Mumsnet, with pregnant women who bought tickets for themselves – but not for their unborn children – wondering what they could do with babies who were breast-feeding. They argued that a months-old child would not be taking up a seat of its own.
“Of course we understand that some new mums may want to take their babies to events they have tickets to, and we will look at what we can do when the remaining tickets go on sale in April,” the committee said in a statement.
Peer pressure often gets a bad rap, but what about when it’s power is used to promote positive outcomes? Marianne’s guest is journalist Tina Rosenburg. She explores how a range of different programs are using the power of social connection to better our world in her book “Join the Club.”
BRENDON King has branded tomorrow’s trip to Arlesey Town (3pm) as a huge test of character for his in-form side.
Weymouth, who beat high-flying AFC Totton 3-1 last Monday, have taken 10 points from their last four games and are odds on to continue the momentum at Hitchin Road this weekend. <
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Forget the eagle, the real enemy is the bear.
Despite the broadcast world’s best efforts to create a hockey rivalry between Canada and the United States, Canadians know this morning, if they didn’t already, that the rival that matters most in hockey is Russia – just as it was 40 years ago.
Tuesday night, the two hockey powers met in the semi-finals of the world junior hockey championship and the Russians put a crushing end to any hopes Canada had of a gold medal with a hard-fought 6-5 victory.
In a game that at times had all the high drama of the legendary 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union, the teenaged Russians bested the Canadian teenagers in a game that held every emotion imaginable in sport.
In the end, however, it was pure despair for the Canadians, unable to complete a valiant third-period comeback that simply ran out of time.
The victorious Russians now move on to play Sweden Thursday, when they will defend the gold medal they won last year in Buffalo, while the Canadians will meet Finland, a team they defeated 8-1 in the preliminary round, for the bronze medal – an award many Canadians take to be the ultimate insult in their national game.
For 10 consecutive years, Canada had played in the gold-medal match of this tournament, at one point winning five championships in a row.
The Russians won on precisely the strategy the Canadians had used successfully in the preliminary round played in Edmonton – a fast start – when speedy Yevgeni Kuznetsov scored off a pass from highly touted 2012 draft prospect Nail Yakupov and then went ahead 2-0 when Nikita Nesterov blasted a shot from the point on a Russian power play.
“It’s important for us to get off to a good start,” Team Canada head coach Don Hay had said earlier in the day. They did not, and