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SportsMcGill Extends Winning Streak
The Quebec university women’s hockey season opened on Oct. 8 at McConnell Arena, with an action-packed game that ended 7-4 in favour of the McGill Martlets over the visiting Concordia Stingers.
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SportsNike Tournament Glory
The men’s basketball team erased memories of last year’s defeat to Wilfrid Laurier University by winning the annual Concordia-Nike Tournament 73-72 over the New York Institute of Technology Bears Saturday night at Loyola Gym.
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SportsWomen’s Rugby Decimates Sherbrooke
The ConU women’s rugby Stingers did what was expected of them on Sunday at Loyola Campus, steamrolling over the Sherbrooke Vert et Or 92-0 and putting them within reach of a perfect season.
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SportsHeading to Delhi
Two weeks after finishing 20th at the World Weightlifting Championships in Antalya, Turkey, Concordia student Emily Quarton is participating in her second Commonwealth games this week in Delhi, India.
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SportsA Night of Firsts
Striker Matthijs Eppinga’s two-goal performance led Concordia’s men’s soccer team to its first points of the season in Friday’s 3-1 thrashing of the third-placed UQTR Patriotes at Concordia Stadium.
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SportsWomen’s Hockey Hosts 43rd Annual Theresa Humes Tournament
From Oct. 1 to Oct. 3, four women’s hockey teams came to commemorate Theresa Humes, the woman who succeeded in putting Concordia female athletics on the map, by doing what she loved the most: playing some good ol’ fashioned hockey.
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SportsStingers Take Care of Sherbrooke
An outmatched Université de Sherbrooke Vert et Or side was shut out 32-0 by the superior Concordia Stingers in men’s rugby last Friday at Concordia Stadium.
“A win is a win, [but] we can’t take too much out of this game as far as celebrations go,” said first-year coach Shane Thomas.
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The Politics of Sports
Dave Zirin, a modern day Hunter S. Thompson without the suitcase of narcotics, was at Concordia on Sept. 21 to discuss the politics of sports and the corporatization of franchise ownership.
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SportsGaiters Spoil Homecoming
It was a painful homecoming for Stingers football on Saturday, as a last second field goal led to the surrender of the Shrine Bowl to the Bishop’s Gaiters 18-17 at Loyola Campus.
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SportsSliotars and Hurleys
Concordia students, alumni and members of the public were invited to learn the fundamentals of hurling during a workshop organized by Irish Concordia and the Montreal Shamrocks last Sunday morning at Loyola Campus.
