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SportsPreseason success
The Concordia Stingers’ football team overcame heavy wind and rain in its 40-23 romp over the visiting University of Guelph Gryphons during preseason action at Concordia Stadium last Thursday.
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SportsStinger Soccer Team Getting Back on Track
Rookies, veterans and those still vying for spots on the men’s and women’s soccer teams enjoyed a successful and unprecedented string of pre-season games against Ontario conference opposition over the weekend at Concordia Stadium.
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SportsConcordia Football Underway
The Stingers welcomed Vanier and FX Garneau’s college football teams to Concordia Stadium this past Saturday to kick off on-field training as part of its 2010 camp.
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SportsTeam Experiences Mass Exodus
After a highly successful 2009 season, Concordia’s baseball team learned it would go into the 2010 season without many of its veterans when training began earlier this month at Trudeau Park in Cote St. Luc.
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SportsKabaddi Your Body
The wind silently blows sand off the turf as a barefooted, bare-chested and well-built man with arms spread wide, crouched low to the ground, faces four players of the opposing team in fierce competition.
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SportsFormer Stingers Captain Moves to Coaching
After two years wearing the captain’s C on his uniform and five years playing for Concordia’s soccer team under coaches Lloyd Barker, Frank Bastien and Vladimir Pavlicik, Bryan Bourbonnais hung up the jersey and is now part of the coaching staff.
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SportsOf leaps and bounds
At first glance, parkour may seem like simply an adrenaline junkie’s fix for random sprints, gravity-defying leaps and a lust for imminent danger. The l’art du déplacement, as the physical discipline is known in its native France, is actually an elaborate exercise of body displacement with the goal of getting from point A to B as quickly as possible.
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SportsStarting fresh
When Concordia student Hussein Awada left his home country of Lebanon for Montreal last December, he had at least two objectives in mind: finishing school and playing professional soccer. Within a month of his arrival, Awada was on his way to accomplishing both.
