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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alex Cyr

Alex Cyr is the author of Runners of the Nish: A Season in the Sun, Rain, Hail and Hell. He is trying to run faster than he did in university.

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Alex Cyr

Results Driven

An exercise in precision June 2021
Not infrequently, the most dramatic moments of the United States Olympic Team Trials for track and field have nothing to do with gold medals; rather, they are about bronze ones. A close race for first or second means little, because the top three from each event punch their tickets to the Games. A close race for…