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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Geoff Smith

Geoff Smith taught courses in American history and sport sociology at Queen’s University for nearly 40 years. He was protocol officer in charge of the Soviet sailing delegation at the Montreal (Kingston) Olympics in 1976.

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An Activist's Angry Disposition

Will the Vancouver Olympics be contributing to a soiled history? January–February 2009
The motto of author Christopher Shaw’s in-laws is vincit veritas, “truth prevails,” and from his first line of text, this David from British Columbia seeks to strip away the false pretenses that accompanied Goliath Vancouver’s successful bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. An ophthalmologist at the University of British Columbia, in Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic