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• The Edmonton Oilers TV Broadcast Crew: To Drew or not to Drew

  03-09-2017 23:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Television and Radio Hosts are a highly subjective game. Just ask any fan of the Edmonton Oilers.
  Sportsnet has unveiled its plans for the 2017-18 Oilers season. It includes all 82 regular season games, 37 national and 45 regional broadcasts. It kicks off October 4th, with the Oilers visiting Calgary. And back as part of the broadcast team is color commentator Drew Remenda, whom the Cult of Hockey’s David Staples writes about, here.  If you read David’s piece, or followed Twitte
  
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• Eskimos defensive back looking to continue Cup success against Calgary quarterback

  03-09-2017 23:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Forrest Hightower hasn’t had much of a chance to contribute to his new Edmonton Eskimos team.
  A training-camp injury kept him out of the lineup all the way through their 7-0 start to the season.
  The only statistic to his name so far is a single tackle in last week’s loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, which marked his debut in green and gold since being picked up in free agency.
  But his last game before that may hold some bearing on the Labour Day Classic, considering he came up wi
  
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• Bashaw storm lots of bluster, not much damage says campground operator

  03-09-2017 20:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Severe weather cut short camping and lake activities for people hoping to enjoy the long weekend near Bashaw and Stettler as winds blew in causing “extensive damage.”
  The summer villages of Rochon Sands, White Sands, campgrounds near Buffalo Lake were hit by “extremely high winds” which is also being blamed for a crash near Bashaw, according to an RCMP news release.
  Mounties say they were managing “chaos” amongst a weather event as they asked residents and vis
  
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• Discarded needles in spotlight as Edmonton mulls safe injection sites

  03-09-2017 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cardboard boxes filled with syringes fill every nook and cranny of the Streetworks office at Boyle Street Community Services. 
  They’re stacked on top of cabinets, in corners and underneath a table in the centre of the brightly lit office. Unboxed sharps, wrapped in plastic, are stored in bins along a counter where people who use drugs can pick up clean supplies. 
  The boxes go “wherever we can stuff them,” said Marliss Taylor, program manager at Streetworks. Last
  
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• City offers three options to allow school bus parking on residential streets

  03-09-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton school bus drivers could be getting help from the city to amend the current traffic bylaw saving them from a $100 fine for parking on residential streets.
  A new city report, spearheaded at a previous committee meeting in June when the issue was first discussed, was released Thursday outlining three possible options for daytime school bus parking:
  A permit program requiring school bus companies to apply for parking permits on a case by case basis for specific locations
  Designated school
  
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• Edmonton Oilers' emerging D prospect Ethan Bear made a major statement in his final junior campaign

  03-09-2017 09:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017 Edmonton Oilers prospects#5: RD Ethan Bear
  Previously: #13 in 2016
  It stands to reason that the Edmonton Oilers have consistently mined the Western Hockey League for talent. Edmonton’s position on the map, and within the Dub itself, ensures that the top juniors in western Canada are readily accessible. Moreover, the NHL club’s last two chief bird dogs have personal roots in that league. Former Director of Amateur Scouting Stu MacGregor has returned to those roots as GM of the Ka
  
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• Campgrounds, lake evacuated, vehicle collision blamed on weather near Bashaw

  03-09-2017 07:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Severe weather cut short camping and lake activities for people hoping to enjoy long weekend activities near Bashaw and Stettler as winds blew in causing “extensive damage.”
  The summer villages of Rochon Sands, White Sands, campgrounds near Buffalo Lake were hit by “extremely high winds” which is also being blamed for a crash near Bashaw, according to an RCMP news release.
  Mounties say they were managing “chaos” amongst a weather event as they asked residents
  
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• Jayden Dalke makes most of opportunity with Edmonton Wildcats

  03-09-2017 05:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jayden Dalke wasn’t highly recruited out of high school.
  No universities called and the thought of playing junior football was a pipe dream, but one year after high school, he got his one and only shot and he’s made the most of it.
  For the past three years, Dalke has been an integral part of the Edmonton Wildcats defence and developed into one of the top defensive backs in the Prairie Football Conference.
  “I was a five-foot-nine defensive back. Not a lot of scouts or coaches wo
  
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• Goalkeeping blunder gives FC Edmonton a tie in North Carolina

  03-09-2017 05:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the end, the result for FC Edmonton seemed fair, even though the manner it was achieved was incredibly fortunate.
  A comical error by North Carolina FC goalkeeper Brian Sylvestre allowed Edmonton to pull out a 1-1 tie on the road Saturday, extending their North American Soccer League unbeaten streak to five games.
  Sylvestre made a complete mess of pass back to him, allowing the ball to slip under his foot and dribble just over the goal line for the tying goal in the 70th minute. Sylvestre was
  
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• Eskimos focusing O'Neill's efforts on punting

  03-09-2017 03:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Eskimos are taking a page from the Calgary Stampeders’ book and going with a kicking tandem in the Labour Day Classic.
  Newly signed Chris Milo will handle place-kicking duties while Hugh O’Neill, who is sitting ninth in field goal percentage after making eight of 10 since taking over for the injured Sean Whyte.
  “Milo’s been put in this situation before, mid-season,” said Eskimos head coach Jason Maas. “I was in Ottawa when he got put in a situatio
  
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• Wouter Wippert good in Tour of Alberta sprint

  03-09-2017 03:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Quite often, watching a bike race is like watching an NBA game — all that matters is the last five minutes.
  That was the case Saturday in Stage 2 of the ATB Tour of Alberta, a three-hour, 140 kilometre trek that came down to the final 200 metres in downtown Spruce Grove.
  That’s where Wouter Wippert pulled away from the massive pack and edged John Murphy in a wild sprint to the finish that looked more like a jail break on wheels.
  “The lead out was perfect, you can’t wish f
  
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• Kicker-turned-scout back in cleats for Eskimos on Labour Day

  03-09-2017 02:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chris Milo is getting another kick at the can.
  After signing with the Green and Gold in a deal announced Friday, he at least got in one full practice before being tasked with taking over place-kicking duties on the biggest stage of the regular season in a provincial rivalry game with first place on the line.
  It’s not exactly what he thought he would be doing when he initially joined the Eskimos scouting department a week ago.
  “It’s crazy. Honestly, it was not expected,” s
  
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• Terry Jones: Coaching rivalry could go on for years with Eskimos and Stamps

  03-09-2017 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  CALGARY — They’ve both been head coaches in the Canadian Football League for a season and a half.
  Dave Dickenson is 22-3-2.
  Jason Maas is 17-10.
  It doesn’t take a great deal of imagination to picture the two of them spending several seasons going against each other at the top of the tables and in West Finals.
  And while some coaches won’t make it about themselves versus another coach, Maas embraces the idea as he takes his 7-2 Edmonton Eskimos against Dickenson and his 7-1
  
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• Huffman goes for it and wins Tour of Alberta Stage 1

  03-09-2017 00:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  There was a pretty basic ingredient that fuelled Evan Huffman’s triumph Friday in the 162-kilometre first stage of the ATB Tour of Alberta: Hunger.
  He just wanted it more than everyone else.
  Against a tentative field too worried about strategy and conserving energy to notice what was going on ahead of it, simply lowering his head and peddling as fast as he could was more than enough to carry the 27-year-old American to victory in the mountains of Jasper.
  Huffmam, who finished third overall
  
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• Terry Jones: Reilly and Mitchell make outstanding adversaries

  03-09-2017 00:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  CALGARY — They’re the spice of sport.
  Rocket Richard or Gordie Howe?
  Sidney Crosby or Connor McDavid?
  From one generation to another, sports fans have had ‘my guy’ vs ‘your guy’ debates.
  Now, it appears, we have a good one going right here in Alberta in the Canadian Football League.
  Bo Levi Mitchell or Mike Reilly?
  “To me, you’ve got two of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play in their organizations,” Edmonton Eskimos coach Jason Maas told
  
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• 30 rally against 'sanctuary city' policies at city hall

  03-09-2017 00:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of 30 people claiming billionaire Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist George Soros is influencing the city of Edmonton’s proposed sanctuary city policy rallied outside city hall Saturday afternoon. 
  Speakers including Jeff Sharpe, from a group calling itself Canadian Coalition, read Bible verses and spoke against Access without Fear policies, which allow people who do not have proper immigration documentation to access city services without concern for their
  
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