The Gaels skated their way to the overall title at the Queen’s Invitational. (Ian Babbit)
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Gaels golden at Invitational
The Queen’s figure skating team opened their season with a bang, dominating the competition at last Friday’s Queen’s Invitational en route to a 13-point victory over the second-place team from McGill.
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B-ball battles Ottawa
Last weekend, the Gaels shut up all the talk of inconsistency that has surrounded their team so far this season. Indeed, it was broom and dustpan time in Bartlett Gym as the Queen’s women’s basketball team swept games against Carleton and Ottawa. And don’t let the men’s two weekend losses fool you. The slightly darker cloud that hangs over a team that fell to two of the nation’s top five basketball programs offers more silver lining than a NASA seamstress.
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B.J. Ryan: brilliant move, or bust?
The Blue Jays may have made a huge mistake in signing lefty closer B.J. Ryan to a five-year, $47- million contract. With an excess of cash to spend over the next two years, Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi wanted to send the message that the Toronto franchise was ready to step up financially and challenge the Yankees and the Red Sox for supremacy in the AL East. However, Ryan isn’t that message.
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The future of athletic enhancement
Imagine a performance-enhancing technology whereby a single injection of a modified virus that could not only alter your genes to make you jump higher or run faster, but would also be virtually undetectable.
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‘The extraordinary in the commonplace’
Renaissance man Dave Bidini is at it again. The author of the critically acclaimed and widely popular Tropic of Hockey returns to write about the game closest to his heart. His latest offering is a book about the triumphs and heartaches of the everyday rec-league hockey player. Yep, Bidini’s singing this one out to the scrubs.
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The Journal Athletes of the Week
Jan Stirling made a statement in her first CIS competition last weekend, winning three gold medals. The first-year engineering student from Wolfville, N.S. ran exceptional times in the 300 metres, the 4x200-metre relay, and the 4x400-metre relay at the team’s first meet at McGill. In the 300 metres, Stirling ran the fourth-fastest time, and the three people still ahead of her are all hall of fame inductees.
