Winning streak at 54 games
It took the McGill Martlets 112 years to win their first national championship. It took them just one year to win another. The Martlets solidified their status as the country's top team when they defeated the Laurier Golden Hawks 3-1 on Sunday night to win the 2009 CIS Women's Ice Hockey Championship in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. McGill was ranked first all year long, and didn't lose a single game to a Canadian school.
Defensive back from Montreal was 23 years old
McGill Redmen football player Adriano Tassone died in a car accident early Wednesday morning near his home in the borough of St. Laurent. The U3 commerce student was 23 years old. A visitation for Tassone was held on Sunday at the Côte-des-Neiges Funeral Centre.
Oldest curling club in N. America hosts national tournament this week
The history of curling in Quebec is long and storied, from the creation of the Royal Montreal Curling Club-the oldest active athletic club in North America-to the recent success of Marie-France Larouche on the national stage. The history of the current McGill men's curling team may be decidedly shorter, but Coach Kevin Alladin's team will look to change that this week when they compete in the Canadian University Curling Championships, held this year in Montreal, for the third time in as many years.
Charles Barkley argued throughout his career that athletes shouldn't be thought of as role models. After all, when children admire athletes, they're looking up to someone that they likely can't become. "Not many people can be like we are," Barkley said. Instead, he believed that kids should look up to doctors and teachers-those with professional careers that are attainable through hard-work and dedication-so that they don't have their dreams broken somewhere down the line when their athletic ability fails them.