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MURPHY’S SPORTS LAW
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By David Murphy
Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaper
With the recent NBA championship by the
Toronto Raptors, memories have Would like to acknowledge and thank our
been flooding back from the last
student contributors from the Carleton
Canadian team to win one of the Sports Energy
major sports championships in University School of Journalism &
North America. Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaper
Communication Studies.
I was starting college in
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Jays had the whole country Sports Energy
1992 when the Toronto Blue
a buzz about baseball. I had Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaper
always been a major league
baseball fan, having played We are proud to offer students the
Little League ball since I was five Sports Energy
years old, but there was opportunity to have their work published.
Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaper
something special about seeing the
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whole country get behind one team. Roberto
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captivated fans with their moxy (not much different from how the Paint, Blind & Shutters
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Raptors carried themselves during the latest run).
Players most fans had never heard of ended up being celebrated Presents “Famous Sports Quotes”
nationally after key plays versus Atlanta that fall of ’92. Ed
Sprague and Derek Bell led the bench brigade with key plays to
help the Jays to victory. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking
we used when we created them. “ Albert Einstein
The country rallied after the first game in Atlanta when during
the
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opening ceremonies of game two, the US national guard brought
out the Canadian flag upside down. Many people took that as a
sign of disrespect and how little the Americans, their teams, and
their fans gave any respect to us Canadians. 100%
Canadian
Who could forget the triple play that wasn’t. With today’s made
rules of video replay, Dion Sanders would’ve been called out oil based
after Kelly Gruber’s tag on his heel the umpire totally missed.
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To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi “there’s a presence I haven’t felt
since…”
Thank you Toronto Raptors for bringing back the sense of
national pride
Since 1988
and unity that we’ve missed for over a generation. Celebrating 31 years
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