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David Beckham likely to make debut in Toronto, Canada

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Eric Katz
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Becks’ North American debut likely slated for Toronto Jeremy Sandler, CanWest News Service; National Post

TORONTO – Watching Becks on the pitch or having a Beck’s on the beach may be an August long weekend dilemma for soccer fans in Toronto this summer.

David Beckham, the one-time England captain who last month signed a $250-million US contract to join the Los Angeles Galaxy, is currently set to make his Major League Soccer debut against Toronto FC on Aug. 5.

The North American Soccer League will see David Beckham of the Los Angeles Galaxy make his debut in Toronto on August 5th. Beckham will be playing against Toronto FC in its new purpose built stadium in downtown Toronto next to Lake Ontario. Tickets are going quickly as soccer fans in North America look to see how the former England Captain plays against Canada’s only professional team in the new league.

Hockey Tycoon Buys British Premier League Team Liverpool FC

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Eric Katz
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The Gazette
Published: Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Montreal Canadiens majority owner George N. Gillett Jr. has taken a huge step toward expanding his sports empire, today coming to terms for ownership of the English Premier League’s Liverpool F.C. with fellow American sports tycoon Tom Hicks, owner of the NHL’s Dallas Stars, for a total sum estimated at $1 billion Canadian.

We are now seeing more and more ‘internationalization’ and ‘co-branding’ of sports teams across different types of sports in different countries. This is surely the beginning of a much larger phenomenon to come between big league ownership in North America and Europe.

Canada World Junior Hockey Champs again

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Eric Katz
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Michael Petrie, CanWest News Service

Team Canada saved its best stretch of hockey for the biggest game of the world junior championship.

With a thunderous opening period, the Canadians rolled out to a 3-0 lead on Russia and never relinquished in a 4-2 decision in Leksand, Sweden. The win gave Canada its third-straight world junior gold medal and marked the nations 18th victory in a row, stretching back to the round-robin opener in 2005.

National pride in beating the Russians at ice hockey stretches back to the great 1972 Canada Russia series in which Canada won in a battle on the rink and in the minds of those in the east and west.

New advanced fabrics to make their NHL debut !

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Eric Katz
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Studs like new duds

DALLAS — The new Reebok sweaters, pants and socks unveiled on Monday by the National Hockey League are supposed to make today’s players skate faster — although that remains to be seen with Hal Gill.

The claim, after wind-tunnel testing at MIT in Boston, is that there’s nine per cent less drag than with the league’s current billowy jerseys, which are anything but form-fitting.
“It’ll be like going from a Ford to a Ferrari … they’ll still be in a car, but it’ll be sleeker,” says Matt O’Toole, the president of Reebok-CCM Hockey.

What can you say about Canada and professional Sports? The biggest game in any town is hockey. And that means continual technological change in equipment, skates, sticks and now new wind tunnel tested materials which have less wind drag on them. Will the players soon be wearing F1 spoilers on their helmets? Stay tuned !