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Tim Thomas: No More What-iffing

Throughout Tim Thomas’s career, he has spent much time trying to prove naysayers wrong about his ability to be successful in the National Hockey League. For example, the Bruins’ goaltender was voted the team’s Seventh Player Award winner twice (in 2006 and ‘07) as the player exceeding expectations.
Thomas is no longer surprising anyone. Yesterday, the [...]

What if you had never heard of baseball and signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates?

Two youngsters from small Indian villages, who dreamt to be part of the Indian Cricket Team, are now hoping to be starting pitchers and play for the Pittsburgh Pirates in Major League Baseball someday.
The story of Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh is a rags to riches story. Dinesh Patel hails from the village of Khanpur [...]

What if artificial legs aren’t an advantage?

Oscar Pistorius will appeal yesterday’s track and field ruling that shut the South African amputee athlete out of the Olympic Games.
“I feel that it is my responsibility, on behalf of other disabled athletes, to stand firm,” Pistorius said yesterday after the International Association of Athletics Federations said the carbon-fibre prosthetics attached to Pretorius’s stumps give [...]

What if a promise was kept after death?

An unforgettable 2007 Grey Cup house party was held five weeks after the game.
The CFL’s championship trophy paid a visit to the Lawrence family in Regina on Sunday evening, and into Monday morning. The Cup, won by the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Nov. 25, was brought to the family’s home in memory of Erin Lawrence.
“It was [...]

What if there had been ski jumps?

Eddie the Eagle’s spectacularly bad performance as a ski jumper at the 1988 Olympics made him a hero of sorts - and a national joke. Since then he’s been working as a plasterer. But now his life story is being made into a film starring Steve Coogan. Stuart Jeffries meets him
‘What annoys me,” says [...]