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Trainer Mitchell King with Latter Day Ace at Assiniboia Downs. Ace has a storied history of winning on Mother's Day.
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TOP STORIES
Fish filleted in season opener
By Gary Lawless The first sign that things might not go smoothly for the Winnipeg Goldeyes on Opening Day was the absence of P.A. man Ron Arnst. From there things gradually unravelled into a night of unfulfilled promise.
Goldeyes have grown up
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HOCKEY
Hold your hearses, Flyers not dead yet
By Pierre LeBrun PHILADELPHIA -- Players always say they don't read newspapers but yet the Philadelphia Flyers admit they were more than a little perturbed at all the talk of a Pittsburgh-Detroit Stanley Cup final. <Continued> -
Stage set for Turco heroics
By Larry Lage DETROIT -- Marty Turco has quite an opportunity in front of him. <Continued> -
Hold your hearses, Flyers not dead yet
By Pierre LeBrun PHILADELPHIA -- The Pittsburgh Penguins will have to wait at least a few more days to make their travel plans for the Stanley Cup final. <Continued> -
Team Canada heavy favourites to grab the gold
By Dan Barnes QUEBEC -- For reasons that remain as mysterious as the unlisted ingredients in a Swedish meatball, the Tre Kronor crowd was actually favoured to beat Team Canada last year in Moscow. <Continued> -
FOOTBALL
Forget Austin already, it's Miller time in Riderville
By Ashley Prest It seems Ken Miller is spending a lot of time these days explaining himself and the 2008 CFL season is still over a month away. <Continued> -
BASEBALL
Goldeyes have grown up
Randy Turner It's a sun-drenched afternoon, contrary to rumours that summer will never come, and Winnipeg Goldeyes manager Rick Forney is talking about a baseball team-in-progress. <Continued> -
BASKETBALL
Barkley stiffs casino
By Ken Ritter LAS VEGAS -- Charles Barkley acknowledged he owes a US$400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino and promised Thursday to repay it after a prosecutor said the retired NBA star faced criminal charges. <Continued> -
OTHER SPORTS
Clansmen lay whipping on Reivers, also amass most macaroni
On the Home Front / Ashley Prest The Murdoch McKay Clansmen defeated the Kildonan East Reivers 23-6 Thursday to win the first Home Run Sports Vocational Bowl -- a high school football exhbition game -- at East Side Stadium, but both teams came away winners. <Continued> -
Ace is tops for King
By George Williams On Dec. 21, 2004, Sheryle Mitchell of Minnewaukan, N.D., was on her way to the hospital with her husband Gary. She looked over at her husband of 36 years from her side of the pickup truck, smiled, and died suddenly. <Continued> -
Graded Selections
George Williams Friday, May 16, 2008 Post Time 7 p.m. <Continued> -
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Sharapova inherits No. 1 ranking
ROME -- Maria Sharapova will assume the No. 1 ranking in women's tennis as a result of Justine Henin's retirement. <Continued>
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