By Malin Jordan
QUEBEC CITY (CUP)– Geoff Kerr of the University of Calgary Dinos won the gold medal in the men’s 10 km race last Saturday in Quebec City at the 2006 Canadian Interuniversity Sport cross country national championships. Hosted by Universite Laval, and held on the historic Plains of Abraham, the championships brought student-athletes from across Canada… Continue reading Cross Country: Gryphons take team gold, Kerr takes individual gold
By Todd Andre
The Dino’s trip to the West Coast failed to produce points, as our woman’s basketball team dropped both games over the weekend. In the season opener on Fri., Nov. 3, the girls lost 61-58 to the University of Victoria Vikes in a defensive battle. The next night, the team crossed the Georgian Strait to face… Continue reading Online Exclusive: Women’s Basketball – Dinos lose twice over weekend.
By Sarah Malik
A curious scene was playing out underneath the dining table in Lahore, Pakistan. A man had his feet intertwined with that of an overweight woman in her fifties, his wife. Her shalwar rode up and exposed her dark-haired legs, a typical sight in Pakistan. She laughed at his amorous advances, turned toward him, and the… Continue reading The “elusive” female orgasm
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride offers little surprise throughout the story of Victor van Dort and his socially-taboo marriage to the titular Corpse Bride, but manages to be entertaining anyway. The story is simple: Victor, voiced by Johnny Depp, finds himself staring death in the face when he accidentally betroths a corpse who subsequently comes to… Continue reading Film Review: Corpse Bride not quite dead on
Over 100 years ago, Calgary hosted the first Calgary Exhibition. In 1912, Guy Weadick set out to create the biggest, most extravagant Wild West Cowboy Show that would surpass even Buffalo Bill. What Weadick didn’t anticipate was that this show would continue for over 95 years and would become recognized world-wide as a true celebration… Continue reading The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth… For realz yo
By Lee Bogle and Sean Nyilassy
November 5-7, the Dinos women’s basketball team travelled westward ho to have dinner with the national champions of the last two years. First on the menu was an omelette large enough to feed the team. To make it they needed to break a giant Thunderbird egg. And not only did it break, but our fine… Continue reading Women’s basketball change the record
By The Lee Bogle and Sean Nyilassy
The Dinos women’s basketball team left another pile of crushed dreams and really tall sobbing post-adolescent girls at the Panda HoopFest tournament Oct. 22-24. With the body count now at six straight, the girls wrapped up their pre-season with a bang and another trophy. The first victim fell Friday night when our Dinos met the… Continue reading Preseason princesses
By Katie Hobday
The Dinos women’s field hockey team is getting better at losing. After three straight losses on home turf Oct. 8-10, the team is 0-6-0 for the season. While this doesn’t sound like the beginning of a great story, being a glass-half-full kind of girl, I prefer to put a positive spin on things. After a… Continue reading Winless wallowing
Had the girls of the Dinos Field Hockey team spent Friday and Saturday night getting drunk at the Den as I did, their regular season record would not be any different. Their first Canada West tournament was played Sept. 24-26 in Vancouver, BC. Albeit no wins were to be had, the ladies did learn some… Continue reading Some bumps along the way
If I were ever to set foot on the pseudo-grass in McMahon stadium I would likely be nude, drunk and fleeing security. But I’m an extraordinary human being. For the ladies of the Dinos women’s field hockey team, the field has played home to tryouts since their return from a U.S. tour Aug. 28. After… Continue reading Field Hockeysaurs take to the green meadows