I offer the following, all from the cbc this week, on their own merits.
Discuss.
--Mike
'Coaches tell PM to get serious about sport funding' --
http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/02/09/Sports/coaches_funding050209.html
'"I think that as far as amateur sports are concerned on the CBC, then, as I was saying earlier, our premise, our work had been based on the assumption that we were working as part of the Olympic movement," he says.
"But it turns out that we are going to have to think again about that,
since the IOC itself has made it clear that it operates as more of a
professional sports body than anything else."' --
http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/02/08/Sports/olympicvote050208.html
'In a stunning reversal of fortune, Montreal has won back the right to
host the 2005 world aquatic championship.'
<snip>
'The fallout after the loss was considerable: Montreal media were ablaze
with criticisms of the event's organizers, and CBC lost host broadcaster
rights to the event in a year which has seen the corporation lose hockey
and the broadcast rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics.
On top of that, Yvon DesRochers, the chief executive officer of the
organizing committee for the event, was found dead in his car. Police said
he had committed suicide.' --
http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/02/10/Sports/world-aquatics050210.html