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The Grey Cup is the name of both the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy (Cup) that is awarded to the victorious team (The Grey Cup Winners). The Cup was donated in 1909 by the then Governor General of Canada, Lord Earl Grey. The cup was to be recognized to the top amateur rugby football team in Canada. At this time Canadian rugby had become extremely different from the rugby union football from which it originated. The Cup, over time, became the property of the Canadian Football League, which is known as the CFL. The CFL had evolved and become a professional league that played Canadian football. The university football teams compete now for the Vanier Cup. Recent changes in the league have brought about the consideration of changing the name of the Grey cup to the name of the current years corporate sponsor. Traditionalists of the CFL have openly objected the idea, stating that the Canadian Football league should not trade a historical and national treasure for shore term leage profit. So far the cup hasn’t been renamed!

As I mentioned earlier the cup was first used in 1909. Below I have listed every fifth grey cup winner from 1909 up until this year, 2005.

1909 – University of Toronto Varsity Blues (26-6) over the Toronto Parkdale
1914 – Toronto Argonauts (14-2) over the University of Toronto
1919 – Not held due to the Spanish Flu Pandemic
1924 – Queen’s University Golden Gaels (11-3) over the Toronto Balmy Beach
1929 – Hamilton Tigers (14-3) over the Regina Roughriders
1934 – Sarnia Imperials (20-12) over the Regina Roughriders
1939 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers (8-7) over the Ottawa Rough Riders
1944 – Montreal HMCS (7-6) over the Hamilton Flying Wildcats
1949 – Montreal Alouettes (28-15) over the Calgary Stampeder
1954 – Edmonton Eskimos (26-25) over the Montreal Alouettes
1959 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers (21-7) over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
1964 – B.C. Lions (34-24) over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
1969 – Ottawa Rough Riders (29-11) over the Saskatchewan Roughriders
1974 – Montreal Alouettes (20-7) over the Edmonton Eskimos
1979 – Edmonton Eskimos (17-9) over the Montreal Alouettes
1984 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers (47-17) over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
1989 – Saskatchewan Roughriders (43-40) over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
1994 – B.C. Lions (26-23) over the Baltimore Football Club
1999 – Hamilton Tiger-Cats (32-21) over the Calgary Stampeders
2004 – Toronto Argonauts (27-19) over the B.C. Lions

Amont the active teams here are the overall Grey Cup standings for most wins in the CFL:
- Toronto Argonauts: 15 wins
- Edmonton Eskimos: 12 wins
- Winnipeg Blue Bombers: 10 wins
- Hamilton Tiger-Cats: 8 wins
- Calgary Stampeders and Montreal Alouettes: 5 wins each
- British Columbia Lions: 4 wins
- Saskatchewan Roughriders: 2 wins
- Ottawa Renegades: 0 wins

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Ryan Fyfe is the owner and operator of All Grey – www.allgreyspot.com, which is the best site on the internet for all grey related information.

The famous telecom services provider Orange has announced the trials today for its new 20Mbps service in the fixed broadband category. The main aim of the trial is to ensure that the service is reliable for customers, and delivers the promised speed effectively.

Director of broadband and home at the Orange UK division, Asif Aziz said that these trials are necessary for plugging the loopholes in the service, so that a high quality is delivered to the customers. He added that the new service would be a big step in line with the company’s commitment to offering better broadband facilities to the consumers. (click for more info on broadband).

Currently, Orange offers services only up to 8Mbps, and the good news for the existing customers is that the 20Mbps service will not cost anything extra, as it would be offered at the same price as the 8Mbps service. As far as the speed goes, it must be kept in mind that not everyone will get exactly 20 Mbps, as this is an ‘up to’ 20 Mbps service and the end-user speed would depend on distance from the local exchange, and the quality of the connection line.

The new service is at present available to a limited number of customers who will act as testers for it. The company has made a special site for these testers, so that they can offer their suggestions, access support from experts, and also get updates on the company’s new developments in the service.

Although the final date for a nationwide release of the service is still to be decided, it seems quite likely that the current customers of Orange will be able to get access to it during the latter half of this year.

online sports gambling wager

Some gaming fans will likely have read the slogan “offshore sports betting”, but some may not be totally savvy what that represents. An overseas gambling internet site primarily works outside the rule of any distinct nation or else it can also mean an internet based gambling site which bases its main servers within the borders of a land in which networked gambling is not presently prohibited. Briefly then, it is a sports gambling organization running extraneous to the state of the customer. Web based gambling world wide web sites are at present modulated by 3 councils. They are OSGA (the Offshore Gaming Association), the IGC (Interactive Gaming Council) and finally the Fidelity Trust Gaming Association FTGA.

The OSGA is in fact a self controlling watch-dog federation that keeps tabs on the thriving overseas sports gambling business, their purpose is to afford the paying public the facility to readily determine reliable internet businesses to play games with. It labors to guard consumer’s rights, and also they charge no membership fees. The association is an extremely competent and neutral third party organization who give non-biased judgments, founded on customer feedback, independent research, calls, inside advice and in addition provides industry information.

The IGC is a non commercially influenced organisation. The administration was designed to allow a forum for involved participants to discuss concerns and in addition to boost mutual interests in the world-wide web-based sports betting business, to establish just and also accountable professional standard procedures and forms that aim to heighten buyer confidence in internet wagering commodities and services, and to help as the trade’s general practise interpreter and in addition the council supplies an information clearing house.

The IGC has established a distinction for advancing dependability, equity and also credibility because of the ethical code it exhibits, also its allure to business enterprises of good ethics. The IGC regulates offshore gambling by means of using an extraordinary 10-step code of conduct and in addition charges betting business concerns license fees to display their logo. Displeased betting devotees can, if they desire, state any of their misunderstandings to the IGC.

The Fidelity Trust Gaming Association has been formed in order to construct a standard to raise the procedures of networked gambling sites. The council proposerealize that conducting business with businesses of honorable standing, they are able to cultivate a union of the most honest and most expert online gambling operations worldwide.

These are agencies who review the conduct practised by web based sports betting and which should function to allay most if not all of the trepidation experienced by skeptics. On-line betting sites are actually harmless, since personal data should not be necessary also the dividends and the gaming odds are mostly as balanced and reasonable as your usual Vegas-style Vegas style sports-bet. These websites eradicate traveling time, but retain the fundamental atmosphere, only today you are in a position to game in your house.

I can only assume historically, the earliest man must have faced a dilemma when he went off to hunt for food. The wild animals were big, and if you got too close, they could devour you before you got the chance to kill them. There were no guns at this point, so man probably had to put himself in harm’s way more times then not, just to increase his chances of catching his prey. I can assume at this point and time, man was thinking of ways to increase his chances of catching his prey, while trying to reduce the potential physical harm to himself. Maybe this is when the idea of the spear began to form in man’s mind.

The spear, in its most basic form, was a stick that was sharpened at the end. Soon after the spear, came the bow. The bow was a device used to hurl the spear distances greater then man could throw with his arm. The device used in conjunction with the bow, would later become known as an arrow. Some of the oldest arrowheads were found in Africa, and were dated before 25,000 B.C. The first composite bow was created by the Egyptians; this occurred sometime around 2800 B.C.

For obvious reasons, the bow and arrow became a great tool for hunting food. And over time man even found ways to improve the accuracy of his shooting; he did this by adding feathers to his arrows. The bow and arrow also became a great tool for fighting. Archery was a weapon for many of the early armies. The Egyptians used archers on the back of chariots, they were highly skilled, and could easily outflank an enemy army with devastating effect. Probably the most famous archers in history were the Mongols. Genghis Khan was the leader of the Mongols who were expert horsemen who could stand high in the stirrups and shoot arrows in all directions. Maybe the most recognized name in archery is William Tell. Legend has it that William refused to bow in the presence of authority, so he was ordered to shoot an apple off of his son’s head.

Bows were still being used in battles, until the late 1500s. In 1520 AD the musket was invented. English archers were last used in battle in 1644 AD. With the invention of the firearm, it became apparent that there was no longer any need for archers on the battlefield.

Though no longer used for battles, archery skill contests became popular in England, toward the end of the 1600s. In the US archery was basically a Native American activity until 1828, when the United Bowmen of Philadelphia was formed. The National Archery Association was established in 1879, and the first national tournament was held that year in Chicago. Archery was actually a competition in the second modern Olympic Games in 1900. Unfortunately, because so many countries had different rules on how they judged the sport; the Olympics dropped archery as a competition after 1920. The FITA was formed in 1931, in Paris. What this organization did was to create standardized rules, for archery in international competition. By 1972, enough countries had affiliated themselves with FITA, that it helped archery to be restored as an Olympic event.

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Sports fans love to debate. This is part of the excitement of sports, arguing about what players are best at their respective game or position. One that has become surprisingly popular pits second-year star LeBron James against various other greats, such as Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, and others. It’s surprising not only because LeBron is so young, so most people would exclude him but also because it really shouldn’t be an argument at all.

That’s right. This one is a no-brainer. Stop all the arguments, the debates and the loosely-constructed ideas that other players in the National Basketball Association are better than LeBron. I’m here to tell you today that there is no reasonable debate — LeBron James is without a doubt the best basketball player on the planet Earth!

Okay, before you blow your stack about his age, lack of experience and the fact that he has yet to win a title, like Kobe and others, let’s consider the best barometer of a great basketball player.

Truly great players possess all of the fundamental skills: shooting, passing, ball handling, rebounding, shot blocking and defending. Now, players like Kobe, McGrady and Kevin Garnett certainly have these skills. But to truly separate players, we need to go beyond these skills. Consider two more factors: the ability to dominate at any position and to make all players around you better. This is the true test of greatness.

Larry Bird had it, Magic Johnson had it, and Michael Jordan certainly had it. Does Kobe? I say no. Does McGrady? Definitely not. Garnett may, but he still has too many nights of 14 points and 9 rebounds in a losing effort to say he definitely has it.

Now, consider LeBron. The skills are unquestionable. He averages 25 points, nearly 8 rebounds and just under 8 assists per game, in only his second year in the league, at the tender age of 20. He’s the youngest to score 40, to get a triple double, to start in an All Star game, and the list grows every night he plays. Further ponder the fact that at 6-8 and a muscular 240 pounds and with uncanny speed, quickness and leaping ability, LeBron can handle the ball like a point guard, shoot like most decent (not great, yet) off guards, and post up with the best forwards and centers in the NBA. He blocks shots like a center, can shut down anyone, with his size and quickness, and he gets to the basket and draws fouls better than anyone. He creates a mismatch every night, because he is completely unguardable.

Finally, in just his second year, he’s taken a team that won 17 games prior to his arrival to a 50-win pace. And for the first time since the early 1990s, the Cavaliers are now a legitimate playoff contender. I doubt any coach in the league wants to face the Cavaliers and LeBron in a seven-game series.

So, when people want to discuss the greatest players in the game, tell them to forget any argument that doesn’t start and end with the name LeBron James.

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Increasingly carpet retailers have embarked on a mission to further increase awareness among people at how effective home ideas with carpet can be in transforming your home. The majority of this season’s carpet designs have an extravagant handmade feel, which leads on from the trend for individuality as being the new luxury. Using carpet for ’spotlight areas’ in your home, such as bedrooms and snugs is a very effective way to add texture, a feeling of cosiness and comfort that makes the distinction between a house and a home evident.

For a long while carpet has been a material that interior designers have enjoyed incorporating within their designs, as it adds an element of style and warmth that goes beyond purely the aesthetics. It’s one thing people always mention after experiencing carpet used this way even if they have a preference for other types of flooring.

In many of the industry magazines it has been noted that sales of stripey carpets have gone up by 200% this year as things making an impact in the fashion world continue to infiltrate interior design, providing exciting, hip flooring options for living spaces.

Some of the top fashion gurus like Paul Smith have played a pivotal role in promoting the bold colour palettes now available in striped carpet collections. These new styles are grabbing headlines in the interior design industry and cladding the coolest floors across the UK. Bright coloured stripes can add an extra something to neutrally decorated rooms, or make a subtle impact, complementing different scale striped soft furnishings.

Striped carpet flooring makes a very definite style statement, along with introducing a wider selection of colours into the home – without having to rely on accessories – and adds a energetic feel that neutral tones alone are unable to. Bold tangerine and pinks are key to the fresh collections being revealed this season with complimentary colours including shades of greys and taupe’s.

For a long while it has been noted that there is a relationship between interior trends and fashion; there is also an agreement amongst those that work in the interior design industry that it’s really exciting to be working with carpet again after years of having to focus on alternative flooring choices such as wood. A stripy pattern can be put to stunning use in flooring and can be used as a great design tool. They can be used to lengthen rooms, change perspective, and bring together much wider colour palettes than you’d usually be able to use.

If you have loved sports since you were a child, but you are having trouble playing to your potential or you are simply too pressured by ideas of perfection to participate, there is a way for you to get back in the game. Anxiety, pressure, stress, and outside expectations are all culprits in delaying your best game. You may have been a great baseball star in college, but as you’ve grown older, you doubt your ability to perform to the same level. Or perhaps you make a living with your sports ability, but the overwhelming
pressure from others and from your own expectations are ruining your performance.

Whatever the role of sports in your daily life, you can have all the benefits of play with the successful results you want. But first, you will need to take a look at the factors that are holding you back. The best way to do this is with the help of a professional. You don’t have to go to a psychiatrist or a psychologist to see what thoughts are holding you back. Often, a trained hypnotist is a great person to get to the bottom of these destructive thoughts.

You will look at the ways in which your reactions to people and events create your world. For example, if you played a superior game one weekend and bombed the next, you may have labeled yourself a loser. Failing to see the big picture and to emphasize your strong points while learning from your mistakes will keep you in the rut of failure thinking.
Many athletes say that the pressure from others, including family, friends, and the public, make them unable to perform to their best ability. But these pressures exist for everyone, not just sports figures. The trick is to take these opinions and realize your powerlessness over other’s feeling about you and your talent.

A hypnotherapist can help you to visualize success, to fill your mind with positive thoughts that will crowd out and negate the destructive ones that hold you back. So keep an open mind and try this method out before you dismiss it. You could be a few sessions away from your best game ever.

Cheap pocket bike have all the same features of a normal pocket bike but are more affordable than a typical pocket bike. The cheap pocket bikes are available mostly in online auctions or resale marts or in sale outlets of foreign companies that mass-produce pocket bikes.

Formerly, pocket bikes were solely made by specialty manufacturers and sold at expensive prices. However, inexpensive pocket bikes enable more individuals to have access to this form of transportation. Inexpensive pocket bikes are developed with many of the features similar to regular bikes, such as disc brakes in the front and rear, racing tires, fairings, swing arms, etc.

Now, the U.S. pocket bike market has been taken over by cheap pocket bikes from Asia and abroad. However, there are certain limitations to the cheap bikes imported from Asia and abroad – though these bikes resemble well-known branded bikes, there is no reliable source for parts. And moreover, these bikes have also been known to easily rupture or crack, and local companies do not offer warranties and/or after-sales service or repairs.

Though cheap pocket bikes have drawbacks, they have stormed the Internet and the pocket bikes market. The easiest way to buy a cheap pocket bike is on the Internet. These cheap pocket bikes can go at speeds of up to 50 miles/h. The cheap pocket bike segment does not, however, as extensive a selection as the normal pocket bikes. On the other hand, cheap pocket bikes offer the fun, excitement, style, and features of a normal pocket bike at a relatively affordable price.

Another key secret is your exercise form. Perfect form is critical when performing any specific exercise in your own routine. Look at it this way. The amount of energy you expend will be the same, regardless of your “style” of performance. However, your muscle gains will be greatly reduced. Performing a series of exercises in poor form produces dismal muscle gains.

Let’s look at an example. Performing bench presses with 200 pounds of weight for ten repetitions requires exactly the same amount of work, regardless of how you perform the movement. If you cheat by using momentum to complete the repetitions however, only a very small number of muscle fibers will have been stimulated. The same amount of energy and time was used, but the muscles being worked were not fully involved. The only thing you have dramatically increased with this technique, is the chance of injury.

I’m not implying that such “cheat” methods should never be used. They can be used at the end of a given set of repetitions, if they can be done safely. In short, all repetition should be performed in perfect form, until which point it becomes impossible to perform any more without the slight use of momentum. At this point in the set, only enough momentum to complete an additional one to two repetitions should be used. And only if it can be done so safely.

In the case of the bench press above, a weight should be selected that allows you to perform up to eight repetitions in perfect form, without momentum or cheating. After performing the first eight, attempt two additional repetitions using just enough momentum to complete each one. In other words, don’t stop the exercise just because a slight level of cheating becomes necessary. Always strive to perform two additional repetitions, using a little momentum and all the effort that can be mustered, but only if it is safe to do so.

To make sure that muscle gains are achieved safely, form is one of the most important factors. Proper form should never be sacrificed in an attempt to add weight or artificially increase repetitions. Use as much weight as possible to perform repetitions, while maintaining good form. During the first few repetitions of a given exercise, you are able to move faster due to you high levels of strength available. However, this is also when injury is most likely to occur. It is important to make sure that the first few repetitions of every set are performed in a slow and deliberate manner. Perfect form should always be the goal.

Even though a muscle can produce more power at the beginning of a set, during the first few repetitions, the muscles and tendons have not been given enough time to warm-up. Injuries can happen at any point during the performance of an exercise. But, more often than not, the majority of injuries occur during the first few repetitions. Those that don’t, occur because of a lack of proper form.

Really slow repetition speed is not required. As a general rule, lifting the weight in approximately two seconds will work just fine. Lower the weight in approximately four seconds. This may vary slightly throughout the set, which is perfectly fine, however, always try to perform each repetition at this rate of speed. This will help you maintain excellent form.

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I’m sure most of you have been wondering where I’ve been the last month or so. No doubt with more important things to do, you probably concluded. Perhaps I was reading about Barry Bonds injecting himself with an assortment of steroids, maybe tracking pitch counts at the world baseball classic, or even watching the madness that is college basketball in March. Nope. Actually I was busy bidding on an Adam Morrison used gauze pad. Now before you think any less of me, just remember that it could be worse. I could have been the pathetic loser who bid on the non-used gauze pad that was ALMOST used by Morrison, but fell cleanly to the court instead. But that would have been just plain silly. This brings me to my question, which is, what constitutes a sports collectible anyway?

Im sure that I’m not the only person who has been noticing that people will try and sell just about anything online these days, whether it be used Band-Aids, or potato chips in the shape of Mother Theresa. But it seems to me that some people seem to be missing the point of what a collectible truly is, especially when it comes to sports collectibles. Sports collectibles have seemingly gone the way of most everything else in the world today, and to quote P Diddy, or Piddy Diddy, or Puffa Diddy Puff Puff Pass, or whatever the hell he calls himself these days, “its all about the Benjamin’s baby.” Not only did people used to have some pride in what they were selling to you, the consumer, but the buyer used to have some pride too. Apparently now, thanks to the internet and the ability to satisfy our needs for instant gratification, anyone can buy just about anything at the drop of a hat.

Remember when collectors on eBay and other auction sites were serious memorabilia collectors who were passionate about what they bought and sold to one another? It seems to me that the collectibles they bought and sold had meaning to them beyond simply dollar signs. They stood for the memories that the collectible conjured up inside of them. Maybe it was that Earl Campbell signed Longhorn’s mini helmet, which reminded you of the proud tradition of Texas football and more importantly the coveted Heisman Trophy. Or that Mickey Mantle signed baseball, reminiscent of Yankee dynasties of the past. That’s the feeling that sports collectibles always provided for me. And are we forgetting what made these items valuable to begin with? Its all about the athlete, the item, and TIME. Apparently some people are under the impression that they can ignore some of those components and just sell a used piece of material simply because it touched the skin of someone they consider to be famous. I can’t figure out if it’s a simple case of stupidity or just a severe lack of self esteem which requires these people to want to own “a piece” of an athlete so badly that they don’t care what they’re buying or who it touched, just as long as people recognize the athletes name long enough to allow themselves to brag to their friends about what they now own. Frankly I’m not sure who in their right mind would think more highly of someone who purchased a used gauze pad, but then again I don’t understand a lot of things about people in today’s world.

So the question remains, what can be done to put a stop to the embarrassment that is sham sports collectibles? For one thing, I say make the seller pay a non-refundable final value fee. People know a sham when they see one, and as is often the case, these items will be bid up into the millions of dollars before being pulled by the auction site because they realize how ridiculous and “unauthentic” these items are. I say the auction site needs to charge the seller a percentage of what the bid was before the item got pulled. You think people might stop selling this garbage online if they know it will cost them thousands of dollars in fees, while getting nothing in return from the buyer? You’re damn right they would stop. If people want to waste there time goofing around and selling peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or Jay Leno look-a-like potato chips that’s there problem, but when this nonsense infringes on the world of sports collectibles, that’s where I draw the line. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go bid on some Adam Morrison used Kleenex.

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