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• When Montreal head coach Marc Trestman first joined the CFL back in 2008, he said thatkatchewan Roughriders may be on to something with their press conference in front of over 30,000 fans in Mosiac Stadium Saturday afternoon. Prior to the kickoff of the Riders-Lions game, Premier Brad Wall, Mayor Pat Fiacco and Rider president Jim Hopson announced that the team would indeed have a new stadium that will be ready by 2017. I have been to a lot of press conferences in my time and heard a lot of big announcements, but I can honestly say that none of them compare to the deafening roar and standing ovation from over 30,000 people when they heard they were getting a new stadium. Now that is a presser! Congratulations to all those in Saskatchewan who worked for the last few years to make this happen. Once the Lions-Riders game got going, football fans saw a very interesting and exciting well-coached game. A game where we saw yet another long kick return for a touchdown this one by the Riders Tristan Jackson, who took a missed field goal 129 yards for the major. It is the seventh kick return for a touchdown this year after just 12 games. Now you cant project these kinds of things, because there will be a correction in the performances of the kick cover teams, but if you did we would be looking at around 40 kick return TDs on the year and a lot of grey hair for the coaches in the league. It was also noteworthy that the Lions in this game did not create one turnover. Im not sure what is more of a surprise - that the Lions didnt create one with such a solid defensive line and veteran secondary or that the Riders have now gone three games in a row without a turning the ball over once. Darseychinastore.com/]Cheap Jerseys China. Tom Higgins, director of officiating for the CFL, confirmed the news Sunday and said Proulx remains in an Edmonton hospital but is scheduled to be released Monday before flying home to Montreal on Friday. NFL Jerseys Cheap . Poland led 3-0 by halftime. Ludovic Obraniak scored in the 13th minute, then striker Robert Lewandowski and midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski scored in a two-minute span just before halftime. Marcin Wasilewski made it 4-0 in the 77th.LOS ANGELES -- Dwight Howard wasnt his usually playful self in the Los Angeles Lakers locker room. He refused to answer certain questions and shared few personal thoughts about his ugly reunion with the Orlando Magic. "It wasnt emotional," Howard said. Maybe that was part of the problem -- and one reason the Magic left the reunion with their biggest win of the season. Arron Afflalo scored 30 points, Glen Davis added 23 points and 12 rebounds, and the Magic beat Howards Lakers in their first game against their longtime centre, 113-103 on Sunday night. Howard had 21 points and 15 rebounds against his former team, but the rebuilding Magic rallied impressively with a 40-point fourth quarter for just their fourth win in 14 games, snapping a three-game skid. Orlando pulled the upset partly by intentionally fouling Howard, who went 9 for 21 at the line -- including 7 for 14 in the fourth quarter. The Magic made their decisive 12-2 run while Howard wasnt helping the Lakers at the line in the final minutes, with Nelson and J.J. Redick hitting 3-pointers along the way. Howards first few months with the Lakers havent gone the way he might have expected after the four-team, 12-player trade in August: a sub-.500 record, a shocking coaching change, an injured point guard and an unsightly amplification of Howards career-long woes at the free-throw line, where he has dropped to 46.5 per cent (87 for 187) for the season. "As a team, our effort wasnt there," Howard said. "We have to start the game with energy and play the whole game the same way. We didnt do that tonight, and they capitalized on it and they got a win." Howard left the court after the game without shaking hands with the Magic -- not that he has many close friends left in blue pinstripes anyway. Orlando has new coach Jacque Vaughn, a new front-office staff and just five players who played with Howard. "Let Dwight be Dwight. If he wants to walk off the court, its cool," said Davis, who overlapped with Howard only last season in Orlando. "No hard feelings. He lost. Id feel bad, too. I wouldnt want to shake nobodys hand. We werent even really thinking about him. We just wanted to get this win. I didnt talk to him. Im here to play basketball. Im not here to be buddies." Kobe Bryant scored 34 points for the Lakers, who dropped to 3-4 under new coach Mike DAntoni with another inconsistent performance featuring deficient defence. Metta World Peace scored 15 points and Pau Gasol added 11 for the Lakeers, who went back to poor form just two nights after a 122-point effort in a blowout win over Denver.dddddddddddd "Seems like we cant get out of our own way," DAntoni said. "I think our problem is just not coming out with the intensity and the purpose that we need to have. ... Were slow right now. Just athletically, were struggling with young teams that run up and down." Jameer Nelson had 19 points and 13 assists after nearly sitting out with tendinitis during the Magics most impressive win under Vaughn. Orlando also started a stretch of five road games in eight days with just its second road win all season. Afflalo, the former UCLA star who moved from Denver to Orlando in the trade that sent Howard to the Lakers, had his highest-scoring game in a Magic uniform. "The way we lost the past three games, Im sure our fans just wanted to see us win in general," Afflalo said. "But for us to kick-start this road trip by playing well, against the Lakers in particular, they should be proud of that. Its a huge confidence boost for us." Vaughn said before the game that the Magic wouldnt hesitate to force Howard to beat them at the free-throw line in a close game. Howard missed seven of his first nine free throws against the Magic before finishing with more free-throw attempts than the entire Orlando roster, which went 19 for 20. "That kind of got us out of our rhythm a little bit," said Antawn Jamison, who scored 10 points for Los Angeles. "But its unexplainable ... to play the way we did tonight after playing so well the other night." Howard spent the past eight years as the face of the Orlando franchise since the Magic plucked him out of his Atlanta high school with the first pick in the 2004 draft. He made six All-Star teams and won the NBAs defensive player of the year award three times, leading the Magic to the 2009 NBA finals during five straight playoff appearances. It all fell apart over the previous two seasons when Howard criticized the organization, flirted with numerous trades and eventually bumped heads with coach Stan Van Gundy. Howard missed the end of last season with a herniated disc in his back. NOTES: The Lakers dont visit Orlando until March 12. ... World Peace hit the 1,000th 3-pointer of his career in the third quarter. ... Lakers G Steve Nash did shooting and dribbling work on the court before the game. The two-time MVP has missed 15 straight games with a small fracture in his right leg, and the Lakers arent sure when hell return. ' ' '

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