December 2009
Attakora top Under-20 player for second year
By RON FANFAIR
Top young soccer prospect Nana Attakora has been voted Canada's best Under-20 player for the second straight year.
He captured 36.5 per cent of the votes of the national team coaches and the Canadian coaches who have taken the Canadian Soccer Association's national course at the "A" and "B" levels.
The former national Under-20 defender's playing time with Toronto FC in Major League Soccer (MLS) increased significantly this season from 318 minutes in 2009 to 1652 minutes this season.
Davison to join Canadian cricketers in the UAE
By RON FANFAIR
Former Canadian captain John Davison is among three overseas-based players who have declared their availability to participate in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Twenty/20 World Cup qualifier in the United Arab Emirates.
Davison, who last represented Canada in the ICC World Cup qualifier in South Africa last May, along with New Zealand-based batsmen Ian Billcliff and Geoff Barnett are expected to be included in the national side for the Twenty/20 qualifier to be played February 9-13.
Coalition set up to raise team sport awareness
By RON FANFAIR
Cricket Canada is among 19 national sports organizations that are part of the Canadian Team Sport Coalition (CTSC) established to collaborate on common issues and opportunities including sponsorship, public policy, sport tourism, multi-sport event hosting, athletic services and funding.
In addition, they will raise awareness of the importance of team sport. Though the large majority of Canadians take part in sport as part of a team, just 17 per cent of the government's core funding goes to team sport organizations.
Copenhagen Accord or Copenhagen Discord?
By PAT WATSON
If "the meek shall inherit the Earth", as is stated in the Beatitudes, then we might speculate that it is the compassionate that will allow such an inheritance to fall into the hands of the meek. For, given the conclusion of the meeting of world leaders in Copenhagen last week if the compassionate do not come forward now in force, human life - and who knows what other life forms - is going down a dreadful path.
No Christmas like the Christmas of my childhood
By MURPHY BROWNE
Mooma, Mooma would you like to join your sonny?
I am over here, happy in the mother country
Darling, for the Christmas, your son would be really jumping
Listen to the chorus of what we all will be singing...
Drink a rum and a punch a crema, drink a rum
Is Christmas morning!
Drink a rum and a punch a crema, drink a rum
Mama, drink if you drinking!
Drink a rum and a punch a crema, drink a rum.
Again Mooma, I have invited Jamaica
Lovely Grenada, Barbados also Guyana
It's an invitation for a stupendous occasion
