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From Canadian basketball phenoms Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins to Boston Strong and the Saskatchewan Roughriders emotional Grey Cup victory on home turf, TSN reveals its highly-anticipated list of the years Top 10 sports stories, as selected by a panel of TSN commentators, reporters, and producers. New Balance Mt580 Pas Cher . The No. 1 sports story of 2013 will be announced during TSNs Christmas Eve tradition, the SportsCentre: Year In Review presented by PokerStars.net, airing Tuesday, Dec. 24 at 8pm et on TSN (encore at Midnight et/9pm pt on TSN) and hosted by Darren Dutchyshen and Jennifer Hedger. Along with counting down the Top 10 stories of 2013, the show also unveils the years Top 10 highlights, lowlights, and sound bites, as well as a special edition of the Ultimate SC. TSNs Top 10 sports stories of 2013 (listed in no set order): - MLB stars Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun are implicated in PED use - The Toronto Maple Leafs epic Game 7 collapse against the Boston Bruins - The Saskatchewan Roughriders host and win the 101st Grey Cup - South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius is charged with murdering his girlfriend - The rise of Canadian basketball phenoms Anthony Bennett, the first Canadian to go No. 1 in the NBA Draft, and Andrew Wiggins - the projected top pick 1 in next years draft - The Vancouver Canucks goaltender controversy surrounding Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider - The Boston Marathon bombing, followed by an outpouring of Boston Strong support and the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series at home - A power outage affects Super Bowl XLVII, which featured Ray Lewis last game and the Harbaugh brothers coaching against each other - The Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in a lockout-shortened season - LeBron James leads the Miami Heat to a second consecutive NBA Championship Beginning Saturday, SportsCentre will feature a daily preview of each Top 10 story on all editions of Canadas No. 1 sports news information show. TSN Radio stations across the country will also recap each Top 10 story, along with airing a radio version of the SportsCentre: Year In Review presented by PokerStars.net throughout the holidays. Join the conversation on TSNs Top 10 list by visiting TSN.ca/YearInReview to vote for you favourite sports story of the year and by discussing and debating the Top 10 stories of 2013 on Facebook.com/TSN and on Twitter using the hashtag #SCYearInReview. http://www.chaussuresnbpascher.fr/new-balance-373-pas-cher.html . Once that happened, the rest was automatic. Headley homered in the ninth inning off Aroldis Chapman, the first hit the hard-throwing lefty allowed since his return from being hit in the head by a line drive, and the San Diego Padres beat the Cincinnati Reds 2-1 on Tuesday night. http://www.chaussuresnbpascher.fr/ .com) - Al Jefferson poured in 28 points with 10 rebounds to lead the Charlotte Hornets to their first victory over the Miami Heat in over 4 1/2 years, a 96-89 decision at Time Warner Cable Arena.MONTREAL - It was an intense week at the Bouchard household as daughter Eugenie worked her way to the Australian Open semifinals. "We were yelling like idiots," Mike Bouchard, the players father, said Thursday of his daughters stirring win over Ana Ivanovic in the quarter-finals, which made her the first Canadian to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament since Carling Bassett-Seguso in 1984. It wasnt quite as frenzied at their Westmount, Que., home two nights later, when Bouchard bowed out with a 6-2, 6-4 loss to fourth-seeded Li Na of China in the semis. "It was also exciting, but in the first set Li Na came out strong and Genie was a little nervous," he said. "I felt for her, but she came back well in the second set. Overall, it was an excellent tournament." Bouchard stole the show in Melbourne, where a dozen or so local fans formed Genies Army to cheer her on and toss her stuffed Australian animals after her wins. Several commentators spoke of Bouchard, the 2012 Wimbledon junior girls champion, being the next big thing in womens tennis and a potential future Grand Slam tournament winner. Already, her results are expected to move her from 31st into the top 20 in next weeks rankings. And it has stirred ticket sales for her next appearance on home turf. She will play for Canada against Serbia Feb. 8-9 in a Federation Cup tie at the Claude Robillard Centre in Montreal. Eugene Lapierre of Tennis Canada, tournament director for the Montreal half of the Rogers Cup, said 500 to 600 tickets per day have been sold since Bouchards win over Ivanovic. The 4,000-seat venue will likely be sold out. And ticket sales have picked up for the womens Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium next summer, which is rare in January. "It will drag a lot of people out to come and watch her play," said Lapierre. "It will be interesting to see how she makes the switch from a Grand Slam and playing in a 20,000 seat stadium to the Claude Robillard here with 4,000. But it will be a lot of fun." Canadian tennis has been on a high lately with Milos Raonics rise into the top 10 in the world on the mens side and Vasek Pospisil also climbing in the rankings. Both made the Rogers Cup semifinals in Montreal last summer and led the Davis Cup team to a first-ever semifinal appearance. "Its phenomenal what Eugenie has done," said Lapierre. "I wouldnt say she opened the gates for Canada. The boys started that last year. "But its a new era thats started with the sport of tennis in Canada. Itll be tremendous for the promotion of the game in Canada. Thats our goal at Tennis Canada — to get more kids playing the game. Everyones talking about Eugenie, and thats bound to be good for the sport." Louis Borfiga, Tennis Canadas high performance director, said Bouchard could have a similar impact to Nadia Comaneci, the Romanian who drew slews of girls to try gymnastics after her stunning performance at the 1976 Olympiics in Montreal. http://www.chaussuresnbpascher.fr/new-balance-774.html. Or the effect that Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova had on womens tennis in Russia. "It will enlarge the pool of players and that will produce more very good players," said Borfiga. "Thats the difference between Canada and countries like France and Spain — their pool of players is larger." Mike Bouchard, an investment banker, is fine with having a daughter who may be seen as a role model for young players. He doesnt even mind that she is quickly becoming a celebrity. "Its good for her," he said. "Shes put in so much work and effort. "If she can be an ambassador for tennis and help tennis grow in Canada, thats fantastic. If it becomes bigger than that — international stardom — good for her. She has a strong head. Shes well grounded, and I think shell be able to go through that unscathed." Mike Bouchard knew he had a special daughter when Eugenie was a young child. When she was 12, the family the moved to Florida so she could learn at an academy run by Nick Saviano, who remains her coach. She spent more than three years in Florida before returning to Montreal to work at the national tennis centre. "It was difficult to find players at her own level to play against, and we also wanted to expose her to international coaching," said Mike Bouchard. "It takes a lot of dedication. Everyone in the family chipped in." Eugenie has a fraternal twin sister Beatrice, an 18-year-old sister Charlotte and a 14-year-old brother William, so the move was a big commitment for all of them. It paid off when Bouchard became one of the worlds top junior players and then made a rapid rise in WTA rankings. The group cant go to every tournament and they elected not to go to Australia, where Eugenie lost in the qualifying tournament last year. But her father said he was tempted to jump on a plane when she reached the semifinals. "We never anticipated shed go this far in the first Grand Slam of the year, so we gathered the kids and some friends and we watched (on TV)," he said. "There was a lot of emotions when she was hitting some winners. We were screaming and laughing and encouraging her." He was a little taken aback at a bizarre question put to Eugenie by an on-court interviewer after the quarter-final. She was asked who shed most like to date. To the apparent displeasure of Genies Army, she named Canadian pop star Justin Bieber. "Youve got to get used to that if youre going to become a celebrity," Bouchard said. "I actually thought she answered pretty well. She said Justin Bieber with a question mark at the end. It was tongue in cheek." It became a little awkward when Bieber was arrested in Florida on Thursday for reportedly taking part in an early morning drag race. "I actually dont follow anything that goes on in his life," Bouchard said with a laugh. "But I did hear about that." Cheap Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys ' ' ' 
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