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I'd say funding. Hockey Canada is swimming in cash and has the resources to develop the most dominant junior teams in the world. Every year on tsn, the coverage on these kids gets more and more ridiculous.

Also the fact that we in north America only recently got a somewhat respectable pro soccer league. I think the problem is development at the high school level which is critical because those players in UEFA start at pretty young ages.

I tried hitting an 85 mile an hour baseball, bloody hard to do, and that was off a throwing arm pitching machine to boot. The funny thing about golf is the mental aspect about it. You have all the time in the world to hit your shot, I wonder if those PGA players were timed as to how long they take I wonder if their shots would improve. I'd say catching a hail Mary while in midair on the sidelines with a defender on you and landing in bounds is the most difficult thing to do in professional sport

High school volleyball in manitoba is what high school football is in Saskatchewan. We would run tandems (middle hitter going for a 51 and a weak side hitter coming in right after and right beside him for a 62 or 63. Ran a 6-2 offense (everyone in the front row eligible to hit, setter in the back row) that's as far as we got. I would have liked it when there was the libero in my day, would have made my life easier.

In my day we called hitting locations by numbers. A 51 is middle of the net strike spot is 1 foot above the net. That means you have to already be in the air when the ball is set so that when your at the top of your jump the ball is at the top of it's arc. This hit is the one where the really big kills come in because essentially a well set ball is right smack in your wheel house and a well hit 51 pretty much goes straight down and hard. It's best used when either power or weak side hitting is established and the middle blocker is already cheating. A 15 was our standard power hitter set, lots of time for the hitter to set up his run.

You always know the sports you played as a teenager. Vball is a game of finesse, mind you football in it's own way is as well. Hockey is almost too fluid to see the finesse part of it.

That depends on how far you go down the rabbit hole. There is numerous combinations for which height the hitter hits, which part of the net the ball will be at which is taxing on your memory and timing. Then there's the poor libero who's diving all over the place. It's not so much as hard as you hit the spike, it's all placement. Vball is a different conditioning regimen in itself, to get the tradeoff of power and being light enough to fly...

The rule change put it to 25 points, both sides can score, and use of a libero which doesn't require a legit substitution which makes it a benefit to when e middle hitters get to back row on the rotation. (libero can't hit). The big guy can hit the ball hard, but the defenders pick up on that very quickly and adjust for that. Plus the big guy has to get up there. A 225 ponder who can only hit hard 51s is going to be neutralized with double blockers very quickly. A good middle wants to be able to hit above or around the blocker(s). You gotta be light enough to fly... It's like football in the tactics used. Defense reads offense abilities, offense reads defense abilities, first to crack the code wins.

I've already been through this with you about canola. Are you still suggesting to me that a wheat board co-op still dictates canola growing in western Canada? If it wasn't for private investment that's all canola would be is a govt expenditure out of ag Canada's research budget like many other ings they research. It was private industry that made it possible to be grown on a large scale.

Volleyball, one of the most team oriented sports out there, fun to play, not so fun to watch. Nothing like being on time for a perfectly set 51. Volleyball is more about trickery and tactics than physical prowess. Also very popular in rural Manitoba where there is not enough population/money for football. Mind you in Saskatchewan they have a solid 6 man football league

And most importantly by the election every 4-5 years.

Oh my f***** god are people ignorant about this issue. This is beyond frustrating. Go back to the first few pages in he thread where I made it crystal clear what the issue is and a synopsis of the grain industry. You don't even make sense. How would the minister's kids magically benefit while other young farmers wouldn't? Every farmer on the prairies grows other crops other than wheat/barley. Wheat and barley makes up a part of what every farmer grows. The younger farmers want the board gone as they see the better returns that non board grains gives them, it's the old ignorant farmers who couldn't manage a hamburger stand that want the board around, that and old ignorant landlords who still have the 1940's corporate tinfoil hat on. The sooner those fools go belly up the better off the grain industry will be. The only people doomed by the loss of the cwb monopoly are people who are too stupid to market their grain and they shouldn't have been farmers in the first place. Ever wonder why there is more canola grown out west than wheat and why there isn't a demand for a canola marketing board?

Your right about football, I forgot the clock goes when the play is stopped sometimes. However the abuse some players take has to be noted. Especially the running backs. And for those big guys to be putting down very Impressive 40 yard dash times, 300 lbs and low 5 seconds, your moving.

And most of the rest of the world isn't as free and prosperous and as rich as us. We have one of the soundest if not soundest economy in the world, perhaps the rest of the world should get on board with us. Do you think other countries around the world should have to enjoy a lower standard of living so we could keep our oil in the ground,

I don't know about that, I think a running back on a football team takes the cake as far as a difficult job in sports. There's a reason they only play once a week. Ask Jack Weber, he knows more about football than half of Saskatchewan. A stud d man plays about 20-25 minutes at 100% A football players play for about half an hour at 100%, and depending on your spot you get hammered hard. Soccer players, its a flat out endure. It may not look intense, but when your running, changing directions, making plays, and decisions, its very very taxing on the body as well. Hockey is a skilled game to play because there is so much that a person has to do. Then we have boxers, 12 rounds of moving, punching, taking punches, and strategizing also very grueling. Then there is motocross racing, which may not look hard, but that rider is wrestling that bike and taking hard hits from all the jumping. Again exhausting. Basketball, exhausting as well. You also have to remember what kind of fitness we're going for. Soccer players are cardio'd right up and are built for endurance, you won't see to many stacked soccer players. Hockey players are basically all legs, football players; well thats just fully stacked, as they're designed for short intense bursts.

That's not beside the point, it is the point. It's like the quebec sovereignty debate - if quebec can separate from canada, can parts of quebec split off. Same here. If the tories got 40% and a majority, what about the individual mps? I bet almost all of them didn't get above 50% of the vote. Do you suggest that MPs have a little committee in the constituency office made up of all the candidates to decide on how the MP should vote?

How about those ndp candidates or liberal candidates who won their seats, did they win their seat with over 50% of the vote? Did the majority of their constituents vote for them?

Every time Canada wins the fossil of the day it's a badge of honor.

Thats where the ps3 comes in handy, just that the browser sucks. It is free however.

The mp flicked the "conservative switch" off because he saw the writing on the wall. He fell on his sword for committing a stupid mistake like that and learned from the Jaffer-Guergis affair. I'm sure gold ring doesn't want to make things worse by kicking and screaming like gruesome twosomes did. He did the smart thing and got the heck out of dodge. The media has nothing else to go on, and the Tories got rid of some cancer, a textbook example of managing a possible disaster.

Everyone is presumed innocent in a court of public opinion, just that the trial, verdict, and sentencing move at light speed.

Oh just that most of Canada lives in Ontario and Quebec where a large part is guess what manufacturing and services. Western Canada is resource dependent, and we can tell that by our unemployment rates. West is low, east is high. If the resources are lumber and fish, I would be scared, both are in the tank. Fort Mac also pays some of the highest wages in the country, why are house prices obscene in fort Mac but not Moncton, after all fort Mac is in the middle of nowhere. Or we can use Calgary vs. Moncton if your worried about the northern factor.

it's your model out east, how's that working? The people getting rich have businesses producing commodities and servicing commodity producers. Lots of opportunity out west. Is it a problem if someone gets rich? Why do you easterners hate it when someone makes the big time? If prices won't fall, I dare you to compare the cost of living in fort Mac vs, Moncton.

And your forgetting that prices will have to fall in turn with declining wages. Do you think companies are going to want to sit on excess inventory. Unfortunately for that to happen, the low income people will have to cut up their credit cards and take their buckleys. Or you could move to Alberta and saskatchewan and produce things that people want and get paid highly for it. Just expect things to be more pricey.

except gold ring isn't a tory anymore because he left the caucus. THe tories are loyal to the brand above all else, ask Helena Guergis.