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By Joe Christensen and Joe Christensen,SUN STAFF | July 19, 2002
TORONTO - The digital clocks flanking the SkyDome scoreboard said 8:51 yesterday morning when Orioles first-round draft pick Adam Loewen stepped into the batter's box. Something was wrong with that picture. Loewen, an 18-year-old left-handed pitcher with a 94-mph fastball, has clear-cut goals of playing in major-league stadiums someday, but not like this. Not as a designated hitter. Not with Team Canada. Not 10 hours before the Orioles game begins. Instead of pitching for Rookie-level Aberdeen this summer, Loewen is biding his time as a position player with the Canadian junior national team while he waits out the predictably slow-moving negotiations that will determine his future.
SPORTS
By PROVIDENCE JOURNAL-BULLETIN | February 15, 1998
NAGANO, Japan -- Jeremy Roenick expects hockey hostility tonight (11: 45; Channel 13), when Canada and the United States skate into each other at the Big Hat.Blood, sweat and sneers."
SPORTS
By Roch Kubatko and Roch Kubatko,SUN STAFF | June 5, 2002
NEW YORK - There's something about the pull of a left-handed pitcher that can take a club in another direction. The Orioles demonstrated this again yesterday, passing up the chance to select a hitter with the fourth overall pick in the amateur draft and selecting Canadian pitcher Adam Loewen of Fraser Valley Christian High School in British Columbia. Loewen was rated the No. 4 high school prospect by Baseball America. His school doesn't have a baseball program, but he has pitched for Team Canada's national junior team the past three years.
NEWS
By Kevin Van Valkenburg and Kevin Van Valkenburg,SUN STAFF | February 25, 2002
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -- In a sport where toughness is measured in scars, stitches and missing teeth, it's almost unheard of to see a grown man break down and cry. But when the final seconds ticked off the clock yesterday in Canada's 5-2 win over the United States in the Olympic gold medal hockey game, there seemed to be enough Canadian tears to melt the ice of the E Center Ice Arena. For 50 long, frustrating years, Canada had watched its Olympic hockey teams struggle to succeed in the sport the country invented.
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By Knight-Ridder News Service | September 15, 1991
If you think Eric Lindros has created a stir in Quebec, you should see what he's done to hockey-crazed Toronto.The Toronto Sun, known almost as much for its Page 3 SUNshine pinup girl as for its hockey coverage, featured a picture on the front of Wednesday's paper that had Lindros' head superimposed on Wendel Clark's body. The photo showed what Lindros would look like in a Maple Leafs uniform, and it wasn't bad.Wednesday's SUNshine girl also got into the spirit. She wore a Lindros T-shirt and called herself his "No. 1 fan."
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By Brent Jones and Brent Jones,SUN STAFF | February 9, 2000
When the Blast power-play unit takes the field, coach Kevin Healey likes his team's chances for producing a goal. Converting 44.8 percent of its extra-man opportunities, the Blast ranks third in the National Professional Soccer League. But the team has a power-play problem, too -- keeping opponents from scoring while teammates sit out a penalties. Defensively, the Blast stops 46 percent of power-plays against it, second worst in the league. "We've been struggling on the defensive side, but lately we've been getting better in that," Healey said.