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You don't have to love Sabres, but at least what they represent

By Damien Cox
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, May 17, 2007

OTTAWA -- Up here in Canada, a place that will be less gripped with hockey fever than you might think as the NHL once again stretches its playoff season absurdly into June, there is only one professional league that includes only Canadian teams. That is the Canadian Football League, now reduced to a rump of eight teams, none of which is in the nation's capital, Ottawa, which allows the folks there to focus mostly on their beloved Senators. Ottawa's CFL squad was once called the Rough Riders, w ...

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