This weekend, the top three Canadian tennis pros — Victoria Mboko, Felix Auger Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov — all lost: two in a final and one in a semi-final. O Canada! No Canada! Oh no Canada!

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Today, some people will be hit with paraskevidekatriaphobia: fear of Friday the 13th. A more common ailment in Canada is parkasevidekatriaphobia — fear of still wearing a winter coat.

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The East's last place Rangers lost to Carolina 2-0 — a whopping 19th home ice loss (including OT) this season. Madison Square Garden might be the worst place for a Ranger this side of Jellystone Park.

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Paraskevidekatriaphobia is which of the following?
a) Fear of Friday the 13th;
b) A Russian women’s tennis star.

So far his week I opened an umbrella indoors, broke a mirror and followed a black cat under a ladder. Still think I had more luck than the Patriots did against the Seahawks on Super Bowl Sunday.

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What's the difference between a paraskevidekatriaphobe and an ortographobe? The former fears Friday the 13th; the latter fears having to pronounce the former.

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Olympics controversy has male ski jumpers injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises to increase size, which reportedly allows them to fly farther. Hey: someone sticks a needle in my junk, I'm jumping far too.

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The opening game of Canada's women's hockey team was postponed when over half of the opposition from Finland contracted norovirus. So before Canada's first game, their opponent was Finnish.

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Three reasons why a Quebec fisher reeled in a record-breaking 244-pound flatfish yesterday.

3. He felt he was floundering;

2. It was time he cod something;

1. Just for the halibut.

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 Sorry followers. I was away for a few days. But I'm back and will be posting again soon.

With the Jets losing 4-1 to the Lightning, I'll spare them the electrical puns — like lacking a spark, feeling re-volted or Tampa being amped up. I will say this: Watt happened?

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The U.S. Checkers Championship will take place starting July 1 in Vidor, Texas. I was never any good at checkers – my opponents always got the jump on me.

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At home I usually sleep downstairs, so my first goal each day is to climb out of the basement. These days, it's the same story for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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British company ThinkGeek sells a onesie with a beanbag chair sewn into the butt so you always have a place to sit. They got the idea years ago watching Serena Williams play.