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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'varsityblues'

November 25, 2007

If you're like us, and you attended a Canadian university, you probably watch U.S. college football with a mixture of bemusement and envy—bemusement because you can’t quite fathom how a hundred thousand people could turn up to watch collegiate athletes, envy because you wish you could’ve had that experience at your school. This past Friday, for instance, over 90,000 fans packed Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to watch the Arkansas Razorbacks knock off......

Continue Reading "Beginning to See the Light?"

October 15, 2007

After MasterCard agreed to ante up $160k to keep city skating rinks open this December, local newspapers spoke with one voice in reporting the story. The Star offered the headline "Private bailout of city rinks...priceless," the Post weighed in with "Skating in December...priceless," and the Sun daringly dropped the ellipsis with "Donation: Priceless." The Globe alone experienced a spasm of originality, settling for a subheading of "Skating still in the cards." Stéphane Dion, content......

Continue Reading "Headlines Priceless, Dion Easygoing, Football Blues Blue"

July 27, 2005

3. Northern Secondary School Bleachers (791 Mt Pleasant Rd.) Torontoist certainly didn't take enough advantage of this one back in the days of gym classes and lunch periods. Bleachers make for the perfect cutesy make-out session, because they are the clichéd site of all fantasy high school hook-ups. Our high school never had cheerleaders, and watching a football game meant sitting on a hill- so the perfect Varsity Blues look of Northern SS evokes a......

Continue Reading "Ist List: Outdoor Ooh La La # 3"

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