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    Toronto FC

    Toronto FC (also known as TFC or “The Reds”) is a men’s professional soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer (MLS). Founded in 2006 by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, the club has won the Voyageurs Cup seven times (2009–2012 and 2016–18). They have made it to the MLS playoffs three times (2015, 2016 and 2017), becoming the first Canadian club to reach the MLS Cup final in 2016 and the first to win the MLS Cup in 2017. TFC has competed in the CONCACAF Champions League five times, making it as far as the finals in 2018. The club is one of three MLS franchises in Canada, including Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps FC.

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    Toronto Feature: Rogers Centre

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Maple Leafs

    The Toronto Maple Leafs are a hockey team that plays in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Maple Leafs are one of the "Original Six" NHL teams, and have won the Stanley Cup 13 times (11 as the Maple Leafs, one as the Arenas and one as the St. Patricks). The team is one of the wealthiest in professional sports. Despite not winning any championships since 1967, its home games are usually sold out and its fan base, known as "Leafs Nation," remains among the most loyal in the sports world.

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  • Editorial

    Toronto Maple Leafs 1967: The Last Stanley Cup

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

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    Track and Field

    Track and field (or athletics) is a composite sport that includes competitions in walking, running, hurdling, jumping (high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump), throwing (javelin, discus, shot put, hammer) and multiple events, such as the decathlon and heptathlon. 

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    Triathlon

    The first recorded triathlon was held in California in 1974 by the San Diego Track and Field Club at Mission Bay. There are now more than 6 million athletes participating in the sport worldwide and almost 100 national federations.

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    Trivial Pursuit

    Trivial Pursuit is a board game that was invented by Canadians Chris Haney and Scott Abbott in December 1979. The game quickly became a massive international success and a defining pop culture artifact of the 1980s. It ushered in a new wave of board game popularity and was called “the biggest phenomenon in game history” by Time Magazine. First introduced in Canada in 1981 and in the United States in 1982, the game had sold more than 20 million copies by 1984. Total sales are estimated to have exceeded $1 billion and more than 100 million copies worldwide. The game is named after a common term for a frivolous activity (like a board game), which also literally describes the nature of the game (players answer trivia questions in pursuit of the most correct answers). Trivial Pursuit has been translated into multiple languages and re-issued in numerous editions.

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    TSN (The Sports Network)

    The Sports Network (TSN) was established in 1984 as Canada's first national television network devoted exclusively to sports. Currently parented by CTV (since 2001), TSN has become the most widely viewed Canadian specialty channel, with nearly 8 million subscribers.

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    Underwater Diving

    The first workable diving suit was developed by Augustus Siebe of England about 1839. This waterproof suit had a detachable helmet connected to the surface by a hose through which air was pumped.

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    University Cup

    The University Cup is awarded annually to the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) hockey champions.

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    Vancouver Asahi

    The Asahi was a Japanese Canadian baseball club in Vancouver (1914–42). One of the city’s most dominant amateur teams, the Asahi used skill and tactics to win multiple league titles in Vancouver and along the Northwest Coast. In 1942, the team was disbanded when its members were among the 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were interned by the federal government (see Internment of Japanese Canadians). The Asahi were inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003 and the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

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    Vancouver Canucks

    The Vancouver Canucks are a franchise in the National Hockey League. The team had been a member of the Pacific Coast Hockey League, and then the Western Hockey League, since 1945.

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    Vancouver Feature: Asahis Win Terminal City Championship

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. During the 1920s Oppenheimer Park, also known as the Powell Street Grounds, was home to the best baseball team in the city. The Asahi drew its members from the surrounding Japanese-Canadian community. It all ended with the outbreak of World War Two.

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    Vancouver Grizzlies

    The Vancouver Grizzlies were a basketball team. Spurred on by the intent of the National Basketball Association to expand to Toronto, Vancouver Canucks owner Arthur Griffiths launched a bid to secure an NBA expansion franchise for Vancouver in 1993.

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  • Macleans

    Vancouver Prepares for 2010 Winter Games

    "The hockey players are coming to Vancouver," said Evan Ince, who is three and was a bit overwhelmed last week. Celebration whirled around him at Vancouver's General Motors Place arena in the wild moments after the International Olympic Committee voted to stage the 2010 Winter Games in little Evan's backyard.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 14, 2003

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