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By Sean Sullivan

Sometimes stories just work better as a movie. This was the case with the first film adaptation, The Hunger Games, and it is the case again with its sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Following director Gary Ross’s gritty take on the first novel, director Francis Lawrence and screen writers Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt… Continue reading Movie review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

By Ashton Chugh

The Dinos women’s and men’s basketball home openers took place on Nov. 8–9 against the University of Winnipeg Wesmen. The Dinos women’s team came away with two victories while the men failed to grab their first win of the season. The Dinos women’s team narrowly beat the Wesmen 64–59 on Nov. 8 in a game… Continue reading Basketball returns to the Jack

By Josh O’Brien

Under the leadership of head coach Mike Blondal, the Dinos swim team has developed into a dominant force in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, with the women’s squad finishing second in last year’s CIS championships, while the men finished third. While the Dinos didn’t manage to take home a CIS championship banner last year, they stacked up… Continue reading Swimmers ready for new season

By Josh Teitz

Nissan has recently announced its intention to introduce self-driving cars to the market by 2020. The Japanese automaker claims that its self-driving vehicles will accelerate, stop, steer and park autonomously. Though this technology is still under development, Nissan has confirmed that self-driving vehicles will rely heavily upon sensors to navigate. Aside from detecting signs, traffic… Continue reading Pulling drivers onto the right track

By Curtis Wolff

Mourning the demise of another edition of the Toronto Blue Jays is not an unfamiliar act for Canadian baseball fans. The end of September has marked the end of the season for the Blue Jays for the last 20 years. Not since their World Series victory in 1993 have the Blue Jays played a postseason… Continue reading Nightmare season ends for the Jays

By Josh O’Brien

Graeme Schnell, 25, bounces the black squash ball off the front wall of a University of Calgary squash court with perfect precision and force. Academically, he is a fourth-year kinesiology student who intends on going to medical school once he finishes his degree. On the court, he is a five-time champion of the Black Knight… Continue reading Athlete profile: Graeme Schnell

By Nastassia Mihalicz

For stories of suburban angst you can’t do much better than Tom Perrotta’s Nine Inches. The short story collection is comprised of 10 stories, each an engaging vignette of the everyday trials of everyday people. But Perrotta’s storytelling is anything but average. Nine Inches proves that even everyday lives in no-name towns offer good meat… Continue reading Book review: Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta

By David Bray

The 2013 National Football League season commences on Sept. 5. Gauntlet sports writers Marshal Wolff and David Bray got together to discuss the some key talking points coming into the year. Which team is your dark horse for this year? Marshal Wolff: For me, it’s the Kansas City Chiefs. I know they tied for the… Continue reading Head-to-head: NFL preview

By Curtis Wolff

It wasn’t the Final Four, but Calgary basketball fans were nonetheless treated to a taste of American college action August 15–17 at the Jack Simpson Gymnasium, where the Dinos hosted two Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association teams in the 2013 Battle of the Border preseason tournament. The four-team tournament featured men’s teams from Arkansas… Continue reading Dinos score one for Canadian basketball