The silver lining is beginning to tarnish.

After being blown out in Manitoba two weeks ago, the Dinos football team was obviously dejected. They were riding a high going into the game, but were simply beaten by a stronger team. Their 44-3 shellacking at the hands of the nationally unranked University of Saskatchewan Huskies may have been a direct result of bruised ego. It is a reality not lost on Head Coach Tony Fasano.

Controversy in the world of sport isn't saved for the Dennis Rodmans and the Javier Sotomayors. Sometimes, it pops up where you least expect it--Canada West women's soccer.

In her groundbreaking works about coping with mortality, Elizabeth Kubler Ross identified five distinct stages a human goes through when faced with death. So successful was her analysis that even the Simpsons paid tribute to her in the episode when Homer ate the poison blowfish.