The Jays stumbled against the Miami Marlins Sunday, giving them a non-winning record in interleague play again

As the Toronto Blue Jays prepared for their final interleague game of the season on Sunday, the team had a chance to make rare franchise history.

And then they blew it, in embarrassing fashion no less.

The Jays were shut out by the Miami Marlins 9-0, dropping their final interleague record for the year to an even 9-9, instead of a winning mark of 10-8. It may not sound like a big deal, until you check the record books.

Long described as a key to any potential post-season aspirations, the Jays have only had a winning record in interleague play once since 2004, when the American League began dominating the National League. Since that time, Toronto's overall record against the Senior Circuit was 74-87 heading into Sunday; far behind the traditional powerhouses in their division in the Yankees (97-64) and Red Sox (104-57). Even the Tampa Bay Rays, who were AL East basement dwellers until 2008, have a better mark at 88-73.

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The Brier 2012, in Saskatoon, Sask. - CP

The pace of change in the world of Canadian curling has at times been described by its detractors as downright glacial. If that's so, a big, big chunk of that glacier has just sheared off and plunged into the sea with a mighty crash.

More teams added to the national championship mix, a push to springboard mixed doubles into the collected consciousness of the Canadian curling fan, as well as the adopting of a new game clock format, are all a part of sweeping changes.

A Team Canada entry will be added to the Brier in 2015, it was announced by curling's governing body, the Canadian Curling Association. That's a pretty big splash in and of itself.

But, wait, there's more.

Northern Ontario will get a team at the women's championship, The Scotties, beginning the same year. While there had been many advocates of adding a Team Canada to the men's side, safe to say that if you heard anyone say Northern Ontario should be added to The Scotties, you'd have replied with a fairly good chuckle, if

The most recent Heritage Classic was in Feb. 2011 when Calgary hosted Montreal at McMahon Stadium

For the second consecutive season, the NHL schedule is missing a significant game: the Heritage Classic.

The all-Canadian outdoor matchup is nowhere to be found on the league's recently-released 2012-13 calendar; an event it hasn't scheduled since 2011 when the Calgary Flames hosted the Montreal Canadiens at McMahon Stadium. Though it's not much of a surprise given that the Toronto Maple Leafs will be the visiting team in next year's Winter Classic — assuming there isn't an extended lockout - the NHL has continuously neglected staging an outdoor game in Canada. The Calgary-Montreal event was only the second time the Heritage Classic took place, with the other occasion being in 2003.

Looking ahead to 2014 and beyond, here are the chances each Canadian team has of landing the next Heritage Classic game, and the potential venues in play.

Investors Group FieldWinnipeg Jets: The Jets appear to have the best shot at this point in time. Investors Group Field - the new home of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers — is now

Giro d'Italia winner Ryder HesjedalSince winning the Giro d'Italia Ryder Hesjedal has become a cycling superstar in Canada. But his selection to the Canadian team that will compete at this summer's London Olympic Games wasn't a slam dunk.

That's not to suggest that Hesjedal, the first Canadian to win a Grand Tour event, is the wrong choice. It just means Cycling Canada had to look at the strengths and weaknesses of several riders when deciding who had the best chance of winning a road cycling medal in London.

The road race in London is a one-day event, not several stages spread over many days. Hesjedal will be riding alone, without a team to support him.

"It definitely was not an easy decision,'' Jacques Landry, Cycling Canada's high performance director, said Thursday in an interview from the Canadian Road Championships at Lac Mégantic, Que. "We really scratched our heads and said what exactly are we looking for? We came to the conclusion that Ryder is the better candidate.''

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Teresa Gabriele has spent 15 years with Canada's national team.For Teresa Gabriele the upcoming women's basketball second-chance tournament could be her final shot at the Olympics. The 32-year-old has been trying to qualify for the Summer Games for more than a decade and she admits her retirement from basketball could be just around the corner.

When Gabriele was 20 and one of the youngest members of the Canadian women's national team that qualified for the Olympics in Sydney, Australia she naively thought that playing on the biggest stage was something that would come almost automatically every four years.

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Now 12 years removed from Sydney and an experienced veteran who has played more than 170 games and 15 years for Canada she understands what a privilege it is to play at the Olympics. She was a part of the Canadian teams that failed to qualify for Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. And as the Canadian women head to Ankara, Turkey with a chance to qualify for London at the second-chance

Everyone knows Secretariat, but how many people know Ron Turcotte?With a small consolation for Canadian horse racing fans, it was announced on June 20 that Secretariat's time at the 1973 Preakness was actually a track record. Why is this coup for Canadians? Because the legendary horse's jockey for all three legs of the '73 Triple Crown was Ron Turcotte of Drummond, N.B.

This, of course, couldn't have come at a better time with the announcement being made less than two weeks after Canadian owned Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another's abrupt retirement just days before the Belmont Stakes.

Secretariat's time was reduced from 1:54 2/5 to 1:53 after modern technology confirmed what owner Penny Chenery and Turcotte have been saying for 39-years — that in addition to setting track records at the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, Secretariat and Turcotte also set the record at the Preakness.

Upon hearing the news, Turcotte had a very touching message for the horse that died in 1989. "Secretariat, now you can rest in peace" he said to CBC Sports, "they

Kayaker Adam van Koeverden is just one of Canada's medal threats heading to the London Games this summer

With Mary Spencer finally learning she will get to fight in London, the Canadian Olympic team is starting to take shape.

The Opening Ceremony is just over a month away, and 87 athletes are already scheduled to don the maple leaf. The team includes the usual suspects in divers Emilie Heymans and Jennifer Abel, swimmers Ryan Cochrane and Julia Wilkinson, triathlete Simon Whitfield, doubles tennis star Daniel Nestor and Olympic sailing veteran Richard Clarke.

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But what makes Team Canada — albeit a partial one — even stronger, are the first-time Olympians who are quickly rising in their respective sports. Canada's entire badminton squad of Michelle Li, Alexandra Bruce, Grace Gao and Tobi Ng, are all Olympics rookies, but also Pan Am Games champions. Triathlete Paula Findlay was ranked No. 1 in the world for much of last season. Hard-serving Milos Raonic has climbed over 100 spots in the ATP rankings, while Melanie McCann is now claiming Top 10

English defender John Terry (R) clears the ball during the Euro 2012 football championships match England vs Ukraine.This was Michel Platini's day from hell, starting with a brunch of opprobrium and finishing with late supper of egg on face.

First, the main course. For the one per centres atop the global sports pyramid, that usually means chateaubriand in some ritzy five-star restaurant. For the UEFA president on Tuesday at Euro 2012, it was the end of the fifth-official system he championed, sunk in the seconds it took for TV replays to clearly show Marko Devic's shot was in the goal before it was neatly hooked out by England's John Terry, while that fifth official stood a few yards away watching.

The trains in these kind of competitions tend to run on time, and that was the goal-line technology special pulling into the net at Donetsk, right on schedule, and steamrolling right over Le President, and the status quo.

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The difference this time, as opposed to all those other times before at big tournaments dating