{"id":1637,"date":"2003-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2003\/08\/01\/the-argos%e2%80%99-sinking-ship\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:45:43","slug":"the-argos-sinking-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2003\/08\/01\/the-argos-sinking-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Argos\u2019 sinking ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Argos' ship has been going down, their popularity has been soaring. After years of near-comic inadequacy, the Toronto Argonauts football team has built a measure of success on the field this season \u2013 only to watch as the finances of owner Sherwood Schwarz crumble around them, reported the National Post<\/I> July 31. Commenting on the Argos' popularity, Frank Cosentino<\/B>, a sports historian and professor emeritus at York University, said, \"The CFL in the fall had the sports pages all to itself. In any newspaper where a CFL team was, certainly, you had stories being written about personnel. The fans identified with the players \u2013 they knew who they were.\" Schwarz, a New York businessman, has all but abandoned the Argos, and forced the Canadian Football League to assume control on Tuesday.<\/P>
\n

John Zubyck\u2019s high times <\/STRONG><\/P>
\n

York pole vaulter John Zubyck<\/STRONG> has leaped over the competition once again, reports the North York Mirror<\/I> July 30. Zubyck, who was York University's male athlete of the year this season, captured the men's pole vault crown at the recent Canadian track and field championships in Victoria, BC. He failed, however, to make the Athletics Canada standard of 5.20 metres which would have qualified him for the World Student Games in Korea in late August. Zubyck's best jump in Victoria was an even 5.00 metres. Zubyck now ranks first in the country in pole vault at the inter-university level.<\/P>
\n


\n

<\/P>On Air
\n

<\/P><\/B>
\n