VANCOUVER - Imagine Dragons banged a mighty big drum Sunday, rocking the Grey Cup halftime show to the sounds of their mega-hit Radioactive.
Eder Jersey .After the teams exited the field with Calgary leading Hamilton 17-7, a stage was quickly assembled, complete with fans at the 55-yard line.Welcome to the new age, Canada. Here they are, Imagine Dragons, the PA announcer said by way of introduction.The stage was only visible to one side of the stadium, but the big screen above showed the rest what was going on.The Las Vegas-based Dragons opened with their new single I Bet My Life, with sparks flying above the boomerang-shaped stage.Hello Canada, said frontman Dan Reynolds, looking lithe in jeans and a black T-shirt.The band then launched into Demons.I know we are visitors to this county but Canada has always made us feel right at home .. .Thank you for having us, said Reynolds.The band then went Radioactive, hammering away at a drum the size of a kids wading pool during the middle percussive section. A smaller drum bit the dust in the finale.Country singer Dallas Smith kicked off the festivities, playing Tippin Point and Wastin Gas in the pre-game show.Smith has CFL connections. The native of Langley, B.C., is married to a former member of the Edmonton Eskimos dance team Montreals Nikki Yanofsky performed the national anthem.Imagine Dragons were fresh off their performance a week ago at the 2014 American Music Awards in Los Angeles where they won Favourite Alternative Artist and performed I Bet My Life for the first time live — complete with choir, lasers and pyrotechnics.Rolling Stone called the song, which it said evoked the Lumineers, Mumford & Sons and Coldplay, one of the best moments of the AMAs.In January, Imagine Dragons won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance for Radioactive and combined with Kendrick Lamar for a critically acclaimed Grammy mashup performance of their songs Radioactive, and m.A.A.d City.The band has been good at placing its music in spots with maximum exposure. I Bet My Life was featured in a Sprite ad focusing on LeBron James first game back as a Cleveland Cavalier, for example. And Radioactive was used in an ad for the video game Assassins Creed 3 and TV show Chicago Fire.Its Time, was used in a trailer for the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower.Imagine Dragons also features guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee and drummer Daniel Platzman.Hedley, from Abbotsford, B.C., played during halftime of the 2013 game in Regina. Saskatchewans Sheepdogs entertained before kickoff.The all-Canadian cast of Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Marianas Trench, and Gordon Lightfoot performed the halftime show of the 2012 championship game in Toronto.Some had wondered about why the league had chosen a non-Canadian act to take centre stage at Canadas football showcase.A look at Twitter offers an explanation.The Dragons have 1.83 million followers on Twitter. The CFL and its nine teams have a combined 614,600.___Follow @NeilMDavidson on Twitter
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Bernardo Silva Portugal Jersey . - This is just the warm-up act for 18-year-old William Nylander.LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Norways Kjetil Jansrud claimed the first mens World Cup downhill of the season and Canadas Manny Osborne-Paradis returned to the podium Saturday in Lake Louise, Alta.Jansruds victory was his first at the Alberta ski resort west of Calgary. Osborne-Paradis of North Vancouver, B.C., tied for second with Guillermo Fayed of France for the Canadians first World Cup medal since 2010.It feels really good, Osborne-Paradis said. I was nervous today because I knew I could be on the podium. This was the best chance Ive had in a long time.Jansrud conquered the 3,133-metre course in one minute 50.20 seconds. Osborne-Paradis of North Vancouver, B.C., and Fayed posted identical times of 1:50.34.Jansrud won gold in super-G and bronze in downhill at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in February. His countryman Aksel Lund Svindal has dominated at Lake Louise with three straight super-G wins plus a downhill victory two years ago. But Svindal tore his Achilles tendon playing soccer last month and could be out for the season.Jansrud, 29, ensured the Norwegian anthem played again at Lake Louise.Lake Louise is not one of our toughest hills, but its real tough to ski fast, the Norwegian said. Its not really forgiving to ski on. If you stay on your edge for half-a-metre too long and then youre gone. It was tough skiing. Its not easy.Its like skiing on a wooden floor. Smooth, but that also makes it hard to be fast because you know its going to be the same for everybody. Its tough, but for me, it worked out nice.The men race a super-G on Sunday before heading to the World Cups next stop in Beaver Creek, Colo.I will not be celebrating because we have the super-G tomorrow, Osborne-Paradis said. Bummer.Saturdays race was held in clear, cold conditions with a temperature of minus-24.Jansrud and Osborne-Paradis were first and second respectively in Wednesdays training run. The next two training sessions were cancelled because 50 centimetres of snow fell on the mountain parks in 48 hours.I think it probably helped with having only one training run, Osborne-Paradis said. Guys were dealing with, probably dealing with, confidence issues. I cant totally speak for them.For myself, wheen I dont have a great training run, it is a different mental state you have to be in to push it (in the race) when you only have one.
Andre Gomes Jersey. Fayed turned 29 on Friday and his belated birthday present was the first World Cup medal of his career.I was very surprised when I saw my time, the Frenchman said. I did a very good run, but you never know if you are fast or not.Because we had just one training, I was very good physically. Not tired.Lake Louise is the lone Canadian stop on the World Cup alpine ski circuit. Osborne-Paradiss silver medal Saturday was Canadas first there since he won super-G in 2009.Osborne-Paradis was also second in the Lake Louise downhill in 2006 for his first career World Cup medal. But he didnt race for almost two years after he broke his leg and tore a ligament on Jan. 29, 2011.One race, first race of the season, Im going to try and get on the podium at every race so it just helps, the 30-year-old said. So far were one-for-one.Osborne-Paradis lives in Invermere, B.C., which is 146 kilometres southwest of Lake Louise. He married Lana McIntosh on Sept. 20.From the prize purse of CDN$118,000 for Saturdays race, Jansrud earned $35,000 for the win. Osborne-Paradis and Fayed each picked up $23,000 as runners-up.Calgarys Jan Hudec, an Olympic bronze medallist in super-G, was 19th. Ben Thomsen of Invermere finished 29th, Dustin Cook of Whistler, B.C., placed 36th, Jeffrey Frisch of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was 44th and Morgan Pridy of Whistler came in 54th.Former world downhill champion Erik Guay of Mont-Tremblant did not race Saturday. Canadas most decorated World Cup ski racer with 22 medals has delayed the start of his racing season after a pair of off-season knee surgeries.Hudec was frustrated with his result because he felt strong and fast on his skis. He won the downhill at Lake Louise in 2007.Its not a survival course, but its a look-for-every-minute-detail kind of course, Hudec said.Thats what makes it different from other courses which you can overcome with survival skiing and just attacking it, whereas this, you have to be like cat . . . a sneaky cat. And nobody likes sneaky cats, but thats what youve got to be to be fast here.
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