affordable air travel, and the players that wore its jersey were part of an exciting fast skating, multi-national team that played a beautiful, tough, and creative brand of hockey. Some of the Jets alumni like Joe Daley and Ab McDonald have also been disappointed with the logo.

The Winnipeg Jets have a wonderful and meaningful history which should not be overlooked. We were the first North American team to beat the powerful Soviet National team, the first North American team to use Europeans, and the first North American team to play tournaments in Europe and Japan. For those of us that have been around to see these great players play in person at the Winnipeg Arena, it is no wonder why we honour the blue, red and white.

This teamWhen BBC director general Tony Hall announced that Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear contract would not be renewed, the executive was quick to emphasize that the show would go on for another season. But news out of the Dunsfold Park hangar/studio where the show was filmed seems to paint a different story: The familiar warehouse is being emptied of any and all Top Gear paraphernalia.

That's the news from Britain's The Mirror, which has photos of the show's set pieces being boxed up in rolling crates, leaving a hollow hangar behind.

It's possible that this packing-up would have happened anyway, fracas or no. But with mounting uncertainty over the future of the iconic British motoring show and its three central stars, the sight of an empty Top Gear studio is giving