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- ↑ "Cathal Kelly's memoir Boy Wonders wins $15K Leacock Medal for humour writing". CBC Books, May 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Cathal Kelly wins Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire , June 10, 2019.
- ↑ Gerald Flood, "Nostalgic memoir a marvel". Winnipeg Free Press , November 10, 2018.
- 1 2 "Prize Fighters: Sports sections are on the ropes, but columnists with distinctive voices are still throwing punches". Ryerson Review of Journalism , Spring 2015.
- ↑ "Racism back on soccer's front burner". Toronto Star , February 3, 2005.
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