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There are really only two possible explanations why two members of the Russian womens hockey team at the Sochi Olympics had urine samples that contained male DNA.One, there were men inside those baggy uniforms of a team that won its first three games before losing in the quarterfinals. Two, someone was messing with the samples.Its a bit easier to figure out why eight other Russian athlete samples in Sochi had salt content that was physiologically impossible in a healthy human.Simply put, the host country was cheating on a level never before seen in organized sports.That news is not exactly new, of course. Doping investigators first nailed the Russians for covering up and tampering with drug tests in July in a report that should have gotten them kicked out of the Rio Olympics.It didnt, because the International Olympic Committee bowed to Vladimir Putin and allowed individual sports federations to decide which Russians could compete. A lot of them did, and Olympic officials were exposed as the hypocrites they are when it comes to ridding sports of cheaters.Putin and his minions basically dismissed the first McLaren report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency as unfounded and full of lies. Putin himself claimed Russian track and field athletes were being discriminated against.And just last month, the former Soviet minister brought out of retirement by Putin to lead Russias future strategy on doping declared that there was no state-sanctioned program to help Russian athletes win medals.There was no organized doping system on the state level, Vitaly Smirnov said. We believe that the participants in this were individuals, who were pursuing their own goals.The release Friday of the second McLaren report says otherwise, and is backed with a ton of evidence. Any Russian denials will ring hollow, even to the ears of previously tone-deaf Olympic leaders.In voluminous detail, Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren documented how more than 1,000 Russian athletes were involved in the doping scheme. The report unveiled a vast institutional conspiracy in more than 30 sports along with the corruption of the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics.Russians cheated like crazy in London, with 15 medal winners part of the deception. They took it to a new level at home in Sochi, where Vladimir Putin led the cheerleading as juiced Russian athletes led their country to the top spot on the medal table.The cheating even included tampering with the urine samples of six Russian athletes who won a total of 21 medals at the Sochi Paralympics.For years, international sports competitions have unknowingly been hijacked by the Russians, McLaren said.Indeed they have. Now the question is, what will Olympic officials and leaders of sports around the world do about it?The release of the first report got some Russians banned from Rio, though the IOC at the last minute rejected WADAs request to ban the entire team. Russians are also being systematically stripped of their medals from both London and Sochi.But thats hardly punishment enough for a cheating conspiracy that seemed to begin after Russia was embarrassed by an 11th-place showing in the medal standings at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. It involved top officials in the Russian Sports ministry, FSB intelligence service and the countrys anti-doping agency.IOC President Thomas Bach, who resisted efforts to ban Russia from Rio, finally seems to get it. He said Friday that any athlete or official involved in such as sophisticated manipulation system should be banned for life from the Olympics.Again, though, not enough.The McLaren report shows a scam carried out by agencies among the highest levels of Russian government. The punishment should hit the highest level of Russian government.A good start would be a complete ban on Russia at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. This should be a no brainer, with just 14 months left before the games and the Russians still in denial.Next, Olympic officials should immediately push to move the bobsled and skeleton world championships set for Sochi in February. American bobsled and skeleton athletes were already discussing a possible boycott of the championships to protest the doping scandal.Third, Russia should be put on Olympic probation, where anything other than strict compliance will mean a ban of Russia for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.Lastly, there needs to be an Olympic housecleaning. Bach and other Olympic officials who caved in to Russia in Rio should be replaced with new leaders who show a greater commitment to clean sports.The ball was fumbled in July when Olympic leaders could have made an emphatic statement about clean sports and level playing fields.Its time to make sure it doesnt happen again.----Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg Tigers Jerseys 2020 .B. - Sebastien Auger made 44 saves as the Saint John Sea Dogs edged the visiting Acadie-Bathurst Titan 2-1 on Saturday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. Tigers Jerseys 2019 . Howard Ganz, an MLB lawyer, said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos that Rodriguezs claims do not come "remotely close" to what is needed to overturn an arbitration decision in federal court. https://www.cheaptigers.com/ . Kyle Denbrook, a soccer player from Saint Marys University, took the CIS male athlete of the week honour. Stanley, a fourth-year business administration student from Charlottetown, scored both goals in a 2-0 win over Dalhousie on Friday and tallied again in a 1-0 win over Saint Marys on Sunday. Tigers Jerseys China . He was followed closely by David Clarkson, donning red, seconds later. Clarksons actions one night earlier, leaping off the bench in defence of Kessel during a pre-season game against the Buffalo Sabres, will cost him the first 10 games of the regular season. Fake Tigers Jerseys . -- The boos poured down on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at the end of a horrible first half.Celtic assistant coach John Kennedy believes Celtic showed their mettle to earn a 2-1 victory over Motherwell at Fir Park. Motherwell goalkeeper Connor Ripley looked like he was going to frustrate the league leaders with a string of impressive saves in a first-half in which Celtic also missed a penalty from Leigh Griffiths. A round-up of all of Saturdays action from the Scottish Premiership. But Griffiths finally beat Ripley a minute before the break before he took his tally for the season to 37 with 15 minutes remaining at Fir Park after Scott McDonald had levelled for the home side. In spite of his heroics, Ripley was at fault for the winning goal, but the stopper denied Celtic a third goal on a couple of occasions after they had restored their lead.Kennedy felt Celtic should have been out of sight by half-time, but he praised the players for standing firm as Motherwell made a contest of the game after the break.With a Aberdeen losing 2-1 to Hearts on Friday, Celtic now reequire just seven points to clinch a fifth successive Scottish Premiership title with just five matches remaining.ddddddddddddIt was important that we took advantage of Aberdeen slipping up last night, Kennedy said..The first half performance was good, we had some good chances but we didnt quite capitalise and in the second half we had to dig very deep but at this time of the season it is about results, that is the most important thing.It gives us an extra cushion but take nothing for granted in this game.With five games to go and eight points clear I would like to think we could see the job through. Celtic assistant John Kennedy (left) and Motherwell boss Mark McGhee (right) either side of Ronny Deila Motherwell boss Mark McGhee was involved in an exchange of words with Ronny Deila at full-time and refused to shake hands with his Celtic counterpart.Both McGhee and Kennedy played down the incident which apparently rose from a misunderstanding from the Well manager.And while McGhee had few complaints about the result, he believes his side should have been awarded a goal when McDonald put the ball in the net just after the interval.Sky Sports replays showed the striker had strayed marginally offside though and referee Willie Collum and his assistant made the correct call.McGhee said: We were beaten by the Champions elect. They deserved to win the game but we are very aggrieved that once again a decision has gone against us.I have watched it over and over and I know the linesman has only one look at it but for me it is onside and it should have stood. But we cant have any complaints. 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