Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. Daniel Descalso Jersey . This week, they discuss the NFL and marijuana, Canadian world champion boxer Bermane Stiverne, Steve Kerrs choice for head coach and FIFA backtracking on Qatar 2022. Dave Naylor, TSN Radio 1050: My thumb is up to the National Football League which - according to reports this week - is planning to soften its penalties for players who test positive for marijuana. Look, even if youre part of the minority which still believes pot should be illegal, its not hard to see the hypocrisy here. The NFL is a down-and-dirty league, where all kinds of nasty stuff happens and players are often welcomed back to the field despite risky and dangerous behavior. And yet, as of now, Clevelands Josh Gordon will miss this coming season because he did something that is legal in two states and which many believe is a safer way to manage the pain associated with pro football than popping pills. What would the NFL be like if the league stopped testing for weed altogether? Well, we have a pretty good idea because in Canada the CFL does not list marijuana as a banned substance. And frankly, no one cares. The NFL has followed the CFLs lead when it comes to the forward pass, two-point converts and a few other things … its time to follow its lead on pot as well. Steve Simmons, Sun Media: My thumb is up Bermane Stiverne, and if you dont know the name, youre not alone. A week ago, Stiverne, the Haitian-born Montreal-raised boxer, won the WBC heavyweight championship. Once upon a time, that was a title that began with Sonny Liston and moved through Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier and Larry Holmes and George Foreman and Mike Tyson and another Canadian of other countries, Lennox Lewis. It was the title of all titles not just in boxing, but in all of sport: heavyweight champion of the world. Somewhere in time that disappeared, just not the history; now its Stivernes time, after his sixth round stoppage of Chris Arreola in Los Angeles. He might be like Trevor Berbick, a one and done champion. But after all these years, we still remember Berbicks name. Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: My thumb is up to Steve Kerr for a wise choice. Offered coaching positions with the Knicks and Warriors, the broadcaster took door no. 2, Golden State. The job might not be all rainbows and lollipops because Warrior players are angry former coach Mark Jackson was fired, but it is a better option than Madison Square Garden, the worlds most famous asylum. Kerr wont have to answer to bullying owner James Dolan or face inevitable second-guessing from Knicks president Phil Jackson, a fair coach himself. Golden state provides Kerr with a more talented roster and a better family situation, but mostly if offers a truly precious commodity - sanity. Dave Hodge, TSN: My thumb is down to soccers world governing body, FIFA for managing to sound dumber than its president, Sepp Blatter. Blatter has finally admitted that the selection of Qatar as the site of the 2022 World Cup was a mistake, which, until now, has been obvious to all but FIFA, because if the summertime heat makes it dangerous to watch a soccer match, its probably not a good idea to play in one. But, said Blatter, people do make mistakes. Well, an embarrassed FIFA spokesman tried to distance the organization from Blatters remarks by claiming that Blatter never actually said that Qatar was the wrong choice, which means that Blatter meant...... 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Brazilian striker Brandao opened the scoring with a header in the 55th minute before winger Franck Tabanou volleyed home from close range to double the lead in the 61st.KREISCHBERG, Austria - The Alex Bilodeau era is over, but a sweep of a world championship podium led by Mikael Kingsbury shows that Canada has not lost a step in freestyle skiing.Kingsbury, of Deux-Montagnes, Que., won the dual moguls competition with a victory over Philippe Marquis of Quebec City on Monday while Marc-Antoine Gagnon of Terrebonne, Que., took the bronze medal.Bilodeau, the gold medallist at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, has retired to pursue a career in accounting.It hasnt changed much since Alex isnt there as far as growing and going forward, Kingsbury said on a conference call. Alex was an amazing athlete and it was great to share all those moments with him.But it didnt change my approach to competition. I was doing very well when he was there and I still have the same winning formula. Its working well so far. But, for sure, we miss Alex on tour. He was pretty much always on the podium with us.In womens dual moguls, Olympic champion Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Montreal took silver after losing 29-6 in the final to American veteran Hannah Kearney. Her older sister Chloe Dufour-Lapointe was fourth.For the men, it was the first medals sweep by one country since Finland did it in individual moguls in 1999.The three of us were very hungry for a medal, said Kingsbury. Theres a bit of luck in that, in duals, you never know who youre going to go against.I could have got Marc or Phil in the first round. But we had a good qualification round and we skied well. Its teamwork. We always train together and we push each other. The sweep was very close and we did it. It was pretty crazy.The 22-year-old said a member of the U.S. team promised to shave a Maple Leaf into his hair if Canada swept the podium.I cant wait to see that, said Kingsbury.Kingsbury has been at or near the top of his sport, winning three World Cup overall titles, eveen while Bilodeau was active. Dennis Eckersley Cubs Jersey. But he was second to the Rosemere, Que., skier in dual moguls at the 2011 and 2013 world championships. He also lost to Bilodeau in the individual moguls at the Sochi Olympics.Getting on a world championship podium was a breakthrough for his teammates.Gagnon, who finished fourth in Sochi, beat American Sho Kashima for the bronze medal.Kingsbury defeated Marquis, who was ninth at the 2014 Games, by 20-15. Kingsbury bounced back from losing his individual moguls title on Sunday, when he was upset in the final by Anthony Benna of France.It was the opposite for 20-year-old Justine Dufour-Lapointe, who won the individual moguls on Sunday only to lose the duals final after making a mistake on an icy patch on her first run.To win the world championship is one of the best feelings an athlete can have, she said. Today, I really wanted to give everything I had to win another title, but I finished second. I made an error, but it was a great weekend.Yulia Galysheva of Kazakhstan edged defending champion Chloe Dufour-Lapointe 18-17 for the bronze medal. The 23-year-old Chloe Dufour-Lapointe lost to her sister Justine in the semifinals.It was Kearneys 10th medal and fourth gold at a major championship. She won the world title in moguls in 2005 and two years ago, but it was her first triumph in dual moguls.Ive never won the dual world championships, it means a lot to me, Kearney said. Ten years ago, I won my first world championship gold medal. To stay at the top for ten years, Ive got to thank my trainers, my coaches, for helping me achieve that.The next medal events of the freestyle skiing and snowboard worlds are the slopestyle finals for both disciplines on Wednesday.— With files from The Associated PressNote to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version reported that Chloe Dufour-Lapointe won bronze. In fact, she was fourth. ' ' '