2010 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 1, Standings
The final standings for the 2010 Top League Challenge 1 were:


2010 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 1, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2010 Top League Challenge 1:


2010 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 2, Standings
The final standings for the 2010 Top League Challenge 2 were:


2010 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 2, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2010 Top League Challenge 2:


2010 Toppserien
The 2010 Toppserien was the twenty-fourth season of top-tier women's football in Norway since its establishment in 1987. A total of twelve teams contested the league, consisting of ten who competed in the previous season and two promoted from the 1. divisjon. The season ran from 5 April to 11 November 2010, and was won by Stabæk, their first ever title. As champions, they also qualified for the Round of 32 of the 2011-12 UEFA Women's Champions League.


2010 Toppserien
Stabæk completed the entire season undefeated, and were confirmed as league champions on the penultimate day after beating Trondheims-Ørn 3–0, at the same time as runners-up Røa lost 0–4 to Kolbotn. The roles were thus reversed from the previous season, when Røa won the league ahead of Stabæk. Kolbotn once again finished third after winning 2–0 against Arna-Bjørnar in the final round.


2010 Toppserien
Fløya were the first team of the season to be relegated, on 30 October. They would have been joined by newcomers Donn, whose licensing application for the 2011 season was denied on 4 November for financial reasons. Those same reasons, however, lead to Donn being declared bankrupt six days later.


2010 Toppserien
Linderud-Grei, founded in 2006 by Linderud IL and SF Grei to promote women's football in Groruddalen, played in the top flight for the first time. They finished second to last in the standings, but retained their Toppserien spot because of Donn's bankruptcy and demotion. It was the first time since 2007 that a newly promoted team had avoided relegation.


2010 Toppserien
As of 2010, the women's football club Team Strømmen are affiliated with Lillestrøm SK and have changed their name to LSK Kvinner. This is the second instance in Norway of a leading women's club becoming affiliated with a leading men's club, the first occurring in 2009 when Asker Fotball relocated to Bærum and became Stabæk Fotball.


2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open
The 2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 27th edition of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, and was part of the Premier Series of the 2010 WTA Tour. It took place at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from September 26 through October 2, 2010. Caroline Wozniacki won the singles title.


2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Champions, Doubles
Iveta Benešová /  Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová defeated  Shahar Pe'er /  Peng Shuai, 6–4, 4–6, [10–8]


2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open, WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open, WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry by a lucky loser spot:


2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles
Alisa Kleybanova and Francesca Schiavone were the defending champions. Both were present, but competed with different partners. Kleybanova competed with Hsieh Su-wei, but lost in the first round to Benešová and Záhlavová-Strýcová, while Schiavone competed with Tathiana Garbin, however withdrew before their quarterfinal match against Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs. Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová defeated Shahar Pe'er and Peng Shuai 6–4, 4–6, [10–8] in the final.


2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles
Maria Sharapova was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Kimiko Date-Krumm.


2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles
Caroline Wozniacki won the title, defeating Elena Dementieva in the final 1–6, 6–2, 6–3. This was to be Dementieva's last WTA singles final before her retirement later that year.


2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2010 Torneo Descentralizado
The 2010 Torneo Descentralizado de Fútbol Profesional (known as the 2010 Copa Cable Mágico for sponsorship reasons) was the ninety-fourth season of Association Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament, with Universitario de Deportes as the defending champion. The season began on February and concluded on December 12 with the victory of Universidad San Martín over León de Huánuco in the second leg of the final Play-off, giving Universidad San Martín its third Peruvian title.


2010 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition modus
The season was divided into 3 stages. In the first stage the 16 teams played a round-robin home-and-away round for a total of 30 matches each. In the second stage the 16 teams were divided into 2 groups. The 8 teams that ranked an odd number played in the group Liguilla A and the 8 teams that ranked an even number played in Liguilla B. In addition, the team ranked first at the end of the first stage is eligible to play the 2011 Copa Libertadores as Peru 3. Each team carried on their records from the first stage.


2010 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition modus
Both groups played another round-robin home-and-away round for 14 matches played by each team. Bonus points were awarded to two teams based on the performance of their reserve teams in the 2010 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva before the first match of the second stage. The teams ranked first in each group at the end of the 14 matches advanced to the third stage. The two teams with the fewest points at the end of the second stage were relegated. In the third stage the championship was contested in a two-legged Play-off. The Play-off finalists qualified for the Copa Libertadores. The remaining international competition berths were determined by the season aggregate table.


2010 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams
Sport Áncash and Coronel Bolognesi finished the 2009 season in 15th and 16th place, respectively, in the aggregate table and thus were relegated to the Segunda División. They were replaced by the champion of the 2009 Segunda División, Sport Boys and the champion of the 2009 Copa Perú, León de Huánuco.


2010 Torneo Descentralizado, Second stage
The Second Stage began September. The winner of each Liguilla will qualify for the 2011 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.


2010 Torneo Descentralizado, Third stage
The Third Stage will be the finals (also known as the Play-off) of the 2010 season between the winners of each group of the Second Stage. They will be played in December. The group winner with the most points on the aggregate table chooses which leg they will play as the home team. They will also choose the venue of the third match in case both teams are tied on points after the second leg.


2010 Torneo Descentralizado, Aggregate table
The aggregate table will determine the three teams who qualify to the 2011 Copa Sudamericana, and the two teams to be relegated to the Segunda División. The aggregate table consists of the points earned in the First and Second stages.


2010 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva
The Torneo de Promoción y Reserva is a football tournament in Peru. There are currently 16 clubs in the league. It will play from the year 2010 in a simultaneous way and preliminary to the Torneo Descentralizado among the 16 teams of first division. Each team will have in staff to twelve 21-year-old players, three of 19 and three experienced; whenever they be recorded in the club. The team champion in this tournament will offer two points and the runner-up a point of bonus to the respective regular team in the 2010 Torneo Descentralizado.


2010 Torneo di Viareggio
The 2010 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.


2010 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 48 teams are seeded in 12 pools, split up into 6-pool groups. Each team from a pool meets the others in a single tie. The winning club from each pool and two best runners-up from both group A and group B progress to the final knockout stage. All matches in the final rounds are single tie. The Round of 16 after envisions penalties and no extra time, while the rest of the final round matches include 30 minutes extra time and penalties to be played if the draw between teams still holds.


2010 Toronto Argonauts season
The 2010 Toronto Argonauts season was the 53rd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 138th overall. The Argonauts improved upon their 3–15 record from 2009 and their 4–14 record from 2008 and qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2007. After upsetting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East Semi-Final, they were defeated in the East Final by the hosting Montreal Alouettes.


2010 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Roster
Italics indicates Import player updated 2010-11-2146 Active, 6 Inactive, 8 PR


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season
The 2010 Toronto Blue Jays season was the 34th season of Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays franchise, and the team's 21st full season of play (22nd overall) at the Rogers Centre. The 2010 season was the first under general manager Alex Anthopoulos, who replaced J. P. Ricciardi after the 2009 season.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season
After a poor 2009 season in which the Blue Jays finished with a 75–87 record, 2010 saw the team improve by 10 games, finishing with an 85–77 record and in fourth place in the American League East. Led by José Bautista, whose 54 home runs set a franchise record and led the Major Leagues, the team also set a franchise record with 257 home runs.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, "The Doc Deal"
One of the biggest trades in Blue Jays history (known as "The Doc Deal") was executed on December 16, 2009, when the Blue Jays traded Roy Halladay and US$6 million to the Philadelphia Phillies for Kyle Drabek, Travis d'Arnaud and Michael Taylor; Taylor was then traded to the Oakland Athletics for Brett Wallace. Halladay signed a contract extension with the Phillies worth $60 million for 3 years, with an option for another year worth $20 million. The Phillies were scheduled to play in Toronto on June 25, 26 and 27, however due to the G20 summit meeting in Toronto, those games were held in Philadelphia. Halladay made his first start against his old team in spring training, allowing 4 runs on 5 hits.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Arrivals and departures
For more detailed information about arrivals and departures see Free agency and Waivers.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Arrivals and departures
In total, the Blue Jays lost 16 players in the offseason, 4 as free agents, but one re-signed. It was a trade-filled offseason, including The Doc Deal, which landed the Jays three players for Roy Halladay. The Jays made five trades in total. The Jays traded cash considerations for two pitchers in separate deals, and traded a player to be named for Zach Jackson. All told, the Blue Jays added 26 new players to their roster.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Free agency
Of the five major league free agents of the Blue Jays, John McDonald was the only one to re-sign with the team, accepting a two-year, $3 million deal. Michael Barrett and Kevin Millar were designated for assignment and subsequently released, becoming minor league free agents. Rod Barajas declined salary arbitration, signing a contract with the New York Mets in February 2010; this gave the Blue Jays a supplemental first-round compensation draft pick for the 2010 Major League Baseball draft (pick 41). Marco Scutaro signed a contract with the Boston Red Sox, giving the Blue Jays Boston's second-round draft pick (pick 81) and a supplemental first-round compensation draft pick (pick 32).


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Free agency
The team non-tendered Raúl Chávez, then signed him to a minor league deal. The Blue Jays signed shortstop Álex González to a one-year, $2.75 million contract on November 26, 2009, and catcher John Buck to a one-year, $2 million contract on December 16, 2009.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Free agency
On January 13, 2010, the Blue Jays signed four minor leaguers, Chris Lubanski, Willie Collazo, Jorge Padilla and Jesús Merchán. On January 19, they also signed Jeremy Reed and Steven Register to minor-league contracts, and on January 22 the Blue Jays signed Shawn Hill.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Free agency
On January 19, 2010, José Molina signed a one-year deal with an option for 2011 with the Blue Jays, and on February 2, 2010, relief pitcher Kevin Gregg signed a one-year, $2.75 million deal with the Blue Jays.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Free agency
Blue Jays minor league free agents signed by other teams include Fabio Castro (Boston), Bill Murphy (Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan), and Bryan Bullington and Buck Coats (both signed by the Kansas City Royals).


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Waivers
The Blue Jays made some moves with potential on the waiverwire. Alex Anthopolous made his first transaction ever when he picked up reliever Sean Henn from the Orioles in late October 2009. He acquired Jarrett Hoffpauir on November 3. Once free agency started to kick in, he claimed shortstop Mike McCoy from Colorado, and never made a transaction for the rest of 2009. Anthopolous made his first waiver claim of 2010 on January 7, when he claimed Brian Bocock from the San Francisco Giants. Bocock was waived and picked up by the Phillies on January 26. The Blue Jays' only waiver loss during the 2009–2010 offseason was utility player Joe Inglett, who was claimed by the Texas Rangers.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Salary arbitration
On January 15, 2010, six Blue Jay pitchers filed for salary arbitration. Shaun Marcum re-signed with the Blue Jays on January 18 to a one-year, $850,000 contract. The next day, Jeremy Accardo, Shawn Camp, Jason Frasor, Casey Janssen and Brian Tallet signed one-year deals with the club.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Staff
With three games left during the 2009 season, articles about Cito Gaston in the Toronto media suggested that some players had turned against him. Gaston responded to the accusations by saying "I've treated everybody with respect, so I am not sure what their bitch is." There was also a report that Gaston's managerial techniques caused Scott Rolen to request a trade out of Toronto. Vernon Wells stated that "Obviously, there are issues".


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Staff
On the same topic, Wells was asked if he could play for the Jays next season, and he replied with "I cannot answer that at this point in time". One day later, Blue Jays General Manager J. P. Ricciardi was fired. Ricciardi had received criticism for signing bulky, no-trade-clause contracts to players such as Vernon Wells, Frank Thomas, Alex Ríos and B. J. Ryan; three of the four were eventually released. Problems were also raised with Ricciardi's drafts and scouting.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Staff
He had drafted more than 200 players during his tenure, and had only six were the major league players at the time of his firing. One of his biggest failures was drafting Russ Adams 14th overall in the 2002 entry draft, passing by future All-Stars pitchers Scott Kazmir, Cole Hamels, and Matt Cain, also missing out on Nick Swisher. In other drafts, such as the one in 2005, he narrowly missed out on a franchise player, like Ryan Braun and one pick later, got Ricky Romero, who took more time to develop.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Staff
Some others criticized him for not drafting 30-home run slugger Troy Tulowitzki. Ricciardi made one of his biggest mistakes publicizing a trade for the face of the Blue Jays, Roy Halladay. In an interview on the FAN 590, he was asked if he was interested in trading Halladay, and he replied by saying "We would not be doing our job if we did not entertain offers from other teams". He went on to make numerous trade offers to the Phillies for top pitching prospects, primarily Kyle Drabek, or J. A. Happ.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Staff
The Phillies stuck with reigning Cy Young winner Cliff Lee instead, closing any door on Halladay being traded. The Jays had just lost three of four in a crucial series in New York when the rumours started, and the Jays' season went downhill. Affected by the trade talks, the Jays went from seven games behind to 13, and the Rays surpassed the Jays for good during the slide. On October 30, Cito Gaston announced that he will retire after the 2010 season, but he signed a four-year consulting deal with the Jays for post-retirement.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Staff
The Jays had two other members of the coaching staff leave; Brad Arnsberg left to be the Pitching Coach of the Houston Astros, and hitting coach Gene Tenace also announced that he will retire, only he will not be present for the 2010 season. These moves resulted in former bullpen coach, Bruce Walton becoming the pitching coach, and the former first base coach Dwayne Murphy took over at hitting coach. The two new coaches are Rick Langford, who took the helm as Bullpen Coach, and Omar Malavé became the new first base coach. Brian Butterfield moved from first to third giving Malave room at first, and bumping Nick Leyva up to be the bench coach.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Ownership
After the death of Blue Jays owner Ted Rogers following the 2008 season, speculation has also surrounded a potential change in team ownership. Home attendance reached its lowest since the 2003 season, and the Jays' management pursued attempts to shed payroll, including the releases of B. J. Ryan and Alex Ríos and the trade of Scott Rolen to the Cincinnati Reds. These moves spurred fans to speculate that Rogers Communications was attempting to make the franchise more attractive to potential buyers.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Ownership
On October 21, 2009, during an interview with radio station Fan 590, Tony Viner, the president and CEO of the company's media division that also controls the Blue Jays, stated emphatically that, "the team is not for sale. We are committed to winning and to doing the things that it takes to win."


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, 2010 Draft picks
The 2010 MLB draft was held on June 7–9. The Blue Jays had two first-round picks, along with two compensation picks. The Blue Jays also had two picks each in the second and third rounds.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Broadcasts
As with previous seasons, Rogers Sportsnet serves as the official television broadcaster for the Blue Jays. Former catcher and manager Buck Martinez now serves as lead commentator for Sportsnet's broadcasts, replacing Jamie Campbell. Rogers Sportsnet will serve as the exclusive broadcaster for all Blue Jays games in the 2010 season, exchanging its rights to air ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball with TSN in order to acquire the rights to the Blue Jays games previously aired by TSN. Sunday Night Baseball would air on TSN2.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Broadcasts
25 regular season games were moved to the newly launched Rogers Sportsnet One beginning in August 2010, which launched exclusively on Rogers Cable systems on August 14, 2010, a move which sparked criticism from viewers, fans, and critics. Of particular concern is the timing of the move considering the lack of the channel's availability across Canada, and the perceived strong-arming of Blue Jays fans and the other regional cable companies by Rogers, which owns the team, their stadium, the Sportsnet channels, and Rogers Cable, the only cable provider who carried the network upon its launch. Some fans cancelled Blue Jays ticket purchases in protest, but Paul Beeston, the team president, has stated he is very happy to be going with Sportsnet One.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Broadcasts
The FAN 590 was the Jays flagship radio station with Jerry Howarth and Alan Ashby calling the games, and Mike Wilner was the third man in the booth at times, and the post-game host. The games were simulcast on other radio stations across the country.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Injuries
The Blue Jays suffered their first injury seconds into 2010, when a freak accident occurred. Third baseman Edwin Encarnación was celebrating New Years at his hometown in Dominican Republic when a fireworks malfunction caused fireworks to go out of control. Encarnación suffered minor facial injuries to the front and right side of his face after he was struck by a firecracker rocket near his jaw and it exploded. No serious damage was done, and Encarnación was ready to play by spring training. He suffered first and second-degree burns. The Jays still have other injury issues with their pitching staff.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Injuries
Their 3–4–5 pitchers in 2008 all underwent Tommy John surgery, and are all expected to be back for 2010. Jesse Litsch underwent Tommy John surgery in July 2009, and it is hoped he will return to the active roster in June 2010. Shaun Marcum also underwent Tommy John surgery after he went down late in 2008, and while a September 2009 return was possible, the Jays decided to sideline him for the rest of 2009. Marcum was the team's starter for Opening Day 2010, and will be the ace of the rotation.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Injuries
Dustin McGowan was the third Jay to have the same surgery, and he is not expected to be back in time for the start of 2010. A May return is a more realistic time for McGowan to return. On January 29, McGowan took a step forward as he threw off a mound, with no pain. Pitcher Dirk Hayhurst had arthroscopic shoulder surgery on February 5, and he will be out indefinitely.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Injuries
A couple of days before pitchers and catchers reported for training, Scott Richmond was sidetracked with a shoulder impingement, which can be a sign of tendinitis or an actual tear of the rotator cuff. Richmond was later placed on the 60-day DL. Jesse Litsch and Dirk Hayhurst were placed on the 60-day DL on the week that pitchers and catchers reported. The Jays suffered no major injuries during spring training except for Marc Rzepczynski, who suffered a broken finger on a bouncer that came back to the mound. Rzepczynski was placed on the 15-day DL along with Dustin McGowan, due to arm fatigue. The first injury during the season was a significant one, as All-Star second baseman Aaron Hill was placed on the 15-Day DL with a tight hamstring on April 12.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Expectations
As expected the Blue Jays are entering 2010 as re-builders, due to the loss of hitters (Barajas and Scutaro) to free agency, and the blockbuster trade of their long-time ace Roy Halladay for non-MLB ready prospects. Most fans and writers have called 2010 a rebuilding year, but a bright future is projected by Blue Jay writers and reporters. It was a different story at "State of the Franchise" press conference held at the Rogers Centre on January 28, 2010. Paul Beeston said "we're not in a rebuild mode. We're in build mode". Alex Anthopolous then discussed his interest in free agents Carlos Delgado and Johnny Damon. Cito Gaston said he wants Carlos Delgado back. Beeston said in a later interview that winning will bring fans into the stadium, and that is their goal.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Offseason
In the offseason, retired second baseman Roberto Alomar finished eight votes shy of being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on his first ballot. Alomar announced earlier that if he did get inducted into the Hall of Fame, he would like to be inducted as a Blue Jay, becoming the first ever. Former Montreal Expos outfielder Andre Dawson was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and he was inducted as an Expo; the second Expo to be inducted into Cooperstown behind Gary Carter.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Offseason
Alomar was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on January 28, along with former Toronto pitcher Paul Quantrill and two others (Calvin Griffith and statistician Allan Roth). After hearing he would be inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, Alomar said, "This is an honor, truly a privilege. I cherished my years with the Blue Jays and have always loved the Canadian people. Those years were the very best of my career."


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
Ricky Romero got the first start of 2010 in spring training for the Jays against the Detroit Tigers. Chris Lubanski, an offseason addition, hit the Jays only home run in that game when he hit a solo shot in the 8th. In total, 6 pitchers were sent out on day one, 5 of which were in their first spring training with the Jays. A day later, the Blue Jays got their first win, defeating Detroit 9–7. It was an interesting day as Kyle Drabek made his much anticipated debut for the Jays, and Halladay made his Debut with the Phillies.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
Halladay pitched 2 hitless innings, and Drabek pitched 2 innings giving up 2 runs on 3 hits. Drabek also struck out three. J. P. Arencibia hit a 2-run home run in the top of the 9th to break a 7–7 tie, and ultimately give the Jays a 9–7 win as Rommie Lewis closed the game out in the bottom of the ninth. The Jays played the Phillies a day later and beat them 14–9. The Jays once held a 14–2 lead at one point in that game.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
The Blue Jays won their third straight by smashing New York 9–1 at Legends Field. Shawn Marcum got the win in his first start with the Jays since 2008, and won their fourth straight over Detroit to improve their record to 4–1. Three of the four potential closers each pitched an inning giving up a combined 2 hits and 1 run with 2 strikeouts. Kevin Gregg gave up a home run to Gerald Laird in the 4th inning, and was the only one of three to not get a strikeout.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
On March 8, the Blue Jays cut their first three non-roster invites, two of them being catchers. Pitcher Daniel Farquhar was the first pitcher to be cut, and catchers Matt Luizza and Travis d'Arnaud (acquired in the Doc Deal) were among the catchers cut. All cuts will report to Minor League camp to be evaluated at which level each cut will start the year. A couple days later, Kyle Drabek was sent down to Minor League camp. He will start the year at AA New Hampshire or AAA Las Vegas.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
The Jays lost two straight after a 5–1 start, losing to the Phillies 4–2 and Rays 4–1. The next game, slated to be against the Astros, was canceled due to rain. The Jays got back to their winning ways on March 13, when Ricky Romero threw 4 shutout innings to guide the Jays to a 3–0 win over Atlanta. The Jays lost a day later to the Braves 8–5 with help from to prospect Jason Heyward, who hit two doubles. Randy Ruiz hit the Jays' only home run.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
The Jays did not rebound nicely as the first at-bat of their next game against Detroit was a home run from Scott Sizemore. The Jays held a one-run lead going into the eighth, but collapsed and gave up 4 runs. The Jays rebounded after that by beating Baltimore in back-to-back days. The Jays won 4–1 on March 17 thanks to Travis Snider's first home run and Brian Tallet's second win. The Jays then pounded the Orioles 13–3 the next day on the strength of 6 home runs.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
Travis Snider and John Buck both hit two, and Aaron Hill and Chris Lubanski hit one. Ricky Romero got his team-leading third win. The Blue Jays also made some cuts on the 18th. Pitcher Zech Zinicola (acquired by the Jays in the Rule-5 draft) did not make the cut, and he was returned to Washington. Hitter Brian Dopirak also didn't make the cut, but he will stay in the Jays organization. The Jays split their next two games before another game got canceled due to rain. Toronto lost to Houston 2–0, and beat Atlanta 7–6.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
The Jays were going to play the Red Sox for the first time in spring training, but rain in Dunedin forced the game to be canceled. From there, the Blue Jays fell into a spring training freefall, losing five in a row. The Jays lost as a split squad twice on March 26, including a disappointing loss to the Boston Red Sox. The Jays took a 2–0 lead into the 9th when Zach Jackson came in to close the game out. The Sox rallied for 3 runs, and walked off.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
The Jays' other loss was a 14–10 loss to the Rays. The slump caused the Jays to fall below .500, and they could not rebound. The Jays beat Pittsburgh 11–2 to snap the five-game slide. The next day, The Jays blew a 2–0 lead late against the Tigers to earn their first tie of two in spring training. But on March 31, by far the most interesting match up in spring came against the Phillies. Sandwiched between 2 losses to the Yankees was a start by Roy Halladay.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
"Doc" struggled, as he gave up 4 earned runs on five hits in 3 innings. All 4 runs were surrendered in the first inning. Four hits were extra base hits, including a 2-run shot by Aaron Hill. The Jays then entered Houston to finish up spring training. In Buck Martinez's play-by-play debut, Aaron Hill hit a two-run shot in the first inning to help jumpstart the Jays. The Jays failed to hold on to a 3–0 lead and surrendered a game-tying run in the 9th inning to tie the game at 3.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, Spring training (March and April)
The Jays rebounded by hitting the Astros hard and early. Aaron Hill hit his second straight first inning shot to jumpstart the Jays again, and Edwin Encarnación ended a disappointing spring with a 3-run home run. The Jays ended up winning 13–6. Their final spring training record was 12–13–2. Alex Anthopolous called it "a great spring" in an in-game interview with Rod Black and Pat Tabler.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
On March 22, Shaun Marcum was named the opening-day starter for the Toronto Blue Jays. This was Marcum's first opening day start of his career. Brian Tallet was later named the Day 2 starter, ahead of Ricky Romero. Tallet is the probable home opener starter. On April 3, Adam Lind signed a long-term contract with the Jays that could keep him with the club until 2016. Lind signed a four-year deal that will keep him in Toronto until at least 2013, with three club option years that could keep him in Toronto until the end of the 2016 season. On April 12, Aaron Hill was placed on the DL with a tight hamstring.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Toronto kicked off their 2010 regular season in Arlington, Texas, against the Texas Rangers. (See below for opening day results). The Blue Jays lost 5–4. The Blue Jays rebounded, and won 7–4 the next day. Vernon Wells continued his good start by homering twice, while Toronto starter Brian Tallet pitched a quality game and earned a win. The next day, Toronto was dealt a scare, as All-Star second baseman Aaron Hill was a late scratch due to a hamstring injury. The injury was said to be minor.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Mike McCoy started at second base in place of Aaron Hill for his first career MLB start. McCoy earned his first career hit in his first at-bat of the game. McCoy finished the game 2-for-5 with an RBI. Ricky Romero and C. J. Wilson held the game scoreless until the 7th when Ricky Romero threw a wild pitch to allow David Murphy to score and give the Rangers a 1–0 lead. Texas held on to that lead until the 9th inning when Frank Francisco came in to close the game.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Vernon Wells hit a solo shot to jumpstart the Jays to a 3-run inning that would ultimately give the Jays a 3–1 win. Jason Frasor made his second straight save. The win marked the first time the Jays passed the .500 mark since July 7, 2009, when they were 43–42. The Jays then flew to Baltimore to play as visitor for the O's home opener. In front of 48,891 fans, the Jays quickly jumped out to a 3–0 lead, as Vernon Wells hit another RBI.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Brandon Morrow had issues in the bottom of the first, as a lack of control helped the O's get back to tie the game at 3 on the strength of one hit. Toronto got back ahead before Miguel Tejada hit a 2-run shot in the 5th to tie the game again. Baltimore would then pull ahead in the 8th thanks to a César Izturis RBI with 2 outs. Mike Gonzalez entered the game to close it out, but like Thursday, Toronto rallied in the 9th for 2 runs to pull ahead for good.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Kevin Gregg earned his first save with the Jays. Dana Eveland made his first start for the Jays in the 5th game, and earned a quality start. Eveland gave up 5 hits on 7.1 innings of work, and the offense scored 3 thanks to 2 RBIs from José Molina. Travis Snider was intentionally walked twice to bring up Molina. With the bases loaded, Molina was hit by a pitch to bring in a run. Molina also hit a RBI single after another Snider IBB. Jason Frasor earned his first save.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
The win gave the Jays sole possession of first place in the AL East for the first time since May 23, 2009. The Jays continued their hot start by winning their 5th straight. Baltimore took a 2–1 lead into the 8th. After Kevin Millwood retired the first two, John McDonald reached first thanks to a Miguel Tejada error. That error allowed José Bautista to hit a 2-run home run to give the Jays the lead. the Jays added insurance thanks to an Álex González solo shot (his second of the day), and Edwin Encarnación's first home run of 2010.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Jason Frasor earned his fourth save. The Jays have started the season 5–1 for the past 2 seasons. The Jays then started their first homestand of 2010 on April 12 (see below for home opener results). Ricky Romero then pitched a gem in game 8, going 8 innings giving up 2 runs on 1 hit. The Jays took a 4–0 lead, and that was all they needed thanks to Romero.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Romero struck out 12 and took a no-hitter into the 8th before A. J. Pierzynski was hit on a questionable call, and Alex Ríos ended the no-hit bid with a 2-run home run. Kevin Gregg earned to save to seal it. A day later the Jays were shut down, as they were only able to manage one run on two hits. The Sox put the Jays to sleep fast, thanks to 11 runs, 4 of which came from an Andruw Jones grand slam.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Only 10,610 fans were there to witness that game, an all-time low for Jays games at Rogers Centre. Low opening-week attendance drew comments (unknown whether it was a joke or if they were serious) from Alex Ríos and Ozzie Guillén claimed that "Baseball is dead in Toronto", and that hockey is the reason nobody cares about baseball in Toronto. Ozzie Guillén claimed that if hockey players were on the field, people would come. Ríos then blamed hockey for lack of interest in baseball, even though no professional hockey team from Toronto was playing during the opening series.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Ríos went on to say only diehards support the Blue Jays. Ozzie Guillén did not understand why Ríos was booed by Jays fans. After watching a viral video uploaded two months before Ríos was released (when Ríos was leaving a charity event after a game in which he struck out 5 times in a 1-run loss, a kid asked for autographs, and Ríos declined it. Another fan told Ríos "The way you played today, you should be lucky someone wants your autograph". Ríos constantly replied "Who gives a fuck?" as the fan called Ríos a bum.)


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Ozzie Guillén said "I would beat the shit out of him and the guys." The writer of that article (Joe Cowley), was also causing controversy for comments made about Canadian culture and the Jays organization. He claimed that "Baseball is failing in Toronto", and that MLB should be concerned with moving a team out of Canada. In the middle of this he claimed that all that was on TV in his hotel room was hockey, Olympics, and MuchMusic videos. He suggested that Toronto should move to Caracas, Venezuela. In the end, the organization will not be moved out of Canada any time soon, as Paul Beeston said. But Toronto continued their homestand as they started a three-game set against the Angels. Toronto lost back-to-back games to LA to start the series. Their record dropped to 7–5.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
On April 5, the Blue Jays opened the 2010 season in Arlington, Texas against the Texas Rangers. A first-inning Vernon Wells home run spotted starter Shaun Marcum – making his first start since September 16, 2008 – to a 2–0 lead. Adam Lind pushed the lead to 3–0 with a solo home run in the third. Marcum took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, but after a Josh Hamilton walk, Vladimir Guerrero broke the no-hitter with a single. The next batter, Nelson Cruz, hit an opposite-field three-run home run to tie the game.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
In the eighth, Wells hit a bases-loaded single to left-center to give the Jays a 4–3 lead. The Jays took the lead into the ninth inning, but closer Jason Frasor failed to convert the save opportunity. Michael Young led the inning off with a double, followed by a Guerrero infield single with one out and a game-tying RBI double from Nelson Cruz. Chris Davis was given an intentional walk to load the bases for Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Saltalamacchia hit a gapper to right-center that allowed pinch runner David Murphy to score the winning run.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Only five Blue Jays from 2009 were starting at the same position in 2010, and only three are in the same batting position in 2009. The most notable change is Shawn Marcum taking the mound as Opening Day starting pitcher instead of Roy Halladay. The last time Halladay did not start on Opening Day was in 2002 when Chris Carpenter started.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Honda Canada was named the official vehicle of the Toronto Blue Jays in March. As a part of the sponsorship, Honda has been named the official sponsor of the 2010 home opener. It has officially been named Honda Home Opener.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
The Jays entered their 2010 home opener on a five-game win streak, and had won four straight home openers. The Jays fell below 2–0 early, but came back thanks to a mammoth 2-run shot by John Buck that landed in the 400 level (over the ring of honour). The Jays then fell back by 2 runs again in the third inning, but responded in the bottom of the third with a 2-run shot by Vernon Wells and a 2-RBI hit by Adam Lind.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Chicago came back to tie the game, thanks to a solo shot by Andruw Jones and an RBI single by Mark Teahen that scored Alex Ríos. Ríos was playing in Toronto for the first time since being placed on waivers in July 2009. Ríos was welcomed back with a chorus of "boos". Ríos was booed for every at-bat, and every time he fielded a ball. The Jays climbed back on top in the bottom of the inning when Adam Lind was walked on 4 pitches with the bases loaded to give the Jays the lead again.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Toronto held on to that lead, but it quickly vanished in the ninth. Jason Frasor blew another save, as he gave up a home run to Mark Teahen on an 0–2 pitch. The game stayed tied until the 11th when Teahen struck again this time with an RBI triple that scored pinch runner Omar Vizquel from first base. The Jays nearly walked off the next inning, but a long line drive by Álex González with one on missed the foul pole by about 5 feet.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, April
Gonzalez drew a walk, but the next batter Adam Lind struck out for the third time to end the game. The Jays had their five-game win streak snapped, their streak of four straight win for their home openers was snapped too, and their ten-game winning streak against the White Sox at home was also snapped, dating back to 2007. The loss put the Jays' record to 5–2. Both losses were aided with a blown save by Jason Frasor. Kevin Gregg would assume the full-time role as closer a day later.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, June
The Blue Jays' last interleague series was to be a home set against the Philadelphia Phillies. However, on May 12, the Blue Jays announced the series would be moved to Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park due to logistical and security concerns brought about by the G20 Summit. Rogers Centre is next door to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where the summit took place. Fans would have faced numerous problems with parking and access, along with a number of unknown obstacles. Nonetheless, the Blue Jays were the home team for that series.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Season, Summary, July
On July 30 José Bautista hit a grand slam home run against the Cleveland Indians at Rogers Centre.


2010 Toronto Blue Jays season, Game log, Regular season
The 2010 MLB and Toronto Blue Jays schedule was announced on September 15, 2009. It includes 162 games (as usual) – 81 at home, 81 on the road. The Jays open and close on the road, started off in Arlington and lost to Rangers on Easter Monday, and will close it out with a four-game set in the brand new Target Field against the Twins. The Jays home opener opponent was the Chicago White Sox on a Monday night at 7:20 pm (past home openers have started at 7:15 pm), and lost 8–7 in 11 innings. The Jay's final home game of 2010 will be held on September 29 against the New York Yankees.


2010 Toronto FC season
The 2010 MLS season was the fourth season in Toronto FC's existence. The club was looking to make the playoffs for the first time in their history and ultimately fell short. TFC started the season with Preki as the new head coach however, on September 14, 2010, he along with the Director of Soccer Mo Johnston were relieved of their duties; and Nick Dasovic took over as head coach on an interim basis.


2010 Toronto FC season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Toronto FC season, Squad, Transfers, In
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Toronto FC season, Squad, Transfers, Out
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Toronto FC season, Competitions, Regular season, Standings
(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion


2010 Toronto FC season, Competitions, Regular season, Results summary
Last updated: October 23, 2010Source: 2010 Major League Soccer seasonPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2010 Toronto FC season, Squad statistics, Disciplinary records
Last updated: October 23Source: Competitive matchesOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.


2010 Toronto International Film Festival
The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19, 2010. The opening night gala presented Score: A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film. Last Night closed the festival on September 19.


2010 Toronto International Film Festival
2010 TIFF included 258 feature films, down from 264 in 2009. However, the number of short films at the 2010 festival increased to 81 (compared to 70 in 2009), making the total number of films 339, five more than in 2009.


2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Of the feature films, TIFF claims that 112 are world premieres, 24 are international premieres (i.e. the first screening outside the film's home country), and 98 are North American premieres. (In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF.)


2010 Toronto Nationals season
The 2010 Toronto Nationals season was the second for the franchise. After playing their 2009 season at BMO Field, the Nationals moved their home games to Lamport Stadium for their second season. Coming off a Steinfeld Cup victory in 2009, the Nationals were unable to repeat this achievement. They finished last in the league in 2010 and failed to qualify for the playoffs with a 3-9 record. Brodie Merrill won the Major League Lacrosse Defensive player of the Year Award and was named to the All-MLL team as a defenseman.


2010 Toronto Nationals season, Standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, PCT = Winning Percentage, GB = Games Back of first place, GF = Goals For, 2ptGF = 2 point Goals For, GA = Goals Against, 2ptGA = 2 point Goals Against


2010 Toronto Nationals season, Standings
Boston finished ahead of Denver based on a head to head record of 3-0.


2010 Toronto Nationals season, Playoffs
The Nationals did not qualify for the 2010 Steinfeld Cup playoffs after winning the championship in 2009.


2010 Toronto Rock season
The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2010 season was the 14th in franchise history, and 13th as the Rock.


2010 Toronto Rock season
Shortly after the 2009 season ended, the Rock franchise was sold to Jamie Dawick, a professional poker player and businessman from nearby Oakville, Ontario. Dawick's first move was to bring Terry Sanderson back on board as general manager. Sanderson soon hired former Calgary Roughnecks head coach Troy Cordingley to coach the Rock and the Rock's fortunes changed immediately.


2010 Toronto Rock season
They finished the 2010 season with a 9–7 record, their best record since their Championship win in 2005 and made the playoffs for the first time in three years. They defeated the Buffalo Bandits and Orlando Titans to get to the Championship game for the seventh time in team history but were defeated by the Washington Stealth.


2010 Toronto Rock season, Regular season, Conference standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2010 Toronto Rock season, Transactions, Entry draft
The 2009 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 9, 2009. The Rock selected the following players:


2010 Toronto mayoral election
The 2010 Toronto mayoral election was held on October 25, 2010, to elect a mayor of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The mayor's seat was open for the first time since the 2003 Toronto election due to the announcement by incumbent mayor David Miller that he would not seek a third term in office. The nomination period for the 2010 municipal election opened on January 4, 2010, and closed on September 10, 2010. The result of the election was a victory for former city councillor Rob Ford. He received 47% of the vote.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
In the 2006 Toronto election, David Miller was easily reelected as mayor, winning 57% of the vote and leading in 42 of the city's 44 wards. On September 25, 2009, Miller announced that he would not be running for re-election. Prior to Miller's announcement important figures had already been contemplating mayoral bids, most notably Deputy Premier George Smitherman and former mayoral candidate and Progressive Conservative leader John Tory. Miller's withdrawal created an open race and the possibility of a wide field of candidates contesting the position.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
While there was speculation that Tory and Smitherman would both be contesting the race, Tory announced in January that he would not be a candidate. Tory's 2003 campaign manager and Liberal fundraiser Rocco Rossi announced he was running on December 14, 2009. Smitherman announced on November 8 that he was resigning from the provincial cabinet in order to run for mayor. They were joined in the campaign by right-wing councillors Giorgio Mammoliti and Rob Ford.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
The left was initially split between two high-profile candidates: Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and TTC chair Adam Giambrone. Giambrone formally launched his campaign on February 1, 2010, but ended as sex scandal caused him to withdraw on February 10, 2010.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
According to Ford campaign organizer Richard Ciano, the campaign disregarded "the conventional wisdom [that] conservatives don't win in Toronto". The campaign rejected the conventional strategy of focussing on specific areas. The campaign bypassed traditional media outlets and used telephone town hall events to call some 40,000 homes simultaneously and invite respondents to a talk-radio-style event hosted by Ford. This created grassroots momentum and facilitated small donations and grew the campaign's database.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
Ford campaigned on ending wasteful spending at City Hall and campaign slogans such as "Stop the Gravy Train" and "respect for taxpayers" resonated with the public. His campaign's extensive internal polls showed that wasteful spending at City Hall was one of the biggest concerns among voters, although that "seemed to be the last thing any of the other candidates were talking about". Ford also pledged to do away with the city's century-old fair-wage policy, which required that private contractors be paid the same as union employees. It was said that Ford successfully tapped into recession-weary "ordinary" people who comprise the bulk of the population of Toronto, who were angry at perceived financial mismanagement at City Hall and powerful city employee unions with generous benefits and pension plans.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
Ford's message of putting taxpayers' interests before that of labour and special interests was also said to have attracted wide support among diverse immigrant communities in the inner-city and suburbs (whose demographics contrast sharply with the "urbane creative class" of The Beach and the Annex neighborhoods). By contrast, "people knew precisely nothing about what George Smitherman stood for", according to a spokesman for George Smitherman, who was considered Ford's chief opponent.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
Smitherman and other political opponents attempted to make an issue of Ford's past controversial statements and incidents. However, these did little to hurt Ford's popularity. A pollster found that "one middle-aged woman explained that she would overlook personality failings in a mayor – as long as he didn't waste her taxes". According to campaign staffers Richard Ciano and Nick Kouvalis, these personal attacks were turned into advantages by the Ford campaign, portraying rivals making these personal attacks as "trying to keep the gravy train going".


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
The barbs directed at Ford generated more donations to his campaign, as did a deliberate lack of sophistication in style. According to Kouvalis "our polling said, don't put him in a $2,000 suit". The revelation of Ford's DUI conviction in Florida, and his subsequent public apology, led to an increase in support for Ford.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
In June 2010, Ford and fellow councillors criticized retiring Councillor Kyle Rae for holding a retirement party at the Rosewater Club and billing the $12,000 cost to his office budget. Rae said that unspent campaign funds he was forced to turn over the city more than covered the cost, but critics pointed out that the campaign money was not his to spend. This example was used by Ford as an example of the "gravy train" at City Hall.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
On August 17, 2010, the National Post reported that a computer user inside the Toronto Star company made edits to the Wikipedia article about Ford that his campaign considered "very serious libel" and copyright infringement. Bob Hepburn, a Toronto Star spokesman, denied responsibility for the edits. "The Toronto Star owns a couple of these IP portals and they come under Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, which is a broader thing. The Toronto Star itself has a separate portal", said Hepburn.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
A Nanos Research poll, published on September 19, 2010, showed Ford doubling his lead from 12% to 24.5% over second-place candidate Smitherman (45.8% to 21.3% of decided voters). The Nanos Research Poll asked 1021 "likely voters" from September 14 and 16 with Rob Ford receiving 34.4% of likely voters, Smitherman 16%, Joe Pantalone 12% and undecided voters at 25%.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
A Global News Ipsos-Reid poll released Monday, September 27 showed Ford's lead diminishing at 28 per cent, with George Smitherman at 23 per cent, Joe Pantalone (who pledged to continue the policies of outgoing mayor David Miller) at 10 per cent, and Rocco Rossi and Sarah Thomson (who dropped from the race on September 28 and endorsed Smitherman) at seven per cent each. On October 22, an EKOS Research Poll found Ford with an 8 per cent lead over second place Smitherman in decided voters; 43.9% to 35.6%.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
Ford also criticized Smitherman's previous record as provincial Minister of Health, where Smitherman had been responsible for approving most of the sole-sourced contracts before the scandal of eHealth Ontario erupted. A Ford spokesman said "the voters and the taxpayers of Toronto are going to get a very clear message from this information today that George Smitherman has no fiscal credibility to be mayor of Toronto. He is incapable of handling a budget".


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
On October 12, the campaign became nasty when signs were posted on University Avenue with the slogan "Wife-beating, racist drunk for mayor!" The anonymous signs were a veiled attack at leading candidate Rob Ford. All the leading candidates declared their disgust about the signs that were quickly removed.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign
George Smitherman was also the subject of attack ads later in October, with a radio ad targeted to the Tamil Canadian community and a poster targeted to Muslim voters both suggesting that the communities had an obligation to support Ford, because he is married to a woman, over Smitherman, who is openly gay and married his partner in 2007.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign, Spending
Ford spent $1,723,605.77 on his campaign, which exceeded the mayoral campaign spending limit of $1,305,066.65. Smitherman's campaign spent $2.2 million. Campaign rules exclude a wide range of fund-raising expenditures, accounting for the over-spending. At the end of the campaign, the Ford campaign was $639,526.60 in debt, the Thomson campaign was $140,000 in debt and the Rossi campaign was $60,000 in debt, while the Smitherman campaign was debt-free. A special "Harmony" fund-raising dinner was held in January 2011 and the $1 million in proceeds used to pay off the debts. Pantalone's campaign finished $55,000 in debt, and he held his own fund-raiser to cover the debt after he declined to participate in the "Harmony" fund-raiser because of former premier Mike Harris's participation.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign, Spending
In April 2011, John Lorinc of The Globe and Mail wrote an article about the Ford campaign finances, noting that $69,722.31 of campaign expenses were paid by Doug Ford Holdings, the Ford family firm. The family firm also paid for a $22,713.04 contract to rent the Toronto Congress Centre for a campaign kickoff event. Both expenses were repaid but the borrowing may have constituted an illegal corporate contribution to the campaign. Activist Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler and lawyer Max Reed filed a complaint about the Ford campaign's borrowing and over-spending to the City of Toronto Compliance Audit Committee.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Campaign, Spending
In May 2011, the committee voted to proceed with an audit of the mayor's campaign finances. Penalties under the Municipal Elections Act range from fines to removal from office. Ford first appealed the decision to audit the campaign, then dropped the appeal in April 2012. The city contracted the firm Froese Forensic Partners to conduct the audit. The audit found that the Ford campaign had overspent by $40,000, but the audit committee decided to not refer the violation to a special prosecutor.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Results
Official results from the City of Toronto as of October 28, 2010.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Issues
Several issues emerged early in the campaign. Transportation was one issue with debates over cycling and public transit. Bike lanes on streets such as Jarvis Street and University Avenue were one issue. Rocco Rossi was strongly opposed to such bike lanes (insisting that bike lanes instead be placed on parallel sideroads) while Pantalone supported them, Mammoliti endorsed the bike lanes on Jarvis, and Ford stated he would not remove any such installations.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Issues
The debate over public transit focused on Mayor Miller's Transit City initiative. Rocco Rossi called for a halt to Transit City and instead pushed for more subways in a plan he called "Transit City Plus", and also for the completion of the Allen Expressway in a tunnel along the cancelled Spadina Expressway alignment, to the Gardiner Expressway. Ford had long opposed the Transit City plan. Pantalone supported continuing the Transit City project. Sarah Thomson proposed replacing the planned LRT lines with subways paid for with road tolls. Smitherman had an ambitious transit plan, calling for expansions both to subway lines and to the Transit City plan, though his projected funding sources faced criticism.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Issues
Another important issue was how to pay for municipal services. One proposal was to sell city assets. Rossi proposed selling Toronto Hydro. Sarah Thomson called for restructuring TCHC and a line by line review of every department at city hall.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Issues
Four mayoral candidates (Rocco Rossi, George Smitherman, Joe Pantalone and Rob Ford) signed a pledge to give faith-based groups a bigger role in municipal government.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates
There were six "major" candidates running who were included by the media in public opinion polls and mayoral debates during the campaign, although by election day only three remained as active contenders: Ward 2 councillor Rob Ford, deputy mayor and Ward 19 councillor Joe Pantalone and former Liberal cabinet minister George Smitherman.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates
Giorgio Mammoliti was also included in debates until his withdrawal from the contest. Magazine editor Sarah Thomson announced on September 28, 2010, that she was ending her campaign, and former Liberal fundraiser Rocco Rossi dropped out of the campaign on October 13, 2010. Due to their late withdrawal, Thomson's and Rossi's names remained on the ballot.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Candidates listed as registered on the City of Toronto website.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Achampong, 32, was president of the Students' Administrative Council at the University of Toronto in 2002–03. Achampong is an alumnus of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. At 18, he drove a getaway car in an armed robbery. He spent a year in jail. He calls the incident the "mistake of his life" and is now a lawyer.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
He was one of two candidates, alongside the six "major" candidates and Keith Cole, selected by an online poll to participate in a debate on municipal voting reform sponsored by the civic advocacy group Better Ballots. When Giorgio Mammoliti subsequently withdrew from the race on July 5, 2010, he encouraged the media to give Achampong his former space in the mayoral debates.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Andrews, 67, is a white supremacist and perennial candidate for mayor. He has run for Mayor of Toronto several times, most recently in 2003 when he came in tenth place with 0.17% of the vote, and has registered to run again in 2014. In 2003, two other party members ran unsuccessfully for Toronto city council. On one occasion, Andrews placed a distant second in the mayoralty race as no serious candidate ran against popular incumbent, David Crombie. As a result, the municipal law was changed so that the runner-up in the mayoralty contest no longer had the right to succeed to the mayor's chair should the position become vacant between elections.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Campbell contested for the leadership of the federal and provincial New Democratic Party on five occasions, beginning in 1970. Campbell resurfaced in 1988 as a fringe candidate for mayor of North York. Most recently, Campbell has run for Mayor of Toronto in 2000, 2003 and 2006, receiving 1.2% and 0.3% of the vote in the first two contests respectively. During the 2006 campaign he was quoted as saying "the answer is public ownership of land. Businessmen are going to nuclearize the planet. If you vote for a capitalist candidate, you're voting to kill children".


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Clarke, 46, is a perennial candidate for public office in Toronto. For several years, he was also one of the most recognizable homeless persons in the city. He has over 90 convictions, with only two that weren't dismissed. The majority of these charges stem from his loud campaigns at large public events and busy street corners. He also claims to be the first arrest of the Toronto G-20 summit, a week in advance.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Although he was taking off a rollerblade, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who claimed he was urinating against a wall near the Rogers Centre attacked him by surprise and violently handcuffed him. He was not charged, but was told to leave the area, or be arrested. He frequently sings and preaches on the streets of Toronto while wearing long, flowing blankets or robes, which he uses for warmth in case he is arrested and detained in prison. Clarke also campaigned for Mayor of Toronto in the 2000,  2003 and 2006 municipal elections.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
His primary issues are children's rights, homeless rights, street safety and water safety. He is also strongly against police corruption and abuse of authority. He ran the 2001 campaign out of a homeless shelter that he used every night. He is known for crashing political debates, and disrupting his opponents' campaigns, which have gotten him banned from many political events. Clarke originally registered in January but withdrew his candidacy on March 31 before subsequently resubmitting his nomination.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Cole is an openly gay performance artist and female impersonator associated with the Buddies in Bad Times theatre. His campaign focused on gay rights, cycling and the arts.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Di Fiore is a hip-hop artist and freelance journalist best known for the controversy following a piece he wrote for Now Magazine exposing poor security at polling stations against voting multiple times in an election, a point he demonstrated by procuring multiple ballots in the 2004 federal election. As a result, Di Fiore was charged under the Canada Elections Act and fined $250.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Epstein, 32, is a Toronto business owner, director of a not-for-profit organization,  humanitarian and human rights activist. His campaign slogan was "Lead by Example". Epstein supported dramatic tax reductions for Toronto citizens.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
A chemical engineer by profession. His campaign slogan was "science should trump emotions". Firth supported completion of the Spadina Expressway and trash incineration.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Ford, 40, had been an Etobicoke North city councillor for 10 years, was a conservative and Miller critic. Campaign promises included repealing the vehicle registration tax, repealing the land transfer tax, making the Toronto Transit Commission an essential service, and working to cut the number of councillors on city council by half.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Ghazi ran for councillor from Ward 28 (Toronto Centre) in 2006 and received 3.3% of the vote. He proposed a reduction in the price of Metropasses, introducing toll roads, reducing property taxes and increasing the size of city council.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Goodhead proposed cutting the Toronto police budget and allowing residents to elect the police chief.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Hossain had previously campaigned unsuccessfully for mayor in 2006, receiving 2,726 votes, and for the Toronto District School Board in 2000 and for Mayor of Toronto in 2003. He moved to Canada from India in 1983 due to what he describes as "political issues". He trained as a lawyer, later worked as a security officer, and was studying to be an investment adviser in 2003. Hossain's first mayoral campaign was highlighted by a promise to provide food and housing for Toronto's unemployed to bring them into the workforce. In 2006, he described himself as the "Dealienation Advocate" and said that he would rescue people from "traps" like psychologists and laboratory experimentation.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Letonja wanted to overhaul the TTC and turn Toronto into a hub for recycling.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Magee was a Beer Store employee and supported increased civic engagement.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
JP Pampena, a blind public relations agent, ran on the slogan "the man with the vision". He promised to raise revenue for the city by selling the naming rights of pools and recreation centres. His ideas include listing the City of Toronto on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In the past he supported the vigilante Guardian Angels in their attempts to expand to Toronto.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Pantalone, 57, was deputy mayor under David Miller and had been a city councillor for what is now Trinity-Spadina for almost 30 years. He was also a former provincial NDP candidate. Pantalone highlighted his experience in municipal politics compared to other candidates saying, "people are looking around at the outsiders and think their experience does not match mine," and said the approach to the city's finances should be "clinical as opposed to a sledgehammer." He pledged to use the next four years "to solidify and protect our services". Said he would build Transit City and partner with the private sector but would not privatize services.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Smitherman was the former Liberal MPP for Toronto Centre and former Deputy Premier of Ontario. Resigned from cabinet to run for mayor. Former chief of staff to former mayor Barbara Hall. Smitherman said he would consider toll roads in order to raise revenue and the use of public-private partnerships in public works projects such as rapid transit expansion. He also called for the reduction or elimination of the city's $60 motor registration fee.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
State, 67, ran for mayor in 2006 and placed last with 194 votes. A retired engineer, State wished to return Toronto to a state of economic self-sufficiency through capital investment and a more vigilant approach to planning.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Steinberger advocated floating houses as a solution to the city's housing problems, more red light cameras to catch driving infractions and electronic transit fares.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Syed was a candidate for councillor in Ward 19 but withdrew to run for mayor. He was the founding editor of Torontopedia.ca, executive director of the Canadian Muslim Civil Liberties Association and described himself as an "Islamic banker". Syed advocated "citizen's rights" as part of his platform.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Tang was a former investment fund manager and self-proclaimed "Chinese Warren Buffett" who faced fraud charges for allegedly defrauding investors of $30 million in a Ponzi scheme.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Taylor was described as a self-help guru. He had five core principles he wanted the city to adopt.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Advocated the construction of casinos and the creation of a red light district.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Walker was a minister in the Church of the Universe and advocated the legalization of marijuana.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who ended their campaigns after the withdrawal deadline
The last date to withdraw from the election was September 10. Candidates who ended their campaigns after that date remained on the ballot.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who ended their campaigns after the withdrawal deadline
Rossi, 47, was a Toronto-based federal Liberal Party organizer and senior advisor to Michael Ignatieff. He issued a statement denying interest in running in October 2009 but changed his mind, resigning in December as Liberal Party policy director to run for mayor. He promised to reduce and freeze the mayor's salary and sell off Toronto Hydro and other city assets if he became mayor. Rossi registered as a candidate on January 4 becoming the first candidate to file papers. Rossi proposed to remove and prohibit bike lanes from major streets, freeze construction of rapid transit lines and replace the Toronto Transit Commission's board with private sector experts.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who ended their campaigns after the withdrawal deadline
Thomson, 42, was CEO and founder of the Women's Post, a national magazine for business women. She proposed to open up city services to competitive bidding from the private sector and build subway lines instead of the TTC's planned streetcar-based rapid transit lines which would be paid by a $5 rush hour toll on the Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway. Previously, she ran unsuccessfully for city council in Hamilton, Ontario. She was endorsed by former newspaper publisher Conrad Black. An April 2010 poll by the Toronto Star stated that Thompson had the support of 7% of respondents. On September 28, Thompson ended her campaign and threw her support to George Smitherman in order to defeat Rob Ford.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who withdrew
Rev. Brereton was a fundamentalist pastor in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood and former 12-year veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police. Brereton was opposed to same-sex marriage and decriminalizing marijuana and believed the city had become too "progressive". Brereton withdrew from the mayoral contest on August 4, 2010, in order to run for city council in Ward 6, and threw his support to Rob Ford.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who withdrew
Giambrone, 32, was city councillor for Davenport, a Miller supporter, and chair of the Toronto Transit Commission. Former president of the New Democratic Party. Giambrone announced his candidacy February 1 and announced nine days later that he was dropping out of the race after being involved in a sex scandal.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who withdrew
Mammoliti, 48, had been York West city councillor since 1995. Mammoliti served on Miller's executive committee. The National Post described him as "a former union leader and New Democratic Party MPP, [who] has transformed himself into a 'right-of-centre' city councillor, who champions such law-and-order issues as calling in the army to crack down on drug crime and gangs." More recently, Mammoliti was a member of the Liberal Party but will allow his membership to expire in 2010.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who withdrew
When announcing his candidacy he unveiled a platform that included building a casino, introducing a municipal lottery, reversing tax increases he had previously voted for and creating a red light district for prostitution. He also promised budget cuts and intended to target the $40 million in annual city grants to arts, cultural and community groups but was opposed to cutting salaries for elected officials. He also called for cars to be banned from the Gardiner Expressway, converting the thoroughfare into a garden, implementing road tolls. Mammoliti announced his withdrawal on July 5 and made it official four days later.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who withdrew
Yeung, 35, ran for council in 2003 in Ward 41 (Scarborough-Rouge River) where he won 25.4% of the vote losing to Bas Balkissoon in a two-person contest. He ran in the same ward in 2006 and received 2.5% placing seventh in a ten candidate field. Yeung withdrew from the mayoral election in order to run for public school trustee.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Candidates who died
Sullivan died at the age of 75. According to his obituary, "Sullivan was born in London, Ontario on January 11, 1935 and moved to Toronto in the 1950s. He led a varied and productive working life which included accounting and taxi cab ownership."


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Possible candidates who did not run
The following potential candidates ruled themselves out of seeking the mayor's office or failed to indicate interest following media speculation of their potential candidacy:


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates, Satirical candidates
The 2010 election was also noted for the participation of two mock candidates who conducted satirical campaigns through social networking platforms. Murray4Mayor was spearheaded by National Post cartoonist Steve Murray, while The Rebel Mayor was written in the persona of 19th century Toronto mayor William Lyon Mackenzie. After the election it was revealed that The Rebel Mayor was written by Shawn Micallef, a journalist for Eye Weekly and Spacing.


2010 Toronto mayoral election, Opinion polls
Italics indicate those politicians who ended their campaigns before election day.


2010 Toronto municipal election
The municipal election was held on October 25, 2010 to elect a mayor and 44 city councillors in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In addition, school trustees were elected to the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest and Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud. The election was held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario (see 2010 Ontario municipal elections). Candidate registration opened on January 4, 2010 and ended on September 10. Advance polls were open October 5, 6, 7, 8 and 12, 13, 16 and 17.


2010 Toronto municipal election
There were a number of open seats as two sitting councillors, Rob Ford and Joe Pantalone, ran for mayor, while incumbents Case Ootes, Kyle Rae, Adam Giambrone, Michael Walker, Mike Feldman, Brian Ashton, and Howard Moscoe did not seek re-election. This was the first election to take place in Toronto since the enactment of a new fund raising by-law whereby unions and corporations could not donate to candidates. The nomination period for the 2010 municipal election opened on Monday, January 4, 2010 and closed on Friday, September 10, 2010.


2010 Toronto municipal election
In the 2010 election, a record number of women was elected to council, with 15 female councillors comprising exactly one third of all council members.


2010 Toronto municipal election
With this election, voting day moved to the fourth Monday of October from the second Monday of November which had been election day since 1978.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Mayor
The mayor's seat was open for the first time since the 2003 Toronto election, due to the announcement by incumbent mayor David Miller that he would not seek a third term in office. At the end of the campaign there were three major candidates who were included by the media in public opinion polls and mayoral debates: winner Rob Ford, Joe Pantalone, and George Smitherman. Four other candidates, Rocco Rossi, Sarah Thomson, Adam Giambrone and Giorgio Mammoliti, were considered major candidates when they launched their campaigns but later dropped out of the campaign.


2010 Toronto municipal election, City council
City councillors were elected to represent Toronto's 44 wards at Toronto City Council. There were a number of open seats, as sitting councillors Joe Pantalone and Rob Ford chose to run for mayor, while long-serving incumbents Case Ootes, Kyle Rae, Adam Giambrone, Mike Feldman, Michael Walker, Brian Ashton and Howard Moscoe announced their retirements.


2010 Toronto municipal election, City council
Five incumbent councillors were defeated, in wards 1, 13, 25, 32, and 35:. Vincent Crisanti beat Suzan Hall, Sarah Doucette beat Bill Saundercook, Jaye Robinson beat Cliff Jenkins, Mary-Margaret McMahon beat Sandra Bussin, and Michelle Berardinetti beat Adrian Heaps respectively.


2010 Toronto municipal election, School boards
School trustees were elected to the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest and Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Participation initiatives
Continuing a tradition established by City Idol in 2006, grassroots activist groups established a number of initiatives to encourage greater interest and participation in municipal politics.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Participation initiatives
One notable initiative in 2010 was Better Ballots, an advocacy group which sponsored a debate concerning municipal voting reform on June 1. Preparations for that debate included an online ballot to name two of the "minor" mayoral candidates to the debate panel, in addition to the six "major" ones. The winners of the online vote were Rocco Achampong and Keith Cole. When Giorgio Mammoliti withdrew from the mayoral race on July 5, he singled out Achampong as a candidate who "needs to be heard", and asked the media to give Achampong his former space in the debates.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Participation initiatives
Another initiative was So You Think You Can Council, an event hosted by comedian Maggie Cassella which featured Ward 27's council candidates answering questions about Toronto's municipal government in a game show format.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Satire
The campaign was also noted for the creation of two mock campaigns which posted satirical comments on the election through social networking platforms. Murray4Mayor was spearheaded by National Post cartoonist Steve Murray, while The Rebel Mayor, which was eventually revealed as the creation of journalist Shawn Micallef, was written in the persona of 19th century Toronto mayor William Lyon Mackenzie.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Ward 9 York Centre and TDSB Ward 4 election irregularities
On March 29, 2011, a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice invalidated the election results for Ward 9 and TDSB Ward 4 because of "several “irregularities” in the voters list". The civil lawsuit was brought forward by Gus Cusimano. He lost by 89 votes and was the runner-up. There were missing signatures of electoral officers on 426 of 1,143 forms that allowed election-day changes to the voter list.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Ward 9 York Centre and TDSB Ward 4 election irregularities
Initially the city's legal staff said they would be appealing the decision but on May 13 it was announced that the city would not launch an appeal. City Clerk, Uli Watkiss said in a statement, "The decision to proceed with a by-election and resolve this matter as quickly as possible is in the best interest of the public, the individuals directly affected, and the workings of Council." The mayor's office supported the decision. Rob Ford's press secretary Adrienne Batra said, "Obviously the mayor supported (Cusimano) during the general election and once the by-election gets under way he will be fully supporting him again."


2010 Toronto municipal election, Ward 9 York Centre and TDSB Ward 4 election irregularities
On May 16, Maria Augimeri announced that she would be appealing the decision herself. She said the by-election would cost $525,000. She said, "The clerk’s advice not to appeal does harm to taxpayers as well as to the integrity of our electoral system." On August 4, the city reversed its decision and decided to join the appeal which will be held in September 2011. On December 19, the court ruled in Augimeri's favour.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Ward 9 York Centre and TDSB Ward 4 election irregularities
A three judge panel ruled that although 300 ballots were unsigned by electoral officers the people voting were very likely eligible to vote and that this would have no effect on the election. In a related judgement, they also ruled that Cusimano incorrectly voted in the Ward 9 election because he lived in another riding. They decided that no further action was necessary.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Ward 2: Etobicoke North
The seat was open because incumbent Rob Ford ran for mayor.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Ward 18: Davenport
Incumbent Adam Giambrone dropped out of the mayor's race on February 10 and subsequently announced he would not run for re-election in Ward 18.


2010 Toronto municipal election, Ward 27: Toronto Centre
Veteran councillor Kyle Rae, who held a seat on council since 1991, announced that he would not be running for re-election.


2010 Toulon Tournament
The 2010 Toulon Tournament was the 38th edition of the Toulon Tournament and began on 18 May and ended on 27 May 2010. Chile were the defending champions.


2010 Toulon Tournament squads, Group B, Qatar
GK Saad Abdulla Al-Sheeb Al-Sadd QatarGK Muhannad Naim Hussain Al-Sadd QatarFW Ali Hassan Afif Al-Sadd QatarFW Hassan Khaled Al Haydos Al-Sadd QatarMF Mohammed Al Yazidi Al-Sadd QatarMF Abdulkareem Al-Ali Al-Rayyan SC QatarDF Khaled Abulraaof Al Zerequi Al-Saad QatarFW Moayad Hassan Al-Gharafa QatarDF Murad Naji Kamal Hussein Al-Rayyan QatarDF Khalid Muftah Mayuuf Al-Wakrah QatarDF Al-Mahdi Ali Mukhtar Al-Sadd QatarMF Nasser Saad Nabil Saleem Al-Sadd QatarMF Fadhi Said Omar Qatar SC QatarDF Abdul Ghafoor Murad Al-Rayyan QatarDF Hamood Al-Yazidi Al-Sadd QatarFW Abdulaziz Al-Anzari Al-Sadd QatarDF Ziad Mohammed Al-Khatib Al-Arabi QatarMF Hamad Al-Obeidi Al-Rayyan SC QatarDF Tahir Zakaria Muhammad Al-Sadd QatarMF Abdelaziz Hatem Mohammed Abdullah Al-Arabi SC Qatar


2010 Toulouse Olympique season
2010 is the second year of participation to the Championship for the TO. The team loses few players with Damien Couturier, Matthieu Almarcha, Jean-Christophe Borlin and Olivier Pramil leaving. On the other hand, they keep Yoan Tisseyre and Carlos Mendes Varela arrived in the summer 2009 and who played few games last season. They also sign Simon Worrall from the Leeds Rhinos on loan for one year and Vincent Duport from the Catalans Dragons. They also welcome Romain Mencarini from the UTC (Catalans Dragons reserve team in the French Championship).


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Table
This table is correct as of 25th August 2010 (1:12pm). Source:  Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: For win = 3; For draw = 2; For loss by 12 points or fewer = 1. Note: Keighley started the season on −9 points for going into administration.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 1: vs. Dewsbury
In a perfect start to the season Rory Bromley bagged a brace of tries for Toulouse in their 26-22 Co-operative Championship win over the Dewsbury Rams. Vincent Duport, Johan Tisseyre and Sebastien Planas all scored against the West Yorkshire outfit and Olympique came from 22-14 down to clinch the victory. Scott Turner scored two second-half tries for the hapless Rams, but these could do nothing to alter the overall result.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 2: vs. Whitehaven
Whitehaven opened their Co-operative Championship campaign with a 34–20 victory over Toulouse at the Recreation Ground in Cumbria. Toulouse Olympique held an impressive 20–10 lead at the break, but let it slip away thanks to tries from a transformed Whitehaven outfit. Dylan Skee and Carl Rudd crossed for the home side in the first half, Whitehaven then hit back after the break with tries from Carl Sice (2), Reece Fox and Ian Mort. Carl Rudd kicked 5 conversions for the home team. Toulouse tries came from Rory Bromley, Antoni Maria, Bruno Ormeno and Julien Lasserre and four points from the boot of Nathan Wynn.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 3: vs. Keighley
Toulouse outscored Keighley by six tries to five in a 34-26 Co-operative Championship victory in Toulouse, France. Cedric Gay scored two times for Olympique while Clement Bienes, Rory Bromley, Sebastien Planas and Kevin Larroyer all crossed the try line for a try apiece. To add to this display of teamwork Nathan Wynn kicked five goals. The Cougars came back with a strong second half display, tries came from Danny Jones (1), Oliver Pursglove(1), Gavin Duffy (1), Chris Baines (1) and James Feather (1), but walked away as the losers


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 4: vs. Barrow
A second-half hat-trick of tries from substitute Liam Campbell helped defending champions Barrow Raiders to a 48–16 win over Toulouse. Olympique were level at 16–16 at half-time thanks to tries from Antoni Maria, Cedric Gay and Kevin Larroyer and two goals from Nathan Wynn in response to Raiders touchdowns from Matt James, Andrew Henderson and Zeb Luisi. However, the visitors cut loose in the second half, scrum half Campbell scoring a 16-minute treble and other tries coming from Liam Harrison, Anthony Blackwood and Andy Ballard, while Jamie Rooney took his goal tally to six from nine attempts.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 5: vs. Leigh
The fans left disappointed, the Super League hopefuls showed little of the form that has earned them impressive victories earlier in the season. Leigh followed up their 48–10 win at Halifax with a 36–6 victory over Toulouse in the south of France to stay just a point behind Featherstone in the Co-operative Championship table. Even without Tyrone McCarthy, Lee Mitchell and Matty Blythe, who were all recalled by Warrington, the Centurions had little trouble collecting a fourth successive win. Macgraff Leuluai, Dave McConnell, David Armitstead, Nicky Stanton, Stuart Donlan and Adam Higson scored the visitors' tries and Mick Nanyn kicked all six conversions. Substitute Patellsio Pelo scored a consolation try for Toulouse just before the end.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 6: vs. Halifax
Halifax overpowered Toulouse Olympique 50–6 in the Cooperative Championship game at The Shay. Halifax's Shad Royston claimed a hat-trick; Lee Paterson and James Haley also grabbed doubles and Rob Worrincy and Frank Watene also touched down for the West Yorkshire side. Paterson added seven goals for 'Fax while the French side's solitary try came from Rory Bromley.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 7: vs. Widnes
Toulouse claimed Widnes' scalp as they ran out 42-36 winners in an enjoyable Co-operative Championship encounter at the Stobart Stadium on Saturday. Widnes had a late surge in the closing stages with Anthony Thackeray scoring a hat-trick in the final 20 minutes alone. But the French side had done enough in the first hour with tries from Mathieu Griffi, Vincent Duport (two), Nathan Wynn (two) and Sebastien Payan sealing success.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Carnegie Challenge Cup Round 4: vs. St Helens
Toulouse made a spirited and enthusiastic challenge but where eventually overcome by the favourites from the Engage Super League. The Icelandic volcanic cloud meant the Toulouse had to endure a 24-hour coach and ferry journey to St Helens. Toulouse playing some slick football in the first half to initially shock the Saints and showed no sign of travel fatigue when they took the lead in their first set, with the bounce of the ball bamboozling Leon Pryce to allow centre Vincent Duport to collect and score.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Carnegie Challenge Cup Round 4: vs. St Helens
The teams were very close for much of the first half before Flannery raced through for the try that effectively killed off the French resistance two minutes before the breakAfter the break St Helens piled on the tries before the unstoppable Fa'asavalu charged over for his second, to bring up the half-century as the Frenchmen tired. Toulouse grabbed a late consolation try when Martin Mitchell barged over.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Carnegie Challenge Cup Round 4: vs. St Helens
Saints assistant coach Kieron Purtill paid tribute to the travel-weary French side; "They played some nice football, they have some internationals in there. They will ruffle a few feathers in the Championship and put a package together to apply for Super League so we knew what they were capable of."


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 9: vs. Batley
Carlos Mendes Varela crossed for two first-half tries to rouse Toulouse to a 20–12 victory over Batley on Saturday night.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 9: vs. Batley
Mendes Varela touched down twice just before the interval, with Nathan Wynn converting on both occasions to ensure Toulouse held a 14-4 half-time lead.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 9: vs. Batley
After the break the Bulldogs closed the gap to just two points, Mark Toohey and Kris Lythe scored a try each but neither was converted.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 9: vs. Batley
Toulouse held on though and Mathieu Griffi's converted try nine minutes from the end preserved the victory.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 8: vs. Featherstone
Toulouse rallied from a 14-point deficit in the second half to win 26-24 and condemn Featherstone to their first loss in the 2010 Co-operative Championship season.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 8: vs. Featherstone
Featherstone had looked on course for a ninth consecutive victory when Zak Hardaker's second try of the night was converted by Kyle Briggs resulting in a 24–10 lead after 46 minutes.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 8: vs. Featherstone
The French side fought back with tries from Martin Mitchell and Rory Bromley. Vincent Duport levelled the scores with barely three minutes remaining and Nathan Wynn held his nerve to kick the winning points and seal an unforgettable win.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 10: vs. Sheffield
Craig Cook scored a second-half hat-trick as Sheffield Eagles overcome Toulouse 38–24 in the Co-operative Championship.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 10: vs. Sheffield
Sheffield led 16–12 at half-time after tries from Tangi Ropati, Aaron Groom and Richie Barnett, with Sylvain Houles and Vincent Duport replying for Toulouse.


2010 Toulouse Olympique season, Match Reports, Co-operative Championship Round 10: vs. Sheffield
Alex Rowe scored for Sheffield before Craig Cook his scored his second half hat trick, Toulouse scored through Rory Bromley and Mathieu Griffi.


2010 Tour Down Under
The 2010 Tour Down Under was the 12th edition of the Tour Down Under cycling stage race. It was held from 19 to 24 January 2010 in and around Adelaide, South Australia. It was the first event in the 2010 UCI World Calendar. The race was won by André Greipel of Team HTC–Columbia after he won the sprint finishes to three of the race's stages.


2010 Tour Down Under, Overall favourites
As the Tour Down Under has historically been a race which favours sprinters winning the overall classification, several sprinters were tabbed as favourites for victory in the 2010 Tour. These included defending champion Allan Davis, now with Astana, Gert Steegmans of Team RadioShack, Baden Cooke of Team Saxo Bank, Greg Henderson from Team Sky, and 2008 champion André Greipel from Team HTC–Columbia. Greipel specifically shied away from talk of him being a favourite for victory. Additionally, Caisse d'Epargne was noted to be bringing a strong squad, including reigning Vuelta a España champion Alejandro Valverde.


2010 Tour Down Under, Overall favourites
Valverde's presence was speculated to increase the chances for 2005 Tour Down Under champion Luis León Sánchez, who is riding a program in 2010 meant to lead to victory in Paris–Nice. Along with Sánchez, Cooke's teammate Stuart O'Grady, Martin Elmiger from Ag2r–La Mondiale, Wesley Sulzberger of Française des Jeux, and Garmin–Transitions rider Robbie Hunter were also named as contenders. The race also featured reigning World Road Race Champion Cadel Evans and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong; they were not, however, considered to be contenders in the race as they would focus on later events in the 2010 season.


2010 Tour Down Under, Participating teams
As the Tour Down Under is a UCI ProTour event, all ProTour teams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Thus, the event was the debut for the new ProTour entries Team RadioShack and Team Sky. Additionally, the Australian national team known as UniSA-Australia competed in the event. BMC Racing Team also attended, as the first UCI Professional Continental team ever to be granted a wild card. This was likely to allow new world champion Cadel Evans to ride with the rainbow jersey in his home nation.


2010 Tour Down Under, Tour stages, Stage 1
The first stage had a sloping profile, with a point-awarding climb coming up Menglers Hill Road at the 114 km (71 mi) mark. The final 25 km (16 mi) were totally flat.


2010 Tour Down Under, Tour stages, Stage 1
The first UCI ProTour race of the season began with a crash. About 300 m (980 ft) after the true beginning of the stage, a Euskaltel–Euskadi rider crashed in the middle of the peloton and brought half the group down with him. Among the riders caught up was Cadel Evans, riding with the rainbow jersey in his home nation for the first time. The world champion had to have his shoes attached to his bicycle with electrical tape to continue the stage.


2010 Tour Down Under, Tour stages, Stage 1
Timothy Roe, Martin Kohler, and Blel Kadri formed the day's significant breakaway, coming clear of the peloton after 20 km (12 mi). They were away through the day's intermediate sprint, and Roe was able to claim the Mengler Hill climb, putting three of the four major jerseys on these riders' shoulders at day's end. In the last 20 km (12 mi), a driving Team HTC–Columbia, led by time trial specialist Bert Grabsch, absorbed all of them back into the peloton. Roe had also crashed while descending Mengler Hill. The group sprint finish was won by HTC-Columbia rider André Greipel.


2010 Tour Down Under, Tour stages, Stage 1
Defending champion Allan Davis all but lost any chance to repeat as Tour champion. His team Astana had come to the race without radios, and therefore his teammates did not know that he was not with the main group during the Mengler Hill climb. Unaware, the Astana team pulled the peloton away from Davis, who finished in the second large group, 8'22" back.


2010 Tour Down Under, Tour stages, Stage 2
After climbing a few hundred meters in the first 30 km (19 mi), this stage was mostly flat. There was, as with all stages, a categorized climb, up Checker Hill Road 90 km (56 mi) in.


2010 Tour Down Under, Tour stages, Stage 2
This stage was mostly similar to the first one. Omega Pharma–Lotto teammates Mickaël Delage and Olivier Kaisen formed the day's breakaway with UniSA-Australia rider David Kemp. Euskaltel-Euskadi, Team Milram, and Team Saxo Bank tried to send riders to follow, but the peloton did not allow them to get away. Kemp allowed the Omega Pharma-Lotto riders to take the two intermediate sprints so that he would be allowed maximum points on the Checker Hill climb, allowing his teammate Timothy Roe to keep the white jersey.