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REGINA - Olympic gold-medal favourite Mark McMorris is in "great spirits," despite a fall that fractured a rib and nearly derailed his dream. Keith Hernandez Indians Jersey . Don McMorris, the snowboarders father, says Mark is moving around quite well after the incident during Saturdays slopestyle event at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. "When we left him (Sunday), he could bend over and touch his toes because of where (the injury) is at," Don McMorris told The Canadian Press on Monday. "You know a cracked rib in the front, you couldnt do that, but where its at (around the back), he could bend to his toes and could raise his knees up to kind of his chest. "He was really doing better than we all thought. Hes got five or six days before he has to worry about riding and hes got the best people around him." Mark McMorris caught his snowboard on the lip of a rail and went sliding down the bar on his right side before landing hard on the snow during the final. He stayed on the ground for a few minutes before riding down the hill under his own power. It seems the 20-year-old Regina native lost focus. "He probably hit that rail through the week, I dont know 50 times, and never had a problem with it or any of the rails because thats, I think, one of the strongest parts of his riding," said Don McMorris, who was in Aspen when his son fell. "But obviously he was focused on what he was going to do on the jump line because he was going to try something pretty major." Don McMorris says his son didnt hurt much at first, but the pain got worse as the afternoon wore on. Mark McMorris finished with a silver medal at the event, but was "pretty down," said his father. Mark McMorris had said being an Olympian is a dream come true. He was the two-time defending Winter X Games champion in slopestyle. When he was named to the Olympic team earlier this month, McMorris said hes been "preparing like a mad man." The fall raised questions as to whether he could compete in Sochi. "He was really scared, not necessarily about his own well-being, I dont think, but that he wouldnt get to go to the Olympics," said Don McMorris. "That was really playing on his mind and when he does that, he just gets really quiet and doesnt really talk or say much to anybody. "And you could just tell that he was really scared and worried about not getting to fulfil his dream." The elder McMorris says the tough part was waiting to hear what the team doctors had to say. He describes it as an agonizing wait of about three hours. They eventually decided Mark would go to Sochi, as planned. "I cant tell you what he said because that would not be printable," joked Don McMorris. "He was really relieved." A fractured rib usually takes six weeks to heal, so Mark McMorris wont have time to fully recover before the Games start Feb. 7. But his father is cautiously optimistic. "Yes, Im optimistic, (I) have to be," he said. 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Clark hit his first homer, Wily Peralta pitched into the seventh inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Miami Marlins 4-1 Wednesday night.CALGARY - Barring a setback in practice this week, Bo Levi Mitchell is expected to be the starting quarterback for the Calgary Stampeders on Friday against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.After watching Mitchell navigate the wet McMahon Stadium turf in Tuesdays practice, Stampeders head coach John Hufnagel was closer to giving Mitchell the green light to return to game action.Mitchell sat out Calgarys last two games with a sprained left ankle and stretched knee ligament suffered in the fourth quarter Sept. 13 against Toronto.Not 100 per cent, but it looks good that hell be playing the game, Hufnagel said. He looked good out there today. Im not trying to hide anything. I just want to have one more day to make sure he is ready to go.He didnt have a setback today and that was the only thing I was concerned about and he was too. The turf was a little slippery, he did some movement on it and had no pain in either the ankle or the knee, so hes ready to go.Calgary owns the best record in the CFL and tops the West Division at 11-2. Saskatchewan and the Edmonton Eskimos are tied for second at 9-4.Fridays game is the first meeting this season between Calgary and the defending Grey Cup champions. The Stampeders went 14-4 last season, but were upset at home in the West Division final by the Roughriders.The Stampeders can clinch a playoff berth with a victory Friday, although a loss by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (6-7) to Ottawa in the earlier game that day would also secure a playoff berth for Calgary.Stampeder running back Jon Cornish was named the CFLs Canadian player of the week Tuesday. He rushed for 156 yards Saturday in a 14-7 win over the B.C. Lions.The CFLs Most Outstanding Player and leading rusher in 2013 has been limited to six games because of injuries this season, yet ranks second in rushing yards with 743.Returner Jock Sanders was named the leagues top special teams player of the week with 156 return yards versus the Lions. Sanders is not expected to play in Regina because of an ankle injury.Mitchell owned the CFLs highest quarterback efficiency rating at 100.5 per cent before he was tackled on a four-yard run by Torontos Shea Emry and went down awkwardly on his left leg.Mitchell said he and Stampeders athletic therapist Mike Gudmundson have been aggressively rehabilitating his leg since then with treatments starting as early as 5:30 a.m.Mitchell dressed as Calgarys No. 3 on Saturday, but didnnt play. Tom Candiotti Indians Jersey. He performed footwork drills and took first-team reps in pouring rain Tuesday.There were no setbacks today so that was big for us, Mitchell said. Its what the coach wanted to see. Its what I wanted to see.Im going to keep pushing it during the week to make sure I can find every possible angle I can twist, tweak my knee to make sure its good. Right now, as it stands, Im ready to go and ready to lead these guys into battle and see where it goes.The Stampeders have a bye week after Fridays game and wont play again until Oct. 18 in Winnipeg. Mitchell said there was discussion about delaying his return for the extra healing time, but Hufnagel wants the 24-year-old Texan back in the game if hes able to play.We have nothing accomplished yet, Hufnagel said. We havent gotten a playoff spot yet. I would like to get home-field advantage. I would like to finish in first place and weve got a lot of football left against a lot of very strong football teams.Every game is important, equally important. Whether it was the quarterback position or any position on the team, if theyre ready to play, they play.When Mitchell went down in the fourth quarter, Drew Tate completed the comeback against Toronto going 6-for-6 for 74 yards in passing and a pair of touchdown throws in a 40-33 victory.Calgary then went 1-1 in Mitchells absence. Tates completion rate was 51 per cent in his first two starts this season. The 29-year-old ran for a pair of touchdowns in a 31-15 loss to Montreal, but Calgary hasnt scored a touchdown in the air in two games.Tate combined moments of brilliance with overthrows to open receivers Saturday. His throwing-arm injury in 2013 carried over into this season. Its only been recently that Tate has felt confident in his arm.Its not consistent, but I at last have confidence in it that I can make some throws, Tate said.If Mitchell does play Friday, itll be his first trip to Mosaic Stadium as the starting quarterback. The Roughriders are coming off a 24-0 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos, but thats unlikely make the stadium any quieter Friday.Someone did an interview right before the season and asked me what my favourite thing about football is and its silencing a stadium, Mitchell said.Going into somebody elses house and somebody likes to be loud like Sask., like the Seattle Seahawks, and just hearing that stadium go silent is probably the greatest noise there is. ' ' '