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TSN today confirmed that Rod Smith and Kate Beirness are hitting the road for the Kraft Celebration Tour, as the anchors will team up to host live broadcasts of Canadas most-watched sports news program, SPORTSCENTRE, on this summers cross-country tour from August 16-25. This marks Smiths first time on the Kraft Celebration Tour, while Beirness returns after being on the tour for the past two years. Smith and Beirness join fellow TSN anchors Darren Dutchyshen and Jennifer Hedger to lead the special SPORTSCENTRE broadcasts from winning communities across Canada. Also joining the Kraft Celebration Tour again this summer is RDS, as the networks daily sports talk show, SPORTS 30 LE MAGAZINE, with anchors Marc Labrecque, Luc Bellemare, and Valérie Sardin, broadcasts live from winning communities in Quebec. "Having watched the Kraft Celebration Tour change communities these past four summers, it is truly gratifying to join the magic," said Smith. "As a proud Canadian, I love to travel across this country and see great places Ive never seen and meet great people Ive never met. I cant wait to sit at the SPORTSCENTRE desk with Kate on what Im sure will be a trip of a lifetime." Rod Smith BiographySmith currently hosts the 6 p.m. ET edition of SPORTSCENTRE, where his recognizable voice and trusted smooth delivery have been a staple of the program since 1995. In addition to hosting SPORTSCENTRE, Smith provided the play-by-play commentary for Long Track Speed Skating at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and delivered the play-by-play for Aquatics at the London 2012 Olympic Games. For his work on London 2012, Smith was honoured with the first-ever Canadian Screen Award for Best Play-by-Play Announcer in 2013. Smith hails from Nepean, ON and is a former offensive guard for the Queens University Golden Gaels. Kate Beirness BiographyBeirness anchors the weekend edition of SPORTSCENTRE alongside Bryan Mudryk. 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Their experience showed Tuesday as the No. 10 Badgers blunted a Saint Louis surge to win 63-57 and advance to face West Virginia in Wednesdays finals of the Cancun Challenge.PHOENIX --?As expected, the Arizona Diamondbacks have activated center fielder A.J. Pollock and he was in the lineup for Friday nights game against the Cincinnati Reds.Pollock, an All-Star and Gold Glove winner last season, broke his right elbow in a head-first slide at home in a preseason game two days before the start of the regular season.Pollock was second in the batting order against the Reds behind Jean Segura and ahead of Paul Goldschmidt. The announcement of his name over the public address system at Chase Field during starting lineup introductions drew cheers.The Diamondbacks sorely missed Pollocks offense and defense in a season that went south in a hurry. He was jokingly asked to reintroduce himself to media during a pregame news conference.Its awesome to play the game I love again, and really just not even thinking about my elbow, which is incredible, Pollock said.In the beginning of tthe year, everyone was saying I was out for the whole season and was not coming back.ddddddddddddFor me, I didnt think for a second that I wasnt going to play this year.Pollock was reinstated from the 60-day disabled list and outfielder David Peralta (right wrist inflammation) took his place. The plan for Pollock is to play him two days in a row followed by a day of rest.He said he might hesitate to slide head-first at the outset of his return.Im a player and I feel like if Im ready to play, I want to be out there, Pollock said. I prepared to play every single day and I think thats how your mindset has to be ... Just going to go out there and play my role.Outfielder Mitch Haniger was optioned to Triple-A Reno after Thursday nights game to make room for Pollocks return. ' ' '