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TORONTO - The DeRo show may be over in Toronto.Toronto FC has declined its contract option on Dwayne De Rosario, meaning the former Major League Soccer MVPs second playing stint with the club is likely over.But MLS being MLS, its hard saying goodbye. The 36-year-old attacking midfielder — TFCs all-time leading scorer — now waits for various league wheels to set in motion starting next week.A four-hour trade window opens Monday ahead of Wednesdays expansion and waiver draft. The trade window then re-opens ahead of the two stages of the re-entry draft Dec. 12 and 18.De Rosario could be traded, taken by expansion teams Orlando City SC or New York City FC or any of the other 17 teams in Stage 1 of the ensuing re-entry draft (picking up the option on his current contract). TFC could then offer him another deal. If not, other clubs have another crack at him in Stage 2 (negotiating a new deal) of the re-entry process.His contract officially runs out Dec. 31, ending a league process with several options for clubs to take players at a lower price tag.Obviously we all respect Dwayne to the utmost, Toronto GM Tim Bezbatchenko said in an interview Wednesday. I think hes a consummate professional and he obviously means a lot to Toronto FC and the Canadian soccer community at large.At this point in the process, what were saying is were not exercising his option but I think its safe to say that were looking towards the future and right now hes probably not in the plans. That doesnt mean were not going to talk to him and figure out what could be best for the club and himself.Maybe theres another sort of relationship that we can have with him.De Rosarios agent declined comment Wednesday other to say that DeRo wants to keep playing 100 per cent.De Rosario himself has said he is not contemplating retirement.I still enjoy and love waking up playing football, De Rosario said in October before the final game of the regular season. So I definitely want to be here next year and hopefully take this club to where we all want it to go.The 14-year MLS veteran said when he does call it quits, he would like an opportunity to say goodbye to the fans.While he awaits his fate, De Rosario will enjoy some good weather. Starting next week, he is taking his De Ro Futbol Clinic to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. De Rosario started just four games this season, with one goal in 19 appearances. He saw little action under former manager Ryan Nelsen but was used more by Greg Vanney after Nelsen was fired at the end of August.He (Vanney) talks to me, so thats a positive. So thats different, said De Rosario, making no secret that the lines of communication were not open for him under the former regime.De Rosario scored 27 goals in 57 games from 2009 to 2011 for Toronto before being shipped out two games into the 2011 season after a contract dispute. He went on to win league MVP honours that season, scoring 16 goals for Toronto, New York and D.C. United.De Rosario has 104 goals and 77 assists in 343 career MLS regular-season games.Toronto brought him back last season via the re-entry draft, with his 2014 contract listed at US$173,000. He has also played for San Jose and Houston.Toronto has also declined options on defender Ryan Richter, midfielder Jeremy Hall and forward Andrew Wiedeman. Forward Bright Dikes contract has expired.Dikes career never took off in Toronto, largely due to an Achilles injury. Hall, Richter and Wiedeman were popular squad players with Richter loaned out to Ottawa Fury FC for most of this season.Defenders Bradley Orr and Doneil Henry are also on the move, with their loan spells over. Orr, a versatile veteran who did his best to plug more than a few holes in 2014, returns to Blackburn Rovers while Henry goes to Apollon Limassol in Cyprus, although there is a chance he could stay here.The Henry loan saga is somewhat bizarre.The 21-year-old Canadian international defender was sold to the Cypriot club in March/April and then immediately loaned back to Toronto. The MLS franchise did not confirm the sale until October.Theres a possibility that there could be another loan agreement, said Bezbatchenko. That hasnt been decided yet.Talks on that score are planned for the next few weeks.Striker Jordan Hamilton returns to Toronto after his loan spell with CD Trofense in Portugal.The club exercised options of goalkeepers Joe Bendik, Chris Konopka and Quillan Roberts, defenders Justin Morrow, Mark Bloom, Nick Hagglund, Warren Creavalle, Ashtone Morgan, Chris Mannella, midfielders Jonathan Osorio, Kyle Bekker, Daniel Lovitz, Marky Delgado, Collen Warner, Manny Aparicio, and forward Luke Moore.Captain/defender Steven Caldwell, midfielders Jackson, Michael Bradley and Dominic Oduro and forwards Gilberto, Hamilton and Jermain Defoe were already under contract.Toronto currently has 22 players on its roster.Bezbatchenko has to submit his protected list Monday for the expansion draft. Each team can protect 11 players with Generation Adidas and homegrown players on the development roster automatically protected. 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China Jerseys Stitched . Canadas Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse will reunite at this weekends season-opening World Cup at Canada Olympic Park as they begin their buildup to the Winter Games in Sochi. PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius fired guns in public in the months before he killed his girlfriend -- once out of a car sunroof on a road and once in a crowded restaurant, a onetime friend said at the athletes murder trial Tuesday, drawing an aggressive effort from the chief defence lawyer to pick holes in his testimony. The account by Darren Fresco portrayed Pistorius as a reckless hothead infatuated with firearms and seemingly drifting down a precarious path before he fatally shot Reeva Steenkamp through a closed toilet door at his home before dawn on Feb. 14, 2013. Frescos description of how Pistorius once berated a police officer fit the prosecutions attempts to cast the double-amputee athlete as prone to flashes of anger and blinded by an inflated sense of entitlement at a time when his public image was that of a clean-cut poster boy for overcoming adversity. "I said to him, are you (expletive) mad?" Fresco testified after, he said, Pistorius fired his gun out of the sunroof of the car later on the same day that he had the dispute with the police officer. "He just laughed." At the same time, the testimony was coming from a man whose own actions were under scrutiny. Judge Thokozile Masipa cautioned Fresco, who was also a friend of Steenkamp, that some questions could incriminate him for offences including discharge of a firearm in a built-up area, negligent damage to property and reckless endangerment. She said he would not be prosecuted if he answered the questions truthfully. Pistorius, 27, denies shooting the gun in the car, although now two witnesses say that he did. The athlete is on trial for murder in the killing of Steenkamp, and also faces two firearm charges for shooting in public and a third firearm charge for illegal possession of ammunition. Pistorius says he shot Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was a dangerous intruder. The prosecution says he killed her after an argument. The athletes demeanour in court Tuesday was drastically different from the previous day, when he needed a vomit bucket as he heard a pathologist give graphic details of the injuries he inflicted on his girlfriend when he shot her multiple times. This time, Pistorius mostly sat with his hands in his lap and often made notes. Fresco testified that Pistorius altercation with a police officer happened in late 2012, when their car was pulled over by traffic police for the second time that day. He said Pistorius was furious with an officer for handling his gun, which he had left on the passenger seat. "You cant just touch another mans gun," Pistorius said to the officer, according to Fresco. "He started tellingg the officer: Now your fingerprints are all over my gun, so if something happens, you are then going to be liable for anything that had happened.dddddddddddd He was furious about that. Someone else had touched his gun." Fresco and a former Pistorius girlfriend have both testified that the Olympian shot his gun out of the car sunroof later that day. But their stories do not match in parts, a fact highlighted by defence lawyer Barry Roux. Fresco, who said he was driving the car, testified that Pistorius fired without warning sometime after visiting an unidentified persons house. Samantha Taylor, who was dating the athlete at the time and was in the car, has testified that it happened soon after the altercation with police and after Pistorius and Fresco discussed finding a traffic light to shoot at. Roux also questioned Fresco about an incident at a packed Johannesburg restaurant in the posh Melrose Arch district in early 2013 -- about a month before Steenkamps death -- when he said he handed his gun under the table to Pistorius and it fired. According to Fresco, Pistorius said there was too much "media hype" around him and asked Fresco to take the blame for the shooting, which he did. Fresco said he had warned Pistorius that the gun was "one-up," meaning it had a bullet in the chamber. "I knew that he had a big love for weapons," Fresco testified. "My assumption was that he had competency." Roux asked Fresco when exactly he had warned Pistorius that there was a magazine in the gun and a bullet in the chamber, and when Pistorius had asked him to take the rap. The friend couldnt pinpoint the precise times. "Will you agree, Mr. Fresco, you have uncertainty ... about what specifically happened and what was said?" Roux asked. Roux sought to undermine Frescos character, questioning why he crumpled up a speeding ticket and threw it on the floor of the car after he and Pistorius were stopped by the police. Fresco also said hed been following some previous testimony in the case on Twitter, which witnesses should not do. If convicted on the murder charge, Pistorius could be sent to prison for at least 25 years before the chance of parole, the minimum time someone must serve if given a life sentence in South Africa. The judge will ultimately deliver the verdict and decide on any sentence. South Africa has no trial by jury. Pistorius was born without fibula bones because of a congenital defect, and his legs were amputated when he was 11 months old. He ran on carbon-fiber blades and is a multiple Paralympic medallist . He also competed at the London Olympics but didnt win a medal. ' ' '