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Clan football 2011: Re-loaded and ready for season two
By Howard Tsumura, The Province BURNABY — A lot has happened in the world of Simon Fraser Clan football since the opening game of the program’s first season as an NCAA Div. 2 program last September. A...
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SFU Clan men’s soccer makes NCAA history with first non-U.S. Top 25 ranking
BURNABY — A week after narrowly missing out on the opportunity to make NCAA history, the Simon Fraser Clan men’s soccer team let its play onthe field speak for itself. On Tuesday afternoon, the Clan...
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Bruins star Milan Lucic balks at junior fight ban, insisting: “I think there...
Milan Lucic doesn't agree with taking fighting out of junior. (Province files) Milan Lucic is putting up his proverbial dukes to keep fighting in junior hockey. The Boston Bruins power forward, who was...
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Uni Notes 3.02.12 edition: TWU volleyball men dominate CIS national awards
Trinity Western University Spartans have been ranked No. 1 the entire CIS men’s volleyball season and that ranking was reflected at the All-Canadian breakfast and awards presentation held Thursday in...
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Weekend Warmup: check out Whitecaps opener, Flyers-Leafs, March Madness...
I remember the Whitecaps’ MLS debut like it was yesterday, not a year ago. My wife and I got to Empire Field early. The place was buzzing. A new team? A new league? Toronto FC in town? Unusual...
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Long journey leads to career with Huskers, NCAA berth for North Vancouver’s...
She’ll always be a North Vancouver girl at heart, but the sum of Kaitlyn Burke’s five-year journey to opening round of the NCAA women’s basketball championships this weekend has most definitely been...
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March Madness 2012: Searching for Cinderella
Picking a perfect bracket is the white whale of sports betting, but the fact it is basically impossible doesn’t stop literally millions of people from trying to accomplish it annually when the NCAA...
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Lots of Canadian content as March Madness hits the court
Is the CRTC running this season’s NCAA championship tournament or what? There’s so much Canadian content in this hoops tournament, it should be sponsored by Molson’s. And it’s not just filler material...
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Riverside’s tide rises with Class of 2012, nine girls head off to CIS, CCAA,...
PORT COQUITLAM — As the two most popular girls team sports in the B.C. high school sports system, it stands to reason that basketball and volleyball are also the two most competitive when it comes to...
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Where almost 800 student-athletes are headed: The Province’s sixth annual...
Welcome to The Province’s sixth annual recruits list. We publish every name sent to us, if you missed our call, send us additional information (htsumura@theprovince.com) as soon as possible and we will...
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Rams a tough task as grid ‘Birds attempt to right football ship; soccer,...
VANCOUVER — Unranked, but unbowed, the UBC Thunderbirds look to snap a string of three straight losses on the field of play dating back to last season when they play before a western Canadian TV...
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SFU Clan men’s soccer have ceiling officially lifted in pursuit of 2012 NCAA...
BURNABY — If you haven’t been paying attention to the sleeping soccer giant up on the hill at Simon Fraser University, but you had heard the news last month that the school had finally become a...
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A tale of the WHL, Georges Laraque and the CHLPA and a father not sure where...
Georges Laraque says he’s fighting for major junior players now. (Montreal Gazette files) We’ll call him Gus. He seemed like a Gus. A polite family man, concerned about his kid. He called my cell last...
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Can a good start get Royals forward Logan Nelson into U.S. world junior team...
Logan Nelson had three goals and five assists going into Sunday. (www.victoriaroyals.com) Logan Nelson won’t mind if Phil Housley believes in a Buffalo Sabres bias. Nelson, the Victoria Royals forward...
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10.20.12 Uni Notebook: Narrow grid losses for SFU, UBC, soccer battles and...
A busy weekend on so many fronts for local unuiversity teams. Here’s a look at some of the weekend’s top conference events: SFU CLAN FOOTBALL Well before a fourth-quarter storm pelted sheets of...
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Uni notes 12.02.12: CIS teams set for winter hiatus, Clan hoops open GNAC...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds’ women’s basketball team will take some positive vibes into the Canada West’s holiday break after a weekend sweep of the Calgary Dinos and Lethbridge Pronghorns at War...
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Ikea withdraws wiener sausages as European horse meat scandal grows
Swedish furniture giant Ikea today announced it was taking wiener sausages off its menu in 5 western European countries, after tests came back indicating traces of horse meat were found in the product....
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All hail big Yale centre as Canucks in chase for coveted free agent Laganiere
DENVER — Antoine Laganiere is a big college free agent centre with a big reach and big NHL aspirations. He has helped carry Yale to the NCAA championship final Saturday against Connecticut rival...
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Tortorella must convince Canucks he can drop some baggage in second coaching...
A first impression is lasting. And if it’s the wrong one, a second one must be convincing. John Tortorella should consider commercials for Samsonite because nobody carried more baggage into a second...
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Johnny Football suspended in wake of autograph scandal
Texas A&M’s Heisman-winning quarterback Johnny Manziel has been suspended for the first half of his team’s season-opening game this Saturday versus Rice, after a NCAA investigation of an alleged...
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