UBC Thunderbirds mourn the loss of legendary football head coach Frank Smith
Frank Smith, one of the most legendary and enduring coaches in all of Canadian university sports, passed away earlier this week.Smith, who guided UBC football for 21 seasons beginning in 1974 and along the way led the program to four national championship appearances, including Vanier Cup titles in 1982 and 1986, was 93 years old.We […]
TBI field finalized: We unveil the 64 boys and girls teams set to take part this December in Tsumura Basketball Invitational 2025!
By Howard Tsumura(VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational is once again proud to help usher in a new season of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball.The 2025-26 campaign will only be in its second week of play when the TBI begins a two-week run at the Langley Events Centre with our senior boys […]
A Sunday Read: The ‘dream-like’ journey of St. George’s B.C. Quad-A MVP Dorian Glogovac! His 53-point Final Four outing sets new senior boys top-tiered provincial championship-side record!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity LettersLANGLEY — If you watched the way Dorian Glogovac played over the final four games of his high school career earlier this month at the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championships, you’d almost swear that he was performing in some kind of dream state.And maybe that isn’t too far from the truth, […]
B.C. BOYS QUAD-A FINAL: How the simple act of plugging players into a zone offence proved revelatory in Spectrum’s historic title win over Dover Bay! Thunder now Island’s first top-tier repeat champs in 51 years!
BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — There was no time to stand still.The season-long battle between No. 1 Spectrum and No. 2 Dover Bay, one which ultimately manifested itself for a fifth and final time as the finale to an incredible 2024-25 B.C. senior boys basketball season, never pretended, for even a second, to be anything […]
The Mighty Wolves of Windsor: After a 1-3 start to the season, a near-peerless three month, 30-game streak carries North Van’s Triple-A ‘unknowns’ to school’s first-ever B.C. senior boys championship hoops title!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — The origin story of the mighty Wolves of Windsor might best be told along the lines of some script in development for the next big supernatural teen drama series.Set amongst the towering Douglas Fir, within a secret den somewhere amongst the vast expanse of North Vancouver’s Lynn Canyon Park, a […]
