A Sunday Read, TBI 2025 edition: The path of Victoria’s Diego Maffia from the depths of his 11th-hour torn ACL, to a Vikes’ national title, and now his return to the LEC as Oak Bay’s new head coach!
LANGLEY — Diego Maffia never thought basketball could break his heart.Once, in his Grade 12 season (2018-19) with Victoria’s Oak Bay Bays, he poured home 94 points in a 114-88 win over Edmonton’s Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds, the greatest single-game scoring performance in B.C. boys high school basketball history.And over a university career with his hometown […]
12.09.25 edition: With TBI tip-off Wednesday, here’s your B.C. girls high school basketball Top 10 rankings!
LANGLEY — With the 2025 girls TBI beginning a four-day run Wednesday, keep these rankings close at hand as you follow both the Super 16 and Select 16 brackets at the Langley Events Centre.GIRLSQUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-2) 2 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (4) 3 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (1)4 G.W. Graham Grizzlies […]
“Small town but gritty” Fernie Falcons make their Tsumura Basketball Invitational debut Wednesday with experienced, tall-timbered line-up hoping it’s a dress rehearsal for February provincials!
By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — The Fernie Falcons are soaring due west to the Langley Events Centre to start their 2025-26 season.In past seasons, the normal practice for the Double-A school from the the extreme southeast corner of the province, would be to board a bus and head out to all points east of the Alberta […]
A Sunday Read, TBI Girls 2025: At intersection of life and sports, Tupper’s Elisa Wong taps into the pulse of human connection!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caVANCOUVER — It was 15 years ago, in my past writing life as a reporter at The Province newspaper, that I first had the opportunity to talk to a young teacher and basketball coach who was just starting to make a difference with the student-athletes in her East Vancouver neighbourhood.Back then, at the […]
In a TBI Super 16 final with a ‘pick your poison’ plot line, St. Pats maximize personnel to top Tammy in battle of No. 1’s!
ST. PATRICKS 78 TAMANAWIS 72By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — We may live in an era of three-point shooting, yet what if a head coach, over the course of devising his team’s defensive game plan decides that there is actually an even bigger threat present than a wide-open, wide-eyed shooter with the green light to let it […]
