By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — A galaxy of the some of the best graduating talent in the B.C. senior boys basketball Class of 2024 will gather at Burnaby’s St. Thomas More over the weekend.The occasion?None other than All-Star Saturday.Mark down Saturday, April 20 at STMC’s spacious gymnasium, located at 7450 12th Ave., Burnaby.The Single-A vs. Double-A […]
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BOYS TBI 2024: The teams are now set for the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 4-7! It’s a 32-team affair with Super 16 and Select 16 pools!
LANGLEY — We’re just over a month past another thrilling season of B.C. senior boys and girls basketball provincial championships here at the Langley Events Centre.Now, it’s time to put a stamp on the upcoming 2024-25 season.Today we’ve got the 32 teams which will make up the boys field in the Super 16 and Select […]
GIRLS TBI 2024: The teams are now set for the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 11-14! It’s a 32-team affair with Super 16 and Select 16 pools!
By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — We’re just over a month past another thrilling season of B.C. senior boys and girls basketball provincial championships here at the Langley Events Centre.Now, it’s time to put a stamp on the upcoming 2024-25 season.Today we’ve got the 32 teams which will make up the girls field in the Super 16 […]
The story of Gio and Theo: UBC’s book-end offensive tackles bring rare size and athleticism to the party! NFL teams and major pundits can’t help but be impressed ahead of 2024 draft!
By Howard TsumuraVANCOUVER — The story of Gio and Theo is the story of two ‘Made-in-B.C.’ high school football products who not only made the decision to play for their home university team, but along that journey turned themselves into the kinds of players with a chance to play in the National Football League.UBC offensive lineman […]
It’s way-too-early Top 10 time! B.C. senior girls’ pre-preason basketball rankings for 2024-25 are here!
LANGLEY — With the 2023-24 B.C. senior girls basketball season now recently in the rearview mirror, it’s time for our first look at the road ahead.That can mean just one thing: The pre-prepreseason Top 10’s at all four tiers!Let this be all the reasons you keep our great game at the forefront of your thoughts […]
B.C. girls high school basketball will celebrate 75th provincial championships in 2025 at LEC by playing all of its Championship final games on the big floor of Arena Bowl!
LANGLEY — B.C. high school basketball’s championship season is coming off what may well be its most comprehensively attended back-to-back-to-back provincial tournaments.And while the walls at the host Langley Events Centre seems to still be reverberating almost a full week after their completion, the long-whispered rumours about a key venue change for one of those […]
Boys 4-A final: They came out of nowhere in a hurry! But Spectrum Thunder’s B.C. title win over Tammy bubbled over with ties to its past, brilliant skill and young coach who brought out the best in everyone!
By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — There are so many paths to traverse and rivers to cross in the quest of a B.C. senior boys top-tiered high school basketball championship that the journey of virtually every single prior winner is rife with clues… the breadcrumbs have been easy to find.They are kind of like the staples on […]
Boys 3-A championship: No words could be more true than ‘It’s not a race, it’s a marathon’ for Dover Bay! Dolphins’ coach Seaman, MVP Linder put trust in grand plan in B.C. title-game win over MEI Eagles!
LANGLEY — Explore the deep and voluminous lore of B.C. senior boys basketball history, and a common thread of its early days often times centres around the good, old-fashioned discipline of running.As I grew into the high school school reporter’s beat at The Province newspaper in the early 1990s, I heard the tales of teams […]
B.C. 2-A championship final: Cavaliers trey magnifique! With splash after splash, high-volume, high-percentage threes carry Collingwood to crown!
BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – Seeded No. 3 and deadly with the three.The Collingwood Cavaliers rode a red-hot afternoon from behind the arc to a 71-64 win over No. 4 seed Brentwood College in the Double A final at the B.C. senior boys high school championships at the Langley Events Centre.It was […]
Boys 1A championship final: Upset bid earn’s crowd’s rapt attention, but Haida Gwaii’s Breakers fall in the end to dynastic Flames of Unity Christian!
NO. 1 UNITY CHRISTIAN 74 NO. 6 GIDGALANG KUUYAS NAAY 71BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – It was going to be a Cinderella story for the ages in the B.C. senior boys Single A basketball final at Langley Events Centre.But, alas, there would be no dramatic, Hoosiers-like finish on Saturday as the gutsy, […]