SURREY — Watch the B.C. senior boys high school basketball championships each year, and in the sudden-elimination environment that defines the sport’s best March Madness qualities, the efforts of each team’s so-called ‘glue players’ is always magnified.They are the ones who can chip in with offence but are more often than not entrusted with less […]
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Fardaws Aimaq: The Shark is older, wiser
RICHMOND — It’s hard to come out of nowhere, expecially when you’re 6-foot-10 and still growing
SFU’s Mallory Velte: The understudy is a leading lady
BURNABY — This past August, Mallory Velte got a chance to experience the kind of atmosphere that every wrestler dreams of when she packed her bags for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Walnut Grove’s Cowley on Gators vs. Owls rivalry
LANGLEY — Snow day!For every battered and bruised player in the B.C. high school basketball world, those are sweet words indeed.
The left & right of UBC’s real-life basketball brothers
VANCOUVER — When Jordan Jensen-Whyte began his career with the UBC Thunderbirds in the fall of 2012, he was standing in shadows deep enough to resemble the cover of night.
Belmont’s Bull picks Fresno State for his NFL prep
VICTORIA — Based strictly on his sheer physical measurements, Victoria’s Dontae Bull fits the bill of any talent evaluator
UFV players Dulay, Bains escape tragedy in snowy Highway 1 spin-out
ABBOTSFORD — The Manny Moment, it turns out, is impervious to just about anything including the rage of an Fraser Valley East snowstorm. Manny Dulay and teammate Nav Bains got caught in an icy, snowy traffic jam on Highway 1 east Friday as the pair headed to Abbotsford to suit up for the Fraser Valley Cascades’ […]
Meg Wilson: The girl who loves to run
BURNABY — In her childhood days in London, Ont., Meg Wilson would always tell her mom that when the day came for her to pick one sport, she would choose running.
Brian Wallack: The self-made Totem
SURREY — Back in the winter of 2012, coach Edward Lefurgy approached one of the more eager members of his Grade 8 boys basketball team at Semiahmoo Secondary.
Keegan Konn: Sunny in his storm
SURREY — Dreams die hard.If you prescribe to the axiom, then you know that Keegan Konn is hurting and doing his share of soul searching.