VANCOUVER — They say that times are tough all over, but it seems especially so locally in Canada West men’s basketball circles.
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Provenzano: Clan rookie point guard has no weak links
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Twenty hard minutes. Work on your dribble. Work on your handle.
SFU Clan men surrender victory in final seven seconds
BURNABY — It’s the seven seconds of game clock that the Simon Fraser Clan men’s basketball team wishes it could just have back.Please.
Tomley returns to Tammy, still hoping to play
SURREY — One of the most talented players to grace the B.C. high school hardcourts since Steve Nash departed in 1992 is back in his hometown.
Juliana Kaufmanis: Win-win adventures for UBC star
VANCOUVER — In building the most successful Canadian university women’s volleyball program of its generation, UBC Thunderbirds head coach Doug Reimer has brought some of the country’s best and brightest talent War Memorial Gymnasium.
Game report: Irish press to much for Saints
VANCOUVER — Lloyd Scrubb had a very good feeling about his team’s ultimate identity in the early part of the season, but now, as the post-season beckons
02.08.17: VarsityLetters Big 10 rankings
Here’s are the B.C. boys and girls high school basketball rankings for this week:VARSITYLETTERS.CABIG 10 BASKETBALL RANKINGSSENIOR BOYSQUAD A (records, ranking reflect games played through Feb. 7. Records indicate games against B.C. competition only)1. Walnut Grove Gators (Langley) (22-1) (LW-1)Last week — Won all three games to finish at Kelowna-Western Canada Invitational. Def. Campbell Collegiate […]
Tammy’s Kyle Uppal: An ode to the glue-guys
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 […]
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.