VANCOUVER — Like all programs headed towards the fall sports season of play, the UBC Thunderbirds football team is keeping the health of everyone involved first and foremost during the coronavirus pandemic.
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A Sunday Read: Song Sung True — Lord Byng rugby performs profound rendition of the Coast Salish anthem before New Zealand tour cut short by COVID-19
VANCOUVER — Last month, Nathan Berrington-Dom stood on the other side of the world, flanked by his 25 fellow teammates from the Lord Byng Grey Ghosts senior boys rugby team. They were ready to sing a song.
B.C. School Sports postpones vote on individual sports commissions until 2020-21 academic year, officially cancels 2020 spring championships
LANGLEY — The future of individual B.C. high school sports commissions won’t be decided later this month by a vote of the province’s 460 member schools as originally planned, but instead has been tabled to a future date during the 2020-21 academic year.That, along with the official cancellation of the spring season of zone and […]
B.C. Quad-A girls 2020-21 preseason hoops rankings: With No. 1 Semiahmoo eyeing a three-peat run, we break down the Top 10 teams
LANGLEY — For Surrey’s Semiahmoo Totems, the beat goes on.Fifty-seven straight victories and counting against B.C. foes, back-to-back senior girls Quad-A titles, and this coming season, a chance to complete as dominant a three-season span as any team across any sport in the history of B.C. high school athletics.It was back on March 3 of […]
B.C. 4-A 2020-21 rankings: No. 1 Burnaby South treading on historic ground, we break down each of AAAA’s top 15 teams!
It goes without saying that the issues and challenges we find ourselves facing on a daily basis are of a magnitude we would never have expected earlier this month as we sat together at the Langley Events Centre to watch two weeks of B.C. high school basketball championships.And certainly, there are a lot of things […]
B.C. 3-A 2020-21 rankings: After a half-decade of dues paying, No. 1 Duchess Park Condors will open 2020-21 season as the team to beat
LANGLEY — You can’t blame the Duchess Park Condors senior boys basketball team for having a case of the down payment blues.
B.C. 2-A 2020-21 preseason rankings: It’s crowded at the top, but battle-tested St. Thomas Aquinas’ rising trio makes Fighting Saints our pick at No. 1
LANGLEY — A funny thing happened along the way to an inspiring season-ending string of 10 games for North Vancouver’s youthful St. Thomas Aquinas Fighting Saints. They got better and better, even though they got a whole lot younger.
B.C. 1-A 2020-21 preseason rankings: Dynamic Kootenays’ duo of Hannemann and 6-foot-7 Malcolm has No. 1 Fernie Falcons soaring
FERNIE — Fully encircled by the Rocky Mountains and sitting in the southeastern most corner of our province, Fernie (pop. 5,000) is not the first place you’re apt to label as a burgeoning hoops hotbed.Yet when the 2020-21 B.C. high school basketball season tips off this December, Fernie Secondary’s fantastic yet faraway Falcons will wear […]
What’s the future of B.C. high school sports? Our 460 member schools head to the polls April 19 to cast votes amidst BCSS’ bid for critical reform!
LANGLEY — Proponents from both sides agree on one thing, and that is at its fundamental core, it’s the biggest issue ever put to vote in the history of B.C. high school sports.
B.C. high school rugby 2020: As ‘The Boot’ classic enters its second quarter-century, SMUS vs. Oak Bay gets a TV audience
VICTORIA — One of the gems of the B.C. high school rugby calendar becomes less of a secret outside of the provincial capital beginning this season.That’s because Thursday’s 26th playing of the annual Boot Game (6:30 p.m.) between storied rivals St. Michaels University School Blue Jags and Oak Bay Barbarians at historic Centennial Stadium on […]