LANGLEY — Yu bet. That was the headline to a story I had written almost 12 years ago in the pages of The (Vancouver) Province newspaper.
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The Varsity Letters’ Super 15! It’s our annual list of B.C.’s top senior boys volleyball players!
LANGLEY — The coaches of B.C.’s four U Sports men’s volleyball programs have answered our call and cast their votes to determine B.C.’s top Grade 12 senior varsity boys volleyball player.
Bates fired as Clan head coach, Simon Fraser vows commitment to football as new coaching search begins at SFU
BURNABY — The stormiest day yet in this tumultuous era of Simon Fraser Clan football hit hard Thursday with news that the school had fired head coach Kelly Bates after three winless seasons.
Despite its NAIA stronghold, UBC cross-country sees the bigger picture in seeking switch to U Sports for 2018
VANCOUVER — Taken as a whole, from its efforts in the fall on the trails, to its spring-time results on the track, it’s a pretty safe bet to say that there has never been a more prolific period in the concurrent history of the UBC Thunderbirds cross-country, and track and field programs.
Here comes the son: Dustin Triano carves his own basketball path, one which Thursday leads up Burnaby Mountain
Ask Dustin Triano for his first memory of what is best dubbed as basketball culture, and he describes a feeling more than a precise moment.
Clan ladies cash in with ‘The Rainmaker’, three-point barrage sets new GNAC single-game record
BURNABY — Welcome to the Cult of Three.It’s long been one of the most identifiable parts of their game, but on Wednesday the three-point hoop defined the DNA of the Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball team.When redshirt freshman guard Jessica Jones drained a trey with 2:54 remaining to put the Clan ahead 85-46 against San […]
Hoop script gets last-minute re-write at SFU, rookie talent Jones, Sands much more than Clan extras
BURNABY — Looking for the clearest way to illustrate just how young and how numbers-challenged the Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball team is this season? How about the fact that when it came time for head coach Bruce Langford to pair each of his younger players with a so-called mentor player, one of the duos consisted […]
Cheryl Jean-Paul: TWU coach’s unwavering belief lifts Spartans into uncharted territory
LANGLEY — Even in more tumultuous times, her body language never wavered. The women’s basketball program at Trinity Western University has gone through some pretty tough times since Cheryl Jean-Paul took over the program in 2010
Capilano U’s Incredible Isabela: Paralysis steals her smile, but grit helps Lima get her life back
NORTH VANCOUVER — If only this were a fairy tale, the kind where you could peek a few pages ahead to assure yourself of a happy ending.
“It just rips your heart out” — UBC season ends on longest field goal in Canadian university history
It was a game whose conclusion would have defied the logic of a thousand seasoned bettors. It came on a field goal attempt the football gods, 999 times out of that 1,000, would have pushed wide or pulled up short based solely on its audacity.