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.
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.
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.
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.
TSUMURA: My three big weekend take-aways
Here are my three big basketball take-away from the recently-completed university sports weekend:
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.
UFV Cascades: Why Seniors’ Night is special
Track the daily movements of a basketball program from high school through university and the calendar, like clockwork, moves a team of dedicated, age-specific athletes through a timetable of tradition.