VANCOUVER — Massimo Ryan has just gotten out of his French class at Notre Dame Regional Secondary, so when he takes a call to chat a little Jugglers’ football, nothing gets lost in translation when it comes to his favourite side of the ball.“So many people see the long bomb and how amazing receivers are […]
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UBC women’s hoops 2021-22: War Gym a land of opportunity as youthful, untested ‘Birds open post-Huband era Thursday vs. TWU Spartans!
VANCOUVER — Its veterans are staring opportunity square in the face, and its rookies are going to get a chance to show early all it is that they are capable of becoming,It’s not the simplest of tasks to quantify just how different the first UBC Thunderbirds women’s basketball team of the post-Deb Huband era will […]
BC Boys High School Volleyball rankings 10.26.21 edition: Spartans, Sharks do some climbing in AAA’s Top 20!
VICTORIA —Once again, here are the complete rankings (Total number of ranked teams varies week to week, based on the number of teams receiving poll points).Victoria’s Claremont Spartans and the Steveston-London Sharks are the big movers at Triple-A in this week’s latest B.C. AAA senior boys volleyball rankings.Here are the latest Top 10s for all […]
BC Senior Girls Volleyball Top 10 Tuesday! 10.26.21 edition has PoCo’s Riverside Rapids the new Quad-A No. 1 as we unveil latest rankings from all four tiers!
LANGLEY — It was a shuffling of the decks at Quad-A this week.Every team from the season-opening B.C. senior girls AAAA Top 10 remaining a ranked entity as the calendar sets its site on November, with Port Coquitlam’s Riverside Rapids taking over at No. 1 from South Delta’s Sun Devils.Vernon’s Seaton Sonics make a big […]
UBC’s Glynis Sim: After injuries forced her into medical retirement almost four years ago, ex-Salmon Arm harrier back on track at Canada West XC championships Saturday!
VANCOUVER — There were times when Glynis Sim didn’t want to look over her shoulder for fear that she may well have left her competitive running career too far behind in the rearview mirror.After all, when you cut bait and walk away from a promising career in the manner she was forced to almost four […]
B.C. Boys AAA soccer rankings! Defending champ and No. 3-ranked Panorama Ridge of Surrey “brings a hunger” in repeat bid effort!
LANGLEY — With the arrival of zone playoffs, the best part of the B.C. high senior school boys soccer schedule is just now kicking off.To celebrate that, we’ve got the latest AAA rankings which show extensive movement outside of the top five, especially with Surrey schools Fleetwood Park, Princess Margaret and Elgin Park all moving […]
A Sunday Snapshot: Why this photo of Notre Dame Jugglers’ coach George Oswald, on his 75th birthday, freezes a perfect moment in time!
VANCOUVER — Over the course of my career as a chronicler and a story-teller, I have come to appreciate that sometimes we are met by those moments when seemingly disparate elements quite suddenly become so harmonious that all we need to do is collectively close our eyes, take a deep breath and smile.On Friday night, […]
As Simon Fraser feels heat from Texas toughie Angelo State, coach Rigell says Lone Star Conference “…is the SEC of Div. 2 football”
If going on the road to play the traditional powers of the Texas-based Lone Star Conference represents the most challenging Div. 2 portion of Simon Fraser’s annual football schedule, then the locals faced one of the toughest teams on their 2021 schedule Saturday.Playing at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Tex., SFU (1-5, 0-2) was […]
B.C. High School Football Report 10.23.21 edition: Our Saturday chronicles examine wins by Argyle, Holy Cross and Sardis!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Varsity Letters’ Saturday night B.C. High School Football Report.It’s an abbreviated schedule with three games.Thanks to photographer Blair Shier for venturing out into the elements to provide out readers with great realism from the action.AA COASTALARGYLE 15 at WEST VANCOUVER 7WEST VANCOUVER — Wise and sensible scheming kept the ball on […]
More drama, more lessons learned, more proof, following 26-24 upset of No. 4 Manitoba, that UBC Thunderbirds football is once again a program on the rise!
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds looked so good off the opening kick-off Saturday at home to the Manitoba Bisons that it appeared like the young team’s continued resurgence was going to be high-pointed with a blow-out victory.Alas, along the way to what was nonetheless a milestone 26-24 win over the No. 4 nationally-ranked Bisons (3-1), […]