Profile of Kenn Oliver

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• A (half) grand opportunity
  How much is a chance to play against a team of former big-leaguers worth to you? A hundred dollars? A thousand? Or is such an opportunity ...
• Charting a course for the podium
  About this time two years ago, Jonathan Ladha and Dan Inkpen set sail on an ambitious quest to represent Canada in the 49er sailing class at the ...
• Icemen learn the taxman cometh
  As predicted, the Bud Light Avalon East senior hockey league annual general meeting came and went without any controversy. Thanks to Revenue ...
• KGV holds up against Igor, SJRE doesn't fare as well
  Members of the St. John’s soccer community are breathing a collective sigh of relief today after Hurricane Igor washed over King George V Park ...
• Their aim is true
  Mount Pearl is going out of its way to attract good sports. In October, the Mount Pearl Sport Alliance is hosting a weekend seminar — True Sport ...
• In it for the long run
  Generally speaking, middle- and long-distance runners peak in their mid to late 20s, sometimes in their early 30s. After putting in thousands of ...
• On the rebound — again
  For Mackenzie Thomas, there were times this summer she wasn’t sure she could keep up the good fight.“There were points where I didn’t want to do ...
• To be awesome, his team can't be awe-ful, says Dyke
  Dyke contends his team would break down mentally, giving the defending champs too many chances.“It was like we were up against Manchester ...
• Confident Caps look to improve on '09 performance
  The Caps are using the exact same 21-man roster that made it all the way to the bronze-medal game in 2009.St. John’s lost that game 1-0 to the ...
• Brennan makes it to the top step
  But the veteran cox had never stood on the top step and hoisted the Dominion Ale trophy, sipping from its storied bowl.That is, until Wednesday ...
• Not all the hopefuls will be on the ice
  The defenceman, who was taken 12th overall by the New York Islanders in the 2009 NHL entry draft, is in St. John’s, but won’t be taking part in ...
• Veteran cox looks to claim first men’s championship
  “I never really cared about winning. That’s the truth,” said the 64-year-old self-described “corner boy.” “That’s why I took seven or eight crews ...
• The 'hits' leader
  Stats on every at bat for every last batter at each and every game across senior, junior and intermediate regular season, playoff and tournament ...
• Rocket shots abate at Lions Park launching pad
  During the stretch, the senior league began using a supply of the new yellow Optic K-Master softball, identical in all ways — diameter, weight, ...
• The kid was all right
  On Monday night, Donaghey was back on the diamond at Lions Park. But this time, the peewee-aged softballer was among teammates just a few years ...
• A team effort
  This year, those non-elite competitors and people walking the course will be met with an even greater volunteer force. “We have a lot ...
• Running for a reason
  Everyone has a reason to run the Tely 10. In Sunday’s 83rd running of the historic race there will be those trying to break a record time, and ...
• Commitment pays off for province's Special Olympians
  In return, through the provincial team training program, Special Olympics Newfoundland and Labrador (SONL) made efforts to get athletes into ...
• Comeback Capitals do it again
  At last year's Molson provincial junior baseball championship, the St. John's Capitals went undefeated through the round-robin, but needed a ...
• Moss memories
  Torbay's Joey Maynard can clearly recall the day he was brought home by the police. It's a memory he cherishes to this day. Earlier that day, ...
• No longer a fringe sport
  These days, Colin Doyle sees people sprinting around with lacrosse sticks everywhere he looks, "It doesn't seems as much a fringe or specialty ...
• Holmes made major mark in minor hoops
  Happy Valley-Goose Bay phys-ed teacher Ed Turpin, a sort of Mr. Everything to sports in the town, had been taking high school and junior high ...
• It could be time for race records to fall
  Among the many records Paul McCloy has set during his running career, his 23:48 in the 1993 Mews Timex 8-kilometre is among those still standing. ...
• An octogenarian in centrefield
  The Molson Conception Bay South masters slo-pitch softball league can boast of more than a dozen players over the age of 60. There are even two ...
• For a quarter-century, Matt Foley has been coxing...
  Just across the road from where Matty Foley grew up in Southeast Placentia, a small path winds its way through the dense shrubbery down to ...
• More people want to experience Paradise
  Shawn Stratton, chair of the Paradise Triathlon organizing committee, would have liked to tackle the course of his own creation this Sunday. But ...
• Looking ahead by going back
  With the sheer number of participants in the adult co-ed Mile Zero Ultimate League and St. John's Women's Ultimate Recreation League (SWURL), it ...
• Major (midget) overhaul
  Following a few weeks of uncertainty, the head of minor hockey in Newfoundland and Labrador says there will be a provincial major midget hockey ...
• Fast mover
  A little over two years ago, Tyler Young was little more than a better-than-average midget-aged hockey player. He played at the all-star level, ...
• Batter up!
  Last season, the fourth-seeded H.J. Bartlett Electric Storm surprised local baseball fans by winning the St. John's Molson Senior Baseball League ...