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CEBL's Calgary Surge install St. F.X. bench boss Tyrell Vernon as new head coach
The Calgary Surge got their guy. In short order, too. Needing to fill its sudden head-coaching vacancy, the Canadian Elite Basketball League club has turned to St. Francis Xavier X-Men bench boss Tyrell Vernon. “Really excited, and a great ...
Battle of The Pearl
It was the battle of ‘da Pearl over the noon-hour on Saturday, April 20, 2024, as the Mount Pearl Senior High School Huskies took on their neighbouring Patriot friends from O’Donel High School in the 2024 Royal Newfoundland Regiment Memorial Hockey ...
Underdog Northern Selects head to nationals with unflinching belief
There is no escaping the annual David vs. Goliath dynamic for Atlantic Canada's representative at the Esso Cup. The national under-18 women's hockey championship brings together the six best teams from across the country and the Eastern reps always ...
'The magic of the cup': New N.L. Cup soccer tournament promises to inject drama into provincial game
It didn’t have quite the spectacle of a FIFA World Cup draw, but the beginning of the inaugural N.L. Cup still felt like a big deal. At King George V Park in St. John’s on April 17, the 15 teams involved in the new single-elimination tournament saw ...
Wanderers fall 2-0 to Vancouver FC, lose second straight to start CPL season in B.C.
The Halifax Wanderers certainly hope it won’t take until the second week of June to post their first victory of the Canadian Premier League season. The Wanderers dropped their second straight game to start the 2024 campaign on Thursday night, a 2-0 ...
Antigonish Bulldogs win third straight NSJHL title in double overtime
The Antigonish Bulldogs captured their third consecutive Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League Championship title in dramatic fashion Wednesday night in Bridgewater. Nick Marshall scored on a wraparound 8:55 into double overtime to lift the Bulldogs to a ...
Thunderbirds ‘limp’ into NLL playoffs: Halifax hosts final regular-season game Saturday, will hit the road for next week's opening round
It might take an abacus, slide rule and a calculator to figure out who the Halifax Thunderbirds will face in the opening round of the National Lacrosse League playoffs. “There are a million different scenarios of who we could play, where we could ...
'They accepted us with open arms': Newfoundland Rogues return from basketball camp in Sheshatshiu, Labrador
Newfoundland Rogues basketball players Lewis Djonkam and Omega Harris never thought they would visit Labrador. On April 13, Djonkam and Harris – along with Rogues’ coach Jerry Williams and another Rogues player – returned to St. John’s after hosting ...
Four N.L. teams start Atlantic hockey tournaments on Thursday
A group of teams from this province are gunning for Atlantic gold this weekend in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. In total, there are four teams, two male and two female, competing at the under-13 and under-15 levels. First, the Eastern Red ...
N.L. Sports Notepad: Travis Crickard is heading back to Team Canada bench
As the snow continues to disappear, winter sports will soon start to give way to the sports that come along with a warmer climate. Still, some noteworthy items to be shared before we close the book on the winter season. Crickard going international ...