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Mooseheads fire head coach Jim Midgley and assistant coach Liam Heelis
Jim Midgley is out again as head coach of the Halifax Mooseheads. The QMJHL team announced his dismissal on Tuesday, along with assistant coach Liam Heelis. Assistant coach Brad MacKenzie will remain with the team. "After lengthy discussions with ...
Sport NL recognizes its best at annual awards night
Sport Newfoundland and Labrador handed out its annual awards over the weekend. Held at the Sheraton Hotel on April 13, the awards ceremony recognized some of the brightest athletes, coaches and volunteers in the province. Sport NL presented several ...
Royal Newfoundland Regiment high school gets underway Monday in Paradise
The puck is set to drop on the Royal Newfoundland Regiment Memorial High School Hockey Tournament. Starting on Monday, the tournament, which commemorates the Regiment’s legacy in the province, will get underway at the Paradise Double Ice Complex and ...
BASKETBALL: St. F.X.'s Reddick, Thomas and Dal's Christie get pro opportunities
Three AUS basketball stars will get a taste of the pro game this spring and summer. League most valuable player Malcolm Christie of the Dalhousie Tigers and Dondre Reddick and Koat Thomas of the St. Francis Xavier X-Men were picked in the top 15 of ...
Brad Gushue’s rink brings home second career Player’s Championship
Brad Gushue and his rink wrapped up the curling season at the top of the podium. That’s after Gushue knocked off Switzerland’s Joel Retornaz 7-6 in the final of the 2024 Princess Auto Player’s Championship on Sunday in Toronto, Ont. Gushue’s team ...
‘We were very unlucky not to get a point out of this’ – Wanderers lose 1-0 in season opener at Pacific FC
Patrice Gheisar has a glass half-full kind of approach to coaching. Despite his Halifax Wanderers dropping a 1-0 decision to Pacific FC in their 2024 Canadian Premier League season opener on Saturday, the second-year head coach found plenty of ...
These Caps are in seventh heaven: The St. John’s Junior Capitals win seventh junior hockey league title
Last year, the St. John’s Junior Capitals had to watch the CBN Junior Stars celebrate a St. John’s Junior Hockey League (SJJHL) championship on home ice. It was different this time around, however, as the Caps won the Taylor Cup as the league ...
Exile minor hockey action
For little novice hockey kids at just nine years of age, some of them could really motor on the blades as witnessed on Saturday afternoon, April 13th., in another battle of town versus the bay. It was hockey action in its finest between the Avalon ...
Jamie Randell announced as Team NL Chef de Mission for 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John's
After serving as part of the Team NL Chef squad for Canada Games events in 2022 and 2023, Jamie Randell will take the reins as Chef de Mission for the home team at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John’s. Randell is a six-time member of the Team ...
Missing a bone in her arm, Katie Pegg is a shot put champion, possible Paris Paralympian
Katie Pegg smiles at the face of adversity. Born without a radial bone in her right forearm, Pegg played eight years of football in her hometown of Scarborough, Ont., the lone girl among over 300 players in the minor program. She also threw shot put ...