The Telegram

The first time I saw Jarome Iginla, I didn’t really see him. He was just another kid who loved to fly into action trying to make 50 cents chasing foul balls when the public address announcer shouted the words: “Heads up behind,” at the Lacombe ...

There was a time when somebody from Edmonton being selected to the Hockey Hall of Fame was an annual occurrence. But there’s never been a hat trick before. Wednesday when HHoF chairman Lanny McDonald and the 18 voters completed voting with ...

Admittedly, it had the feel of somebody overplaying his hand. It was a tad embarrassing. And a little laughable. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, in trying to make one final move to help Edmonton’s bid to become one of the two hub cities to play ...

It was supposed to be an opening day to be remembered for the ages in the annals of Alberta horse racing. It wasn’t. But it wasn’t forgettable either. It was the first pro sport in the province to return from COVID-19 and it was marred by ...

You couldn’t see expressions that conveyed the range of emotions. Everyone was wearing a mask. But as horse racing became the first pro sport in the province to return from the COVID-19 pandemic Sunday at Century Mile, they wore those ...

Last year, for the first time in a decade, a horse race season opened in Edmonton without a certified celebrity jockey on the property. Sunday at 5:15 p.m., Century Mile appears to be crawling with ‘em. For a decade at Northlands Park, the ...

Century Mile is not the first to over-promise and under-deliver in the history of professional sports. But with a spotlight on the place right now that isn’t likely to exist to such an extent again for quite some time, it turned out to be a ...

What you wanted to hear was a plan. There’s still no plan. But what there is now is a statement that looks like an attempt at a reboot in the Canadian Football League’s losing battle against COVID-19. To me, the statement released Thursday ...

A new expression entered our vocabulary this spring during the COVID-19 pandemic. As people completed conversations, instead of saying goodbye, they started to say, ‘Stay safe.’ If they’re horse race jockeys, that’s going to be especially true ...

Chuba Hubbard, so far in his football career, hasn’t been much for talk. He’s been mostly about action. But this action is definitely going to cause a reaction. Hubbard, the Sherwood Park product who was the top rusher in all of NCAA Div. 1 ...