Category: Sports
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New hockey book includes emotional closing for author
Author Ronnie Shuker veered away from personal narrative through most of The Country and the Game: 30,000 Miles of Hockey Stories. Closing paragraphs in the final chapter — British Columbia: The Last Game — are exceptions and include unvarnished accounts of his father’s slide into advanced dementia, along with a recap of Shuker’s last trip…
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Author Ronnie Shuker.The Country and the Game: 30,000 Miles of Hockey Stories
The following is an excerpt from the Book ‘The Country and the Game: 30,000 Miles of Hockey Stories’ by Ronnie Shuker The next day, I begin the long drive home from Vancouver, some 4,800 kilometers (3,000 miles) east to Toronto. Five hours in, I stop in Kamloops. I arrive at the Hamlets at Westsyde, sign…
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Lafrenière staying focused on WHL season
Kamloops Blazers forward Tommy Lafrenière’s journey to the Western Hockey League (WHL) has been anything but conventional. Though originally from Montreal, Quebec, Lafrenière spent much of his childhood in Whistler before making his way back east to Montreal and eventually returning to B.C. for his WHL draft year. Now, he’s turning heads with his strong…
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From left: Corryn Brown, Erin Pincott, Jim Cotter, Sarah Koltun, and Samantha Fisher of Team Brown won gold at the B.C. Women’s Curling Championship last month in Langley. Amanda Wong photoA big month ahead for curling in Kamloops
Erin Pincott’s wins and wounds provide vantage for pebbled-ice profundity, her thoughts shared during a month eagerly anticipated by Kamloops curling aficionados. The Team Brown third spoke of nurturing love for the game when it feels unrequited, the hard-times devotion required in the wake of tormenting defeat, the faithfulness that preceded catharsis. After back-to-back losses in B.C. Women’s Curling Championship finals —…
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Ethan Katzberg.Predicting a record-breaking achievement for local athlete
Dylan Armstrong is the Ethan Katzberg whisperer, a hulking corner man whose 6-foot-6 world champion speaks softly but carries a big hammer. When it comes to media guidance, coach Armstrong implores the reigning men’s hammer throw Olympic champion to talk not of numbers when reporters ask about marks such as world records. They prefer to…
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Rida Erlalelitepe is ranked first in kills and third in kills per set in the conference. Andrew Snucins / TRU WolfPack photoTRU WolfPack women’s team pushing for U Sports Championships
Head coach Chad Grimm and his TRU WolfPack women’s volleyball team are in position to shock the Canadian university sports landscape, nationally ranked and pushing to reach the U Sports Championship tournament for the first time since program inception in 2005-2006. The club was 6-2 as of press deadline and ranked fifth in the country…
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Medals won in Philippines
In early November the 2024 International Canoe Federation (ICF) Dragon Boat World Championships were held in Puerto Princess, Philippines. Team Canada was represented by more than 40 athletes completing in Junior, Senior, and Masters (40+ and 50+) categories and came home with fourteen medals putting Canada in fourth place overall, with four gold, six silver,…
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Harrison Brunicke a rising star
Pittsburgh Penguins’ head coach Mike Sullivan and assistant coach David Quinn came clean with Harrison Brunicke. “They both kind of said it — they honestly didn’t really know who I was before the draft,” said Brunicke, the Kamloops Blazers’ standout who was snapped up by the Penguins this past summer in Round 2 (44th overall)…