Bringing baseball back to Montreal

MONTREAL (CUP) – On September 29, 2004, the Montreal Expos lost 9-1 at home to the Florida Marlins. It’s been seven years and three months since the last pro baseball game was played in Montreal, but the sport received a shot in the arm recently, thanks to some homegrown talent. Earlier this month, the Montreal [...]

Sports briefs: Royals, WHL, Chargers results

Royals trade top player Kevin Sundher, the leading scorer of the Victoria Royals WHL Franchise and NHL draft pick of the Buffalo Sabres, has been traded to the Brandon Wheat Kings for Jordan Fransoo, Dakota Conroy, and a first-round draft pick in the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft. Sundher currently has 19 more points than the [...]

Skateboarding a year-round sport in Victoria

Winter. Rain. Cold. Skateboarding? Not four words normally associated with each other. For skateboarders in the Greater Victoria area, winter usually means more videogames and less skateboarding. Or at least it used to. With a little creativity, some good friends, and help from some local businesses, skateboarders might be able to skate every day of [...]

Sports briefs: Charitable Royals, Chargers results

Royals raise more than $110,000 for local charity The first quarter of the inaugural season for the Victoria Royals WHL franchise has yielded more than $110,000 dollars for local charitable organizations. In addition to generating money for charitable efforts like KidSport, Tour De Rock, and Free the Children, the Royals have been working in conjunction [...]

Island player at home with Royals

Hometown heroes are sometimes few and far between in junior hockey. Being an island boy has only made Kade Pilton enjoy playing his first full season of Western Hockey League (WHL) hockey with the Victoria Royals that much more. “I’ve been pretty lucky,” says Pilton. “I’ve had a few friends at the last few games [...]

More than just a fighter

REGINA (CUP): Muhsin Corbbrey, a three-sport professional athlete, martial arts academy owner, family man, and student is, for all intents and purposes, a person worthy of emulation. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Corbbrey grew up in what he dubbed “extreme poverty,” living in both his mother’s trailer in the country and his father’s home in [...]

North America accepts eSports with open arms

While eSports may not be taking the world by storm just yet, the phenomenon is taking root in North America. With the advent of online streaming and the release of new gaming titles, the popularity of eSports is growing at an incredible rate. The term “eSports” refers to the competitive play of video games and [...]

Sports briefs: top volleyball-ers, Olympic Victorians, Royals, Chargers results

Chargers women return to national rankings The Camosun College Chargers women’s volleyball team has returned to the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association national rankings for the first time since 2003, placing 13th overall in Canada. Head coach Chris Dahl said in a recent press release that he hopes it provides a better picture of how the [...]

Victorian runs island for Rwanda awareness

Eric Mazimpaka spent October running up and down Vancouver Island. He covered 560.5 kilometres with little money and little time to prepare. He slept in a car every night and was fuelled mainly off of candy. Mazimpaka began the run on September 27 and finished it on October 24, covering roughly 26 kilometres per day. [...]

Camosun’s rowing club off to a rollicking start

Camosun’s recently formed rowing club wasted no time getting to the podium when student athletes Graham Obee and Trish Mara medaled in the lightweight men’s single sculls and lightweight women’s single at the Western Canadian University Rowing Championship in Burnaby on October 23. The wins come mere weeks into Camosun’s rowing club existence. Although a [...]

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