ANTIGONISH/PICTOU: The Northern Selects faced a formidable challenge last weekend, taking on one of the Maritime Major Girls Hockey League’s powerhouse teams, the Lindsay Surge, in a home-and-home series.
The Selects opened the weekend...
As much as the NFL is generally a well-run league it has badly bungled the transition to the new dynamic kickoff.
Designed to minimize spectacular (and dangerous) collisions, the new kickoff format feels like...
WE’KOQMA’Q: Arabella Cremo has made history.
The 12-year-old from We’koqma’q is the first Mi’kmaw woman to qualify for and compete at a world armwrestling championship. She represented Canada at the International Federation of Armwrestling...
BEN EOIN: Mark MacPhail has competed at several world armwrestling championships throughout his career, but his recent trip to Tsuchiura, Japan, for the International Federation of Armwrestling World Championship is one he will remember for years to...
MEMBERTOU: The Sydney Rush have struggled in Nova Scotia U18 Major play this season, but the Cape Breton West Islanders made sure there would be no surprises last Saturday when the teams met in Membertou.
PORT HAWKESBURY: Saturday brought a setback for the Cabot Highlanders, but the local U16 AAA team responded Sunday with a convincing win to salvage two points from its road trip.
The Highlanders suffered their...
SACKVILLE: The Strait Pirates are still searching for their first win of the season, but a spirited third-period comeback last Saturday demonstrated the Junior Pirates’ ability to battle back, even when facing a significant deficit.
ANTIGONISH: It wasn’t the road trip head coach Rylan Mayo had hoped for, but the Antigonish Bulldogs (6-2) remain atop the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League standings.
“We're playing the right way, and we’re...
PORT HOOD: The Blackstone Knights opened their Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League season with a 6-3 loss to the Glace Bay Miners last Saturday night at the Al MacInnis Sports Centre.
Despite outshooting the...
There is a particular brand of comedy reserved entirely for the ultra-wealthy: the absolute, knee-buckling shock that occurs when a billionaire is forced to live with a rule that he invented even when the rule itself was...