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BASKETBALL: AUS MVP Malcolm Christie leaves Dalhousie for NCAA's Oakland University
The AUS men's basketball MVP is taking his talents South of the border. Dalhousie Tigers star Malcolm Christie announced his official commitment on Sunday to play NCAA Division 1 for Oakland University next season. Malcolm Christie of @DalTigers has ...
Thunderbirds' season ends with a thud: Halifax loses 9-3 in NLL quarter-final at Albany
For the third consecutive year, the Halifax Thunderbirds suffered a first-round exit in the National Lacrosse League playoffs. Veteran goaltender Doug Jamieson was a brick wall in the Albany net, stopping 52 Halifax shots for his first playoff ...
Antigonish Bulldogs edge Kensington 3-2 to win second straight Don Johnson title
The Antigonish Bulldogs successfully defended their Atlantic Canada junior B hockey title Sunday afternoon after edging the Kensington Vipers 3-2 in the final of the Don Johnson Memorial Cup at the Mount Pearl Glacier in Newfoundland and ...
Halifax sailor Gillis just misses qualifying for Olympics in France
Halifax sailor Madeline Gillis came achingly close to qualifying for this summer’s Olympic Games but missed out by a single point at a last chance regatta in France. Gillis, who sails out of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, and her Narca 17 ...
‘Everyone’s feeling the urgency’: Wanderers lose home opener to Ottawa, fall to 0-3 to start CPL season
The struggling Halifax Wanderers aren’t ready to push the panic button just yet. But their meager start to the 2024 Canadian Premier League season is concerning. The Wanderers are without a point through three games with their latest setback coming ...
Halifax's Paul Flemming wins gold at world senior men's curling championship
Paul Flemming’s flare for the dramatic lifted Canada to a gold-medal victory at the world senior men’s curling championship in Ostersund, Sweden. Flemming was clutch in the last shot of the game as his Halifax Curling Club rink of third Peter ...
Wanderer by name, by nature: Christian Volesky made many stops in pro soccer career before arriving in Halifax
First-year Halifax Wanderers striker Christian Volesky didn’t realize how big Canada really is when he drove from his Colorado home to his new home for training camp. Volesky was so excited when he signed his first Canadian Premier League contract in ...
Brad Marchand's antics driving Leafs and their coach batty: 'It's an art and he's elite at it'
To say Brad Marchand is under the Toronto Maple Leafs' skin would be quite an understatement. The Boston Bruins pest is driving them nuts with his usual antics but is also crushing them on the scoreboard. The 35-year-old from Hammonds Plains scored ...
Thunderbirds on the eve of NLL playoffs: ‘We have a chance to win this thing’
If the Halifax Thunderbirds want to fulfill their pre-season objective of hosting a National Lacrosse League post-season game, they have a tall order of getting past the Albany FireWolves in a single elimination playoff Sunday afternoon in New York’s ...
NHL PLAYOFFS: Nathan MacKinnon setting the intensity bar in Colorado, Brad Marchand up to old tricks
Nathan MacKinnon is famously intense so no one needs to tell him to dial it up when the playoffs start. But the rest of the Colorado Avalanche weren't quite at the Cole Harbour native's level in a Game 1 loss to the Winnipeg Jets so he knew that had ...