After years of struggle at Hastings Racecourse in east Vancouver, there were hopes for recovery this summer with the success of horse jockey Mario Gutierrez and a lease extension from the city. But the most recent report from racecourse owner Great Canadian Gaming shows that track revenues continue to slip. According to its Nov. 7 [...]
The general consensus has been that nobody wins from the NHL’s current work stoppage. But it’s been a boon to the UBC Thunderbirds men’s ice hockey team in more ways than one. The Vancouver Canucks have been without a facility to practice in during the NHL lockout. So, for the past few months, Canucks and [...]
The NHL lockout is going to have a significant financial impact on many ticket scalpers. But hockey fans aren’t showing any sympathy towards the industry’s least popular profession, especially after desperate scalpers tried to profit from a charity game Wednesday. With the NHL officially cancelling October games, scalpers have been scrambling to find new sources [...]
Sheereen Aminuddin has five brothers, all of whom play soccer. For years, she sat on the sidelines and watched their games. Last year, Sheereen decided she wanted in on the action. But she was worried because, like many Muslim girls, Sheereen wears a hijab. So the 14-year-old Maple Ridge Secondary student signed up for the [...]
The Vancouver Eclipse visually impaired hockey team has a new home at Hillcrest Community Centre. The building that hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic curling competitions now houses Vancouver’s only visually impaired hockey team. “We like the size of it now,” said Graham Foxcroft, a visually impaired player. “It’s an actual hockey-size rink and [...]
Gerald Roper played guard for 11 Canadian Football League seasons. He worked much of that time with a teammate at a nearby travel agency in the morning then drove to Surrey and practiced in the afternoons. The pair co-own that business today. Pat Brady snuck out of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ team hotel early on a [...]
Simon Fraser University’s first three months in the National College Athletic Association haven’t been easy. Stricter eligibility rules have prompted students to leave teams or have made them ineligible. And SFU teams – the only non-U.S. member of the NCAA – have struggled in early season competition. School officials justify the move out of Canadian [...]
Related: SFU struggles early in U.S. collegiate play Simon Fraser University’s recent move to the NCAA reflects the school’s history of offering student-athletes a Canadian education with an American varsity athletics experience. SFU teams competed in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics when they began play in 1965. The NAIA is a U.S.-based governing body [...]
Any given Saturday at Burnaby Lake Park, music professor Nikolai Maloff and computer programmer Geoff Dryer can be found engaging in a showdown of aeronautic spectacle. In the skies above, lightweight, mini-engined planes dodge gliders with 13 foot wingspans. Below the air traffic, fellow flyers unpack hand-painted model airplanes of various sizes from the backseat [...]
One of the new 2010 Winter Olympic venues, the Vancouver Olympic Centre/Vancouver Paralympic Centre, hosted its first competition in February 2009. The World Wheelchair Curling Championships were held there to determine who goes to the 2010 Paralympic Games. Produced by Heather Amos, Ameila Bellamy-Royds, Miné Salkin and Alexis Stoymenoff.
