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We are in the magical time of the year for salmon fishing in the Victoria area and it’s time to get out there. We have sockeye, coho, pink and spring salmon in the area.

The regular season has elite under-16 bantam softball players travelling all over the province to play. Starting Friday, however, 14 of those teams will converge on Helmcken-Centennial Park in View Royal for the Under-16 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Dreams do come true and Riley Wheeldon and Kevin Carrigan are the perfect examples.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget Joe Hicketts of the Victoria Royals only just completed his 16-year-old rookie season in the Western Hockey League, because his talent is well beyond the norm for his birth-year group.

If you parked your car in the wrong place Tuesday near Royal Athletic Park, chances are you were doing the Pembroke Pout all the way to the windshield repair or autobody dent shop.

Victoria HarbourCats owner John McLean admitted his hand only went up about halfway, and rather hesitatingly, during the West Coast League winter meeting when the call went out for teams willing to host the 2013 all-star game.

Sacrifice is an official stat in baseball. But Ty Provencher gave it new meaning. The list of five Victoria HarbourCats in tonight’s 2013 West Coast League all-star game at Royal Athletic Park is technically four.

Riley Wheeldon will make his first-ever PGA Tour start this week at the RBC Canadian Open, thanks to his ability to maintain the lead on the PGA Tour sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Order of Merit.

Sometimes the honorary featured guest or guests at a sporting function seem so pitch-perfect as to be obvious choices — such as Vancouver 1954 Miracle Milers Roger Bannister and John Landy were at the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games.

It’s not often that you give up six runs in the bottom of the first inning and come back to win. It’s even less frequent when it’s a playoff game, but that’s exactly what the Victoria Eagles accomplished on opening-weekend play of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½