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The Victoria organizing committee for the Olympic basketball qualifying tournament in June heaved a sigh of relief with the announcement Tuesday that the pandemic-delayed 2020-21 NBA season will start earlier than expected on Dec. 22.

Coaches and captains have symbiotic relationships in team sports. It was never more so in Canadian men鈥檚 soccer than when Tony Waiters coached and Bruce Wilson captained the national team to its greatest heights in the 1980s.

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The shot taken in the Canadian Premier League soccer game in 2019 is probably imprinted in Nolan Wirth鈥檚 memory.

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The pandemic has hip-checked the sa国际传媒 Hockey League schedule and sent almost half of it flying over the boards. The league announced Thursday that teams will play 32 regular-season games, down from the normal 60, from early December through March.

Victoria HarbourCats head coach Todd Haney says you can feel the tension in the air. It hangs thick. 鈥淏asically, everyone is on edge,鈥� he said, about today鈥檚 U.S. presidential election.

There seems no discernable pattern as to why sports leagues, which are comparable in some ways, have had such disparately different experiences in terms of openings amid the pandemic.

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