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With apologies to Don Ho, there are no tiny bubbles when it comes to sports amid a pandemic.

Few observers had Sean Young or Jordan Haynes pegged as breakout performers for Pacific FC before the 2020 Canadian Premier League tournament began in a bubble at Charlottetown, P.E.I.

The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League’s first COVID-19 infection hangs over the circuit as it continues its extended preseason.

Mackenzie Rigg experienced plenty of wins and losses during a five-season soccer career with the University of Victoria, which concluded with him captaining the Vikes in 2018-19.

Only the Tokyo Olympics were postponed, not the humidity. That still awaits.

If the spectator-less bubble approach worked for the NHL and NBA — even Pacific FC in Canadian Premier League soccer — why not apply the general principle to youth, community and oldtimers sports? That was the question posed this week by sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Idle sticks are the devil’s playground in hockey. So Victoria Royals players are free to play wherever they want for the next two months.

Marie-Philip Poulin will captain the Canadian women’s hockey team, which will include rising blueliner Micah Zandee-Hart of Saanichton, at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Getting to that career point, through the various youth levels, isn’t cheap.

Cam Hope has been tasked to take over hockey in this province at perhaps the most difficult juncture in its history. The former Victoria Royals president and GM was named the new CEO of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey on Wednesday.

Pacific FC president and co-owner Josh Simpson describes a pro soccer club’s presence within a community as an “eco-system.