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Pacific FC focused on Marco Bustos during the Canadian Premier League off-season free-agent signing period. It proved a genius move by PFC co-owners Josh Simpson and Rob Friend. The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½-capped striker is a magician with his left foot.

Victoria has had a storied tradition in triathlon as home base for former Ironman Hawaii world champions Peter Reid and Lori Bowden and Olympic champion Simon Whitfield.

Pacific FC is not yet ready to compare itself against the gold standard of the Canadian Premier League. Not even after tarnishing it a bit Sunday with a 2-1 victory over powerhouse Cavalry FC of Calgary.

Prodigy Michelle Liu, the youngest player ever to qualify for the Canadian Open at age 12 last year, continued her sharp climb by winning the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ women’s amateur championship Thursday.

Former Victoria Shamrocks general manager Lloyd Robbie not only helped rescue the Western Lacrosse Association club from near extinction financially, he turned its fortunes around on the floor. Robbie died on Tuesday. He was 71.

Alejandro Diaz, who led Mexico in 2015 U-20 CONCACAF scoring before joining the nation’s most historic pro team Club America, was Pacific FC’s biggest off-season signing.

There is no mechanically produced noise to indicate the end of a game in soccer, only the ref’s whistle, so you can’t technically describe Pacific FC’s games in the Canadian Premier League tournament as buzzer beaters.

It almost seemed like normal times Sunday at Layritz Park as the boys of summer chattered, and the unmistakable crack of ball off bat, filled a lilting August evening as the Victoria Mariners took on the Victoria Eagles Almost normal being the operat

GAME DAY: VANCOUVER VS. LAS VEGAS, GAME 1 After the final buzzer sounds, coaches go through a ritual of searching the game sheet for statistical trends that reflect positively on an aspect of their team’s performance.

As the tributes continue to pour in for the late hockey great Dale Hawerchuk, few have a memory as personal and poignant as Victoria’s Mike Corrigan.