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Pacific FC captain Marcel de Jong says it’s all a matter of perspective. He prefers to look at pandemic soccer “as much as an adventure as a challenge.

Sports leagues and teams have to be creative and flexible in this time, and the Island Division teams in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League are proving just that.

It will be about more than soccer today when the 2020 Canadian Premier League pro season, four months later than planned and at a single venue, kicks off a campaign unlike any other when the 2109 finalists Forge FC of Hamilton and Cavalry FC of Calga

No fans, no caddies? No problem for Evan Holmes. He led wire-to-wire over three rounds to win the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Life pro golf tournament Wednesday amid pandemic playing conditions on Bear Mountain.

Canadian golfers Adam Hadwin, Corey Conners, Mackenzie Hughes and Nick Taylor have been ranked in the world top-100 this year. But they never forgot where they came from and what got them there.

The symbolism — of a dream delayed, not denied — was abundant in the timing. sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ unveiled its team uniforms Monday for the Tokyo Olympics, one day after the originally scheduled date of the closing ceremony.

A towering eight-under score of 63 by Evan Holmes shook Bear Mountain to its core Monday. The former UBC Thunderbirds player from Calgary took a three-shot lead in the first round of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Life pro tournament on the mountain course.

Pacific FC will begin the 2020 Canadian Premier League pro soccer season, four months later than planned, when it kicks off against the HFX Wanderers of Halifax on Saturday at noon PDT in Charlottetown, P.E.I. The CPL announced its schedule Monday.

You take your victories where you can in sports amid a pandemic. They go deeper than mere wins versus losses. It will be more than just a golf tournament on Monday when the pros take to Bear Mountain for the $50,000 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Life event.

Goaltender Adam Bland would have been tending the lacrosse crease for the Victoria Junior Shamrocks this season. That didn’t happen. But this pandemic summer hasn’t been a complete write-off.