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WHL season won’t start without fans, commissioner says

WHL season won’t start without fans, commissioner says

If there are no fans, it could be no go for the Western Hockey League.
WHL hopes to start season Oct. 2

WHL hopes to start season Oct. 2

A spring that turned suddenly dark with cancellation could lead to a considerably brighter fall for the Western Hockey League. The league has set Oct.
World juniors in sight for Victoria’s Garand, former Grizzlies star Newhook

World juniors in sight for Victoria’s Garand, former Grizzlies star Newhook

The invitations are real, if not the camp in the strictest sense.
Former HarbourCats lock up MLB deals

Former HarbourCats lock up MLB deals

Good baseball news this pandemic spring at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park has been about as rare as a triple play.

Victoria Grizzlies trade for rights to WHL blue-liner Longo

The Victoria Grizzlies of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League have acquired the Junior A playing rights of Trevor Longo from the Drumheller Dragons of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.
Vancouver Island Soccer League plans to finish what it started

Vancouver Island Soccer League plans to finish what it started

Only two world wars and the Spanish flu have caused bigger disruptions than the current one the venerable Vancouver Island Soccer League is facing in its 125th anniversary season. The VISL is aiming for an Aug. 1 restart amid the pandemic.
Olympian Elaine Tanner’s gift of books to Islanders in trying times

Olympian Elaine Tanner’s gift of books to Islanders in trying times

Olympic swimming legend Elaine Tanner dropped in for a cuppa Saturday morning and handed a copy of her children’s book, Monkey Guy and the Cosmic Fairy, to the staff at Alexander’s Coffee Bar in Sidney.

Field empty on what would have been Doug Hudlin Day

Barbara Hudlin looked across the empty Jerry Hale Field at National Little League with a degree of sadness because of what has been lost this year.

Island sports teams gradually coming out of virus lockdown

It only remotely resembles the real thing at this point, but it’s better than the virtual and individual sports training that athletes were reduced to during the lockdown.
‘Sport should see no colour’: Pacific FC coach

‘Sport should see no colour’: Pacific FC coach

Pacific FC head coach Pa Modou Kah remembers the police traffic stop in Belgium like it was yesterday. He was pulled over for simply being a Black man driving a fancy car in a nice area of town.