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It is a conundrum that sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West basketball crowds in CARSA Gym, a state-of-the-art facility, have not matched those that used to watch the University of Victoria Vikes in the older and less-appealing McKinnon Gym.

VICTORIA AT BRANDON 5:30 p.m. at the Keystone Centre TV: None / Radio: The Zone 91.

The Canadian rugby sevens teams have traded the rainy, grey skies of their Langford training base — they even had snow thrown in for good measure — for the summer climes of the Southern Hemisphere.

There are certainly more sockeyes than steers up here. But the Victoria HarbourCats will be Austin North with the signing of four University of Texas players for the 2020 West Coast League baseball season.

Like a soccer version of Welcome Back Kotter, attacking midfielder Jamar Dixon’s life has come full circle.

For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, there isn’t a guy from Colwood named Lonnie Cameron working the lines in National Hockey League games.

This might have been the turning-point weekend when normalcy was restored to the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Division of the Western Hockey League.

VICTORIA 4 ALBERNI VALLEY 1 The Victoria Grizzlies had a third period to forget on Friday night in Port Alberni, but Saturday at The Q Centre, the Grizzlies had one to remember.

If there was a sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West men’s basketball comeback player of the year award, Matthew Ellis of the University of Victoria Vikes would have his name all over it this season.

The Vancouver Giants honoured several of their all-time greats and now-NHLers — Evander Kane was there in person and Brendan Gallagher and Milan Lucic by video — before Friday night’s WHL game against the Victoria Royals.