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The Victoria Grizzlies have a player nominated for each sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League award.

It was a wash for those looking for clues about form ahead of a possible first-round playoff meeting between Victoria Royals and Kelowna Rockets.

Marcel de Jong has had the heady experience of stepping onto pitches in the Bundesliga: “In front of 60,000 fans, against teams such as Bayern Munich and Dortmund, where it’s so loud you have to scream to hear your teammates.

Anybody with even a cursory interest in women’s soccer will know the names of Olympic and World Cup stars Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach, Julie Foudy, Megan Rapinoe and Brandi Chastain of the U.S.

Powell River Kings forward Ryan Brushett, named sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League player of the week, went off on the Victoria Grizzlies.

It was a fitting Family Day for Kyle Topping of Salt Spring Island.

Victoria Royals head coach Dan Price demurred when asked if he was a sentimentalist. Yet he proved himself to be, at least this weekend, by giving back-to-back starts at CN Centre in Prince George to Griffen Outhouse.

ALBERNI VALLEY 3 VICTORIA 1 The Alberni Valley Bulldogs and their veteran netminder John Hawthorne delivered a message to the Victoria Grizzlies on Saturday night. If the two teams meet in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Victoria has had some notable moments in national auto-racing history. The late Billy Foster was the first Canadian to race in the Indianapolis 500 and the late Roy Smith raced three times in the Daytona 500, including into the top-10 in 1982.

It can seem bewildering when so much of the sports news is bad, including the never-ending stream of Russian drug stories, and the recent expose of sexual abuse by Canadian coaches going back several years.