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The Empire strikes back.

Can the Island do it again in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Football Conference, or has the balance of power shifted back to the Okanagan, or perhaps the Lower Mainland or Fraser Valley? Those questions will begin to be answered today at 4 p.m.

The Victoria HarbourCats began a critical West Coast League series in Washington state with a 7-3 loss Friday night against the AppleSox in Wenatchee.

Before Island racers Simon Whitfield ran to Olympic glory in the shadow of the Sydney Opera House in 2000 and Peter Reid and Lori Bowden became multiple-time Ironman Hawaii champions among the lava fields of Kona, there was the pure simplicity of the

The best senior baseball players in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ will descend on Gordon Head this weekend. The 2018 PWB provincial senior men’s championships begin on Friday and run through Monday at Lambrick Park.

The theory was the Victoria Shamrocks’ veteran experience would be too much for the youthful Nanaimo Timbermen in their best-of-seven Western Lacrosse Association semifinal series.

The Hughes brothers will feature in the first game when the United States plays Slovakia to open Group B on Dec. 26 in the IIHF world junior hockey championships at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

The Victoria HarbourCats concluded a critical West Coast League series in Washington state with a 6-5 victory Thursday night against the Yakima Valley Pippins with two runs in the top of the ninth inning.

The wait was worth it for the Nanaimo Timbermen.

If the Victoria HarbourCats do make the West Coast League playoffs, they’ll look back on a cool Wednesday evening at Yakima Valley as the turning point to their late push.