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The Canadian national team rugby roster is littered with players who have come out of the Castaway Wanderers and University of Victoria Vikes programs. The teams will renew their rivalry next Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

The Campbell River Storm indeed had a stormy time of it in the 2018 Fred Cyclone Taylor Cup at Minoru Arena in Richmond.

If people don鈥檛 think the Commonwealth Games still matter, they only had to look at the reaction of mountain-biker Haley Smith.

Caroline Crossley of Victoria, now forever the subject of a trivia question, will go into the books as first Canadian player to score a try in the Commonwealth Games.

Unlike team jerseys in North American-based sports such as hockey, football and basketball, it is a tradition in soccer to feature a club鈥檚 title sponsor prominently on the front of the jerseys.

Bring the ear plugs, definitely, and maybe an umbrella.

Victoria Royals captain Matthew Phillips cleared out his stall Friday at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre not knowing if he will return to the Island next season or be playing in Stockton, California. Either is fine by him.

The Victoria Royals may have had the words of poet John Greenleaf Whittier echoing in their heads on the way home Thursday from Kennewick, Washington: 鈥淔or all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.

The sweet memories from the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games still linger for the Langford-based Canadian men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 rugby sevens teams, when both swept to gold medals before passionate and raucous home crowds at BMO Field.

The golfers may be among the youngest athletes from the various sports training in Langford鈥檚 burgeoning 鈥淥lympic Corridor,鈥� but certainly not the least. They are talented enough to harbour the grandest of dreams.