sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Head coach Mark Anscombe could not get the Langford-based Canadian rugby team to the World Cup through the front door. Now he has been shown the door. New Zealander Anscombe, hired in April of 2016, was relieved of his duties Thursday.

They are the only two times when it’s OK to cheer for Toronto. The Toronto Raptors, much like the Blue Jays, hold an outsized place in the Canadian sports consciousness.

Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan and company are coming to Victoria. The Toronto Raptors of the NBA will be hosting their 2017 training camp at the CARSA facility on the campus of the University of Victoria.

An eerie reddish hue enveloped Royal Athletic Park on Wednesday night and it has engulfed the playoff race in the West Coast League’s North Division.

Even three provinces over, you can hear the splash being made by Victoria Boardworks. Divers from the Saanich Commonwealth Place-based club, which has produced Olympians, have accounted for six medals at the 2017 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Summer Games in Winnipeg.

With apologies to James Taylor: Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you have to do is call Matthew Phillips of the Victoria Royals.

It’s a matchup of two teams heading in opposite directions when the Victoria Shamrocks venture to Burnaby tonight to take on the Lakers in Game 1 of a best-of-seven Western Lacrosse Association semifinal series.

With apologies to 1960s and 1970s sitcoms, it’s a Family Affair. The Willets like to keep it All in the Family. Hammer-thrower Sam Willett, coached by dad and sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

They are the future of the Victoria Grizzlies and if Alex Newhook and Jacson Alexander have anything to do with it, the future is now. Hockey sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ seems to agree with the two 16-year-old incoming sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League rookies.

Matthew Phillips of the Victoria Royals wasn’t part of the shootout loss to the U.S. in the final of this year’s world junior hockey championship. But he watched it, of course.