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Attending a Victoria Shamrocks game this season at The Q Centre has been like sitting in a Broadway theatre when the dreaded announcement came that “playing the part of Willy Loman tonight will be the understudy instead of Dustin Hoffman.

The wider story sometimes takes precedence over the final result.

It was an Island sweep at the recent sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Mid-Amateur and Mid-Masters golf championships. Victoria’s Craig Doell and Parksville’s Josee Deslauriers each won both the mid-amateur and mid-master titles.

Much of a football team’s character, at least on offence, flows through its quarterback. Three pivots are under centre in the Westshore Rebels training camp, at Goudy Field in Langford, trying to be that personality pacemaker.

The Victoria HarbourCats flexed their Mussels early on Tuesday night, but couldn’t hold the pose.

No sport does side competitions quite like soccer. Manchester United didn’t win the Champions League this year, but still captured the Europa League.

Victoria native and Mount Douglas Secondary graduate Cait Haggarty is returning home to become the new head coach of the Camosun College Chargers women’s basketball team.

The only thing missing will be Bill Murray’s hijinks and the Candy Man’s knuckleball.

SEATTLE 4 OAKLAND 0 SEATTLE — The best of Felix Hernandez doesn’t mean what it did in the past. He’s not going to blow away hitters with his fastball the way Hernandez did earlier in his career.

From Usain Bolt’s heir-apparent, Andre De Grasse, to a new track coming to Centennial Stadium, these are heady days for track and field in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ on several fronts.