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It’s not commodities on Bay Street or Wall Street. But major-junior is nothing if not a form of futures trading in hockey.

Josh Heard knows being drafted is only the beginning of the pro journey, not the end destination in itself.

The Canadian Colleges Athletic Association women’s volleyball championship will be going cost-to-coast within the next 14 months, out east this spring and in Victoria a year later.

Victoria HarbourCats general manager Jim Swanson describes Josh Burgmann as the best pitching prospect from the Island since former major-leaguer Rich Harden. That’s high praise.

As big as it will be, it’s important for the Langford-based Canadian women’s sevens rugby team to keep a sense of perspective and not let two days in August at Rio engulf everything else this year. “It’s overwhelming . . .

VICTORIA 7 SURREY 2 Joey Visconti picked a good time to come out of his shell on Sunday afternoon, recording a hat-trick and two assists, matching his previous season totals in one afternoon, in pacing the Victoria Grizzlies to a lopsided 7-2 win ove

The Scotties sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Women’s Curling Championship is yet to begin, but the province already has a representative heading to the national championship, set for Feb. 18-28 in Grande Prairie, Alta. Two, in fact.

Last year, the curling season came to a painful end for Sarah Wark’s Victoria Curling Centre rink.

The letter V — representing varsity and victory — could prove instructive in the 2016 Canadian Direct Insurance sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Premier Rugby League season.

As if the -23 C temperature was not bad enough, the University of Victoria Vikes had to also suffer the wrath of the Alberta Golden Bears and Pandas for most of the weekend.