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South West Storm hosting 2025 Maritime Junior C hockey championship
While the South West Storm didn’t bring home the championship banner from the 2024 Maritime Junior C Hockey Championship tournament, they didn’t come home empty-handed. The team has been named host for the 2025 tournament, which will bring some of ...
Wayne Gretzky heaps praise on Brad Marchand: 'His leadership is untouched'
Wayne Gretzky knows a thing or two about excellence so people sit up and take notice when he singles anyone out for praise. The Great One used a recent segment of a TNT broadcast to gush about Brad Marchand, who is carrying the Boston Bruins in the ...
It’s a three-peat: King’s-Edgehill girls claim Highlanders Rugby Classic banner in Windsor, N.S.
For the third year in a row, King’s-Edgehill School’s (KES) girls’ A rugby team captured the Highlanders Rugby Classic banner – but it wasn’t without a fight. The Highlanders defeated the Three Oaks Senior High (TOSH) Axewomen, from Summerside, ...
BASKETBALL: AUS MVP Malcolm Christie leaves Dalhousie for NCAA's Oakland University
The AUS men's basketball MVP is taking his talents South of the border. Dalhousie Tigers star Malcolm Christie announced his official commitment on Sunday to play NCAA Division 1 for Oakland University next season. Malcolm Christie of @DalTigers has ...
Thunderbirds' season ends with a thud: Halifax loses 9-3 in NLL quarter-final at Albany
For the third consecutive year, the Halifax Thunderbirds suffered a first-round exit in the National Lacrosse League playoffs. Veteran goaltender Doug Jamieson was a brick wall in the Albany net, stopping 52 Halifax shots for his first playoff ...
Antigonish Bulldogs edge Kensington 3-2 to win second straight Don Johnson title
The Antigonish Bulldogs successfully defended their Atlantic Canada junior B hockey title Sunday afternoon after edging the Kensington Vipers 3-2 in the final of the Don Johnson Memorial Cup at the Mount Pearl Glacier in Newfoundland and ...
Halifax sailor Gillis just misses qualifying for Olympics in France
Halifax sailor Madeline Gillis came achingly close to qualifying for this summer’s Olympic Games but missed out by a single point at a last chance regatta in France. Gillis, who sails out of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, and her Narca 17 ...
‘Everyone’s feeling the urgency’: Wanderers lose home opener to Ottawa, fall to 0-3 to start CPL season
The struggling Halifax Wanderers aren’t ready to push the panic button just yet. But their meager start to the 2024 Canadian Premier League season is concerning. The Wanderers are without a point through three games with their latest setback coming ...
Halifax's Paul Flemming wins gold at world senior men's curling championship
Paul Flemming’s flare for the dramatic lifted Canada to a gold-medal victory at the world senior men’s curling championship in Ostersund, Sweden. Flemming was clutch in the last shot of the game as his Halifax Curling Club rink of third Peter ...
IN PHOTOS: 2024 Highlanders Rugby Classic Day 1 recap
Nineteen teams from across the Maritimes converged at King’s-Edgehill School in Windsor Friday to kick off the private school’s annual Highlanders Rugby Classic. King’s-Edgehill started Day 1 off strong, in the Girls A Taylor Division, winning both ...