August 15, 2011

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Sports

Puck Bears search for a golden prospect

August 14, 2011 - 5:36pm

The Golden Bears hockey team are on the hunt for a diamond in the rough.

Plantinga leaves Volleyball Bears for a career on Canada’s beach team

August 14, 2011 - 5:33pm

Most volleyball players feel at home under the neon lights of a gym, with their feet firmly planted on the hardcourt. But Mike Plantinga doesn’t mind sinking his feet into the sand.

When athletes triumph over the summer heat

August 14, 2011 - 5:31pm

As September draws closer and we prepare for the return of winter sports, we reflect on summer’s greatest triumphs

U of A advances to red and white

July 24, 2011 - 5:53pm

The smell of evergreen is pungent as Canada’s national volleyball teams prepare for the upcoming summer Olympics with rosters chock full of former and current Bears and Pandas athletes.

Green looks to run for gold when hosting national track championships

July 24, 2011 - 5:49pm

Being nominated to host the 2013 and 2014 CIS National Track and Field championships will give the Golden Bears and Pandas a rare opportunity to earn a national championship on home turf in upcoming years.

Sitting in the owners box, with a view of your empire

July 24, 2011 - 5:47pm

The list of the most valuable sports franchises was released this month by Forbes, and to nobody’s surprise Manchester United Football Club came out on the top of the heap. How is a soccer team worth $1.86 billion anyways? But after reading through the list, the question was raised: If you could own any sports team, for any reason, who would it be?

The tangled web of courting a student-athlete

July 10, 2011 - 10:20pm

When Marcus Johnstone arrived on the pitch for his first day of the Golden Bears soccer team’s training camp last summer he had everything going for him. An athletic, albeit undersized striker, Johnstone was hailed as an integral piece of the team’s line-up even before he arrived for his rookie year as a Golden Bear.

Former hoop stars team up for a full court press for your tastebuds

July 10, 2011 - 10:18pm

When most basketball players hear the term ‘press’, they think of the offensive basketball strategy. When two former CIS hard-court stars, Scott Gordon and Gavin Fedorak, hear it, they think sandwiches. Pressed sandwiches, that is.

‘The Duck’ deserves his induction

July 10, 2011 - 10:16pm

He’s been called hockey’s quiet revolutionary, a leader, and an innovator. But he won’t be called a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, at least not this year.

A rose by any other name is just plain horrible at hockey

July 10, 2011 - 10:12pm

The Winners and the Floods didn't make the moniker cut for the newest NHL franchise in Winnipeg, but here's what should have.

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