Sports

BY JASON THOMPSON It was a birthday Dowling's Yves Bastien will never forget. On Aug.

BY JASON THOMPSON In a land where soccer is called football, and where football as Westerners know it is called American football, a group of pigskin players hope to do their country proud as they represent Canada in exhibition games to be p

BY KEITH LACEY This will be unlike any training camp ever in the long history of the Sudbury Wolves.

More than $15,000 was raised Aug. 13 at the first annual Miners for Cancer Golf Challenge with the money going towards cancer research, patient care and treatment equipment at the Regional cancer Centre in Sudbury.

BY JASON THOMPSON Although his career as a professional golfer is on hiatus, Sudbury-born Kurt Kowaluk still spends a lot of his time on the course with the pros.

(NC)-Staying active is important for teenagers and so is staying injury free. Unfortunately, injury is all too common, according to one study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

For the second year in a row, Kristine Lalonde, as a member of Team Ontario, has won the gold medal at the Under-15 National Girls Basketball Championships recently held in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

BY SCOTT HADDOW When the dust settled on the Sudbury Spartans 2006 season, despite a 41-14 loss in the first round of the play offs to Milton last week, the players held their heads up high. They had good reason.

BY SCOTT HADDOW Like two competing elks, the Sudbury Panhellenic Women's team and the North York Wolves are going to crash heads and lock horns this weekend during the biggest game of the season for both clubs.

When the curtain rose on the Sudbury Canadians 2006 season, optimism was sky high as the club hoped to win seven games and further entrench themselves as a rising franchise in the United Soccer League - W-League. It didn't happen.