Sports

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] Amanda Martin has come a long way from cuddling stuffed toy horses as a kid to mastering the graceful steeds in the world of equestrian sports as a teenager.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] Laurentian University menÂ?s basketball head coach Virgil Hill has an eye for talent.

He came, he saw and he let his game do the talking. For the second year in a row, Kurt Kowaluk captured the Idylwylde Men's Invitational at the Idylwylde Golf and Country Club on Sunday. Kowaluk defeated Cam Hreljac 2 and 1 in the match-play final.

In an effort to create something new in the Sudbury golfing community, The Copper Cliff Redmen AA minor bantam hockey team and the Human League have joined forces to create a Charity Golf Skills Fundraising Competition.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] Leaving Ottawa and coming to Sudbury has changed Christine Treverton's life.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] Putting a face on minor hockey in Copper Cliff brings many to think of Ken Creasey. He has been the face of minor hockey in Copper Cliff since 1964.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] When Matthew Coutsos stepped onto the starting platform to compete in the first bi-annual Elliniada (Greek Games) for swimming he felt he was more than just an athlete.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] Burning rubber, hairpin turns, motorized machines whipping by at 90 kilometres per hour Â? now thatÂ?s racing and it's heating up in Sudbury this summer.

Greater Sudbury residents who want to help kids with physical disabilities while enjoying a rousing game of hockey should register for the fourth annual Power Play for Easter Seal Kids.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW A light sweat covered my skin, my heart raced with anticipation and butterflies filled my stomach as I approached one of my all-time heroes Don Cherry to shake his hand.