Sports

name="valign" bottom > Paul Sauve HOT ROCKS Tim Phillips and his Sudbury Curling Club team of Ron Collins Jr., Drew Eloranta and Doug Hong will represent Northern Ontario at the Calgary Nokia Brier March 9-17.

name="valign" bottom > James Fortin TREASURES With the Winter Olympics in full swing I was moved to take a look at the material related to sports in the museum collection. There is a lot of sports material in the collection.

The inaugural event for the annual Sudbury Fitness Challenge is set for Sunday. The Nickel Loppet begins Sunday morning at the Laurentian University cross-country ski trails and there?s still plenty of time to sign up.

The Sudbury Spartans football organization is starting off 2002 with a bang. Spartans alumni invites current and former players to Alumni Night, Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Beef 'N Bird Tavern For more information phone 705-673-8074.

Roots is the official uniform supplier to the Canadian and American teams at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. name="valign" bottom > Cecile Bobby, who works at the New Sudbury Roots store, models some "Canada" merchandise.

By Keith Lacey By the time the Sudbury Wolves finish their current homestand next weekend, they could be a hockey team with a winning record.

By Paul Sauve Thomas "Tom" Hoare, 84, passed away recently. If you are a native Conistonian you will know Hoare as he was postmaster for many years.

Mike Vaillancourt of the Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats is the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey Association's player of the month.

Chris Tilly of the Laurentian University's men's basketball team and Alison Jeffkins of the Lady Vees Nordic Ski Team are this week's Pat & Mario's Athletes of the Week.

Editor's note: Ingrid Mackin, 19, is Coach of the Year for 2001,( Wednesday. Feb. 6 issue.) We thought you would enjoy reading about some of the nominees: *** Hello, my name is Sarah McMahon and my father is Alan McMahon .