Sports

The Toronto Blue Jays struck out with some fans at the home opener yesterday. Fans waiting in line to pick up complimentary tickets left by team owner Rogers Communications, as well as Jays staff and others, missed the first two innings of the game.

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By Rick Pusiak Figure skating gained extra attention in February with the Olympic judging scandal during the pairs event.

By Keith Lacey After an absence of more than 25 years, minor lacrosse is making a comeback in Sudbury.

Sudbury's Clare Beatty was named Laurentian University's Female Athlete of the Year, while veteran soccer star Chris Miles was selected Male Athlete of the Year at the annual Laurentian Voyageurs Athletic Awards Dinner recently.

Among Native Americans there were many versions of what we now call lacrosse. Players in some tribes used two sticks, one in each hand. Women and men sometimes competed on the same teams, but women had their own form of the sport in some areas.

By James Fortin It is a little known fact that Arthur Howie Ross, the man that the NHL's Art Ross Trophy is named for, was born right here in the Sudbury area. The Art Ross Trophy is awarded annually to the player who leads the NHL in scoring.

There should be plenty of tears mixed in with laughter when friends gather to remember Sofie Manarin this weekend. The talented junior national cross-country ski team member was killed in a bicycle accident last June.

The Walden Bowling Centre in Lively is hosting a provincial 5-Pin championship tournament throughout the Easter Holiday weekend.

Canadian bronze medallist and Sudbury native Jeffrey Buttle will perform in the Skate the Nation show here April 16 along with Canadian ice-dance champions Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.