Sports

The Sudbury Canadians are offering a slew of free soccer clinics over the next week. The clinics will be made available to kids from city housing projects which surround the following locations: Aug. 24 at Lily Creek from 1:30 to 3 pm. Aug.

The Timberwolf Golf Academy has a couple of clinics for interested golfers today and in September.  The first will be held today, Wednesday, Aug. 23 from 6 to 8 pm .

With the start of the 2006-07 varsity season just around the corner, Laurentian University Voyageur Athletics has released the 2006-07 schedules of its 10 varsity teams. Here are a few highlights for the upcoming season.

BY JASON THOMPSON Carol Hamilton-Goodale, a former Laurentian University Lady-Vees basketball star, has been posthumously inducted into the Basketball Ontario Hall of Fame. Hamilton-Goodale died March 4, 2003 when she lost her battle with cancer.

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).