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Northern Life reporter Scott Haddow recently had a candid Q and A session with Laurentian University women's basketball star Cassandra Carpenter about the 2006-07 season and what she's out to prove this year.

BY SCOTT HADDOW Note: Marcus Foligno is the first in a series of stories about top local OHL prospects. Each month during the hockey season, Northern Life will run updates on how each prospect is developing.

BY SCOTT HADDOW The seeds have been planted, and now OHL clubs will wait patiently for a potentially bountiful crop of local hockey prospects to harvest at the 2007 OHL Draft.

CNW-McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited, the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players' Association announced a new program that will allow 12 young hockey players to join an NHL(R) All-Star player on-ice during the singing o

After beating the Guelph Storm 3-1 Fridy, the Sudbury Wolves lost two straight to wrap up their triple-header weekend road trip. The Wolves were beaten 7-5 by the Erie Otters Saturday and 3-2 by the Toronto St. Michael's Majors Sunday.

BY SCOTT HADDOW When local curler Tim Phillips sees his friends slip into their Team Northern Ontario jackets, he gets a warm feeling inside and a wide smile erupts on his face.

BY SCOTT HADDOW The Sudbury Wolves board the bus for a three-games-in-three-nights road trip, and GM and head coach Mike Foligno wants them to be gentlemen. He also wants them to keep playing hard.

BY SCOTT HADDOW When Kyle Kirkwood's football season is over with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees, he's going under the knife. But it's all good for Kirkwood, who was born and raised in Sudbury and played high school football for St. Charles.

The 27th annual Big Nickel AAA Hockey Tournament wrapped up this past weekend, and despite the fact that no local teams made it to the finals, the event was a success. Attendance was up and the hockey was intense and competitive. The Sault Ste.

The 63rd annual struggle for the Sheridan and Robert Brown Cups, symbolic of the regular season and play off championship in boys' high school hockey, officially got underway on Tuesday, Nov. 7, with a slew of scheduled games.