Sports section

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  U of M home to hockey robot

  Programmers working at the Autonomous Agents Laboratory may have developed the world’s first humanoid-robot ice-hockey player. Chris Iverach-Brereton, a computer science graduate student at the U of M, has been programming Jennifer — a DARwin open platform named after Canadian hockey player Jennifer Botterill — for less than a month. Thus far the robot is [...]

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  Heartbreak on the ice

  The Bison women’s hockey team will miss the playoffs for the first time in eight years after a devastating 3-2 overtime loss against the top team in the Canada West, the U of Calgary Dinos. Having already clinched first place in the conference, the Dinos had an opportunity to eliminate the Bisons from playoff contention [...]

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  Finishing strong

  This past weekend, the Manitoba Bison men’s volleyball team completed their regular season, hosting the University of Saskatechwan Huskies for their last two regular season games on Friday and Saturday. By defeating the Huskies both nights (25-14, 31-29, 25-21 Friday and 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 Saturday), the Bisons ended their season ranked number two in Canada [...]

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  All eyes on Ricky

  A career that spanned three teams, flirted with NFL superstardom, and ultimately defied our logic of the game. That sums up the years in which we got to watch Ricky Williams play professional football. Williams announced his retirement on Feb. 7 after playing 11 NFL seasons over the past 13 years. For such a humble, soft-spoken [...]

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  Bison Football gets their man

  Bison Football has found their next quarterback. Former Winnipeg Rifles quarterback Ryan Marsch signed his letter of intent for the U of M on Feb. 9. In doing so, Marsch has committed to playing out his CIS eligibility with the Bisons over the next four years. Head coach Brian Dobie couldn’t contain his excitement at [...]

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  The ladies of the rock

  The Canadian national women’s curling championships, the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, will be held in Red Deer, Alta. at the ENMAX Centrium from Feb. 18th-26th. This year’s tournament will contain several familiar faces. Seven of the 12 skips from last year’s event return and every team except one has at least one member who [...]

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  World Champions of WHAT?!?

  “Here to present the Lombardi Trophy to the world champion New York Giants, the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell.” Wait, what? The Super Bowl is a world championship game now? Dan Patrick certainly wasn’t the first to refer to the Super Bowl champion as the “world champions” of football. He was but the latest [...]

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  Better than nothing?

  When the NBA lockout was finally resolved, at the end of November, most NBA fans probably thought that the worst was over. The belief was that the NBA and the phenomenal basketball that we, as fans, had come to expect over the last couple of years would be back. Unfortunately, over the last month and [...]

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  Jets aren’t down and out just yet

  Pick up crucial points in early February

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  Local QB Ryan Marsch inks letter of intent with Bisons

  Bison Football made a significant announcement on Feb. 7, as they proudly announced the signing of local quarterback prospect Ryan Marsch. After playing high school football at Sturgeon Heights Collegiate from 2006-08, Marsch moved on to play for the Winnipeg Rifles in the Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) for three years (‘09-‘11). Marsch had a [...]