As the calendar turned over to 2013 two weeks ago, people all around the world likely had intentions to hit the gym, watch what they eat, and get into a healthier daily routine. While these yearly resolutions are great in theory, the reality is that the majority of folks who pack into gyms on January [...]
Captain Amy Lee and the rest of the Bison women’s hockey team entered this past weekend’s games against Mount Royal sitting fifth in the Canada West conference, just three points ahead of the eighth place Cougars. A sweep would go a long ways for either team, as Mount Royal would push themselves right back into [...]
Looking to cement a spot in the postseason, the Bison men’s hockey team hoped to keep up with conference leaders Alberta and Saskatchewan as they engaged in a slugfest against the Mount Royal Cougars on campus at the Max Bell Arena this past weekend. If you liked goals, there were plenty to keep you satisfied. [...]
While Canadian hockey fans were glued to their screens watching the 2013 World Junior Hockey Championship in Ufa, Russia, another international hockey tournament featuring another Team Canada was happening in Finland. The 2013 IIHF World Women’s U18 Hockey Championship was held in the Finnish communities of Heinola and Vierumäki. Canada entered the tournament as the [...]
Men’s Basketball Division Rank: 3rd Divison Record: 7-4 With eleven games remaining, the Bisons find themselves in a good position to make the post-season. They are only four points back from the Prairie Division leading Alberta Bears. After two weeks of games against teams in the Pacific division, Manitoba wraps up the regular season with [...]
If you are Canadian and paid any attention during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, you know who Christine Sinclair is. For those of you who didn’t find the time to tune in, Sinclair is the captain of Canada’s national women’s soccer team, and was a primary reason why they captured the first medal in [...]
When referring to athletes of nearly any sport, being of age 38 normally means that the player’s best days are behind them and they are travelling down the ever-shortening road to retirement. The story of Robert Allen (R.A.) Dickey is anything but normal. Having found that his fastball no longer comes across as fast, Dickey [...]
This past year started out so promising for Tim Tebow. On the Denver Broncos’ roster in 2011, a 1-4 record and intense public pressure forced Broncos head coach John Fox to replace Kyle Orton with Tebow, and the much-hyped youngster led the team for the remainder of an incredibly exciting and unlikely AFC West Division [...]
Before this past year, you could have taken the number of hockey fans familiar with Donald Fehr, gave them all a seat at Jobing.com Arena, and you still would have had enough open seats for the entire Phoenix Coyote fanbase. Fehr rose to prominence as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, [...]
After flying along in top gear for a while, the sport of cycling has suffered lately as doping scandals have forced everyone to question who is clean and who is dirty. Lance Armstrong, the man who won seven consecutive Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005, had long been the poster boy of the [...]