Nickel City Nostalgia: Late-summer stars made lasting memories
The arrival of August has always signalled the tail-end of summer sports activity in Sudbury — at least in all of the other non-pandemic years we have experienced.
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Local Sports Soccer returning to form
Soccer is one of many sports in the Sherwood Park area that escaped an outright COVID cancellation and is beginning to start up. -
Local Sports Soccer awaits city’s green light to return to play at James Jerome
Greater Sudbury Soccer Club has asked the City of Greater Sudbury to approve a plan for field time so they can run a modified season on the turf at the ... -
Local Sports Laurentian lands key sponsor in BioSteel
Their sporting seasons may be delayed, but the Laurentian Voyageurs have already scored a key sponsor ahead of 2020-21. -
Local Sports That Sudbury Sports Guy: Growing up in good era, good times led to good teams, ...
Laurentian Voyageurs men’s soccer coach Carlo Castrechino has walked in the shoes of the athletes that he now mentors. -
Soccer Fort Sask Soccer offers summer training camps
Fort Saskatchewan Soccer (FSS) has created a safe and fun way for kids to train this summer.The local soccer association will host three summer training camps; one in July, one ... -
Local Sports Personal Best: Waiting Game, Part 1 — varsity athletes positive, frustrated, hopeful about sport future
This is Part 1 of two columns where Laura Young speaks to varsity athletes about the impact of COVID-19 on their varsity sports seasons. -
Local Sports Nickel City Nostalgia: The Sudbury Cyclones and their semi-pro soccer stint in the ‘70s
As a teenager in Sudbury in the 1970s, there were but two things that I could recall of the late Wolf Mildenberger: One, according to an ultra-popular ditty promoting his ...
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Local Sports THE BEAUTIFUL GAME: Soccer ball starting to get rolling after the coronavirus
After resurrecting my soccer column which had run for seven years until the cessation of the daily paper edition of the Pembroke Observer, I was looking forward to once again ... -
Local Sports Stage 2 doesn't have Cornwall's summer sports rejoicing
Each summer in early July, the Cornwall Vikings Volleyball Club heads outdoors for a few weeks.For several years it’s held a Spikes on the Beach volleyball camp, on sand courts ... -
Local Sports COVID-19 wins another round: No varsity sport for 2020
COVID-19 continues to wrestle the athletic world to its knees after Monday’s unsurprising announcement that fall varsity sports at Cambrian College, College Boreal and Laurentian University — indeed, at post-secondary ... -
Local Sports Park’s Paradis a double-threat on slopes and soccer pitch
The problem with being a two-sport athlete this year was that it opened up the opportunity to be doubly-disappointed. -
Local Sports GSSC waits for go-ahead from national, provincial associations
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Local Sports Minor soccer postponed until July in Owen Sound
The Owen Sound Minor Soccer Association has cancelled all games, practices and events until the end of June. -
Local Sports SDSSAA cancels spring sports due to COVID-19
Sudbury District Secondary Schools Athletic Association, the governing organization for high school sports in the Greater Sudbury area, has announced the cancellation of all spring sports due to the ongoing ... -
Local Sports Smaller stage prepared Vaillancourt for big things
“When I was 12 or 13, it was the thing to do. Many of my friends and I started refereeing at the same time. -
Local Sports Credits, refunds and the waiting game keeps soccer on the sidelines
And so 2020 was shaping up to be a year to party for the Greater Sudbury Soccer Club.It was their 10th anniversary. -
Local Sports Nickel City Nostalgia: The Sudbury Canadians and the USL experiment
The arrival of May 1, the turning of another page in the calendar and, typically, the signal of the start of another season of local soccer, in earnest.
