After last Thursday’s 65-14 romp over Sturgeon Creek (Winnipeg) here, the Muskie football team will be in for a much tougher battle this Friday at 7 p.m. over in International Falls. “We are definitely the underdogs for the game,” assistant coach Greg Allan said. “The Falls is a very well-coached […]
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Old hobbies die hard. As Fr. Jerry Ward discovered last Saturday evening after he finished up his 30-year racing career at the same place it started–the Emo Speedway. “I feel great but this is going to be a hard habit to break,” enthused Fr. Ward after his final race in […]
Karate is not about learning how to kick butt–it is about discovering inner peace and harmony. “Wado Kai is a style of karate and it teaches people that karate is a martial art, but it is also a way to find inner peace and harmony among yourself,” explained local Sensei […]
It was a race to the finish Sunday when the 40 entries in the seventh-annual Morson Bass Classic weighed in their catches. Perhaps the most widely-watched teams on the leader board were two that featured the same names. Bill Godin and Pat Handorgan were neck and neck after the first […]
Tagg’s dominated the field here Sunday, capturing the men’s Borderland soccer crown for the third-straight time with a convincing 6-1 victory over Nova in the league final. “We played pretty good–the score was indicative of how intense of a game it was. We both played really well but that is […]
So far so good, the Muskie ‘C’ football team looks like it will field a good squad this year. “It is going good,” noted coach Steve Maki. “We are getting more kids out all the time and since [Tuesday] is the first day of school, we will probably have more […]
The Emo Bulldogs placed in the top 10 at the North America Fastpitch Association World Series last week in Fargo, N.D with a 3-2 record. “The competition was tough. If you made an error, you lost the game,” noted Bulldog team member Brent Tookenay. The Bulldogs got off to a […]
Calm weather had threatened the eighth race of the Rendezvous Yacht Club’s fall series last Wednesday but a slight northwest win picked up enough at the start to hold the five-leg event. A slight northwest wind picked up enough to hold the five-leg race. Warren Wagness (aboard “Slug”) topped the […]
By Kelly Crowe
Staff writer
Staff writer
Adriana Harumi Ota may be thousands of miles from home, but that doesn’t mean the Brazilian gymnastics coach has changed her lifestyle very much. Ota, who performed, competed and coached gymnastics for 16 years in Rio de Janeiro, came up to Canada to do pretty much the same thing. “It’s […]
After a disappointing Canadian junior championship tournament last week, Christin Thomson redeemed herself by winning the Kitchen Creek Ladies Open on Saturday. Thomson carded an 81, nine strokes over par, to defend her title as the two-time Kitchen Creek Ladies Open Champion. But the champ remarked it was certainly not […]
Rick Sekulich, Rob Crowe and Al Holt, hit the jackpot this weekend at the Las Vegas Scramble golf tournament. The trio will be heading to Las Vegas in November after winning the inaugural tournament with a low score of 64 in the 87 player tournament at Kitchen Creek. “It was […]
Despite only practising for a little over a week, coaches of the Fort Frances Muskie football team have no question that the team is ready for Thursday’s game against Sturgeon Creek of Winnipeg. “They will be ready,” said Muskie football coach Todd Calder. “Most of the guys on the senior […]
