By the time you read this, Alex Parent already will have arrived in Toronto, where he will spend a couple of days practising with Team Ontario before the Canada Games get underway Saturday in Regina, Sask. “I’m really looking forward to it,” said Parent, 16. “Pretty excited, but not really […]
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They can thank Hiroshi Yamauchi and Bill Gates for their consistent placings at the Emo Speedway. Those two big wigs essentially are the inventors of obesity, as Yamauchi is the maker of Nintendo while Gates came up with the XBox, but video games only have inflated the minds of Kendal […]
Like all hockey players growing up, Greg Beller dreamed of playing in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final and racing end-to-end to notch the game-winning goal. “I’ve always dreamed of that,” he said. On Saturday, that dream got one step closer to becoming a reality for the 18-year-old Rainy […]
It was just a bad three days of golf for Steve Wood and Glen Mills. The professionals at Kitchen Creek both shot well below what they expected at the MPGA Championships at the Elmhurst Golf and Country Club, which began Monday and wrapped up yesterday. Mills shot a collective score […]
Fishing and poker; poker and fishing—the two go hand in hand like diuretics at a Victoria’s Secret summer fashion show. And the dock at the Sorting Gap Marina perfectly encapsulated such a statement—especially when the top 10 boats after Day 2 started filtering their way to their designated spots on […]
While Dave and Lee Lindsay were accepting congratulatory handshakes from other anglers and the crowd, there stood Paul Morrison collecting his notes with a smile on his face and a slight rasp in his voice. On the stand with his notes also were three packs of Halls Extra Strength lozenges […]
A fish and game check of 319 people on Highway 72, south of Sioux Lookout, found 97 percent of anglers abided by the rules of fishing. The July 23 blitz was carried out by Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers from Sioux Lookout and Dryden, as well as the Sioux […]
What Bugs Bunny is to Elmer Fudd, the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship crown is to Mike Luhman and Mark Raveling. The pair probably are the best team to have not won the FFCBC, which suggests they are under-achievers. But that’s certainly not to say they are bad anglers. On […]
Chapter 132 of the fabulously-written tale, “Moby Dick,” begins with the line, ‘It was a clear steel-blue day.” And it was Mark Libitka and Dave Bennett who were following Herman Melville’s storyline. That chapter is labelled “The Symphony,” and it seemed surprisingly orchestrated that Libitka and Bennett would be the […]
Kenora’s Mark Skrzypek has been trying for years to get a spot in the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. This year, his name was finally drawn. And with the 2005 tournament now a thing of the past, he insisted it was well worth the wait. “I loved it,” Skrzypek enthused. […]
In addition to what emcee Paul Morrison dubbed a “Sioux Narrows invasion” atop the leaderboard at the 11th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, a number of Rainy River District anglers proved local teams are capable of making waves against some of North America’s best. While Devlin’s Bill Godin, who once […]
There isn’t any question that James Lindner is one of the best anglers to ever hit the waters of Rainy Lake. “James Lindner is probably the number-one bass angler in the world,” said Lionel Robert, who was emcee of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship for its first 10 years. […]
