The Superior International Junior Hockey League was scheduled to hold its first-ever draft Wednesday night in Thunder Bay, but it was postponed over word a new team might join. “We had decided on the number of rounds we were going to have, we knew the format we were going to […]
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You can’t blame the stock car drivers for feeling a little antsy after inclement weather washed out the first two race nights of the season at the Emo Speedway. Needless to say, their moods were buoyed when action finally got underway there Saturday night. “It was really depressing and nerve-racking,” […]
Donovan Taylor, 10, was the lone member of the local Cyclone swim club to compete in an invitational meet at the Canada Games Complex in Thunder Bay last weekend. But that didn’t stop him from bringing home eight medals (two gold, four silver, and two bronze) to go along with […]
A team comprised of players from both local junior baseball teams enjoyed a successful tournament hosted by the Fort William Nationals in Thunder Bay over the weekend. Fort Frances lost their first game on Friday to the host Nationals by a score of 9-6, even though they had the lead […]
Think you can do a better job than NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman? Know the game really well? Are you a problem-solver who is not afraid to take action when it is required, but also have an unbiased ear when discussions are put forth? If you answered yes, then the Superior […]
Following the road paved by Aretha Franklin, Brent Tookenay is simply asking the general public to give the players in the Superior International Junior Hockey League some “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” Tookenay, general manager of the Borderland Thunder, says no matter what people’s perceptions are of the league, those should not include the […]
He admittedly and rightly got emotional. When Doug Armstrong sat Dave Allison down and offered him the position as head coach of the Iowa Stars, it was as if he had just told Allison he was about to be a first-time father. “I talked to them as a group and […]
June 1 was supposed to be judgment day for the Borderland Thunder. They were supposed to be giving either the thumbs up or down on whether to play a fifth season as part of the Superior International Junior Hockey League. “We’ll know on June 1 exactly what our plans are […]
If you had to select just one word to sum up the 2005 Emo Walleye Classic, it would be “big.” As in big turnout. The fourth-annual EWC boasted a full field of 60 teams for the first time while spectators packed the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre to take in the […]
The only question was whether they would be facing the St. Ignatius Falcons or the St. Patrick Saints of Thunder Bay in the NWOSSAA final? So complete was the Muskie girls’ soccer team’s domination heading into the NorWOSSA tournament last Wednesday in Kenora that it seemed inevitable that they would […]
It’s been more than a quarter-century since Winnipeg’s Lionel Robert, a familiar face to many in this area, became a fixture on Northwestern Ontario’s tournament fishing circuit. And he’s been getting the same feeling right around this time of year ever since. “You can barely wait for it. You count […]
“You’ve got to go out there and play each game hard because that’s what the game deserves.” —Shane Beckett, head coach of the Muskie boys’ soccer team. Soccer can be as good to you as two martinis at lunch or it can be harsher than a swig of Buckley’s. It […]
