Annika Sorenstam pretended like it was another practice session with caddie Terry McNamara—the kind where he stands in a spot with a mitt and catches one wedge shot after another. The distance was 94 yards. There was no margin for error. The shot was exquisite. Playing down the wrong fairway, […]
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The Tampa Bay Lightning story ended with a brilliant epilogue. Three days after winning the Stanley Cup, Brad Richards was selected playoff MVP and saluted as the most gentlemanly player, John Tortorella was named coach of the year, and Martin St. Louis carted home the Hart Memorial Trophy as regular-season […]
Montreal’s doubleheader sweep was bittersweet. Tony Batista homered twice and Sun-Woo Kim pitched 4 1/3 perfect innings in relief of Toma Ohka, who suffered a painful broken arm, as the Expos earned a 7-2 victory yesterday in the nightcap of their doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals. In the opener, […]
Tony Stewart shouldn’t be worried if 2004 begins to look a lot like last year, despite a problem off the racing surface that kept him from winning a week ago. In 2003, Stewart came to Pocono Raceway a week after pitting slightly out of his stall at Dover International Speedway. […]
Kitchen Creek Golf Club will host its first-annual pro-am golf tournament on Monday. Twenty pro golfers, from both regional courses as well as those in Winnipeg, will play on foursomes along with amateurs from their own clubs. Each pro is expected to bring in one or two members from their […]
American League Cy Young winner Roy Halladay’s stint on the disabled list is going largely unnoticed, thanks to some stellar pitching performances by two other Toronto Blue Jay starters. Miguel Batista tossed a four-hit shutout as the Blue Jays downed the L.A. Dodgers 4-0 yesterday. It was the Blue Jays’ […]
Martin St. Louis of the Tampa Bay Lightning captured the Lester B. Pearson Award today, as voted on by his peers in the NHL Players’ Association. Florida Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo and Colorado Avalanche captain Joe Sakic were the other finalists for the players’ choice of league MVP. St. Louis, […]
The young members of the Fort Frances Aquanauts Swim Team sat in rapt attention Friday evening as their coach, Roman Ramirez, adressed them at their annual banquet. He spoke about people in their lives who had inspired them. People who had enriched their lives. People who had pushed them to […]
Nine-year-old Donovan Taylor of Fort Frances just finished a stellar swimming season, earning national rankings in several events. Taylor is ranked fourth in Canada in the boys’ nine and under 50m backstroke and seventh in the 100m backstroke in a long-course pool. It’s no wonder backstroke is his favourite, though […]
The committee spearheading the OFSAA boys’ hockey tournament here in 2006 will nail down major issues before taking a break for the summer and then getting serious plans underway in the fall. The committee, which won the bid to have Fort Frances host the all-Ontarios back in April, tentatively will […]
Given a choice, would you rather spend a sunny Friday afternoon at work or playing golf? Well, considering it was all for a good cause anyway, 14 teams of four decided to play hooky last Friday to play in the eighth-annual Confederation College Scholarship Golf Tournament out at Kitchen Creek. […]
It was a successful season for the Muskies girls’ soccer team—a NorWOSSA championship, an NWOSSAA silver medal, and a trip to the all-Ontarios. “Overall, we’re happy,” said head coach Struchan Gilson, who will retire this year after 19 years of coaching the team. “We’re getting closer.” The black-and-gold successfully competed […]
