Some Good Samaritans with great shots did their part here Saturday to make some local children feel like champions. The first-annual “Power Play” street hockey tournament in support of the local branch of Easter Seals was a massive hit with organizers, the 13 teams that participated, and spectators. When all […]
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Long delays are becoming the norm when the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team travels to Dryden—but then, so is winning. Returning yesterday to the scene of their NorWOSSA championship victory last season, the Muskies had to wait eight hours from the time they climbed aboard their bus until the opening […]
There’s plenty of ways to get one’s season underway. Losing your first two matches isn’t the ideal one. Both the Muskie senior and junior boys’ volleyball teams will have to go back to the drawing board after going 0-2 to start the NorWOSSA campaign. Yesterday afternoon in Dryden, the juniors […]
The Oak Park Raiders are bloodied, battered, and winless—a defending two-time champion of the Winnipeg High School Football League that hasn’t looked the part so far this season. It stands to reason these circumstances have them in a particularly bad mood—and the Muskie ‘A’ squad will have to deal with […]
With more prize money than ever up for grabs, the list of anglers hoping to get into the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship next July figures to be of unprecedented length. The random draw to determine the 40 remaining berths in next year’s derby is set for Wednesday, Oct. […]
Holy cow! It was the favourite expression of legendary Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray, and it nicely summed up my sentiments after experiencing the hallowed halls of the Cubs’ famed home ballpark—Wrigley Field—last weekend. A Windy City landmark since 1914, Wrigley is the last of a dying breed of baseball […]
Dan Hoehne and Ryan Crane now understand what those poor ducks in a carnival shooting gallery must feel like. The two goalies no doubt were seeing flying pucks in their sleep Monday night after the host Fargo-Moorhead Jets outshot the Borderland Thunder 66-10 en route to a 6-0 shutout in […]
If the Muskie senior girls’ basketball squad is going to win a second-straight NorWOSSA title, it will be up to the young guns to prove their merit. This year’s Muskie roster will be dramatically different from last year’s championship squad which dumped the Dryden Eagles 43-19 in the league final. […]
Bob Swing and Jon Romu were teammates on the University of Manitoba Bisons, and shared the camaraderie most teammates do. But that’s not to say Romu, head coach of the Kelvin Clippers (1-0-1), isn’t above trying to extend the misery of Swing and the Muskies (0-2) this Friday afternoon during […]
Adrian Chapman would be happy to discuss how his Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team is going to fare this season—if he knew himself. “I don’t know,” Chapman said simply when asked about his squad’s chances at winning NorWOSSA this season after a difficult four-set semi-final loss to the Kenora Broncos […]
A Minnesota law which took effect Aug. 1 imposes new restrictions on hunters bringing deer and moose carcasses into that state. The law bans the importation of whole cervid (i.e., deer, moose, elk, and caribou) carcasses from all adjacent states, as well as Ontario, in an attempt to prevent the […]
Fort Frances OPP Cst. Mike Golding always had wondered what finishing an Ironman Triathlon would be like. Now he’s just wondering why the calendar won’t move quicker so he can take part in the next one. Competing in the men’s 30-34 age group, the local lawman pushed his body to […]
