The night started with a tongue lashing and ended with a collection of stickshift senoritas. Between the two, Bill Witherspoon decided second-best just wasn’t going to cut it. The Devlin resident, third overall last year in the points race, broke through for his first feature victory of the season in […]
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The extra rest must have done Alex Parent some good. After a competitive year that featured many lengthy road trips by car, the 14-year-old Fort Frances Aquanaut took the aerial route to Edmonton for last week’s Canadian Open for SWAD (Swimmers With A Disability) long-course national championships. “It sure lessened […]
Duane Carlson keeps launching bombs—and his team keeps destroying everything in sight. The slugger has walloped six dingers to take over the home run lead in the Rainy River District Fastball League while his Sight & Sound teammates have followed his example and continue to lead the circuit with a […]
Long passes and a shorter road schedule are on the horizon for the Superior International Junior Hockey League with its third regular season less than two months away. League executives decided at a meeting July 15 in Thunder Bay to do away with the centre ice red line, thus eliminating […]
The battle for first place in the women’s division of the Borderland Soccer Association has been like a classic championship bout—plenty of counterpunching and no sign of any towels being thrown in. Gillons’ (10-3) landed the latest body blow with a 5-1 win over Curves (9-3-1) last Thursday evening to […]
One year ago, the water level on Rainy Lake was at record highs. Docks were submerged, lowlands flooded, and dams overflowing. The lake looked a lot different than normal both to anglers and fish alike. Oh what a difference a year can make. This year, the lake is at its […]
Jeff Watts figured the best way to win the 2003 Kid-Pro Tournament was the simplest—catch the biggest fish. That’s exactly what the 14-year-old did Sunday as he teamed up with Devlin anglers Dale LaBelle and Jody Shypit to reel in a 5.59-pound whopper of a bass that gave the trio […]
One-wood, three-wood, or five-wood—right now, any club works fine for Steve Wood. The head pro at Kitchen Creek Golf Club is shooting up a storm right now, with two major tournament victories in the past week. Wood led his team of Steve Pruys, Shawn O’Donnell, Charlie Windego, and Jason Kuorikoski […]
With the fishing portion of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship set to start tomorrow, it occurred to me that the tourney coverage in the paper over the past couple of weeks covered most of the bases, from the anglers to the volunteers. But one thing was still missing: What […]
Ron Bowman picked up right where he left off. After finishing off the Rendezvous Yacht Club’s spring series with four consecutive wins to clinch the series championship, Bowman and his vessel “In Tune” continued their hot streak on Wednesday with a victory in the opening race of the fall series […]
In the end, integrity and Chrissy Thomson both won out. The 20-year-old Fort Frances golfer was the beneficiary of the honesty of playing partner Jill Hardy from Winnipeg, as a twostroke penalty accepted by Hardy gave Thomson a one-stroke victory in the Golf Manitoba amateur ladies’ championship in Winnipeg yesterday—the […]
He’s spent most of his racing season south of the border, and his opposition here at home would probably prefer that he stay there. Fort Frances stock car driver Steve Arpin, who has been competing at a variety of Minnesota and Wisconsin racing facilities in an effort to better hone […]
