Historically, the Great North Midget League (GNML) playoffs have not been home to ongoing, drawn-out drama.Sure, there have been some outstanding first-round matchups, complete with a sprinkling of overtime games....

Over the course of a typical season in sports, ups and downs are inevitable. However, Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves captain Jacob Bonin wasn’t expecting quite so many crammed into the...

With the recent graduation of basketball players like Erin Simpson, Katarina Schwabe and Tiye Traore from the high school ranks, there comes a need for a new wave of youngsters...

A humbling defeat at home at the hands of the league-leading Guelph Gryphons last Saturday provided the Laurentian Voyageurs men’s field lacrosse team with a clear indication of just how...

The Lively District Secondary School football team is not about to contend for the city final this year. In fact, with Lo-Ellen, St. Benedict and Lockerby all stacked in the...

With the SDSSAA high school football season set to kick off today in Val Caron, here is a quick look at all 10 teams, along with their predicted regular season...

The world of professional sport is ripe with feel-good stories, but few hit closer to home last year than the season that was enjoyed by former Sudbury Wolves’ captain Derek...

Dave McGill is having trouble finding good competition. It’s not that the Greater Sudbury runner is setting any world records, but having celebrated his 65th birthday earlier this year, the...

Measuring progress, for any local sports organization, is seldom easy. Rejuvenated on a regional basis roughly a decade ago, lacrosse has hit a plateau of sorts with registration figures hovering...

 Perhaps it only seems like the “Cloé Lacasse watch” has been going on forever. First rising to prominence as a national competitor in taekwondo, the ultra-athletic Macdonald-Cartier senior has enjoyed...

For mothers in northern Ontario with something of an athletic background, it is clearly a catch 22. Growing up in a far different era, when the advent of girls’ hockey...

Like other non-traditional athletic endeavours, synchronized swimming does not benefit from an endless glut of young athletes at its disposal to return later in life as coaches of the sport....

Sure, not every NCAA championship garners the same feverish excitement as the recently completed March Madness tournament. Yet the memories that are created will live a lifetime in the minds...

Barry MacKenzie was the first coach hired, and the first coach fired, during the Sudbury Wolves tenure in the Ontario Hockey Association (now the OHL). A key member involved with...

“I wouldn’t trade what I’m doing right now for anything.” The fact that Lively resident Kurt Kowaluk is referring to spending countless hours on the golf course would surprise very...

At a time when the world of minor sports often bemoans the lack of new faces undertaking critical roles as volunteers, the Sudbury hockey scene is enjoying a breath of...

The conversation was hardly unique within the realm of the local soccer community when Andy Charsley entered the mix. A lifelong resident of Sudbury who played just one year of...

Not all of the offspring of Bob and Colleen Johnston will necessarily enjoy Olympic glory, but it’s a safe bet that athletic genetics run deep within the south-end siblings. Katie,...

For the majority of the hundreds of youngsters whose lives Wayne Eadie has touched through his involvement in amateur sports, he is likely to be remembered mostly for his role...

When the 2011 Canada Winter Games open in Halifax on Feb. 11, Erika Kiviaho will be the only regional connection to a sport which owes its very existence to northern...