Manitoba women squash competition

Manitoba has long been an afterthought among the country’s top squash provinces.

Bisons crush Cougars

Kirby Schepp may have assembled the most versatile collection of talent in his 14 seasons at the helm of the University of Manitoba Bisons men’s basketball program.

Parker healthy and having fun on court

Emma Parker has suffered through some of the lowest valleys with the University of Winnipeg Wesmen women’s volleyball team. So it’s fitting she’s leading the program to its highest peak in more than a decade, in her final year donning the red and white.

Kirk thrives on competition

Goaltenders are supposed to crave being their team’s undisputed No. 1, right? Well, if you ask Raygan Kirk, a two- or three-goalie rotation can have an upside, too.

Pickering on top of the world

Avery Pickering was still on top of the world Wednesday afternoon.

Highly regarded prospects expected to have immediate impact with Bisons

The University of Manitoba football team announced the addition of two highly regarded prospects Tuesday who head coach Brian Dobie believes can have a immediate impact on the club’s fortunes.

Wesmen women dominate Cougars

The No. 1-ranked Regina Cougars rarely lose a basketball game and when they do, it’s not supposed to look like a beatdown the Winnipeg Wesmen administered Friday night.

Fiona Bombardier, whose famous mom is Josee Chouinard, carving her own career

OSHAWA, Ont. - Fiona Bombardier's grace and wide smile are reminiscent of her famous mom — even as Bombardier has worked to develop her own figure skating identity.

And Bombardier only discovered by accident, well into her skating career, that her mom Josée Chouinard was once Canada's best and a two-time Olympian.

"She didn't even tell me until I was maybe like over 10 years old, I had no idea," Bombardier said at the Canadian figure skating championships on Friday. "I was already skating, competing. I didn't even hear it from her. I heard it from other skaters. And then I came home and it was, like, 'What?! Why didn't you ever tell me?'"

The 17-year-old from Newmarket, Ont., was third in the women's short program on Friday, despite still being a junior competitor.

Winnipeg receiver turning heads

The label ‘generational player’ is thrown around much too casually these days.

Warm weather postpones Quebec’s snowboard cross World Cup

MONT-SAINTE-ANNE, Que. - A World Cup snowboard cross event in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., has been postponed because of warm temperatures and lack of snow.

The "Bataille Royale," scheduled for Feb. 4-5, was delayed to to March 24-26 at the resort 50 kilometres northwest of Quebec City, Snowboard Canada said Thursday in a release.

"The decision to reschedule the event was made with the goal of providing the best possible snow conditions and course for the world's top snowboard cross athletes," Canada's snowboarding federation said.

"The extra time will provide time for seasonal temperatures and snowfall to return as well as utilize snowmaking if needed, to build a unique new snowboard cross course that will showcase the talents of the competitors and provide an exciting race for the fans."

Canadian women’s rugby coach summons reinforcements for New Zealand Sevens

Injuries have prompted Canada women's coach Jack Hanratty to call in reinforcements for the New Zealand Sevens, the third stop on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.

The injury-ravaged Canadian women were reduced to eight players on the final day of play last month at the South Africa Sevens. Canada finished eighth in Cape Town and stands ninth overall in the standings.

Julia Greenshields, Breanne Nicholas, Florence Symonds and Keyara Wardley, all injured in South Africa, miss out on the trip to New Zealand.

Maddy Grant and Alysha Corrigan make the transition from the 15s national team. Pamphinette Buisa, part of the Canadian Olympic sevens squad in Tokyo, and Chloe Daniels return to the sevens roster.

Pair skaters Kemp and Elizarov have world championships in sights

The worlds await Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov, or so it would seem.

Playoff atmosphere as Wesmen face Cougars

Every so often, there is a regular-season game that feels like a playoff game.

Moir, Weaver back gender-expansive ice dance, pairs teams

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian ice dancer Kaitlyn Weaver says, as an LGBTQ person, her sport has never fully reflected her lived experience.

Skate Canada last month dropped the requirement that an ice dance or pairs team competing domestically must include a man and a woman. As of next season, pairs and ice dance skaters — up to the Canadian championships, but not beyond — need only be two skaters.

Canada, which is the first country to make such a move, plans to push for an international rule change at the next International Skating Union congress in 2024. The change has Weaver and two-time Olympic ice dance champion Scott Moir among its biggest advocates.

“There’s so many different ways that it can impact young people,” Weaver told The Canadian Press. “But as an ice dancer, and especially as a queer person growing up that didn’t know she was queer, seeing different stories represented and different partnering, different types of identities on the ice, would have been very liberating for me.”