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<p>It was only two weeks ago that the McGill Redmen and Western Mustangs met in the Ontario University Athletics championship game in which the Redmen won 4-1. This time though, they were playing for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship. Once again, the Redmen were victorious. McGill beat Western 4-3 in overtime thanks to captain Evan [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hockey dreams Brandon Gormley’s dreams were built on a pond in his hometown of Murray River, P.E.I. Every day after school, Gormley gathered up some friends to play Canada’s game until it was time to go home. One day, Gormley and his friends were playing pickup when Charlottetown-native Danny Stewart joined them. At the time, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A top men’s hockey recruit in the Canadian Interuniversity Sports league is now feted on campus tours by as many as 10 different schools, offered an athletic scholarship, with some prospects even turning down NHL or AHL contracts to play. So how can a small liberal arts school like St. Thomas University stand out in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Most of us have been injured at some point in our lives, but we can easily cope with a scratch or a bruise. But what about twisted or sprained ankles, concussions or broken bones? No matter who you are or how active you are, injuries are horrible. I’ve talked about avoiding injuries in some of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Only a week after capturing their second-straight Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association championship, the women’s Tommies travelled to Lethbridge, Alta. for this year’s Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association national tournament. Of the eight teams in the tournament, the St. Thomas University team faced the longest leg, playing in the tournament’s opening game on Thursday. But the travel [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After sending the final game of the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association championship into overtime, where the Tommies beat Mount Saint Vincent, Corey Delong is bringing home another piece of hardware. Delong and his teammates won the bronze medal game at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Championships this past weekend in Truro, N.S, beating [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The timing couldn’t have been better for Brian Burke. Just as his Maple Stinks continued clogging up the NHL toilet and a Don Cherry bomb was dropped on him on Coach’s Corner, Burke and his son, Patrick &#8211; a scout with the Flyers &#8211; released a powerful public service announcement, which was first shown on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As Canada’s population continues to rise, you can expect the number of immigrants entering the country to rise with it. A country commonly known to accept people from away as its own, Canada has become one of the world’s most prominent examples of multiculturalism. But Canada’s multiculturalism is beginning to cause a problem in Canadian [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The “fastest game in the world” requires a tight schedule each week: one or two games on the weekend, four times training at the rink, two times exercising in the gym, and papers and assignments somewhere in between. Life of university students enrolled in competitive sports is a challenge. But a challenge is what Renata [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tom Coolen has coached a lot of teams in his 58 years. His career has spanned seven countries and 25 years. He’s spent thousands of hours in rinks with teenagers in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, to grizzled pros in Europe. And he knows how to win. During the 1992-93 season, he led the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>An exciting Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association final between the Mount Saint Vincent Mystics and the St. Thomas University Tommies took place Sunday afternoon, with the Tommies upsetting the favored Mystics 70-63 in overtime. “In the back of my mind, I was still thinking this just puts us into overtime, we still have work to do,&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was the fifth straight year the Mount Saint Vincent Mystics and St. Thomas University lady Tommies met in the deciding game for the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association for women’s basketball. Tommies coach, Fred Connors, played everyone in the earlier games of the tournament, giving the starters more time to rest for that final game. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kristy Edwards has to focus. Making sure the puck is covered, she looks to her defensemen to make sure they aren’t yelling at her, and then looks at the referees to make sure the play has been blown dead. There are many things to focus on as a goaltender, but for Edwards being deaf means [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Only a few months ago, the St. Thomas University men’s volleyball team didn’t exist. Suspended for a year for violating the school’s hazing policies after the death of rookie player Andrew Bartlett at a team party, the team lost many of its players. It had to rebuild from scratch. What emerged was a team made [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some people have told me that no matter how easy I make working out seem, they aren’t going to go to the gym. They might feel intimidated, uncomfortable, too out-of-shape, too busy, or it just isn’t their thing. But they still want to live a healthy life. So here are six tweaks or “hacks” you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[showtime] Ed Welch carries a red book with him called A Season in Words. It has a chapter on how to communicate with your team as a coach, what to say before &#8211; and after &#8211; an important game. But sometimes, words from a book aren’t enough. After 50 years of coaching, and even with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Only one year after the team was suspended, the St. Thomas University men&#8217;s volleyball team has won the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association championship in front of a home crowd. STU beat the Holland College Hurricanes three sets to two (15-25, 25-20, 25-20, 16-25, 15-3) Sunday at the Lady Beaverbrook Gym. The team, made up almost [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University women&#8217;s volleyball team will have to settle for second best. The number two-ranked women lost the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association championship game against number-one ranked Mount St. Vincent University on Sunday afternoon in the Lady Beaverbrook Gym. As the host team of the tournament, the lower bleachers of the gym were [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Canada&#8217;s two national sports networks have hired enough analysts, insiders and hosts for this one day to make NFL pregame panels look like Tom Hanks&#8217;s residence in Cast Away. No matter what the 15,000 people on TSN or Sportsnet or your favorite drinking establishment will say next Monday will say, the pseudo-event that is the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; The Women&#8217;s Tommies welcomed the University of New Brunswick Saint John to the South Gym on Wednesday for their last home game of the season. The Sea Wolves sat at .500 on the season, but were no match for the Tommies, who ran away comfortable winners, 75-45. The Tommies got off to a hot [&hellip;]</p>